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VOL. LVI, No. 1

JANUARY, 1922

WHOLE No. 353

THE CONFERENCE ON THE
LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT

T the first plenary session of the
Conference on the Limitation of
Armament, held in Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington.
D. C, November 12, 1921, the
Secretary of State, Honorable
Charles E. Hughes, presiding officer of
the Conference and head of the Ameri-
can delegation, announced the American
proposal for the limitation of armament,
advocating the following principles :

" One. That all capital shipbuilding pro-
grams, either actual or projected, should be
abandoned.

" Two. That further reduction should be
made through the scrapping of certain older
ships.

" Three. That, in general, regard should be
had to the existing naval strength of the pow-
ers concerned.

" Four. That the capital ship tonnage should
be used as a measurement of strength for nav-
ies and a proportionate allowance of auxiliary
combatant craft presented."

This presentation of a concrete, concise,
readily understood program for accom-
plishing the primary object of the confer-
ence— limitation of armanent — was over-
whelming evidence of the good faith of
the L'nited States in calling the confer-

ence, and a practical demonstration of tne
willingness of the United States to
olTer the initiative in a limitation — which
will limit in fact and not in theory — of
na\al construction.

President Harding, who opened the
conference, dealt with the spirit of the
great international meeting. He voiced
its aims as breathing the wish of millions
of peoples of the earth. Without once
mentioning an " association of nations,"
he clearly pointed the way and expressed
the hope that some well-defined under-
standing be entered into by the nations
involved which will lead to " less prepara-
tion for war and more enjoyment of
fortimate peace."

I lis address was interjircted as an
opening for an international agreement
such as that suggested in his campaign
speeches a year ago. No mention was
made by the President, of the League of
Nations, of which all the powers attend-
ing the Conference are members with the
exception of the United States and China.

The President spoke directly and re-
peatedly of the demand of the peoples of
the world for relief from the burdens of

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taxation due to war and preparations for
war, and the need of limitation of arma-
ment. His Secretary of State, Honor-
able Charles E. Hughes, immediately fol-
lowed with a clear-cut proposition of how
to set about this accomplishment.
Secretary Hughes' speech follows :

the British empire, France, Italy and Japan to
participate in a conference on the subject of
limitation of armament, in connection with
which Pacific and far eastern questions would
also be discussed. It would have been most agree-
able to the President to have invited all the
powers to take part in this conference, but it
was thought to be a time when other considera-
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CONFERENCE TABLE IN MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

" Gentlemen : It is with a deep sense of privi-
lege and responsibility that I accept the honor
you have conferred.

" Permit me to express the most cordial
apreciation of the assurances of friendly
cooperation, which have been generously ex-
pressed by the representatives of all the invited
governments. The earnest desire and purpose,
manifested in every step in the approach to this
meeting, that we should meet the reasonable
expectation of a watching world by effective
action suited to the opportunity is the best
augury for the success of the Conference.

" The President invited the governments of

of the existing exigency, and in this view the
invitation was extended to the group known as
the principal allied and associated powers, which
by reason of the conditions produced by the
war, control in the main the armament of the
world. The opportunity to limit armament lies
within their grasp.

" It was recognized, however, that the inter-
ests of other powers in the far east made it
appropriate that they should be invited to par-
ticipate in the discussion of Pacific and far
eastern problems, and, with the approval of the
five powers, an invitation to take part in the dis-
cussion of those questions has been extended to

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Belgium, China, the Netherlands and Portugal.

" The inclusion of the proposal for the dis-
cussion of Pacific and far eastern questions
was not for the purpose of embarrassing or
delaying an agreement for limitation of arma-
ment, but rather to support that undertaking
by availing ourselves of this meeting to en-
deavor to reach a common understanding as to
the principles and policies to be followed in
the far east and thus greatly diminish, and, if
possible, wholly to remove, discernible sources
of controversy. It is believed that by inter-
changes of views at this opportune time the
governments represented here may find a basis
of accord and thus give expression to their de-
sire to assure enduring friendship.

" In the public discussions which have pre-
ceded the Conference there have been apparently
two competing views ; one, that the consideration
of armament should await the result of the dis-
cussion of far eastern questions, and, another,
that the latter discussion should be postponed
until an agreement for limitation of armament
has been reached. I am unable to find suffi-
cient reason for adopting either of these ex-
treme views. I think that it would be most un-
fortunate if we should disappoint the hopes which
have attached to this meeting by a postpone-
ment of the consideration of the first subject.
The world looks to this conference to relieve
humanity of the crushing burden created by
competition in armament, and it is the view of
the American government that we should meet
the expectation without any unnecessary delay.
It is therefore, proposed that the conference
should proceed at once to consider the ques-
tion of the limitation of armament.

" This, however, does not mean that we must
postpone the examination of far eastern ques-
tions. These questions of vast importance press
for solution. It is hoped that immediate pro-
vision may be made to deal with them ade-
quately, and it is suggested that it may be
found to be entirely practicable through the
distribution of the work among designated com-
mittees to make progress to the ends sought
to be achieved without either subject being
treated as a hindrance to the proper considera-
tion and disposition of the other.

" The proposal to limit armament by an agree-
ment of the powers is not a new one, and we are
admonished by the futility of earlier efforts. It
may be well to recall the noble aspirations which
were voiced twenty-three years ago in the im-
perial rescript of his majesty the Emperor of
Russia. It was then pointed out with clarity
and emphasis that the intellectual and physical
strength of the nations, labor and capital are
for the major part diverted from their natural
application and unproductively consumed. Hun-
dreds of millions are devoted to acquiring terri-

ble engines of destruction, which, though today
regarded as the last word of science, are des-
tined tomorrow to lose all value in consequence
of some fresh discovery in the same field. Na-
tional culture, economic progress and the pro-
duction of wealth are either paralyzed or
checked in their development.

" Moreover, in proportion as the armaments
of each power increase, so do they less and less
fulfill the object which the governments have
set before themselves. The economic crises,
due in great part to the system of armaments a
I'outrance and the continual danger which
lies in this massing of war materials, are trans-
forming the armed peace of our days into a
crushing burden, which the peoples have more
and more difficulty in bearing. It appears evi-
dent, then, that if this state of things were
prolonged it would inevitably lead to the ca-
lamity which it is desired to avert and the
horrors of which make every thinking man
shudder in advance. To put an end to these
incessant armaments and to seek the means of
warding off the calamities which are threaten-
ing the whole world — such is the supreme duty
which is today imposed on all states.

" It was with this sense of obligation that
his majesty the Emperor of Russia proposed the
conference, which was 'to occupy itself with
this grave problem' and which met at The
Hague in the year 1899. Important as were
the deliberations and conclusions of that con-
ference, especially with respect to the pacific
settlement of international disputes, its result
in the specific matter of limitation of arma-
ment went no further than the adoption of a
final resolution setting forth the opinion ' that
the restriction of military charges, which are
at present a heavy burden on the world, is ex-
tremely desirable for the increase of the ma-
terial and moral welfare of mankind,' and the
utterance of the wish that the governments
' may examine the possibility of an agreement
as to the limitation of armed forces by land
and sea, and of war budgets.'

It was seven years later that the Secretary
of State of the United States, Mr. Elihu Root,
in answering a note of the Russian ambassador,
suggesting in outline a program of the second
peace conference, said : " The government of
the United States, therefore, feels it to be its
duty to reserve for itself the liberty to propose
to the second peace conference, as one of
the subjects for consideration the reduction
or limitation of armament, in the hope that,
if nothing further can be accomplished
some slight advance may be made toward the
realization of the lofty conception which actu-
ated the Emperor of Russia in calling the
first conference.'

" It is significant that the imperial German

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government expressed itself as 'absolutely op-
posed to the question of disarmament,' and that
the Emperor of Germany threatened to decline
to send delegates if the subject of disarmament
was to be discussed. In view, however, of the
resolution which had been adopted at the first
Hague conference, the delegates of the United
States were instructed that the subject of limita-
tion of armament ' should be regarded as un-
finished business,' and that the second confer-
ence should ascertain and give full considera-
tion to the results of such examination as the
governments may have given to the possibility
of an agreement pursuant to the wish expressed
by the first conference.

" But by reason of the obstacles which the
subject had encountered the second peace con-
ference at The Hague, although it made not-
able progress in provision for the peaceful
settlement of controversies, was unable to deal
with limitation of armament except by a resolu-
tion in the following general terms : ' The con-
ference confirms the resolution adopted by the
conference in 1899 in regard to the limitation of
military expenditure ; and inasmuch as military
expenditure has considerably increased in almost
every country since that time the conference
declares that it is eminently desirable that the
governments should resume the serious examina-
tion of this question.'

" This was the fruition of the efforts of
eight years. Although the effect was clearly
perceived, the race in preparation of armament,
wholly unaffected by these futile suggestions,
went on until it fittingly culminated in the great-
est war of history; and we are now suffering
from the unparalleled loss of life, the destruc-
tion of hopes, the economic dislocations and
the widespread impoverishment which measure
the cost of the victory over the brutal preten-
sions of military force.

" But if we are warned by the inadequacy of
earlier endeavors for limitation of armament,
we cannot fail to recognize the extraordinary
opportunity now presented. We not only have
the lessons of the past to guide us, not only do
we have the reaction from the disillusioning
experience of war, but we must meet the chal-
lenge of imperative economic demands. What
was convenient or highly desirable before is
now a matter of vital necessity. If there is to
be economic rehabilitation, if the longings for
reasonable progress are not to be denied, if
we are to be spared the uprisings of peoples
made desperate in the desire to shake off bur-
dens no longer endurable, competition in arma-
ment must stop.

" The present opportunity not only derives its
advantage from a general appreciation of this
fact, but the power to deal with exigency
now rests with a small group of nations, repre-

sented here, who have every reason to desire
peace and to promote amity. The astounding
ambition which lay athwart the promise of the
second Hague conference no longer menaces
the world, and the great opportunity of liberty-
loving and peace-preserving democracies has
come. Is it not plain that the time has passed
for mere resolutions that the responsible pow-
ers should examine the question of limitation
of armament?

" We can no longer content ourselves with
investigations, with statistics, with reports, with
the circumlocution of inquiry. The essential
facts are sufficiently known. The time has
come, and this conference has been called, not
for general resolutions or mutual advice, but
for action. We meet with full understand-
ing that the aspirations of mankind are not
to be defeated either by plausible suggestions
of postponement or by impracticable counsels
of perfection. Power and responsibility are
here and the world awaits a practicable pro-
gram which shall at once be put into execution.

" I am confident that I shall have your ap-
proval in suggesting that in this matter, as
well as in others before the conference, it is
desirable to follow the course of procedure
which has the best promise of achievement
rather than one which would facilitate division;
and thus, constantly aiming to agree so far as
possible, we shall, with each point of agree-
ment, make it easier to proceed to others.

" The question, in relation to armament, which
may be regarded as of primary importance at
this time, and with which we can deal most
promptly and effectively, is the limitation of
naval armament. There are certain general
considerations which may be deemed pertinent
to this subject.

" The first is that the core of the difficulty
is to be found in the competition in naval pro-
grams, and that, in order appropriately to limit
naval armament, competition in its production
must be abandoned. Competition will not be
remedied by resolves with respect to the method
of its continuance. One program inevitably
leads to another, and if competition continues,
its regulation is impracticable. There is only
one adequate way out and that is to end it now.

" It is apparent that this cannot be accom-
plished without serious sacrifices. Enormous
sums have been expended upon ships under con-
struction, and building programs which are now
under way cannot be given up without heavy
loss. Yet if the present construction of capital
ships goes forward other ships will inevitably
be built to rival them, and this will lead to still
others. Thus the race will continue so long as
ability to continue lasts. The effort to escape
sacrifices is futile. We must face them or
yield our purpose.

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"It is also clear that no one of the naval
powers should be expected to make these sacri-
fices alone. The only hope of limitation of
naval armament is by agreement among the
nations concerned, and this agreement should
be entirely fair and reasonable in the extent
of the sacrifices required of each of the powers.

" In considering the basis of such an agree-
ment and the commensurate sacrifices to be re-
quired it is necessary to have regard to the
existing naval strength of the great naval pow-
ers, including the extent of construction already
affected in the case of ships in process. This
follows from the fact that one nation is as
free to compete as another, and each may find
grounds for its action. What one may do
another may demand the opportunity to rival,
and we remain in the thrall of competitive effort.

" I may add that the American delegates are
advised by their naval experts that the ton-
nage of capital ships may fairly be taken to
measure the relative strength of navies, as the
provision for auxiliary combatant craft should
sustain a reasonable relation to the capital ship
tonnage allowed.

"It would also seem to be a vital part of a
plan for the limitation of naval armament that
there should be a naval holiday. It is proposed
that for a period of not less than ten years
there should be no further construction of capi-
tal ships.

" I am happy to say that I am at liberty to go
beyond these general propositions and, on behalf
of the American delegation acting under the in-
structions of the President of the United States,
to submit to you a concrete proposition for an
agreement for the limitation of naval armament.

" It should be added that this proposal im-
mediately concerns the British Empire, Japan and
the United States. In view of the extraordi-
nary conditions due to the world war affecting
the existing strength of the navies of France
and Italy, it is not thought to be necessary to
discuss at this stage of the proceedings the ton-
nage allowance of these nations, but the United
States proposes that this matter be reserved for
the later consideration of the conference.

" In making the present proposal the United
States is most solicitous to deal with the ques-
tion upon an entirely reasonable and practicable
basis, to the end that the just interests of all
shall be adequately guarded and that national
security and defense shall be maintained. Four
general principles have been applied :

" (1) That all capital-ship building programs,
either actual or projected should be abandoned;

" (2) That further reduction should be made
through the scrapping of certain of the older
ships ;

" (3) That in general regard should be had

to the existing naval strength of the powers
concerned ;

" (4) That the capital ship tonnage should
be used as the measurement of strength for
navies and a proportionate allowance of aux-
iliary combatant craft prescribed.

" The principal features of the proposed
agreement are as follows :
" United States :

" The United States is now completing its
program of 1916 calling for ten new battle-
ships and six battle cruisers. One battleship
has been completed. The others are in various
stages of construction ; in some cases from 60
to over 80 per cent, of the construction has been
done. On these fifteen capital ships now be-
ing built over $330,000,000 have been spent.
Still, the United States is willing, in the inter-
est of an immediate limitation of naval arma-
ment, to scrap all these ships.

" The United States proposes, if this plan
is accepted :

" (1) To scrap all capital ships now under
construction. This includes six battle cruisers
and seven battleships on the ways and in course
of building, and two battleships launched.

" The total number of new capital ships thus
to be scrapped is fifteen. The total tonnage of
the new capital ships when completed would be
618,000 tons.

" (2) To scrap all of the older battleships
up to, but not including, the Delaware and
North Dakota. The number of these old battle-
ships to be scrapped is fifteen. Their total
tonnage is 227,740 tons.

" Thus the number of capital ships to be
scrapped by the United States, if this plan is
accepted, is thirty, with an aggregate tonnage
(including that of ships in construction, if
completed) of 845,740 tons.

" The plan contemplates that Great Britain
and Japan shall take action which is fairly com-
mensurate with this action on the part of the
United States.

" It is proposed that Great Britain — ■
" (1) Shall stop further construction of the
four new Hoods, the new capital ships not laid
down but upon which money has been spent.
These four ships, if completed, would have ton-
nage displacement of 172,000 tons.

" (2) Shall, in addition, scrap her pre-dread-
naughts, second-line battleships and first-line
battleships up to, but not including, the King
George V class.

" These, with certain pre-dreadnaughts which
it is understood have already been scrapped,
would amount to nineteen capital ships and a
tonnage reduction of 411,375 tons.

" The total tonnage of ships thus to be
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nage of the four Hoods, if completed) would
be 583,375 tons.

" It is proposed that Japan —

" (1) Shall abandon her program of ships not
yet laid down, viz, the Kii, Owari, No. 7 and
No. 8 battleships, and Nos. 5, 6, 7 and 8
battle cruisers.

" It should be observed that this does not in-
volve the stopping of construction, as the con-
struction of none of these ships has been begun.

" (2) Shall scrap three capital ships (the

" The total reduction of tonnage on vessels
existing, laid down, or for which material has
been assembled (taking the tonnage of the new
ships when completed) would be 448,928 tons.

" Thus, under this plan there would be im-
mediately destroyed, of the navies of the three
powers, 66 capital fighting ships, built and build-
ing, with a total tonnage of 1,878,043.

" It is proposed that it should be agreed by
the United States, Great Britain and Japan that
their navies, with respect to capital ships, with-

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THE SECRETARY OF STATE, HON. CHARLES E, HUGHES, LEAVING MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL AFTER THE
SECOND PUBLIC SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE ON THE LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT, NOVEMBER 15,
1921, SINCE SECRETARY HUGHES' ADDRESS ON THE OPENING DAY OF THE CONFERENCE HE IS PERHAPS
THE MOST TALKED OF MAN IN THE ENTIRE WORLD

Mutsu, launched ; the Tosa and Kago, in course
of building), and four battlecruisers (the Amagi
and Akagi, in course of building and the
Atoga and Takao, not yet laid down, but
for which certain material has been assembled).

" The total number of new capital ships to
be scrapped under this paragraph is seven. The
total tonnage of these new capital ships, when
completed, would be 289,100 tons.

" (3) Shall scrap all pre-dreadnaughts and
battleships of the second line. This would in-
clude the scrapping of all ships up to but not
including the Settsu — that is, the scrapping of
ten older ships, with a total tonnage of
159,828 tons.

in three months after the making of the agree-
ment shall consist of certain ships designated in
the proposal and numbering for the United
States 18, for Great Britain 22, for Japan 10.

" The tonnage of these ships would be as
follows: Of the United States, 500,650; of
Great Britain, 604,450; of Japan, 299,700. In
reaching this result, the age factor in the case of
the respective navies has received appropri-
ate consideration.

" With respect to replacement, the United
States proposes :

" (1) That it be agreed that the first replace-
ment tonnage shall not be laid down until ten
years from the date of the agreement;

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" (2) That rcplaceniciit l)c liiiiitt'd by an agreed
maximum of capital ship tonnage as follows:

" For the United States. 500,000 tons.

"For Great Britain, 500,000 tons.

" For Japan, 300.000 tons.

" (3) That subject to the ten-year limitation
above fixed and the maximum standard,
capital ships may be re-
placed when they are
twenty years old by
new capital ship con-
struction ;

" (4) That no capital
ship shall be built in re-
placement with a ton-
nage displacement of
more than 35,000 tons.

" I have sketched the
proposal only in outline,
leaving the technical de-
tails to be supplied by
the formal proposition
which is ready for sub-
mission to the delegates.

" The plan includes
provision for the limi-
tation of auxiliary com-
batant craft. This term
embraces three classes
— that is, ( 1 ) auxiliary
surface combatant
craft, such as cruisers
(exclusive of battle
cruisers), flotilla lead-
ers, destroyers and va-
rious surface types ;

(2) submarines, and

(3) airplane carriers.
" I shall not attempt

to review the p r o-
posals for these various
classes, as they bear a
definite relation to the
provisions for capital
fighting ships.

" With the acceptance
of this plan the burden
of meeting the demands
of competition in naval
armament will be li f ted.
Enormous sums will be released to aid the pro-
gress of civilization. At the same time the
proper demands of national defense will be
adequately met and the nations will have ample
opportunity during the naval holiday of ten
years to consider their future course. Prepara-
tion for offensive naval war will stop now.

" I shall not attempt at this time to take up
the other topics which have been listed upon
the tentative agenda proposed in anticipation
of the conference."

Copyright by Underwood c*c UnderMood

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNTTEp STATES .^NDMRS.

HAKDlNr; ENTERING ME.VIORIAL CONTINENTAL BALI,

1 OR THE OPENING SESSION OF THE CONFERENCE ON

THE LIMITATION OF ARMA.MENT

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.\t ihc second i>k'nar_v iiK-e-liiig in Me-
morial Continental Hall, Ui. lion. Arthur
James Balfour, former prime minister
of Great Britain and head of the British
(lelr^ation, declared :

" The ( iovern-
I'l^'iit of Ihe L'nited
S t a t e s h a s
-^'lown i t s inten-
t""i not merely to
>ay that peace is a
very i^ood thin<,^
that war is hor-
ril)le, but there is a
way by which wars
can r e a II y be
d i m i n i s h e d.
by which the bur-
dens of peace,
almost as intoler-
able as the burdens
of war. can read-
ily be lightened for
the populations of
the world ... in
doing that it has.
believe me, made
the tirst and oj)en-
ing day of this
C o n f e r e n c e
one of the land-
marks of human
civilization."

Mr. H a 1 f ou r

]) a i d a further

tribtite to the

American project

n his ])olished style of oratory :

■' This struggle to restore the world to the
condition of equilibrium, so violently interfered
with by five years of war, is one that taxes and
must tax the efforts of everybody. And I con-
gratulate you, if I may, Mr. Chairman, on the
fact that you have added the new anniversary
which will henceforth be celebrated in connec-
tion with this movement toward reconstruction

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in the same spirit in which we welcomed the
anniversary celebrated only a few hours ago,
on the day on which hostilities came to an end.
If the 11th of November, in the minds of the
allied and associated powers — in the minds, per-
haps, not less of all the neutrals — if that is a
date imprinted on grateful hearts, I think No-
vember 12th will also prove to be an anniversary
welcomed and thought of in a grateful spirit by
those who, in the future, shall look upon the
arduous struggle now being made by the civil-
ized nations of the world, not merely to re-
store pre-war conditions, but to see that war
conditions shall never again exist.

" I count myself among the fortunate of the
earth in that I was present and to that extent had
a share in the proceed-
ings of last Saturday.
They were memorable,
indeed. The secret was
admirably kept. I hope
that all the secrets, so
long as they ought to
be secrets of our dis-
cussions, will be as
well kept. In my less
sanguine mood I might
have doubts. But,
however that may be,
the secret in this case
was most admirably
kept, and I listened to
a speech which I
thought eloquent,
appropriate in every
way, a fitting prelude
to the work of the con-
ference which was
about to open or which,
indeed, had been
opened by the Presi-
dent, without supposing
that anything very dra-
matic lay behind. And
suddenly I became
aware that they were
assisting not merely at an eloquent and ad-
mirable speech, but at a great historical
event. It was led up to with such art, the transi-
tion seemed so natural that when the blow fell,
when the speaker uttered the memorable words
which have now gone around and found an
echo in every quarter of the civilized world, it
came as a shock of profound surprise; it ex-
cited the sort of emotions we have when some
wholly new event suddenly springs into view,
and we felt that a new chapter in the history of
world construction had been worthily opened."

Following Mr. Balfour, the spokesmen
for France, Italy, and Japan accepted the

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M. CAMERLYNCK

THE FRENCH INTERPRETER IS ONE OF THE MOST INTERESTING
FIGURES OF THE CONFERENCE. THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF
THE CONFERENCE ARK ENGLISH AND FRENCH, IF THE SPEECH
IS GIVEN IN ENGLISH IT IS IMMEDIATELY TRANSLATED INTO
FRENCH BY M. CAMERLYNCK, WHO SPEAKS ENGLISH WITH EQUAL
EASE. AND IF THE SPEECH IS GIVEN IN FRENCH HE PROMPTLY
GIVES IT IN ENGLISH, HAVING TAKEN IT DOWN IN SHORTHAND

American proposals for limitation of
armament in " spirit and principle," mak-
ing only reservations for suggesting modi-
fications of detail. Baron Admiral Kato
for Japan, Senator Schanzer for Italy,
and M. Briand for France, rose in their
places and, praising in highest terms the
plan and program suggested by the Ameri-
can Government, gave the adherence of
their governments to the general terms
of the proposals.

The third plenary session of the Con-
ference met in Me-
morial Continental
Hall at eleven
o'clock on Novem-
ber 21, 1921, Hon-
orable Charles E.
Htighes, Chairman,
presiding. It was
held particularly
for the purpose of
allowing M. Briand
to set forth the
position of the
French Govern-
ment on land arm-
aments. He told the
Conference in de-
tail that Germany
was a constant
menace to France
and that bolshevik
Russia also was a
menace not to be overlooked. It was im-
possible, he said, for France to reduce
her armies to the extent that France
would like to do. He pointed out, how-
ever, that there would be some substan-
tial reduction within the year in the
number of men kept under arms. M.
Briand's speech was interpreted as
meaning that the question of land
armament, at least for the present con-
ference, was closed.

M. Briand is recognized as one of the

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great orators of the clay and his speech
was listened to with undivided attention.
He laid stress upon the fact tliat there
was need of moral disarmanent as well
as physical disarmament, and declared
that (iermany had not morally disarmed.
He insisted that potentially she was still
]>hvsically armed, with millions of trained
men and war materials easy to obtain.

" I should be the last one here," declared M.
Briand, " to try to restrict the noble endeavors
which are being made here to limit armament.
This Conference has been convened with noble
purposes in view. I should like to be able to
say that I foresee no limit, no restriction to
your labors and to the results which you may
achieve. Any question here can be debatetl and
can be resolved upon, but I must draw your
attention to one thing: Moral disarmament of
France would be very dangerous.

"Allow me to say it will be most unjust.
We de not enjoy the sufficient condition. We
should be ready to do it, but the time has not
come yet to give up our defense for the sake
of final peace in Europe. We have to know,
however, that France is not morally isolated ;
that she still has with her the men of good
will, and the heart of all the people who ha_ve
fought with her on the same battlcticld."

Assurances were given by Mr. Balfour
for Great Britain, Secretary Hughes for
the United States. Senator Schanzer for
Italy, Baron Admiral Kato for Japan, and
Baron de Cartier de Marchienne for Bel-
gium that France is not morally isolated.

Secretary Hughes said in jiart :

" Xo words ever spoken by France have fallen
upon deaf ears in the United States. The heart
of .America was thrilled by her valor and her
sacrifice, and the memory of her stand for
liberty is imperishable in this country, devoted
to the institutions of liberty. It is evident
from what M. Briand has said that what is
essential at this time, in order that we may
achieve the great ideal, is the will to peace.
And there can be no hope of a will to peace
until institutions of liberty and justice arc se-
cure among all peace-loving people.

" May I say, in response to a word which
challenged the attention of us all as it was
uttered by M. Briand. that there is no moral
isolation for the defenders of liberty and justice."

At the call of the Secretary of State
the fourth plenary session of the confer-
ence met in Memorial Continental 1 (all on
the morning of Saturday, December 10th,
and I'nited States Senator Henry C"al>ot
1 .fxlge presented a four-power agreement
forthepreservationof peace in the Pacific.
The draft of the treaty follows :

The United States of .America, the P.riti>h
I'mpirc. France and Japan

With a view to the preservation of the gen-
eral peace and the maintenance of their rights
in relation to their insular possessions and insu-
lar dominions in the region of the Pacific ocean

Have determined to conclude a treaty to this
effect and have appointed as their plenipotenti-
aries.

The President of the United States of
.\merica

His majesty the King of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland and of the
British dominions beyond the seas. Emperor
of India and for the Dominion of Canada, for
the Commonwealth of .Australia, for the Do-
minion of New Zealand, for India, the Presi-
dent of the French Republic, his Majesty the
Emperor of Japan, who, having communicated
their full powers, found in good and due form,
have agreed as follows :

I

The high contracting parties agree as between
themselves to respect their rights in relation to
their insular possessions and insular dominions
in the region of the Pacific ocean.

If their should develop between any of the
high contracting parties a controversy arising
out of any Pacific question and involving their
said rights which is not satisfactorily settled
by diplomacy and is likely to affect the
liarmonious accord now happily subsisting
between them, they shall invite the other
high contracting parties to a joint confer-
ence to which the whole subject will be re-
ferred for consideration and adjustment.

II
If the said rights are threatened by the aggres-
sive action of any other power, the high con-
tracting parties .shall communicate with one
another fully and frankly in order to arrive at
an understanding as to the most efficient meas-
ures to be taken, jointly or separately, to meet
the exigencies of the particular situation.
Ill

This agreement shall rt-main in force for ten
years from the time it shall take effect, and
after the expiration of said period it shall con-

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tinue to be in force subject to the right of any
of the high contracting parties to terminate it
upon twelve months' notice.
IV
This agreement shall be ratified as soon as
possible in accordance with the constitutional
methods of the high contracting parties and
shall take efifect on the deposit of ratifications,
which shall take place at Washington, and there-
upon the agreement between Great Britain and
Japan, which was concluded at London on July,
13, 1911, shall terminate.

M. Viviani, head of the French dele-
gation, M. Briand having returned to
France; Mr. Balfour, heading the British
delegation, and Prince Tokugawa, chief
of the Japanese delegates, gave their
assent to the new arrangement. They
were followed by the chief delegates of
the other powers represented, who' also
expressed their satisfaction with the
treaty. Most interesting among these was
the declaration of Minister Sze of China,
who expressed " great satisfaction " at
the work of the conference and gratifica-
tion over the new treaty. He promised
" whole hearted help in the maintenance
of mO'St friendly relations " in the Pacific
and far east.

Secretary Hughes was the last speaker :

" Gentlemen," he said, " we have been deal-
ing with a very simple question. I doubt if in
all the world there may be found a diplomatic
document of such great import couched in such
simple terms.

" I firmly believe that when this agreement
takes effect we shall have gone farther in secur-
ing an enduring peace than by anything that
has yet been done."

No other entrance in the United States
ever had so many notables pass its por-
tals as the Seventeenth Street doors of
Memorial Continental Hall prior to
the opening of each plenary ses-
sion of the Conference. Crowded
on the steps and slowly making their
way upward were delegates, ambassadors,
justices of the Supreme Court, Cabinet
members, army and navy officers of high

rank and attaches of varying degrees
of eminence.

Never before has there gathered in
Washington such an aggregation of dis-
tinguished foreigners, including states-
men, soldiers, army and navy officers,
masters of international jurisprudence
and technical experts in many lines. The
nine countries represented in the Con-
ference sent of their best talent.

The list of principal delegates, advis-
ory boards, and staffs follow :

The United States delegates — Charles Evans
Hughes, Secretary of State; Elihu Root, ex-Secretary
of State; Henry Cabot Lodge, senator from Massa-
chusetts; Oscar W. Underwood, senator from Ala-
bama.

Advisory committee— George Sutherland of Utah,
ex-senator, Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Com-
merce.

Limitation of) armament— For the Department of
State: Henry P. Fletcher, undersecretary of state;
J. Reuben Clark, special counsel to the Department
of State.

For the War Department: Maj. Gen. George O.
Squier, radio and electrical communications gener-
ally; Maj. Gen. C. C. Williams, chief of ordnance;
Brig. Gen. Williairj Mitchell, aviation; Brig. Gen.
Amos A. Fries, chemical warfare; Col. John A. McA.
Palmer, organization and general military subjects;
Col. B. H. Wells, organization and general military
subjects; Lieut. Col. Stuart Heintzelman, military
intelligence and organization of foreign armies; Dr.
Louis Cohen, civilian radio engineer, Signal Corps.

For the Navy Department: Theodore Roosevelt,
assistant secretary of the navy; Admiral Robert E.
Coontz, technical expert-general; Rear Admiral Wil-
liam A. Moflfet, aeronautics; Capt. William V. Pratt,
technical expert-general; Capt. Frank H. Schofield,
technical expert-general; Capt. Luke McNamee, tech-
nical expert-general; Capt. Samuel W. Bryant, com-
munications; L. W. Austin, radio.

Chemical warfare— Prof. Edgar F. Smith, LTniver-
sity of Pennsylvania, and Army and Navy officers.

Pacific and far eastern questions — John Van A.
MacMurray, chief, division of far eastern affairs;
Department of State; D. C. Poole, chief, division of
Russian affairs. Department of State; Prof. E. T.
Williams, formerly chief, division of far eastern
affairs. Department of State; N. T. Johnson, Depart-
n-ent of State; E. L. Neville, Department of State;
Prof. G. H. Blakeslee, Clark University; Stanley
K. Hornbeck, Department of State; J. S. Abbott,
Department of Commerce; F. P. Lockhart, Depart-
ment of State; J. P. Jamieson, Department of State;
Robert F. Leonard, Department of State; F. L.
Mayer, Department of State; J. O. Denby, Depart-
ment of State; and J. L. Donaldson, Department oi
State. The four women appointed by President
Harding on the advisory board were Mrs. Charles
.Sumner Bird, Massachusetts, Mrs. Katherine P.
Edson, of California, Mrs. Eleanor Franklin Egan,
New York and Mrs. Thomas G. Winter, Minnesota,
president general Federation of Women's clubs.

For the Navy — Admiral Robert E. Coontz, Rear
Admiral William A. Moffet, Capt. William V. Pratt,
Capt. Frank H. Schofield, Cant. Luke McNamee,
Capt. Samuel W. Bryant, L. W. Austin.

British Delegation

Delegates— The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George,
O. M. Prime minister and first lord of the treas-
ury (as soon as circumstances permit); the Rt.
Hon. A. J. Balfour, O. M., M. P.; the Rt. Hon. Lord

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Lee of rarehaiii, C. H. K.. K. C. H. ; the Kt. Hon.
Sir Auckland Ceddcs, K. C. B. (in the absence of the
prime minister or any other delegates).

Canada— The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Borden. C. C. M.
G.. K. C.

Australia— Senator the lion. G. P. Pcarcc, Aus-
tralian minister of defense.

New Zealand — Sir John Salmond, K. C, judge of
the supreme court of \ew Zealand.

India — The Rt. Hon. Sprinivasa Sastri, nu'nil)er of
the vice regal council of tlie government of India.

Foreign olVice section — R. A. C. Sperling, C M. G.,
counselor in H. M. diplomatic service, assistant
secretary in charge of the American department of
the foreign office. The Rt. Ibm. Sir loliu lordim,
G. C. I. E., K. C. B., (;. C. .\I. (;., lornu-ily II.
M. minister of Peking.

camp to Air \ ice Marslial HiKKni>; |-|ii;ht l.iout.
R. (iaml>ier-l'arry.

Delegates From France

Delegates— M. Aristide llrland, president to the
council, minister of foreign affairs; M. Rene \'ivianl,
deputy, former president of the council; M. Albert
Sarraut, senator, minister of colonies, and M. Jules
Jusscrand, ambassador of France to the United States.

-Sitittary general— Philippe Berthelot, secretary
general of ministry of foreign affairs, with rank of
ambassador of France, and Massigli, assistant sec-
retary general.

Experts chosen:

For military questions— Gen. Buat, Col. Roure, ("ol.
Requin, C"apitaine Koetz and Lieut, dc Colbert.

For naval questions — Admiral de Bon, Capitainc
dc N'aisseau Frochet, M. Dupuy, Capitainc dc cor-

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THE CONFERENCE

Admirallv section— Admiral of the l-"leel Earl
Beatty, O. M., G. C. B., G. C. V. O., D. S. O.. lirst
sea lord; Paymaster Capt. F. T. Spickernell, C. B..
D. S. O., secretary to Earl Beatty; Rear Admiral
Sir A. E. M. Chatfield, K. C. M. G., C. B., C. V. O.,
assistant chief of naval staff.

War oTice section— Gen. the Earl of Cavan, K. P..
G. C. M. G., K. C. B., M. V. O., G. O. C. Aler-
shot command; Lieut. E. H. Gage, M. C, aide-de-
camp to Lord Cavan; Col. W. H. Bartholomew, C.
B.. C. M. G., D. S. O., deputy director of military
intelligence; Col. C. A. Ker, C. M. G., C. B. E..
D. S. O., military intelligence.

Air ministry section— Air Vice Marshal J. F. A.
Higgins, C. B., D. S. O., A. F. C, second in com-
mand, inland area. L'xbridge; Group Capt. 1. A.
Chamier, C. M. G., D. S. O., O. B. E.. deputy direc-
tor, directorate of operations and intelligence; Flight
Lieut. A. R. Arnold. D. S. O., D. F. G., aide-de-

vcttc ()dcndal and Lieut, dc vaisscau d'Anselme.

l-'(jr legal question.s— M. Fromagcot.

For political questions — M. Kammerer, minister
plenipotentiary, and M. Legar, secretary of embassy.

For linancial and economic questions — M. Casenave,
minister plenipotentiary, and M. Cheysson.

For colonial questions — M. Duchesne, M. Touzet,
M. (Jarnier and M. Geraud.

For aeronautical questions — Capitainc Robert.

For cables and wireless telegraph — M. Girardeau.

For chemical warfare— M. Moureu.

For the press — M. Ponsot, M. Corbin, M. Carteron
and Dr. Chatin.

Interpreters — M. Camerlynck and M. Denaint.
Italian Delegates

Delegates— H. E. Carlo Schanzer, senator, presi-
dent of the delegation; H. E. Vittorio Rolandi Ricci.
Italian ambassador; H. E. Senator Luigi Albertini,

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and H. E. Representative Filippo Meda.

Military advisors — H. E. Lieut. Gen. Giuseppe Vac-
cari', chief of staff of Italian arrr.y; Lieut. Col.
Natale Pentimalli and Lieut. Col. Curia Barbassetti.

Naval advisers— H. E. Vice Admiral Baron Ferdi-
nando Acton, Commander Prince Fabrizio Ruspoli
and Lieut. Giulio Ragadeo di Torrequadra.

Aviation advisors — Col. Riccardo Meizo, military
aviation, and Lieut. Col. Alexxandro Guidoni, naval
aviation.

Baron Kato Heads Japanese Delegation

Delegates — Admiral Baron Tomosaburo Kato, min-
ister for the navy. Baron Kijuro Shidehara, ambas-
sador at Washington; Prince lyesato Tokugawa,
president of the house of peers.

Secretary general — Masanao Hanihara, vice minis-
ter for foreign affairs. Owing to the illness of
Ambassador Shidehara, Mr. Hanihara was appointed
a delegate in his place.

Naval experts — Vice Admiral Kanji Kato, imperial
Japanese navy; Capt. Katsuroshin Yarranashi, I. J.
N. ; Capt. Masabaru Kojima, I. J. N. ; Capt. Kich-
isaburo Nomura, I. J. N. ; Capt. Nobumasa Suet-
sugu, I. J. N. ; Capt. O. Nagano, I. J. N. ; Capt.
Yoshitake L'yeda, I. J. N. ; Commander Teikichi,
Hori, I. J. N. ; Commander Oasaharu Hibino,
I. J. N. ; Lieut. Commander Akiro Kuragano, I. J.
N. ; Lieut. Commander H. Taji, I. J. N. ; First Lieut.
Torao Kuwahara, I. J. N. ; First Lieut. Yoshihiko
Mito, I. T. N. ; Paymaster Daisuke Takei, I. J. N. ;
S. Yenometo, counselor to the navy department;
K. Shima, assistant; F. Ono, assistant, and T. Kom-
atsu, private secretary to Admiral Kato.

Military experts— Maj. Gen. Kunishike Tanaka,
imperial Japanese army; Maj. Gen. Sawaji Otake, I.
J. A.; Maj. Gen. Hatsutaro Haraguchi, I. J. A.;
Lieut. Col. Uaruji Takekawa, I. J. A.; Lieut. Col.
Noboru Morita, I. J. A.; Maj. Kanichiro Tashiro, I.
J. A.; Maj. Tsunenari Hara, I. J. A.; Maj. Tanehide
Fnrushiro, I. J. A.; Maj. Kanichi Nishihara, I. J. A.;
Capt. Takamasu Iseki, Dr. K. Morishima, Genjiro
Watanabe, T. Kaizuka, assistant, and T. Furusawa,
assistant.

Ambassador Belgium's Delegate

Delegate— Baron de Cartier de Marchienne, Bel-
gian ambassador to the United States.

Technical advisers — Felicien Cattier, president of
the Banque d'Outremer and honorary professor of
Brussels L'niversity; Chevalier de Wouters d'Oplin-
ter, vice president of the Banque Beige pour
I'Etranger and ex-legal adviser to the Chinese gov-
ernment, and Jules Jadot, head manager of the Lung-
Hai railroad.

Attache— Lemaire de Warzee d'Hermalle, counselor
of embassy, attached to Belgian delegation.

Secretary general— Pol le Tellier, first secretary of
embassy.

Assistant secretary general— Robert Silvercruys,
secretary of embassy.

Chinese Delegation

Delegates— Sao-Ke Alfred Sze, minister at Wash-
ington; Vi Kyuin Wellington Koo, minister at Lon-
don; Dr. Chung-Hui Wang, chief justice of the
supreme court, and Choa-Chu Wu.

Superior advisers— Yu Liang (M. T. Liang), ex-
minister of foreign affairs, and Tzu-Chi Chow,
recently minister of finance.

Advisers— Vice Admiral Ting-Kam Tsai, associate
director of the revenue council; Lieut. Gen. Fu
Hwang, adviser in the president's office; Chia-Jui
Wang, secretary of the bureau of printing and
engraving of the cabinet; Wen-Kan Lo, vice director
of law codification bureau, former chief of Peking
procurator's court, and Dr. Hawkling Yen.
Delegation From Netherlands

Delegation— Jonkheer H. A. van Karnebeek, minis-
ter of foreign affairs; Jonkheer F. Beelaerts van
Blokland, chief of the political division of the min-
istry of foreign affairs; Dr. E. Moresco, secretary
general of the ministry for the colonies appointed
vice president of the council of the Netherlands and
East Indies.

Alternate delegates— Dr. J. C. A. Everwijn,
Netherlands minister in Washington; Jonkheer W.
H. de Beaufort, counselor of legation, Washington,

appointed minister to Greece

Two Delegates From Portugal

Delegates— Viscount d'Alte, Portuguese minister at
Washington; Capt. Ernesto Vasconcellos, director of
diplomatic service in ministry of colonies. Secre-
tary interpreter, J. Montalto de Jesus.

Secretary of State Hughes frequently
emphasized the admonition that it was a
conference, not a court nor a jury. No
nations or a peoples were on trial. No
majority vote, with one or more nations
dissenting or protesting, determined the
policy finally decided upon. It was by
unanimous consent, which naturally in-
volved concessions, sacrifice perhaps;
forbearance and the principle of give
and take.

It was on July 10, 1921, that official an-
nouncement was made of the first move
to bring about the conference. There
had been much talk the world over of
some international effort to limit arma-
ment. By July 27th it was possible for
the Department of State to announce that
Great Britain, France and Italy had ex-
pressed their approval and their readi-
ness to receive the President's suggested
invitation. Announcement was made in
August of the sending of the formal in-
vitation to Great Britain, France and
Japan. The invitations were cabled by
the Secretary of State to our embassies
for delivery to the foreign office of the
respective governments. The text of the
invitation follows, the only difference be-
ing in the name of the government :

" The President is deeply gratified at the
cordial response to his suggestion that there
should be a conference on the subject of limita-
tion of armament, in connection with which
Pacific and far eastern questions should also
be discussed.

" Productive labor is staggering under an
economic burden too heavy to be borne unless
the present vast public expenditures are greatly
reduced. It is idle to look for stability or the
assurance of social justice, or the security of
peace, while wasteful and unproductive outlays
deprive effort of its just reward and defeat
the reasonable expectation of progress. The
enormous disbursements in the rivalries of
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part of the incumbrance upon enterprise and
national prosperity ; and unavoidable or extrava-
gant expense of this nature is not only without
economic justification but is a constant menace
to the peace of the world rather than an assur-
ance of its preservation.

" Yet there would seem to be no ground to
expect the halting of these increasing outlays
unless the powers most largely concerned find
a satisfactory basis for an agreement to effect
their limitation. The time is believed to be
opportune for these powers to approach this
subject directly and in conference, and while, in
the discussion of limitation of armament, the
question of naval armament may naturally have
first place, it has been thought best not to ex-
clude questions pertaining to other armament to
the end that all practicable measures of relief
may have appropriate consideration. It may
also be found advisable to formulate pro-
posals by which, in the interest of humanity,
the use of new agencies of warfare may be
suitably controlled.

" It is, however, quite clear that there can be
no final assurance of the peace of the world in
the absence of the desire for peace, and the pros-
pect of reduced armaments is not a hopeful one
unless this desire finds expression in a practi-
cal effort to remove causes of misunderstand-
ing and to seek ground for agreement as to
principles and their application. It is the earn-
est wish of this government that through an
interchange of views with the facilities afiforded
by a conference it may be possible to find a
solution of Pacific and far eastern problems, of
unquestioned importance at this time — that is,
such common understanding with respect to
matters which have been and are of interna-
tional concern as may serve to promote endur-
ing friendship among our peoples.

" It is not the purpose of this government to
attempt to define the scope of the discussion in
relation to the Pacific and far east, but rather
to leave this to be the subject of suggestions to
be exchanged before the meeting of the con-
ference, in the expectation that the spirit of
friendship and a cordial appreciation of the im-
portance of the elimination of sources of con-
troversy will govern the final decision.

" Accordingly, in pursuance of the proposal
which has been made, and in the light of the
gracious indication of its acceptance, the Presi-
dent invites the government of (Great Britain)
to participate in a conference on the subject of
limitation of armament, in connection with which
Pacific and far eastern questions will also be
discussed, to be held in Washington on the 11th
day of November, 1921."

On the same date, August 11th, the
Secretary of State, on behalf of the

President, sent a formal invitation to the
Republic ut China lo participate in the dis-
cussion ot Pacitic and far eastern ques-
tions in connection with the conference.

Ambassador Herrick, on August 15th,
cabled the acceptance by the French Gov-
enunent of the invitation; the Republic
of China, three days later, sent their ac-
ceptance, while Great Britain's accept-
ance, which was contained in a note
delivered to Ambassador Harvey by
Lord Curzon, was made public on August
22nd. Japan's acceptance was made pub-
lic on August 24th, and her note to this
Governiuent attracted world-wide atten-
tion, because of the length of time elap-
sing before it was sent. Italy, on
September 1st, it was announced by the
Department of State, signified her
acceptance of the invitation to attend
the conference.

It was found advisable to include three
more nations in the conference on account
of their recognized special interests in
the settlement of far eastern questions —
Belgium, Holland, and Portugal, and on
October 4th invitations were sent to them.
Their acceptance followed.

That the first plenary session of the
Conference described by ]\Ir. I'alt'our as
"one of the landmarks in human civiliza-
tion," and all other plenary sessions were
held in Memorial Continental Hall, the
headquarters of the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution
and the only building built entirely by
women, was brought about by the tender
of the Hall to the Secretary of State by
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President
General of the National Society.

The President General's letter to Secre-
tary Hughes offering the Hall and his
acceptance follow :

September 10, 1921.
The Honorable Secretary of State
Charles E. Hughes

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Department of State
Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir :

I am advised that during my absence in Eu-
rope, where I have been in the interest of the
work of this Society, a visit was paid to Me-
morial Continental Hall by representatives of
the State Department, with a view to ascertain-
ing what the prospects might be for holding
meetings therein incidental to the Conference
on the Limitation of Armament.

I have but just returned and in the name of
the National Society, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution, I take this first opportunity to
tender to your Department the use of the audi-
torium in Memorial Continental Hall for any
meetings you may desire to hold therein at any
time during the Conference.

The National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution counts it a privilege to
serve the Government whenever it may be called
upon to do so. Especially would we consider
it a privilege if we might even in this slight
measure aid in the restoration of peace to the
world. Therefore, I take great pleasure in
offering at this time the use of our auditorium
or such other parts of the building as are avail-
able for meetings of the Conference on the
Limitation of Armament.

Yours respectfully,

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

Department of State
Washington

September 14, 1921.
Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
President General,

National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution,

Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C.
Madam :

I wish to express at once my appreciation of
your letter of September 10 in which you tender
for use during the Conference on the Limita-
tion of Armament the auditorium and such
other parts of Memorial Continental Hall as
are available, and wish you would convey to
your Society my thanks for the cooperation
which you propose to extend. For your greater
convenience I have designated an officer of this
Department to confer with you in more detail
as to how your offer may be accepted to best
advantage and with the least derangement of
your own plans.
I am. Madam,

Your obedient servant,

Charles E. Hughes.

On the day of the regular fall meeting

of the National Board of Management,
October 18th, the President General was
informed by a representative of the De-
partment of State that Secretary Hughes
had accepted the tender of Memorial
Continental Hall for the plenary sessions
of the conference. The President Gen-
eral, pledging the members of the Board
to secrecy until the news was released
officially by the State Department, told
them of the message from the Secretary
of State. The infonnation was received
with interest, all the members expressing
delighted approval of the plan.

A second letter from Secretary Hughes
to the President General went more fully
into detail. It read as follows:

Department oi' State
Washington

October 22, 1921.
Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

President General,

National Society, Daughters of the American

Revolution,

Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C.
Madam :

Referring to your generous offer to place
Memorial Continental Hall at the disposal of
the Conference on the Limitation of Arma-
ment, I am very much gratified now to learn
that you are willing we should use the Hall
regularly for the plenary sessions of the Con-
ference, and are even willing that we should
stage over the main floor seats, in order to se-
cure additional space level with the stage.

As you are aware, this alteration, to which
you have so kindly consented, will be carried
out with the assistance of the Navy Depart-
ment and when the Conference is ended this
Department will see that the Hall is restored
to its original condition.

Al'ow me to assure you that the changes will
be carried out with the greatest possible care
and with a full appreciation of the necessity
to avoid all chance of marring your building.
The representative of the Secretary of the
Navy, with whom the Department has conferred
informally, has given cordial assurance of his
cooperation to the fullest extent. I need
scarcely add that the expenses incurred in this
connection will be met from the appropriation
for the Conference.

As I think you are aware, the arrangements,
which your offer has made possible, will tend

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very much to the successful coiuhict (if this
important international gathering and I trust
you will accept in that sense my tlianks for
your assistance.
I am, IMadani,

Your obedient servant,

Charles E. Hughes.

In arranging the atiditorium for the
conference sessions the seats on the
grotind tioor were removed and the floor
raised to the level of the stage. Here was
placed the U-shaped council table, meas-
uring more than 100 feet, around which
sat the heads of the delegations. Repre-
sentatives of the press from all parts of
the world occupied seats under the galler-
ies. The north gallery was reserved for
members of the U. S. House of Repre-
sentatives; the west gallery for the
United States Senate ; while members of
the U. S. Supreme Court, the Cabinet,
and the diplomats accredited to the
United States occupied the south gallery.
Seats in the boxes overlooking the stage
were reserved for Mrs. Harding, wife of
the President of the United States ; Mrs.
Coolidge, wife of the Vice President;
Mrs. Hughes, wife of the Secretary of
State; Madame Jusserand, wife of the
French Ambassador; Lady Geddes, wife
of the British Ambassador, and Mrs.
George Maynard Minor, President Gen-
eral of the National Society.

Each plenary session of the conference
has been marked with simplicity and dig-
nity, and the audiences received the ex-
pressions of the distinguished statesmen
with applause and at the conclusion of
especially significant declarations arose
and stood.

Delegates freely expressed their ap-
preciation of the beautiful Hall and the
arrangements made for their comfort.
Persons who had attended the Peace
Conference at Versailles, France, con-
trasted the Hall favorably, stating that
only a small attendance of the public was
ever permitted at Versailles, and that visi-
tors admitted to the Peace Conference
and the delegates themselves had diffi-
culty in either seeing or hearing events,
whereas in Memorial Continental Hall
every word uttered during the sessions
could be distinctly heard in every part of
the auditorium and no difficulty was ex-
perienced in seeing all that transpired.

The following editorial is reprinted
from the Washington Post:

MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

The United States government and Ameri-
cans generally owe a debt of gratitude to the
Daughters of the American Revolution for their
generosity in lending Memorial Continental
Hall for the plenary meetings of the confer-
ence on limitation of armament. The National
Capital is fortunate in having such a building.
It is admirably adapted to the uses of the con-
ference. The delegations are seated whej^c^all
can see and hear well and there is ample room
for the advisory delegations that are in attend-
ance. The balconies afford additional space
for the diplomatic corps and for the general
public. The lighting of the auditorium is ex-
cellent and the acoustic properties are all that
could be desired. The corridors enable visitors
to meet and mingle without confusion.

The sessions of the conference have been
marked by dignity and simplicity. The audi-
ence is keenly responsive, but always orderly.
The delegates, some of them men of world-wide
fame, are always in view and can be easily
heard by every one within eyesight. No other
building in Washington would have been as
suitable for this international gathering.

A MESSAGE FROM THE
PRESIDENT GENERAL

EMORIAL Continental Hall is the
scene of events upon which the fu-
ture of the world hangs suspended.
The Conference on the Limitation of
Armament and Far Eastern Prob-
lems is marking an epoch in the
world's history. From our stately
Hall the voice of destiny will sound forth to
the world, aiid the voice of destiny is the voice
of God. It has seemed to me as I have sat
listening at all the public sessions of the Con-
ference, which have been held in our Hall, that
the atmosphere was full of spiritual forces; it
has seemed as if the power of the spirit was at
work and that these men of many nations were
yielding to its influence more than ever before
in the world's history. The Conference is keyed
to a spiritual note, raised above the level of
diplomatic manoeuvring for material advantage.
In the beginning it was opened with prayer—
an incident which was in itself unusual, as evi-
denced by the comment it occasioned in the dis-
patches of a few correspondents. It convened
in an atmosphere still charged with uplifted
thoughts aroused by the honors paid to our
Unknown Dead, when the memory of supreme
sacrifices made in a common cause, a common
struggle for righteousness and justice, had
drawn the nations once more together in the
same spirit in which they had fought together
in the World War for liberty and civilization.
The spirituality of those supreme moments
when the nation dedicated itself once more at
the bier of its dead to the high ideals for which
it had given its sons, when our allies brought
their tributes consecrated by the sacred memo-
ries of the millions of lives which they had
given — the spirituality of a time like that could
not help but communicate itself to the Confer-
ence. If we believe in the power of the spirit at
all we must believe in its influence now upon the
minds of the men assembled around the table in
the great auditorium of Memorial Continental
Hall — a memorial erected to the great souls of
the nation's founders, the men and women of '76,
who also made supreme sacrifices for liberty,
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righteousness and justice. Thus the great na-
tions that won the war against the spirit of
war and militarism are met together again to
win peace, to put the seal of security upon the
priceless things of the spirit rescued at such
cost from the materialistic onslaughts of Ger-
man imperialism. East and West, Christian
and non-Christian, are working together as
never before to reduce the burdens of humanity
and promote mutual understanding and good-
will among nations — for all that nations have
to do is to understand one another, to have due
consideration for one another's needs, and the
Golden Rule will be an accomplished fact. The
spirit of the Conference is working in that di-
rection ; it is moving steadily toward the high
goal of world peace, justice, good-will and a
firmer fellowship among men. England and
America are being drawn even closer together
than ever before in the bonds of a mutual under-
standing and solidarity of interests. When one
English-speaking nation leads the way in offer-
ing a great naval sacrifice on the altar of
limitation of armament, and the other said, " I
am with you," the world took a long step
toward peace; for as long as the British Em-
pire and the United States of America work
together in a common cause, the world is safe
from brute force and aggression. Animated
by the spirit of liberty and justice, which has
ever followed in the foot-steps of the Anglo-
Saxon, the vast English-speaking dominions of
these two peace-loving, self-governing coun-
tries will bring peace and security to the world.
And for France, the heroic bulwark of
civilization on the Rhine, there was no need to
fear a " moral isolation." " That would be a
tragedy indeed," said Mr. Balfour, speaking for
Britain in that hushed, tense moment following
M. Briand's plea for France's national safety.
Then slowly, distinctly, deliberately, the Eng-
lishman continued : "If again the lust of
domination which has been the curse of Eu-
rope for so many generations should threaten
the peace, the independence, the self-develop-
ment, of our neighbors and allies ; how should

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it be possible .... that we who have done
so much for the great cause of international
liberty should see that cause perish before our
eyes rather than make further sacrifices in its
defense?" Italy, Belgium, Japan, rallied to
France. Then America. " No words ever
spoken by France have fallen upon deaf ears in
the United States," said Secretary Hughes, and,
" there is no moral isolation for the defenders
of justice and liberty." Thus the allied nations
stood together and pledged France their moral
support. These words were not glittering diplo-
matic generalities. They were spoken by the
leaders of nations under stress of tense emo-
tior., they aroused the applause of the audience,
listening breathlessly, packed to the ceiling;
they will echo down the ages as the expression
of the inner meaning and spirit of the Confer-
ence, the spirit of union and mutual support.
That they have gone forth from our Memorial
Continental Hall should thrill the soul of every
Daughter of the American Revolution. Let
us remember them whenever, and if ever faith
falters, for they are words of men who are
blazmg a trail towards a more loving and under-

standing world wherein the will to peace shall
supplant, please God, the Hunnish will to war.

This is my message to you from Memorial
Continental Hall in this dawn of a New Year,
and perhaps of a new Era. Let us have faith
that the unseen hosts of God are guiding the
minds and hearts of the men assembled in Me-
morial Continental Hall, for thus shall they
be lead into the ways of peace and mutual
confidence, and the Unknown Soldier's sacri-
fice shall not have been made in vain. On
Armistice Day I brought to him our Society's
floral tribute of reverent and grateful remem-
brance; but a far greater tribute is ours to
offer him, in the tribute of loyalty to the things
for which he died. These are the things that
count in the world, the things that the world
is reaching out for, the things the Conference
is striving for in Memorial Continental Hall,
where the allied flags are again standing to-
gether for the maintenance of justice and good
faith, mercy and truth, liberty and civilization,
and the peace which depends upon all.

Wishing you a glad New Year.

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

THE PEACE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

When navies are forgotten,
And fleets are useless things.

When the dove shall warm her bosom
Beneath the eagle's wings, —

When memory of battles

At last is strange and old.
When nations have one banner

And creeds have found one fold, —

When the Hand that sprinkles midnight
With its powdered drift of suns

Has hushed this tiny tumult

Of sects and swords and guns.—

Then Hate's last note of discord
In all God's worlds shall cease.

In the conquest which is service,
In the victory which is peace !

A WARNING

Word has reached the President General that persons are representing-
themselves as relatives of hers and also of other officers of our Society, solicit-
ing money under false pretenses.

All members of the Society are warned that these appeals are fraudulent,
and the President General requests that an effort be made to bring such
impostors to the attention of their local police department.

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General, N. S. D. A. R.

GIFTS TO D.A.R.
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

By Sarah E. Guernsey
Chairman, Administration Building Committee

NUMBER of States and several
individual members have re-
quested the privilege of finishing
and furnishing rooms in the new
Daughters of the American Rev-
olution Administration Build-
ing, or of supplying certain details of the
construction either as memorials or as
free gifts.

Connecticut has asked to furnish the
President General's suite on the second
floor, Nebraska has taken the office of the
Reporter General to the Smithsonian
Institution, this gift in honor of Mrs.
Charles H. Aull, past State Regent and
Vice President from that State; North
Carolina has taken the office of the His-
torian General, and New Hampshire the
office of the Corresponding Secre-
tary General.

Pennsylvania has taken two communi-
cating Committee rooms which they will
furnish as rest rooms, and at the State
Conference of that State the amount of
money necessary was over-subscribed in
a very few moments. This gift from
Pennsylvania was made in celebration of
the twenty-fifth annual State Conference.
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The National Society, Children of the
American Revolution, will also furnish a
committee room. The National Offi-
cers' Club has asked for the small audi-
torium that the new building will have on
the second floor for smaller meetings and
meetings of the larger committees.

South Carolina, Oregon, Washington,
Wisconsin, Florida, and Colorado^ have
asked for rooms, the particular ones de-
sired not yet having been decided upon.

The Treasurer General has asked the
privilege of furnishing the private office
of the Treasurer General, and several
memorial gifts are being considered
by members.

The cost of furnishing and finishing the
various rooms ranges from one to three
thousand dollars, depending upon the size
and particular needs of each room.

Besides the various rooms to be
finished and furnished there are a number
of special architectural features suitable
for gifts and memorials, and the Commit-
tee will be most happy to give informa-
tion to interested members, chapters and
States. Address all communications to
Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, Inde-
pendence, Kansas.

Pil^^sfeilifegiiuJi^itt^^i^fe^

CONTINENTAL MARINE OFFICERS OF
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

By Major Edwin N. McClellan, U.S.AI.C.

N no war have the achievements
i)f the American Marines been
more brilliant than in the Revo-
lution. They served on board
all of the war vessels of the
Continental Navy, on those of
the various State Navies, and on all of
the privateers. There was probably not
a naval engagement fought during the
Revolution in which the musketry fire of
the Alarines was not an important factor,
and as " boarders " and in repelling
" boarders," the Marines distinguished
themselves. They participated in all of
the sea-fights and in many historic land-
ing-parties such as at Whitehaven, Eng-
land, in 1778. While the Marines thus
made naval history their own, they added
to it that part in which they served with
the Army as Army troops. They joined
the Army, on at least one occasion, and
fought under George \\'ashington at the
Battles of Trenton, Assanpink, and
Princeton, while on a later flate they
cooperated with the Army and Navy in
the Penobscot Expedition, in 1779. They
also served as artillery in Washington's
.\rmy for a short space of time. They
were ordered to Fort Montgomery in
New York, and also guarded enemy
prisoners. They had barracks at Phila-
delphia and at other points and at times
guarded naval property ashore. In addi-

tion to their own recruiting they also
assisted that of the Navy.

Up to the present there has not been
compiled a record containing the names
of all the officers who served as Marines.
Efforts have been made but the results
are but suggestive of how helpful and how
interesting a complete list would be. No
history of the Marine Corps contains even
a partial list of the Marine Officers of the
Revolution and there is no source from
which to ascertain whether or not a cer-
tain person ever was commissioned in
the Marines.

Probably the earliest list prepared was
that by Doyle Sweeney of the " Treasury
Department, Auditor's Office," dated
" March 18, 1794." At the bottom of
Sweeney's list, which contains many
names, appears the following notation:

" No regular records aj)pear to have
])een kej^t of the appointments made in
the Marine Department, and it is not
to be wondered at when it is con-
sidered how many persons and Boards
were vested with authority to make
a])pointments.

" The foregoing list is formed from
the IMinutes of the Marine Committee and
Navy Board, and from the rolls of the
several vessels."

Others, such as Charles Oscar Paullin,
have assisted materially in the assem-

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bling of these names, and it is hoped that
eventually a complete and accurate list
will be compiled.

As high an authority as J. Fenimore
Cooper wrote in 1839, that many naval
and Marine Officers " had merely letters
of appointment." There are, however,
sufficient commissions in existence, to^
show that Marine officers were duly ap-
pointed and commissioned. Samuel
Nicholas, who was commissioned cap-
tain on November 28, 1775, probably
received the first commission. In addi-
tion to the Continental Marine officers
there were a large number of Marine
officers who served in the States' Marines
and on board the privateers.

The names and data included in the fol-
lowing list have been secured by a diligent
search of the Papers of Congress, Jour-
nals of Congress, Minutes of the Marine
Committee and Navy Board, correspond-
ence of officers, muster rolls of the
Marines and the several war vessels,
State archives, correspondence with de-
scendants of officers, and the Continental
records and books published, etc.

MAJOR

Samuel Nicholas (the following data
is additional to that published in this
Magazine for June, 1921): Appointed
Captain of Marines, November 28, 1775;
served on Alfred from that date until the
summer of 1776; commanded 200
Marines and 70 Bluejackets in capture
of New Providence, Bahamas, March 3,
1776; on board Alfred, off Long Island,
when Hopkin's Squadron engaged the
Glasgow, April 6, 1776; reported to
Marine Committee at Philadelphia in
June, 1776, and assigned to duties of
administering affairs of Marines ; pro-
moted Major of Marines, June 25, 1776;
after the Battle of Princeton accompan-
ied Washington north to Morristown,

where his battalion was assigned to artil-
lery duty; in early summer of 1777, re-
turned to Philadelphia and resumed his
usual duties ; the records show that from
this date until at least April 28, 1783, he
was on duty in Philadelphia, despite stren-
uous efforts to secure more active duty ;
part of this period he was " Muster Mas-
ter in the Department."

CAPTAINS

Gideon Adair : Recommended for com-
mission as Captain of Marines by
Stephen Steward ; no information dis-
covered as to whether he was appointed.

Edward (or Edmond) Arrowsmith:
A letter dated February 6, 1777, from
Esek Hopkins to John Paul Jones, Bos-
ton, was addressed " per Capt. Arrow-
smith " ; on July 2, 1777, John Paul Jones
wrote : " I obtained for Captain Arrow-
smith his present commission and intro-
duced him into the service at first ; " acted
as recruiting officer for the Ranger (John
Paul Jones) under Captain Matthew
Parke in July, 1777, at Providence, R. I. ;
Papers of Continental Congress show that
Arrowsmith was commissioned as Cap-
tain of Marines on October 20, 1778.

Seth Baxter : Commissioned as Cap-
tain of Marines on February 2, 1779;
joined the Frigate Boston, February
17, 1779.

Blake : Detailed from the First

South Carolina Infantry to command the
Marine Guard of the General Moultrie
which vessel was assisting the Randolph
when she blew up in the fight with the
Yarmouth, on March 7, 1778.

Abraham Boyce : Serving on the Con-
federacy on January 1, 1780.

William Brown : Appointed February
16, 1776; served on flagship Montgom-
ery of the Pennsylvania State Navy;
present at Battles of Trenton, Assanpink
and Princeton.

MARIXK oFFirKRS OF THF AMICRICAX RKVULUTIO.X

Rubert Caldwell : Appuintcd April 12,
1779; commanded Marines on board
the General Green, Pennsylvania State
Xavy.

Dennis Gary: Commissioned Captain
of Marines, June 21, 1777, and on that
date was recorded as " unemployed
at Philadelphia."

Paul de Chamillard : The Calendar of
John Paul Jones' Manuscript states that
he was " Capt. French Marines. U. S. S.
Bon Honnne Riehard."

Isaac Craig (the following information
is additional to that published in June,
1921. number of this Mag.\zine) : Born in
1741, near Hillsborough, County Down,
Ireland; immigrated to Philadelphia in
1765; appointed Lieutenant of Marines,
Xovember 29, 1775 (one day later than
Captain Samuel Nicholas), for duty on
board the Andrea Doria; and served on
board that vessel for nearly ten months ; in
the engagement with the Glasgow, April
6. 1776, on board the Andrea Doria; ap-
pointed Captain of Marines on board the
armed galley Champion, October 22,
1776; resigned from the Marines, and on
March 3, 1777, appointed a Captain in
Proctor's Artillerv Regiment ; died June
14. 1826.

James Day: Connecticut records show
he was " Capt. Mariens " on Oliver
CroinziH-11, (Connecticut State Navy) on
April 14. 1777, and on March 16, 1778;
mortally wounded while serving on board
the Oiiz'er Cromicell on April 15, 1778 in
an engagement with the Admiral Keppel,
dying on the 18th.

Benjamin Deane : Appointed Captain
of Marines, June 25, 1776; commanded
company of Marines in battalion of
Major Nicholas at Battles of Trenton,
Assanpink, and Princeton ; went north
to Morristown with George Washing-
ton's Army and is known to have re-
mained there until at least as late as

April 1, 1777; during this period assigned
to artillery duty; commanded the Marines
on board the Hancock, June 27, 1777,
when the Fox was captured ; resigned
July 12. 1777.

James Disney: Appointed Captain of
Marines on board the Plrginia, October
22, 1776.

John Elliott: Doyle Sweeney's list of
March 18, 1794. shows him "dead" on
that (latr.

Robert Elliott: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Thomas Forrest: Stated by some
authorities to have been a Marine ofificer;
conmianded Arnold Battery 1776-1777;
later Lieutenant Colonel in Proctor's
Regiment of Pennsylvania State Artil-
lery ; died March 20, 1825.

Robert George : A cousin of General
George Rogers Clark; joined Captain
James Willing in 1778 and participated in
the Southwestern Expedition ; joined
General Clark's command with forty men
in 1779; ceased to be a Marine ofificer
after joining Clark; having settled on
Clark's grant in Indiana, he died there
before 1800.

John Cjrannis : Commanded Marine
Guard of Warren in 1776; Paullin stated
that the " complaints and charges against
Hopkins " were taken to Philadelphia and
presented to the Marine Committee by the
" chief conspirator," " Captain John
Grannis of the Marines."

Joseph Hardy: Appointed Lieutenant
of Marines, June 25, 1776; promoted
captain, October, 1776; on duty in Phila-
delphia on April 28, 1783, an original
member of the New York Society of the
Cincinnati (Saffell).

Hayes: A narrative of Lieutenant

Luke Matthewman of the Revolutionary
Navy contains the statement : " the truth
of which T had afterwards from Mr.

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Hayes (a nephew of General Conway),
who was Captain of Marines."

John Hazard : Included in list of
Paullin.

William Holton : Included in list of
Sweeney.

William Jones (Joans) : Commissioned
Captain of Marines, March 4, 1778; serv-
ing on the Providence, March 9, 1778.

Dennis Leary : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

William Matthewman : Included in list
of Sweeney.

William Morris : According to a letter
dated May 26, 1778, by Morris to John
Paul Jones, the former thanked Jones for
asking him to serve as Lieutenant of
Marines on the Ranger and that he would
"proceed to Brest as soon as possible" ;
whether he joined the Ranger is not
known at this time ; commissioned as
Captain of Marines in June, 1777, and
on this date was unemployed at Boston ;
appears on the Pension List of Maine as
having served on the Ranger.

Robert Mullen (Mullan and Mullin) :
Commissioned Captain of Marines in
November, 1775 ; served on board the
Alfred and participated in the capture of
New Providence, Bahamas, March 3,
1776; in the action between Hopkins'
Squadron and the Glasgozv, April 6,
1776; commanded company of Nicholas'
battalion of Marines in Battles of Tren-
ton, Assanpink and Princeton ; was
probably the chief recruiting officer for
Marines during the Revolution ; after
going north to Morristown and being de-
tailed to artillery duty, Captain Mullan,
according to a list dated February 27,
1777, escorted twenty-five British pris-
oners of war to Philadelphia; Captain
Mullan was serving in Philadelphia on
June 1, 1780, and also on April 28, 1783.

William Nicholson : Served on the
Warren in 1778; participated in the

Penobscot Expedition in July, 1779; that
he served in European waters is shown
by a letter dated July 6, 1781, in which
the Admiralty Officer informed Congress
that Captain Nicholson held a commis-
sion signed by Mr. Hancock in blank and
which had been forwarded to France ;
Captain Nicholson's name had been in-
serted in France and confirmation was re-
quested; on July 16, 1781, this request
was answered by commissioning Nichol-
son as a Lieutenant of Marines.

Maurice O'Connell : Served as Captain
of Marines on Pallas in 1779, probably
having a brevet commission forwarded
signed in blank by Hancock to John Paul
Jones ; serving on board Pallas during
action with Scrapis on September 23,
1779, and with the C omit ess of Scarbor-
ough; the Calendar of John Paul Jones
Manuscript shows that he was a "Captain,
U. S. Marines."

George Jerry Osborn (Osborne) : Ap-
pointed Captain of Marines, July 22,
1776; serving on board the frigate
Raleigh, January 22, 1778; in November.
1779, was appointed to command the
Marines on board the new ship then build-
ing at Portsmouth, N. H., under Captain
John Barry ; participated in the Penob-
scot Expedition in July, 1779.

Richard Palmes (Palmer) : Appointed
Captain of Marines, July 23, 1776; Ma-
rine Officer of the Boston during her
cruise to France and return in 1778, dur-
ing which cruise on March 10th, the
Boston captured the Martha; partici-
pated in the Penobscot Expedition in
July, 1779.

Matthew Parke : Appointed Captain of
Marines, May 26, 1776; acted as recruit-
ing officer for the Ranger in July, 1777,
at Providence, R. I. ; served on board the
Ranger from October, 1777, until March,
1778, when he returned to America on

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hoard ilu' trii^alc lh\inc; served on hoartl
till- .llUaiicc during the engageiiK'nt of [\\v
ISdii Uomuic Richard and Scrapis (ju
ScpU'iiihcr 2.\ 177*^

Miles Pennini^ton : Captain ut Marines
on the Rcf^risal.

jahez Perkins, 3d; serving on Dlii-cr
Crounccll, 1778-1779.

Pickering,': Killed in action with

an enemy vessel while serving on hoard
the Hanifdoi, early in 177*'.

Andrew Porter: See the June, 1''21,
nuniher of the D.vughters of tiik
American' Revolution Magazine.

John Rice: Served on board the Dick-
i>iso}i, of the Pcnn.sylvania State Navy,
1776-1777.

Eliphalet Roberts : Appointed Captain
of Marines, April 11, 1777, on " the
Colony ship " Oliver CromivcU. of
Connecticut.

Gilbert Saltonstall : Son of (iurdon
Saltonstall, born I^^ebruary 27, 1752.
graduated Harvard College 1770, ap-
pointed Captain of Marines in June, 1776 ;
served on board the Trumhull (Captain
Porter was also on board as a volunteer ) ,
on June 2, 1780, in the engagement with
the Watt, he being wounded eleven times ;
married Harriet Babcock ; they had two
children: (iurdon. who was professor f)f
mathematics in the University of Ala-
bama, and Gilbert, who married Elizabeth,
daughter of J. Starr, of New London, and
who died at Tuscaloosa. Ala., I-'ebruarv
6, 1833.

Samuel Shaw : Appointed Captain of
Marines, June 25, 1776 ; lost on RandolpJi.

Joseph Shoemaker: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Spence : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

Joseph Squire: Lieutenant of Marines
on Connecticut State brig-of-war De-
fence in February, 1776; appointed Cap-
tain of Marines on board the Connecticut

.State ship Pcfonc. January 15, 1778.

John Sti'wart : .\ppointed Captain of
Marines, June 25, 1770.

James Troo : Captain of Marines on
S^caJloii' when that vesst'l w a^ captured ;
confined in h'orton I'ri-on. Lngland.

Elihu Trowbridge: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Abraham \an 1 )yck : Appointed First
l.ieutt'nant of Marines, July 24, 1776;
served as b'irsl Lieutenant of Marines on
board the (Juccii of I'raucc in 1778;
served as First Lieutenant of Marines on
board the Saratoga July 7, 1780.

Walsh : Referred to by Rear Ad-
miral Colby M. Chester as commanding
the Marines in the Penobscot Expedition
(not corroborated by Collum).

John Welch : Served on board the
Cabot in February, 1776.

James Willing: Born in Philadelphia,
February 9, 1751 ; commissioned Cajjtain
in 1777; enlisted a company of Marines
for purpose of securing neutrality of Mis-
sissippi Valley; left Pittsburg in armed
boat Rattletrap January 10, 1778, and
proceeded to Natchez and New Orleans;
sent his troops back to Pittsburg under
Lieutenant Robert (ieorge in 1779; cap-
tured at Mobile by Iiritish and sent to
Long Island ; >aid to have been exchanged
tor lienr\- ] lamilton. (Governor of De-
troit: never married; died in IMiiladel-
phia, ( )ctober 13, 1801.

LIEUTENANTS

William Harney: Included in lists of
Paullin and .S\\eene\'. being notated
" dead " on latter list. Paullin shows
two I^)arneys.

I knry Becker: Included in list of
.Sweeney.

Peter Bedford: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney, the latter list carry-
ing the note. " resigned, July 5, 1779."

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Victor Bicker, Jr. : Appointed Lieuten-
ant of Marines on board the frigate Con-
gress on December 5, 1776; New York
records carry him as " Lt. Capt. Mar." on
board frigate Congress.

Ephraim Bill: Serving on board the
Confederacy on May 22, 1780.

David Bill : Killed in action on board
the Trumhull with Watt on June 2, 1780.

Gurdon Bill : On duty in Philadelphia,
April 28, 1783.

Peregrine Brown : Appointed First
Lieutenant of Marines, June 25, 1776.

James Calderwood : His name appears
in a general order dated September 4,
1776, detailing soldiers from the Army to
serve as Marines in Arnold's Fleet on
Lake Champlain.the order reading in part,
" They will proceed directly and join
General Arnold, under the command of
Lieutenant Calderwood, of Marines."

Thomas Caldwell : Appointed Lieuten-
ant of Marines on March 8, 1776, on
board the Montgomery, flagship of the
Pennsylvania State Navy; discharged
June 1, 1776, " as there is not to be a
Second Lieutenant of Marines," to
Steward.

Benjamin Catlin : Included in list of
Paullin.

Seth Chapin : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

John Chilton : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney, being noted as " dead "
on the latter list.

James Clark : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

James Cokely: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

James Connelly: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney, the last-named list
carrying the note " dead."

William Cooper : Served as Second
Lieutenant of Marines on the Boston,
joining March 28, 1779.

David Cullam : Included in Hsts of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Robert Cummings : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Henry Dayton : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Robert Davis : Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

de Blondell : Served as Lieutenant

of Marines on board the Pallas, in Sep-
tember, 1779, on the date that the Bon
Homme Richard captured the Serapis;
according to an account dated July 7,
1786, submitted to Continental Congress,
Philadelphia by John Paul Jones, Lt. de
Blondell shared in the prize money accru-
ing from the capture of the British ship
on September 23, 1779.

Panatier de la Falconier : Serving on
board the Randolph on September 1,1777.

Louis de la Valette : Appointed First
Lieutenant of Marines, August 24, 1776.

John Dimsdell : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

John Dovie : The Calendar of John
Paul Jones Manuscript states that he was
" Quartermaster, U. S. Marines."

Stephen Earl: Included in lists of Paul-
lin and Sweeney.

Bela Elderkin, of Windham, Conn. :
Appointed Lieutenant of Marines, April
11, 1777, on "the Colony ship" Oliver
Cromzvell, of Connecticut.

John Elliott: Lieutenant U. S. Ma-
rines, serving on board the frigate Dea/ne
in Boston Harbor on November 24, 1778.

Thomas Elting: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Thomas Ehlenwood (El wood and
Ellen wood) : Commissioned Lieutenant
of Marines on August 24, 1778; served
on board the Alliance during fight be-
tween Bon Homme Richard and Serapis
on September 23, 1779; he was only
Marine on board the Alliance on August

MARIM-: (tl-l-lCllKS ()!•' Till': A.M I;R IC.W Rl-:\( >l.f rio.X _H)

20, 17S,\ haviiii; ciiicrcd ilic ship on tliis ant of Marines on ScpUMulitT 25, 1778,

occasion on Auyusl 1. 17S>v ami on ilial date wa^ siT\in,i; at lioslon.

Zebcdiah J-'arnhani. of Windham, John ( luii^iiace : Inchidrd in li>l> of

Conn.: inchidcd in lists of I'anllin and Tanllin .and Swct-nry.

S\\(.'cnc\' ; Lieutenant oi Mariin's on ^hip Uol^it Haddock: Inchuled in li^ts of

Pii>-ri(lciicc in 1780. I'anllin and .Swa'cney.

William 1-ielding: Included in li>ts of .\;ithan I laskell : Joined the .M;i>>achu-
I'aullin and Sweeney. set's cruiser Mars as Lieut(.'nani of Ma-
John l-'iske: Serving- on hoard the rines, Jmie 5. 1780 ; killed in action with
Alfred in February, 177(). an enemy ship while servin-,^ on l)oard

Thomas Fitzgerald : Included in lists of Mars, off Xantes, h'rance, .Si-pn-mher \),

J'aullin and Sweeney. 1780, in the twentieth year of his a<,u- ;

John Fitzpatrick : Killed in action while descendant of ko^cr Haskell, of .Salem.

serving on board the Alfred durin,>;- the John llamhri^ht, Jr.: Served on hoard

engagement with the Glasgow. April the (ntural {',rcciu\ of the 1 'eniisyhania

6. 1776. State Xavy, 177()-1777.

John (i. Frazier: Correspondence be- James Hamilton: Included in lists of

tween him and John Paul Jones indicates I'aullin and Sweeney.

that it is possible that he served as a Jonas Hamilton: included in lists of

volunteer Marine officer during the cruise I'aullin and Sweeney.

of the Ranger to France in 1777. (Cap- William Hamilton: included in lists of

tain Parke and Lieutenant Wailingford I'aullin and Sweeney.

were the regular ]\Iarine officers of the Riciiard Harrison: .\])poinied l.ii'uten-

Rangcr at tliis time.) ant of Marines for frigate building in

Samuel Gamage : Appears on Pension Maryland. June 26. 1776; serving on
Rolls of \>rmont as having served on Ijoard the Congress when that vessel cap-
board the Deane; included in lists of lured tlie vS'aT-af/r on September 6, 1781.
Pauilin and Sweeney. Samuel Hempsted : Inchuled in lists of

William Giimore : Appointed Second I'aullin and Sweenev.

Lieutenant of Marines on June 25, 1776; Daniel Henderson: A])pointed h'irst

participated in Penobscot Expedition Lieutenant of Marines, June Ih. \77(>\

in 1779. commanded Marines of Aiiilrca Poria in

James Glasgow: Served on board the light with Racehorse late in 177(); lost

Experiment of the Pennsylvania State at sea.

Xavy, \77(>-\777. "idiomas Hinsdale: Reported in Calen-

Thomas Greenleaf : A Lieutenani in dar ui John I'aul Jones as "Mate of

Capt. Edward Craft's Artillery; son of Marines " on the . ////"(/;;c,- in 1779.

Joseph Greenleaf, of Boston; Lieutenant S.anuul Holt : Include.! in lists of I'aul-

of Marines on board the brig Angellea out lin .and Sweeney.

of Boston; captured by British on May lienjann'n Huddle: included in lists of

30, 1778; in i-'orton-l^rison in i-:ngl.and. I'.aullin and Sweeney.

but escaped in August, 1778, to France; William Huddle: Included in lists of

requested, on February 8. 1779. "some I'aullin and Sweeney,

appointment" under Jolin Paul Jones, Robert Hunter: Included in lists of

preferably " as a Marine officer." Pauilin and Sweenev.

Peter Green: Commissif)ned Lieuten- .V.ath.an lackson: Lieuten.ant of Ma-

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rines on Connecticut St^ate sloop Guilford
in 1779.

William Jennison : Born August 4,
1757, at Milford, Mass.; graduated from
Harvard in 1774; appointed Lieutenant of
Marines and ordered to the Warren in
April, 1776, and one month later to re-
cruiting duty; resigned from Marines in
June, 1776, and entered Army; com-
missioned Lieutenant of Marines in Feb-
ruary, 1777, on board Boston and served
on board that vessel, except for a short
period, until her capture at the surrender
of Charleston, S. C; on March 10, 1778,
Lieutenant Jennison was on board the
Boston in the action which resulted in the
capture of the Martha; after the return
of the Boston from a cruise to France, the
Navy Board apointed him purser of the
Boston, on November 14, 1778; on April
29, 1779, he was granted permission to
go on a cruise of two weeks on the priva-
teer Resolution; the Resolution was cap-
tured and officers and crew imprisoned at
Halifax; Jennison was exchanged and
reached the Boston on September 29,
1779; Jennison, on January 16, 1780, was
allowed to act as a " Volunteer Officer "
of Marines on board the Boston.

John Johnson : Recommended for pro-
motion to Captain in letter dated Novem-
ber 17, 1776, to Abraham P. Lott.

Kelly: Included in lists of Paullin

and Sweeney ; see O'Kelly.

Hugh Kirkpatrick : Included in list
of Paullin.

James Kirkpatrick: Sen-i'd as T'^irst
Lieutenant on board the RflhigJiam. of the
Pennsylvania State Navy. 1776-1777.

George Lavie (or Lovie) : Mentioned
as an " Acting Lieut., U. S. Marines,"
in Calendar of John Paul Jones
Mantiscri])!.

Danii-I I.ongstrcct : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

David Love: Appointed b'irst Lieuten-

ant of Marines, June 25, 1776; served
with Captain Robert Mullan's Company
on December 1, 1776 and on April 1,
1777; therefore must have participated
in the battles of Trenton, Assanpink and
Princeton, and gone north with Washing-
Ion's Army ; assigned to artillery duty in
Spring of 1777 while serving in Wash-
ington's Army.

Jonas Macky: Served on board the
General Greene, of the Pennsylvania
State Navy, 1776-1777.

■ Magee : Led American Marines

in an attack on a British vessel, in which
attack he was killed, while serving on
the Boston.

Peter Manifald: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

William Martin : Served on board the
Hancock of the Pennsylvania State Navy,
1776-1777.

Eugene McCarty (Macarty or Ma-
carthy) : An officer in Colonel Walsh's
Irish Regiment of Artillery, French
Army, given a brevet commission, signed
by Hancock in blank and forw^arded by
him to John Paul Jones, to serve as junior
Marine officer on board the Bon Homme
Richard; on board the Bon Homme
Richard during the engagement with the
Scrapis, September 23, 1779.

James McClure : Appointed Second
Lieutenant of Marines, June 25, 1776;
participated in the Penobscot Expedition,
July. 1779.

Richard McClure : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

C"harlcs McHarron : Included in lists
of Paullin and Sweeney.

Robert McNeal : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney ; the latter list
carrying the note, " Resigned, April
5. 1778."

Stephen Meade (Mead or Meede) :
Included in li.sts of Paullin and Sweeney;
ajipointed First Lieutenant of Marines,

MARINE OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

July 22, 1776; serving on board the
Raleigh, January 22, 1777.

Jonathan Mix: Inckided in Hsts of
Paulhn and Sweeney.

Hugh Montgomery : Appointed Second
Lieutenant of Marines on June 25, 1776;
records show that he was with Captain
Robert Mullan's company of Marines in
battahon of Major Nicholas on December
1, 1776, and April 1, 1777, so he therefore
must have crossed the Delaware on
Christmas Eve, 1776, with Washington
and fought in the batdes of Trenton,
Assanpink and Princeton ; proceeded
north with Washington and assigned to
artillery duty ; appointed First Lieutenant
in Proctor's Artillery Regiment " from
Lieutenant of Marines, March 14, 1777;
died May 15, 1777"; another authority
contains information that would contra-
dict this date of death since it states that
he was a member of the Patriotic Asso-
ciation of Philadelphia in 1778; this same
authority states that he was later pro-
moted to Captain.

Abel Morgan : Appointed Second Lieu-
tenant of Marines, June 25, 1776; com-
manded Marines on board the Lexington
when that vessel engaged the Edward,
April 7, 1776; commanded the Marines
on board the frigate Washington, Octo-
ber 26, 1777.

James Morrison : Appointed March 23,
1776; Marine officer on board the Mont-
gomery, flagship of the Pennsylvania
State Navy.

Alexander Neilson : Included in the
lists of Paullin and Sweeney, the latter
list noting, " Resigned. April 5, 1778."

James Jerry O'Kelly : The name
" Kelly " appears on Paullin's and
Sweeney's list and it is presumed
" O'Kelly " is intended ; an officer in
Colonel Walsh's Irish Regiment of Artil-
lery, French Army, given a brevet com-
mission, signed by Hancock in blank and

forwarded by him to John Paul Jones;
served on board the Bon Houime Richard
as junior Marine officer during engage-
ment with Scrapis, September 23, 1779.

Avery Parker : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Ebenezer Peck : Appointed Lieutenant
of Marines on board the galley Whiting
of the Connecticut State Navy on June
19, 1776.

Thomas Plunkett : Commissioned Lieu-
tenant of Marines, December 9, 1776,
and on that date was in Maryland.

Samuel Powars : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Thomas Pownal (Pownel) : Appointed
First Lieutenant of Marines, June 25,
1776; Journals of Congress, June 26,

1776, states that Thomas Pownal was
appointed First Lieutenant " for the frig-
ate building in Maryland " ; served as
junior Marine officer on the Hancock
June 27, 1777, when the Fox was cap-
tured ; name appears on a list of prisoners
on board the Felicity in 1778, stating he
was serving on board the frigate America
when captured in 1778.

John Prentice : Appointed Lieutenant
of Marines on " the Colony ship " Oliver
Croimvell, of Connecticut, on April
11, 1777.

Samuel Pritchard : Commissioned Lieu-
tenant of Marines on September 20,

1777, and was serving on the Deane on
that date ; serving on the Alliance,
March 30, 1781.

William Radford : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Franklin Reade : Appointed First Lieu-
tenant of Marines, June 25, 1776.

Nathaniel Richards : Name appears on
a list of Revolutionary naval pensioners
of Connecticut as having served on the
Alfred as a Lieutenant of Marines.

Alpheus Rice : Commissioned First

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Lieutenant of Marines for duty on the
brig Hampden, August 29, 1776.

Samuel Smedley: Appointed Second
Lieutenant of Marines on the Colony
(Connecticut) brig Defence; promoted to
First Lieutenant, January, 1777.

Jabez Smith, Jr., of Groton : Lieuten-
ant of Marines on board the Trumbull
and killed in action with Watt while
serving on board the Trumbull, June
2, 1780.

Samuel Snowden : Served on board the
Franklin, of the Pennsylvania State
Navy, 177^1777.

Walter Spooner : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Edward (Edmond) Stack: Son of
" Stack of Crotts " ; Sub-Lieutenant in
Colonel Walsh's Irish Regiment of Artil-
lery, French Army; given a brevet com-
mission, signed by Hancock in blank and
forwarded by him to John Paul Jones ;
commanded the Marines on board the Bon
Homme Richard when that vessel cap-
tured the Serapis, September 23, 1776;
during the engagement was " command-
ing in the maintop," and was highly com-
mended by John Paul Jones ; King Louis
XVI granted Stack a pension of four
hundred livres to show his pleasure with
Stack's conduct during the engagement ;
In a letter dated October 21, 1779, " Stack
of Crotts" (father) wrote John Paul
Jones, fearing his son is dead, saying if
he has served " like a gentlement and a
soldier, I shan't half regret his death,"
" his loss will lie heavy 'pon me the rest
of my days;" early in December, 1779,
Stack rejoined his regiment which soon
thereafter sailed for the West Indies ;
applied for mcmbershii) in the Society
of the Cincinnati.

Daniel Starr : Wounded in action while
serving on board the Trumbull in the en-
gagement with the Walt, June 2, 1780,
and died four davs later.

John Martin Strobagh: Lieutenant of
Marines on board the Hornet until May
14, 1776; the sea disagreed with him and
he accepted an appointment of third lieu-
tenant in the Pennsylvania Artillery Com-
pany ; after being promoted to Lieuten-
ant Colonel in Proctor's Artillery Regi-
ment he died on December 2, 1778.

Benjamin Thompson: Appointed Lieu-
tenant of Marines in Captain Palmes'
company, July 24, 1776; serving on board
the Ranger in 1778.

Nathaniel Thwing: Appointed Second
Lieutenant of Marines on July 22, 1776;
serving as Second Lieutenant of Marines
on board the Raleigh on January 22,
1778; participated in the Penobscot Ex-
pedition in July, 1779.

John Trevett: Served as First Lieu-
tenant of Marines on board the Co-
lumbus at the capture of New Provi-
dence, Bahamas, March 3, 1776; prior to
this he served on board the Providence ;
served on board the Providence during
the second descent on New Providence,
Bahamas, January 27, 1778.

George Trumbull : Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney, the following note
appearing on the latter list, " Discharged
March 4, 1778."

Thomas Turner: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Zebulon Varnam: Included in lists of
Paullin and Sweeney.

Wadsworth : Included in list of

Sweeney.

Samuel Wallingford (Wallingsford) :
Included in lists of Paullin and Sweeney ;
letter dated July 15, 1777, John Paul
Jones to Lieut. Samuel Wallingford
orders that since he has been nominated
" Lieutenant of Marines," he will enlist
seamen to serve under Jones, etc. ; letter
dated August 24, 1777, Jones to Parke
states that " Lieut. Wallingford " re-
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" killed by a musket shot in the head "
(diary of Surgeon Ezra Green), April 24,
1778, while serving on board the Ranger
when the Drake was captured ; "In the
evening " of April 25th, wrote Surgeon
Ezra Green, " committed the body of Lt.
Wallingford to the deep with Honours
due to so brave an officer " ; his son
George Washington Wallingford, born in
Somersworth, N. H., an infant two
months old at time of his father's death,
was a distinguished lawyer of Maine ;
many descendants of Lieutenant Walling-
ford are living in New England.

James Warren : Commissioned a lieu-

tenant of Marines on October 2, 1778,
and was serving on board the Alliance on
that date, and until at least 1779.

William Waterman : Included in lists
of Paullin and Sweeney.

William Wallemen : Commissioned
Lieutenant of Marines, March 4, 1778.

Jacob White : Appointed Lieutenant of
Marines on the Tninibull, October 16,
1776.

James Hoard Wilson : Killed in action
while serving on board the Cabot in the
action with the Glasgozv, April 6, 1776.

Jonathan W'oodworth : Included in the
lists of Paullin and Sweeney.

The death on December 10th of Miss Sue M. Young, a former clerk of
the National Society, is announced with deep sorrow. Her resignation in
1920, at the close of twenty-five years of untiring and devoted service was
a source of deep regret to all her associates and friends connected with the
work of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

ATTENTION, CHAPTER REGENTS!

The new list of Chapter Regents is now
ready — the official mailing list of the
National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution.

If Chapter Regents are not receiving
official D. A. R. mail or their addresses are
incorrectly listed, it is because the Organ-
izing Secretary General has neither been
notified of such changes nor of Chap-
ter elections.

Reports of the election of Chapter offi-
cers date of election, and duration of
term, as well as all changes in addresses
should be reported promptly.
Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger,
Organizing Secretary General,

N. S. D. A. R.
Memorial Continental Hall,

Washington, D. C.

Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

V. Pioneer Women

1. General.— For the general subject of Pio-
neer Women see Bruce, Woman in the Mak-
ing of America, ch. 4; or Mrs. Logan, Part
Taken by Women in American History, 22-104.
These are largely individual biography. For a
somewhat more theoretical statement see Cal-
houn, Social History of the American Family,
ii, 103-109, 161-170. An older and rather popu-
lar book, interesting if accessible, is W. W.
Fowler's JVoman on the Frontier.

2. The Frontier and its Significance —
The significance and importance of the frontier
in the development of the United States has
only recently been realized. Each new advance
to the West has involved a rebuilding of
civilization, borrowed but not imitated from
the East, all passing through similar phases, but
each differing from the previous one. At the
same time, the new societies thus created, with
their new aspirations and demands, have reacted
powerfully on the older settled country. For
a general study see F. J. Turner, Significance
of the Frontier in American History, published
in the Report of the American Historical Asso-
ciation for 1893, reprinted in his Frontier in
American History and Bullock's Readings i:i
Economics. Similar discussions may be found
in Garrison, Westzmrd Extension, ch. i ; Oroly's
Promise of American Life, ch. i.

3. Frontier Life. — General descriptions of
living conditions on the Frontier, in which
women were a vitally important factor, are
numerous. Examples are Roosevelt, Winning
of the West, ch. 5 ; McMaster, History of the
People of the United States, ii, 572-578"; Green,
H. C, Pioneer Mothers of America, vol. i, ch. 7.

4. The Colonial Frontier.- — The influence
of colonial conditions on the status of women
has already been indicated. In addition may be
cited Green, Pioneer Mothers of America, vol.
i, ch. 8. Examples of their part and sufferings
in the colonial Indian wars are found in such
slories as that of Hannah Dustin (Green, Pio-
neer Mothers, 375-387, and Eunice Williams
Palfrey, Neiv England, iv, 264, or Baker, C. A.
True Stories of New England Captives. 128-
154) both are briefly told by Bancroft, History
of the United States, ii, 182-183, 195-196.

5. Kentitky and the First Settlements.
— The ( itation already given from Roosevelt

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furnishes a good picture of the conditions which
surrounded those women who made part of
the first movement beyond the Alleghenies into
western Virginia and Kentucky, see also
Thwaites, Daniel Boone, 24-34, and Bruce, H.
A., Daniel Boone and the Wilderness Road, 68-
83. Shaler's Kentucky, 61-64, tells the experi-
ences of the first white woman in Kentucky,
Mary Inglis, who was captured by Indians and
escaped and reached her home in Virginia. As
on the older frontier, women had their part in
the wars which wrested this country from the
Indians and much of the available material
deals with the deeds of individuals, for example :
Elizabeth Zane (Logan, Part Taken by Women,
160-162, or Shaler's Kentucky, 83-85).

6. The Old Northwest.— Pioneer living
conditions and Indian conflicts differed little in
the states north of the Ohio. For a general
description see McMaster, v, 152-166. F. A.
Ogg, The Old Nortzvest, 110-130 (Chronicles
of America Series) describes its lighter as well
as its more serious aspects.

7. The Southwest. — In the earliest days the
situation of the pioneer woman in the South
was not essentially different from that of her
northern sister. A good description of the
patriarchial immigration and life of the period
is found in Swedes' Memorials of a Southern
Planter, especially chapters 5, 6, and 9 ; a more
general description in Putnam, E. J., The Lady,
282-323.

8. The Plains and Mountain States. —
For a general sketch of pioneer conditions on
the Plains see McMaster, vol. 8, ch. 95. A
sympathetic picture of woman's life under later
conditions is given by Miss McCracken Women
of America, ch. i. Special phases are described in
Mrs. Custer's Tenting on the Plains and Grace
G. Seton-Thompson's A Woman Tenderfoot.

9. The Pacific Coast. — Josiah Royce's Cali-
fornia emphasizes the part played by women
in the new society established on the Pacific ;
see p. 348-358 and 391-395 for conditions in
San Francisco and at the mines, as well as p.
403-407. For the sufferings of the immigrants
see Royce, 240-246 ; and McMaster, viii, 600-
609. For Oregon see McMaster, vi, 447-453
and W. D. Lyman, The Columbia River, 146-
154. 169-178.

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BLAKE

The Blake family of Wiltshire, England,
took its name from Blakeland, a parish in that
county. The first recorded mention of the
family is in 1286, when Robert de Blakeland
was assessed on the Wiltshire Roll of Subsi-
dies, for the requirements of Edward 1st.

His descendant. Robert Blake, of Calne, was
assessed on the Wiltshire Roll in 1347, for a
large amount to meet the requirements of Ed-
ward 3rd.

A later descendant, Robert Blake of Calne.
by his marriage with Avice, daughter of John
Wallop, of Southampton, acquired large es-
tates in that county. Robert and his wife are
buried in the Church at Calne, where in stained
glass windows, he is represented as habited in
armor, with a surcoat charged with his armorial
bearings ; while his wife appears in a long
robe with a scarf embroidered with the arms
of the family.

One branch of Robert's descendants removed
to Hampshire, later appearing in Somersetshire,
where the family is first represented by Hum-
phrey Blake who purchased large estates in
Over Stowey, where he became Lord of the
Manor and patron of the Church at Over
Stowey and at Aisholt. He died in 1558.

Admiral Robert Blake of England, Hum-
phrey's great grandson, bore as his personal
arms, on his ships, the Arms of the Wilt-
shire Blakes.

Another great grandson. William Blake of
Pitminster, Somersetshire, came to New Eng-
land, with his family in 1635 and settled in Dor-
chester, Massachusetts, becoming the common
ancestor of many branches of the familj
in America.

Used through the courtesy of Mrs. Carrie
M. Watson Weis.

GALT

574287

The earliest appearance of the family name
of Gait in records, occurs in Denmark. It is
quite probable that the family had its origin
there, and that certain members, migrating to
Scotland, furnished the originators of the
Scotch and Irish Gaits, from whom the various
American branches of the family have sprung.

The name belongs to one of Denmark's old-
est and noblest families, often being seen in
connection with old castles, etc. There was
hardly a Cathedral in Denmark that did not
have a chair with the Gait armorial bearings
on its back, and twenty-six estates in that
country alone have been owned and occupied
by various branches of the Gait family.

The first ancestor of whom we have positive
knowledge was Herr Mogens Lagesen, knighted
in 1397. He was buried in the Cathedral of
Roeskilde. His grandson, Herr Mogens Ebbe-
sen Gait, of Thyrrestrup, knighted 1444, was
Governor of Aalholm and Kolding Castle and
died 1481.

Herr Mogens Ebbesen's second son Ebbe
Mogensen, Governor of Helsingborg, killed in
battle in 1500, in Ditmarshen, married Sophie
Holg. Peders daughter, and their son was Peder
Ebgesen. of Thyrrestrup, Palsgaard, Birkelse,
etc. He was Councillor of State, died 1548,
and is buried in Sovind Church. His tombstone
still exists. He married Ingeborg Drefeld,
Giord's daughter and is the ancestor of the
younger branch of the family, which branch
became extinct in the death in 1698, of Knud
Henrik Gait, of Viumgaard, the last man of
the family.

Therefore the name is perpetuated through
the oldest branch, alone, and the Coat-of-Arms
is rightly used by them.

Used through the courtesy of Mrs. G. Wal-
lace W. Hanger (Lucy Gait) Organizing
Secretary General. N.S.D.A.R.

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CONNECTICUT

The twenty-eighth State Meeting of the Con-
necticut Daughters of the American Revolution
was held October 5, 1921, at Milford, by invi-
tation of Freelove Baldwin Stow Chapter. It
was held in the First Congregational Church.

As the organ pealed out the inspiring strains
of the Battle Hymn of the Republic, the color
bearers and ushers appeared, followed by our
beloved President General, Mrs. Minor, and
National and State officers and guests. Con-
necticut is so fond and proud of her President
General that even the sacredness of the edifice
could not restrain the enthusiastic greeting to
her ; in fact it was a thank offering for her
safe return and that of our loved State Regent
and State Vice Regent.

The invocation was given by the pastor of
the church. Reverend Leslie B. Briggs, fol-
lowed by singing the " Star Spangled Banner "
and the salute to the Flag, led by Mrs. William
F. Hopson, State Chairman on Correct Use
of the Flag.

Mrs. Nicholas M. Pond, Regent of the hos-
tess chapter, gave a splendid address, and Judge
Omar Piatt, representing the town of Milford,
also welcomed us.

The response of our State Regent, Mrs. John
Laidlaw Buel, stirred the hearts of all. Only a
part of it can be given here.

" Service, conscientious public service, is
sorely needed in our country today — service to
counteract the downward tendency and face the
calamity howlers with words of cheer and
faith. There is too much fear in America —
fear of panic, fear of unemployment, fear of
losing high profits, fear of working for lower
wage. We can render service in moulding
public sentiment to a higher level. Let us
keep in our hearts the words of the President
General, 'Do not forget that the allied flags
still stand for civilization, for freedom, for
liberty under law, for honor and good faith
among nations.' Believe me, the safety of
America depends upon standing by the Allies
now as much as ever it did upon the drive
of the American armies on the battlefields of
France. The only thing Germany fears is force.
Germany fears only so long as the lash is in
sight and tlie American flag flies on the Rhine."
.^6

Aliss Dorothy Smith gave three violin solos,
and Mrs. Susan Hawley Davis, of Bridgeport,
sang several songs.

Reverend Harris Edward Starr, pastor of
Pilgrim Church, New Haven, gave a fine ad-
dress on " Anglo-American Friendship."

Greetings were given by Mrs. John F. Yaw-
ger. Recording Secretary General ; Mrs. Lyman
E. Holden, Vice President General of Vermont;
Mrs. Charles W. Nash, State Regent of New
York; Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway, State Re-
gent of Massachusetts ; Mrs. Clarence F.
Jenne, President General of United States
Daughters of 1812; Mrs. Leonard D. Mayhew,
President of the Connecticut Society of Colonial
Dames of America ; Mrs. Frank A. Corbin,
President of Connecticut Chapter of Daughters
of Founders and Patriots of America. It was
announced with regret that Mrs. Livingston
Hunter, Treasurer General, could not be present.

The morning session closed with singing
" America the Beautiful," and an organ postlude
by Mr. Lorenzo Oviatt.

The afternoon session opened with two
selections on the organ by Mr. Oviatt and sing-
ing of the Connecticut State Song by the
audience. " A Reminiscence — 'Chateau Rosa
Bonheur " was to have been given by Mrs.
Charles H. Bissell, State Vice Regent, but
owing to illness in her family she was unable
to be present. This was a matter of deep regret
to all, and a telegram of love and sympathy was
sent from the meeting to Mrs. Bissell. Also
one of greeting was sent to Michigan Confer-
ence, then assembled in Detroit.

Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President
General, was given enthusiastic greeting when
she rose to give a short account of " A D.A.R.
Visit to England and France."

Mrs. Mary W. Roe, dressed in Indian cos-
tume, gave an address on " The American
Indian."

Singing, followed by the benediction, and
we passed out to the chapter house of Freelove
Baldwin Stow on the village green, where a
reception was held and tea enjoyed.

In the evening a banquet in honor of the
President General and National Officers was
given in the Municipal Building. A feature
of the program was the guessing of conun-
drums, which were printed on the menu cards.

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and the correct answers given from the plat-
form. Impersonations and dances were also
given, and Governor Lake gave a rousing talk
on " Ideals of our Ancestry and Living up
to Them."
(Mrs. Frederick S.) Anna M. G. Stevens,

State Recording Secretary.

MISSISSIPPI

The Gulf Coast Chapter was hostess to the
sixteenth annual State Conference, which con-
vened in Gulf port, Februarj^ 21st. The Court

on " Tracing the Descendants of the Early
Colonists to Mississippi."

The morning sessions were held in the Great
Southern Hotel, headquarters of the Confer-
ence Immediately after luncheon on Tuesday
the delegates went by motor to old Fort
Maurepas across the Back Bay of Biloxi,
where the recently erected boulder which Gulf
Coast Chapter had placed on the occasion of
the 221st anniversary of the landing of d'lber-
ville. Doctor Boyd welcomed the guests and
gave a brief sketch of the settlement, the third

THIS STONE MARKS
APRIL 8, 1920.

HK SIIK OF FORT MALRKPAS AND OLD BILOXL FRECIED BY THE GULF COAST CHAPTER,
COMMEMORATION OF THE 2:iST ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE COLONY

House, used for the evening sessions, seemed
especially adapted for the occasion.

" Assembly " by the Gulfport Naval Station
Band called the meeting to order. The Officers
and those on the program for the evening were
escorted to the stage by twelve pages taken
from the older members of the Children of the
American Revolution.

After the Invocation by the Reverend Dr.
Newman, the Mayor, Mr. Haydon welcomed
the guests on behalf of the city. Mrs. H. H.
Sneed, Chapter Regent, introduced Mrs. J. H.
Wynn, State Regent, who reviewed the year's
work and told of Chapters she had organized
in Mexico, having returned from that country
in order to attend this Conference. Miss Bessie
Bell, State Registrar, read an interesting paper

oldest in the United States. Mrs. E. J. Bowers,
Organizing Regent, presented to Mrs. Wynn,
from the Chapter, a gavel made from cedar
taken from a tree which shelters the stone,
saying in part : " The cedar is an ancient and
honorable wood, having particular mention in
the Book of Books and hasn't it a part, the
greater part, too, of our own initials,
'D.A.R.'"?

An original poem by Mrs. L. F. Hinsdale,
written for the occasion and dedicated to the
Chapter, was read by her and received
much praise.

The exercises concluded, the delegates were
driven to the White House, where Mrs. Cora
E. White gave a charming reception in their
honor. Tempting refreshments, fine orchestral

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music, the swish of the waves and charming
companionship would have kept the party indefi-
nitely but a tea was given later in the after-
noon by two chapters of the United Daughters
of the Confederacy in honor of their sister
organization.

Wednesday was the closing day of the Con-
ference. At one o'clock Hostess Chapter en-
tertained the delegates and guests at a luncheon
at the Southern Hotel ; eleven tables seated the
sixty-five persons present. There were toasts
a plenty. Miss Bessie Bell's, " My Ancestor,"
was most amusing. Dr. Margaret Carraway
was Toastmistress, and no better selection
could have been made. Mrs. Andrew Gray
responded to the " New Citizen." She made a
plea for dignity, thoughtful study and tenacity
of purpose in our new relation to the State.
To the Commandant of the Naval Station,
Captain Crenshaw, the thanks of the Confer-
ence were expressed for the delightful music
furnished by the Naval Station Band during
the convention.

ZoE Posey,
State Chainnan. Preservation of Historic Spots.

MONTANA

The eighteenth annual Conference of the
Montana Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion was held in Helena, October 19th and 20th,
with Oro Fino Chapter as hostess. For the
first time every Chapter in the State was repre-
sented at the Conference. Montana is a large
Stale and some of those attending had to travel
a long distance.

The Conference was formally opened on the
afternoon of the 19th at the Y.W.C.A., where
the meetings were held. Shortly after the
Regent called the Conference to order a large
basket of white and yellow chrysanthemums
were brought in, a gift from the American
Legion. This was very much appreciated. The
reports of the State Officers and State Chair-
men of National Committees were excellent.
The State Chairman on Correct Use of the Flag
compiled a pamphlet on this subject, containing
useful information and instructions; these
pamphlets were distributed to the different
Chajrters and placed where they would be of
the greatest use.

In the evening a banquet was held at the
Placer Hotel, and the guests numbered seventy-
five. Mrs. Lemuel Barnes, of New York, and
Mrs. Morrow, of Idaho, gave delightful ad-
dresses at the Conference.

Wednesday morning the Conference was
again called to order. The ten Chapters
adopted fifty boys in the tuberculosis ward at
the soldiers' hospital near Helena, each Giap-
ter taking five names and plcging itself to see
that each Ivoy is remembered in sonic way once

a week. A trip was made to the hospital by
the delegates and oranges and fruit taken to
the boys. A visit to the State Capitol was
made and Governor Dixon gave a short address.
Tea was served at the home of the Regent of
Oro Fino Chapter where good-byes were said
and the eighteenth Conference of the Montana
Daughters of the American Revolution was at
an end, all voting Oro Fino Chapter a per-
fect hostess.

(Mrs. C. a.) Emma M. Blackburn,
Historian.

OHIO

The Twenty-second Annual Conference of
the Ohio Daughters of the American Revo-
lution met in Toledo, March 15, 16, 17 and 18,
1921, with Ursula Wolcott and Fort Industry
Chapters as hostesses. The opening session
was held in the First Congregational Church
Tuesday evening. The program opened with
the processional, " America the Beautiful,"
Mrs. Charles Sumner Johnson presiding at the
organ, and the pages escorted to the plat-
form the President General, Mrs. George M.
Minor, accompanied by the State Regent, Mrs.
William Magee Wilson, followed by Mrs.
Edward L. Harris, Vice President General
from Ohio, the State Officers, speakers and
entertaining Regents. The Reverend Frank E.
Duddy, Assistant Pastor of the First Congrega-
tional Church, offered the invocation, which
was followed by a solo, " Psalm of Thanks-
igiving," rendered by Mrs. Wm. McGervey,
State Secretary.

Mrs. William Magee Wilson, State Regent,
presided, and introduced Miss Anna K. Whit-
aker. Vice Regent of Fort Industry Chapter;
Mrs. Charles H. Shields, Regent of Ursula
Wolcott Chapter ; Judge Silas E. Hurin, repre-
senting the Sons of the American Revolution,
and Mrs. J. Kent Hamilton, ex-State Regent
of Ohio. To their cordial greetings Mrs.
James H. Allen, State Vice Regent, responded,
after which Mr. Clarence R. Ball sang " The
Star Spangled Bannner." A stirring address
on " Home and Country," by our President
General, followed by the singing of " America,"
closed the first evening's program.

The business sessions of the Conference were
held in the assembly room at the Toledo
Woman's Club, beginning March 16th, at 9.30
o'clock, Mrs. William M. Wilson, State Regent,
presiding. At this session, the guests of the
Conference, Mrs. George M. Minor, President
General, Miss .'Mice L. McDuffce, State Regent
of Michigan, and Dr. Eleanor Adams. Presi-
dent of Oxford College for Women, Oxford,
Ohio, were introduced and spoke briefly. It
was considered a great honor by the Ohio
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Wednesday afternoon session, Mrs. Samantha
Flint, a Real Daughter and a member of Ursula
Wolcott Chapter. Aside from the hearing of
several Chapter reports, this session was given
over to an interesting address on " What
the Immigrant Thinks," by Mr. Joseph
Remenyi, of Cleveland.

On Wednesday evening the annual banquet
was held in the 'Toledo Club. The State Re-
gent acted as Toastmistress, carrying out the
plan of hearing " Words of Cheer from jMany
Daughters," which was literally the message
brought to the Ohio Daughters and their
guests. On this occasion the Toledo Sons of
the American Revolution presented to the Con-
ference a handsome basket of flowers and their
representative, Colonel Aloulton Houck, former
President of the Ohio Sons, gave a short
address. Mrs. Joseph B. Foraker's report as
Chairman of the George Washington Memorial
Association, was presented during the evening.

After the opening exercises on Thursday
morning a short memorial service was held for
the fifty members who have died during
the year.

The reports of the Chapter Regents and State
Chairmen were heard with great interest. The
report of the Caroline Scott Harrison I^Iemo-
rial was of especial interest and aroused much
valuable discussion. The report was read by
Mrs. Austin Brant, of Canton, State Chairman
of this Committee. On Thursday evening Mrs.
Edward Lansing Harris, Vice President Gen-
eral and former State Regent, gave an im-
pressive talk on the " Better Film Movement."
Mrs. Harris is National Chairman of Patriotic
Education and this movement is an important
feature of the work of that Committee. The
arranged program for the evening consisted of
an address, " The Evolution of Our National
Character," by Dr. Clayton C. Kohl, Bowling
Green State Normal College ; a song in cos-
tume, " The Pilgrims," by Mrs. Robert Bronson
Taylor, and an address " New England Woman-
hood," by Mrs. Claude Thompson, Secretary
of Cincinnati Chapter.

After the reading of the final Chapter re-
ports, on Friday morning the State Vice Re-
gent, Mrs. James H. Allen, Chairman of
Americanization and Patriotic Education, was
called upon for the report of her committee.

A cordial invitation for 1922 was extended
to the Conference by Mrs. C. Franz, Regent
of Cuyahoga Portage Chapter, Akron, which
was accepted with appreciation by the State
Regent and members of the Conference.

Mrs. Wilson, State Regent, adjourned the
Conference at noon on Friday.

Martha Downs McGer\"ey,

State Secretary.

OREGON

At Salem, March 18 and 19, 1921, the Oregon
Daughters of the American Revolution held
their eighth annual State Conference. Cheme-
keta Chapter, Salem, and Sarah Childress Polk
Chapter, Dallas, were hostesses in the Capitol
Building, which had been turned over to the
Daughters for the occasion by the State Offi-
cials. Governor Olcott, as well as the dele-
gates and visitors, appreciated the work of the
Decorating Committee which had transformed
the legislative hall with vines, flowers, the State
Flag, the D.A.R. emblem and Old Glory. The
portraits of former Governors looked upon an
interesting event as the Vice President General
from Oregon, Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, and
the State Regent, Mrs. John A. Keating, and
her corps of officers, preceded by six youthful
pages, marched up the centre aisle to the
speaker's platform.

Airs. John A. Keating opened the Conference,
the invocation being given by Airs. W. A.
Smick, of Roseburg, followed by the singing of
America, led by Aliss Ruth Johns. The Flag
Salute was led by Airs. William D. Field, of
Boston, Alass., State Chairman of Committee
on Correct Use of the Flag. Airs. U. G.
Shipley, of Chemeketa Chapter, and Airs.
Charles B. Sunberg, of Sarah Childress Polk
Chapter, welcomed the Conference. A few
words were spoken by Airs. F. AI. Wilkins,
Past State Regent.

The address of the State Regent expressed
the strong spirit of Americanization prevailing
among the activities of Oregon's eight hundred
Daughters. The three big objects undertaken
by the National Society have received the one
hundred per cent, support of Oregon. The
Guernsey Scholarship Fund, the Tomassee
School, a scholarship to the Schauffler School,
two scholarships in the Americanization course,
the Alanual, the fountain, and the painting were
objects of the chapters' work. The D.A.R. of
Oregon gave $500 to the Womans' Memorial
Building at the State University of Oregon.

Following the morning session, the delegates
were served with a luncheon tendered by the
patriotic womens' organizations of Salem. Five
presiding officers extended patriotic greetings.
The afternoon session was opened with the sing-
ing of " Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean,"
followed by the recital of prayer used by
George Washington. A Memorial Service was
then conducted by the Chaplain. Mrs. Isaac
Lee Patterson was the chief speaker at this
session. The Anti-Japanese Bill and the Dr.
Owens Adair Medical Test Bill, affecting appli-
cants for marriage licenses, were the chief
topics and our women were besought to do all
in their power to further the purposes of
these bills.

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During the " Historian's Hour," the State
Historian, Mrs. R. F. Walters, presented 129
military and non-military War Service Records
of American participation in the World War,
eight representing women, all properly compiled
for filing with the Historian General. A
duplicate volume is retained in the state. Ser-
vice flags of the Chapters were reverently laid
away. A picture of Oregon's famous historical
woman, Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, was
greeted with a silent tribute as the " mother

Ocean-to-Ocean Highway as it passes through
Oregon. The Conference, in recognition of
the courtesies extended by the State, resolved
to present to the State a brass railing to be
placed around the State Seal in the rotunda of
the Capitol. The Conference also favored the
preservation of the battleship Oregon for some
useful or historic purpose and also the recog-
nition of the United Spanish War Veterans;
that desecration of monuments and markers,
placed by the D.A.R. of Oregon be prohibited

(JKK(.(J\ .SIAIE COMKRKNCE IX SKSSION IN THE

of C(|ual suffrage in the Northwest." Miss

Dorothy Duniway, who was covering the Con-
ference for the Oregonian, thanked the Confer-
ence for the honor accorded her grandmother.

Friday evening, the House of Representatives
witnessed a brilliant reception, Governor Olcott
welcoming the visitors.

Saturday morning, resohitions were i)re-
sented relating to Cliai)ler Naturalization Com-
mittees, Flag Law ])rograms, the purchase of
Moore House and I'arm, the erection of
National Old Trails' Road Signs along the

by law, that there be compulsory Flag Instruc-
tion in the Public Schools.

Mrs. Esther Allen Jobes, called attention to
the passage by the State Legislature of the
Home Teacher Act.

Seventeen chapters in the state are active in
promoting the objects of the Society. Ameri-
canization work affecting eighteen nationalities,
through the schools, friendly meetings, natu-
ralization classes and an All-American Day at
the State Fair. Salem, under the supervision
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is observed by the majority of the chapters.
Red Cross seals, European Relief Work, Chi-
nese Relief Work and cooperation with Camp
Fire Girls, the Big Sisterhood, Day Nursery,
Y.W.C.A., Community Service, and the Visit-
ing Nurse Association are all on the list. The
State Regent spoke on " Constructive Patriot-
ism of the D.A.R. on a Chautauqua Program.'"
Several markers are to be erected soon. Flags
have been presented, thousands of copies
of the American's Creed distributed, as well as
flag information.

Three granddaughters of " Real Daughters "
were present at the Conference and took part in
the proceedings ; Mrs. Mary Barlow Wilkins
and Mrs. C. E. Wolverton, both of Multnomah
Chapter, and Miss Anne M. Lang, of Quenett
Chapter. IMemorial Day is especially observed
by the chapters, but an impressive ceremony
was held by the Dalles Chapter, when a large
silk flag was presented to the American Legion,
over the grave of Margaret McClure Varney,
the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier and
the grandmother of our State Treasurer, Miss
Anne Lang.

Yamhill Chapter reports locating the grave
of a Revolutionary soldier, William Cannon,
who came with the Astor Fur Company.

In belialf of Multnomah and Willamette
Chapters, Mrs. Alurray Manville invited the
Ninth State Conference to meet in Portland
in 1921. The invitation was unanimously
accepted.

The Conference which had been of unusual
interest was closed with the singing of " God
Be with You 'Till We Meet Again."

Henrietta G. Walters,

State Historian.

VERMONT

The twenty-second annual Conference of the
Vermont Daughters of the American Revo-
lution was held at the Armory in Windsor,
October 12th, with a record attendance, over
200 being present at the afternoon session.
Ascutney Chapter was assisted in entertaining
by Ottauquechee Chapter of Woodstock
and Thomas Chittenden Chapter of White
River Junction.

The State Regent, Mrs. John H. Stewart, of
Middlebury, presided at all the sessions. Other
officers present were Airs. Robert W. McCuen,
State Treasurer ; Mrs. Ada F. Gillingham, State
Historian: Mrs. Wilfred F. Root, State Libra-
rian ; Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Vice President
General from Vermont ; Mrs. George B. Wal-
ton, chairman of Patriotic Education and
Americanization ; Airs. Arthur W. Norton,
Chairman of AIagazine Committee; Airs. G. H.
Ripley, Chairman of Reciprocity : Airs. H. C.
Jackson, Chairman of Revolutionary Relics,

and Airs. E. P. S. Aloor, Chairman of Correct
Use of the Flag. The National Chairman of
Correct Use of the Flag was also present and
addressed the Conference. Airs. Daniel xA.
Loomis acted as Secretary pro tempore.

The following officers were elected : Regent,
Airs. John H. Stewart, Aliddlebury; Vice Re-
gent, Aliss Jennie A. Valentine, Bennington;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Winfield S.
Huntley, Aliddlebury ; Recording Secretary,
Airs. D. A. Loomis, Burlington; Treasurer,
Airs. E. H. Prouty, Alontpelier ; Historian, Airs.
Frank H. Gillingham, Woodstock; Chaplain,
Mrs. A. B. Ingrem, Rutland ; Librarian, Airs.
Wilfred F. Root. Brattleboro.

The outstanding feature of the afternoon's
program was the address by Chancellor AIc-
Gown, who told of the wonderful work which
is being done at the American International
College at Springfield, Alass.

A seven-piece orchestra composed of Airs.
Jones, first violin ; Mrs. MacLoud, second violin ;
Herbert Wood, piano ; Herbert Williams and
Arthur Quimby, clarinets, and Airs. Shultis,
traps and drums, played selections and also
furnished music during the reception.

A recital, " Priscilla and John Alden," was
given by Aliss Florence Sturtevant. Several
vocal selections were rendered by Frank Slater,
of West Lebanon, with Airs. Slater as
accompanist.

Following the program was a reception to the
State Officers of the Vermont Chapters of
Daughters of the American Revolution.

Ada Fairbanks Gillingham,

State Historian.

WEST VIRGINIA

Responding to the cordial invitation of
Buford Chapter, the largest delegation of West
\'irginia Daughters of the American Revolution
ever assembled, met for their sixteenth annual
State Conference in the Frederick Hotel,
Huntington, on October 5 and 6, 1921. The
business meetings were held in the charmingly
decorated assembly room. The sessions be-
gan Wednesday morning, with Airs. Clark W.
Heavner, State Regent, presiding.

After the opening from the Ritual, Airs.
Charles R. Comer, Vice Regent of the hostess
Chapter, gave an address of welcome, to which
Airs. Robert J. Reed, State Vice Regent, ably
responded. The annual address of the State
Regent was most interesting, and covered briefly
the work of the past year. The reports of the
State Officers and State Chairman of National
Committees showed that each department of the
State and National work is being carried on with
all possible zeal and efficiency.

Reports of the Chapter Regents showed that
each Chapter is up to the minute, while their

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lines of special work vary. West Virginia is
100 per cent., having met all her obligations
for the year. The Chapters are doing much
toward patriotic education by instruction for
the foreigners in the State, contributing to the
southern mountain schools, and giving prizes in
local public schools. For lack of space we will
mention only a few of the Chapters which are
doing special work: Elizabeth Ludington
Hagans Chapter, Morgantown, supports an-
nually in West Virginia University two $250
scholarships ; Lowther Fitz Randolph, Salem,
has a scholarship in Salem College, and
Wheeling Chapter, Wheeling, has placed four
inscribed bronze tablets along the sixteen miles
of ■' Old Trail Roads " marking the National
Highway which runs through West Virginia
at Wheeling.

The hostess Chapter provided prominent
speakers and special music for the dififerent ses-
sions. The social functions were most enjoy-
able. On the evening of October 4th, Mrs.
Charles R. Wilson and Mrs. Arthur S. Emmons
gave at the home of Mrs. Wilson a formal
reception to the visiting delegates and friends.
Wednesday afternoon Mrs. Charles W. Watts
entertained visitors at her beautiful home,
" Kenwood." Wednesday evening a banquet was
given at the Frederick Hotel. Thursday noon
a luncheon was served at the Farr Hotel.
Thursday afternoon Mrs. C. Lloyd Ritter gave
a delightful reception at her home, " Ritter
Place."

At the last session on Thursday afternoon
Mrs. R. H. Edmondson, Morgantown, Past
Vice President General nominated for Vice
President General our State Regent, Mrs.
Clark W. Heavner, Buckhannon, who has so
ably filled the ofiice of State Treasurer, State
Vice Regent and State Regent. Mrs. Hcavner's
candidacy was unanimously endorse! by the
State Conference.

The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year : State Regent, Airs. Robert J.
Reed, Wheeling; State Vice Regent, Mrs. W.
H. Conaway, Fairmont: State Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. Roy A. Lough, Morgantown ; State
Corresponding Secretary, Miss Leta Snodgrass,
Buckhannon ; State Treasurer, Mrs. C. R.
Comer. Huntington ; State Registrar, Mrs. R.
S. Meyer, Point Plea.sant : State Chaplain, Mrs.
L. H. Harrison, Charleston; State Historian,
Mrs. S. W. Walker. Martinshurg; State Libra-
rian Miss Rachel Snyder, Shcphcrdstown ;
State Honorary Life Historian, Mrs. John Mc-
Colloch, Point Pleasant.

The Conference adjourned to meet with the
Daniel Davisson Chapter in Clarksburg in Oc-
tober 1922.

Lkta Snodgrass,
State Corresponding Sccrrlorv.

WYOMING

The Seventh Annual State Conference of the
Wyoming Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion was held at GreybuU, October 5, 1921.

The State Treasurer's report showed a bal-
ance on hand of $52.74. The State Regent
reported many helpful and interesting things.
The most important were the following:

1. Patriotic Education Committees have work
in schools among American children in order
to combat Bolsheviki spirit which is more
prevalent than is realized. The special work
for D.A.R. members in teaching the proper re-
spect for the flag and patriotism to children, as
well as to our foreign neighbors.

2. Last spring while in Washington, my re-
port followed New York, Ohio and South
Dakota. I pointed out that there is quite a
difference between New York's hundreds of
Chapters and our four in Wyoming. I reported
finishing marking the Oregon Trail and giving
State's quota to the three projects. I presented
two silver spoons, given to Memorial Hall by
Grace Raymond Hebard and her sister, which
were accepted by the President General.

The Conference expressed great pleasure
with the War Records book and tendered a
vote of thanks to Dr. Grace Raymond Hebard
for her earnest work in compiling it. Miss
Nora B. Kinsley has assisted Doctor Hebard
very materially in the preparation of the
war records.

One of the important questions asked at the
Conference was, " Shall we have a Vice Presi-
dent General ? " It was voted that we might
try for one. Accordingly Mrs. Frank W. Mon-
dell was unanimously elected as a candidate for
Vice President General.

America's Creed has been placed in schools
of Cheyenne. All of the Chapters will follow
this action of the Cheyenne Chapter.

The annual dues were made fifty cents (50
cents), and officers were to be elected biennally.
Term of office two years with one reelection.

Chapter memberships were : Sheridan Chapter,
49; Cheyenne, 77; Casper, 32; Newcastle, 12;
Laramie, 30; total, 200.

The State Officers are: Mrs. B. B. Brooks,
Regent, Casper, Wyo. ; Mrs. Mawrice Groshon,
Vice Regent, Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Mrs. E. P.
Bacon, Recording Secretary, Casper, Wyo. ;
Mrs. Effie R. Dodds, Treasurer, Cheyenne,
Wyo. ; Mrs. C. B. Goodwin, Auditor, Sheridan,
Wyo. ; Mrs. Willis M. Spear, Registrar, Sheri-
dan, Wyo.; Mrs. B. C. Bellamy, Historian,
Laramie, Wyo ; Mrs. A. E. Holliday, Librarian,
Laramie, Wyo. ; Mrs. Wm. Kocher, Corre-
sponding Secretary, Casper, Wyo.

Beth C. Bpxlamy,
State Historian.

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EDITH ROBERTS RAMSBURGH

GENEALOGICAL EDITOR

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

QUERIES

10256. Barnes. — Wanted inf. concerning the
wives of James Barnes and his father Brims-
ley Barnes of N. C. who both fought in the
Rev under Gen. Marion. — A. B.

10257. Barker. — Brooke Barker b Prince
William Co., Va. 1793 was in Capt. Thomas
Fristoe's Co., 45th (Peyton's) Regt. of Va. Mil.
July, 1813, also Capt. Henry William's Co.
same Regt. July, 1814 enlisting at Dumfries,
Va. He m first Margaret — second Elizabeth
Chappell in Bullitt Co., Ky. July 11, 1840. An-
ces of Brooke Barker and Elizabeth Chappell
desired, also Rev ser in these lines. — E. S. F.

10258. Hale.— Wanted date of b of Reuben
Hale who enlisted in Rev at Hartland, Conn.,
serving with Capt. Kimberly's Regt of Conn,
troops in 1777.— A. S. A.

10259. Lewis.— Wanted gen of Capt (?)
Wm. Lewis and w of Hagerstown, Md. He
was b in Wales. A supposedly correct list of his
ch is Harry, Wm., John, Jacob, Keziah, Lana,
Samuel and Daniel. Did he have Rev rec?

(a) GiBBS.— Wanted maiden n of w of Shel-
don Gibbs of Fairhaventown, Rutland, Co., Vt.
removed to Litchfield, Conn. Also n of w of
his s Wareham Gibbs and all dates connected
with this family. — A. Mackay G.

10260. McCoy.— Wanted any data of Joseph
McCoy who served from Sussex Co., N. J.

(a) WiNANs.— Wanted any data of Wm.,
Peter or Philip Winans who served from Somer-
set Co., N. J.— L. C. B.

10261. Lewis. — Wanted n of County in which
James Lewis, sol. enlisted. This James Lewis
gave land on which to build a Methodist
Church in Chester Co., N. Y. and his s was
one of the Charter Trustees of the Church.
Gilbert Lewis was Master Mason of Trinity
Lodge No. 10 April, 1815.— N. T. P.

10262. Philips-Philipse. — Wanted gen of
Eli and Jemima Philips whose s Oregon Haz-
ard Philips was b Sept. 27, 1844 in Browns-
ville, Fayette Co., Pa. and m Eliza Jane Mc-
Dowell. Wanted also any Rev rec in these
lines.— L. P. S.

10263. KiKCAiD. — John Kincaid m 1769 and
served thru Rev as quartermaster he was given
some land for his services. Can anyone give
certified proof of this service? — R. S.

10264. Robinson.— John Robinson came to
New Charles Parish, York Co., Va. from
Cleasby, Eng. 1660 m Elizabeth Topper had s
Anthony and several others. Wanted n of his
other sons and maiden n of their wives. —
E. H. H.

10265. Hull. — Wanted Rev rec of Samuel
Hull b 1755 m Bathena Norton or Denton.
Moved to Va. abt the close of the Rev. He
was s of Nathaniel Hull Jr. b in Fairfield,
Conn. 1726 m 1754 Abigail dau of Timothy
and Afargery Piatt. Their were desc of George
Hull who arrived from Eng. 1629. Settled in
Fairfield, Conn. 1636 d there 1659.— B. C.

10266. Chrisman. — Wanted Rev rec in any
of the following lines Jacob Chrisman m Mary
Barbary Hite, their s Jacob b Aug. 9, 1770 m

4.?

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Elizabeth b Jan. 12, 1772 dau of John and
Elizabeth Ozias.

(a) Price.— Wanted gen and Rev rec of
Wm. Price prob of Md. f of Irons Price b
Aug. 14, 1878.— L. C. H.

10267. Payne. — Wanted parentage, names of
bros and sis and dates of Jeremiah Payne b
in Va. m — McCoy. Lived and d nr Salem,
Ind.— Z. W.

10268. Carter-Austin.— Benjamin Carter
and w Phoebe Austin lived in Cambridge,
Washington Co., N. Y. between 1790 and 1807.
In 1807 they were living in Denmark. Lewis
Co., N. Y. It is thought they both came from
Conn. Wanted parentage of both and there
f Rev rec.

(a) White.— Wanted Rev rec of Isaac Lov-
ell White and his f who were living in Den-
mark, Lewis Co., N. Y. at the time of the 1807
Census. Thought to have come originally from
N. H.— G. C. L.

10269. Hopkins.— Samuel Hopkins of Va.
possibly Mecklenburg Co. was an officer in Rev.
Later founded Hopkinsville, Ky. Want n of
w and dates of birth of m and d also proof of
ser. S Moses b in Ky. What other ch?

(a) Tsehorx-(Sehorn).— Swann. Lydia
Katherine Tsehorn of S. C. had four bros, John,
Jim., Robt. and Nicholas, famous Indian fight-
ers. Also sis Malinda and possibly others. M
John Swann and lived in Tenn. Owned planta-
tion on French Broad river and another near
Knoxville. Want n of her parents. Did her f
serve in Rev?

(b) Parker-Sheffield. — Aaron Parker, b
abt 1734 d age 97. m Elizabeth Sheffield and
lived near Stone Mt., Ga. He was related to
Col. Wm. Parker who commanded a Regt. in
the Rev. Wanted proof of ser and date of m.

(c) Motley-Havnes. — James Motley b in
Va. abt 1787 m Nancy Haynes abt 1790, d abt
1835. Want parents of each and Rev ser if
any. Their dau Sarah, h 1821 in Ga. m Dennis
Sheffield Hopkins of Clark Co., Ga.

(d) Miller. — Wm. Miller, a Rev sol was
prob of S. C. His s Wm. and Isaac b Fair-
field Dist., S. C. Wanted n of w and dates
of b, d, and m, also proof of ser.

(e) SwANN. — John Swann of S. C. fought
in Rev prob under Sumpter, m Lydia Kather-
ine Tsehorn lived after ni in 'iriiii., d abt 1819,
ch John. James. Nicholas. Rolit, Reubc, Ma-
hala m Kenear, Susan, Isaac Miller. Wanted
proof of service and dates h and in. — S. M. F.

10270. Br.adley.- Stepehen Bradley b U)42 d
June 6, 1702 m 1683 Mary dau of Wm. Liate
of Gilford, Conn. Was this Wm. Leele llie
7th Gov. of Conn.?

(a) Wanted Kev rec of f of Tiuiothv P.rad-
ley b 1735 at Mariison, Cnuu. .iiul nl iiis w
Ellen Shipman.

(b) Smith.— John Bradley b 1781 m Bessie
dau of Timothy Smith of Clinton, Conn. Did
Timothy Smith have Rev rec?

(c) Holmes. — Frederick Bradley s of John
m Lucy dau of Thomas Holmes and Mehitable
Buel of Old Killingworth, Conn. Did Thomas
Holmes have Rev rec ?— H. M. F.

10271. Stonebreaker-Reed. — Wanted parent-
age of Peter Stonebreaker b 1803 in Pa. who
m at Hartwick Otsego, N. Y. abt 1827 Juliet
Reed b at Hartwick. Wanted also gen of Seth
Reed and his w Mollie Buel parents of Juliet.
— G. F. S.

10272. Fowler.— Wanted parentage of George
Fowler who m Sarah dau of Col. George
Woods of Bedford, Pa. Their ch were John
b Oct. 4, 1805 George b Aug. 1, 1807. James b
Feb. 15, 1810, Priscilla b Apr. 21, 1812 m Robt.
Laughry, Alex, b Aug. 19, 1820, Mary b Apr.
20, 1822 m James Dennison, Andrew Jackson
b Feb. 13, 1824, Wm. Armar b Feb. 12, 1826.
George Fowler served in War of 1812 enliste 1
with Capt. John Bird of Bedford Co. Light-
horsemen. Gen. Brown commander-in-chief
until he fell, then under Gen. Scott. Did
George Fowler's f have Rev rec.

(a) Nelson. — Wanted parentage of Eliza-
beth Nelson who m — Waddell, she was the
granddaughter of Thomas Nelson Jr. Signer
of the Declaration of Independence. — A.P.F.A.

10273. Guild. — Wanted Rev rec of Samuel
Guild b at Wrentham, Mass. Apr. 21. 1734. d
West Winfield, N. Y. July 18, 1816, m May
29, 1760 at Greenfield, Mass. Ruth Nims b
Mar. 7, 1744 d Aug. 14, 1805. Their ch were
Samuel, Joel, Elija, Olive. Oliver, and Sybil.
— G. W. D.

10274. Stirman. — Wanted gen w's maiden n
and Rev rec of f of Capt. James H. Stirman of
the War of 1812. His f came from Eng.
and settled near James river and m Elizabeth
L. Dowell.— H. T. C.

10275. Hildreth-Hickman. — Wanted Hil-
dreth and Hickman gens. & any Rev rec in
either fam. Silas Hildreth m Eliz. — and their
s David b Oct. 2, 1806 m May 21, 1832 Jane
.'Xnn b Mar. 13. 1810, dau of Andrew & Sarah
Hickman. Ch of David & Jane Ann Hildreth
were Richard b Oct. 29, 1833 ; Marv b Jan. 16,
1836; David b Oct. 23, 1840; Jane Ann b Jan.
9, 1842; David Bergen Rittenhouse b Aug. 22.
1843; Sarah Jane b Mar. 29, 1847; Eiiz. b Dec.
16, 1850. These ch were all born in N. J.
David Hildreth was owner of a sailing vessel
that sailed out of Egg Harbor.— M. P. J.

10276. M\RL. — Wanted date of m of Commo-
dore Caleb Earl to Tabitha Franklin, also his
Rev. rec. Also date of b of their s Samuel
who d l\ray 22. 1819 at .Xnnville. Lelianon Co..
i';i. while fiyliting an oiiidemic of smallpox.

M. L. R.

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

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10277. SiTTOx.— Wm. Bules Sitton had s
Joseph b Oct. 9, 1745, & his s John b Oct. 9,
1767 had s Thomas Sitton b Nov. 13, 1786
prob in Tenn. who m Nancy Boze of Lincoln
Co., Mo. Their s Wm. d May 9, 1865, m Dec.
27, 1820, Polly Ingram b Jan. 20, 1809 d Oct.
30, 1877. Wanted gen. data & Rev ser on these
lines.— M. A. M.

10278. Marshall-Haden.— John Marshall of
Montg. Co., Ky. one of the 1st set. of Warren
Co., Mo. m Poley Haden Feb. 1791. Wanted
ances. of both & Rev ser, if any. Their ch
were Alexander b Nov., 1791, Betsey, Francis,
Sary, Goodwin, Poley, Unity b Dec. 9, 1803 m
Nathaniel Hart, Jr. Mar. 6, 1723 ; & Jolin. Ch
of his 2nd m to Poley French were Ibbey, Eve-
lina, Nancy, Wiley & Humphrey b Nov. 13, 1821.

(a) Caton-Sparks. — Wanted gen. of Jesse
Caton b Apr. 20. 1762 & of his w Esther
Sparks b Mar. 20, 1770 whom he m Jan. 25,
1787. They set nr. Marthasville, Warren Co.,
Mo. in 1811. Said to have come from Ky. in
one of the parties led by Daniel Boone. Esther
Sparks was a sis. of Henry Bryan's w.

(b) McCuTCHEN. — Wanted parentage of
John G. McCutchen who m Rebekah Caton Apr.
7, 1825, in Warren Co., Mo. Did his f have
Rev. rec?

(c) Barnett. — Wanted ances of Solomon
Barnett b 1793 prob in N. Car. & his w Mar-
garet Hourigan b 1797, prob in Marion Co., Ky.
Was she a dau of Patrick Hourigan who ser
in Capt. Long's Co. of Rifle Corps, 1779, Va. ?

(d) Rowland. — Wanted gen of Eliz. Row-
land b 1808, who m Geo. Washington McQuitty
abt. 1824. Wanted also gen. of Mary Crump
who m Andrew McQuitty, prior to 1800, prob
in Pa. or Ky.— M. H. B.

10279. Blair. — Wanted gen and all data of
John Blair of Boston, Mass. who fought at
Bunker Hill. He named his youngest s after
Gen. Warren who fell in that battle. — G. B.

10280. Ramsey. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
John (?) Ramsey, who lived between Hagers-
town and Frederick, Md. m Priscila, dau of
John Smith of Eng. Their ch were Hester, m
Loudin Mullin ; Barbara m Judge Wilson moved
to Ohio and later to Iowa ; dau m — McDill ;
George, Amos Smith, Joseph who moved to
Cal. and others. — G. D.

10281. S HELTON. — Wanted gen and military
ser with proof of Wm. Shelton who m Patience,
removed from King and Queen Co., Va. to
that part of Albemarle Co. which is now
Fluvanna Co.

(a) Sheppard. — Wanted gen of Christopher
Sheppard and maiden n of his w. His will
was proved in Albemarle Co., Va. in 1784. His
s Augustine m Sarah dau of Wm. Shelton.

(b) Mills.— Wanted parentage of Lucy Mills
who m Joseph Twyman.

(c) Daniel.— Wanted gen of Mary Daniel
who m Sir Edward Walker and settled in what
is now Caroline Co., Va. — R. B.

10282. Marvin.— Wanted n of f of Maria
Marvin b Apr. 8, 1793, d Dec. 9, 1831. m Par-
don Bowen and lived in Scipio, N. Y.— G. S. C.

10283. Preston.— Wanted parentage of Sam-
uel Preston b 1753 d in Fayette Co., Pa. 1828.
Also maiden n of his w Mary. Is he a s of
Col. Wm. Preston who d in Va. 1783?— E. P. C.

10284. Rea.— Wanted Rev rec of ances of
Esther Rea, dau of Alexander, who m Michael
Moore 1768 lived in Sussex Co., N. J. and later
in Northumberland Co., Pa. where she d 1830.

(a) Eflin.— Wanted gen of Isaac Eflin who
m Margaret, dau of Alexander and Margaret
Albertson Moore, in Northumberland Co., Pa.
and later removed to 111. and then to Mahaska
Co., Iowa. — C. S.

10285. Clark-Jack.— Wanted parentage of
Wm. Clark Cumberland Co., Pa. and also of
his w Margaret Jane Jack, Cumberland Co.,
Pa. They lived in Bourbon Co., Ky. Their
ch were Wm., James, Margaret, Frances, Eliza.
Is there Rev rec in these lines.— F. A. P.

10286. West.— Wanted parentage of Hannah
West said to have been from S. C. who m
Abram Peebles b 1787, d 1824. They lived in
Ky and had several ch. She d in Richland
Co., N. Y. abt 1849.— S. E. T.

10287. Walworth.— Wanted proof that
Charles Walworth who lived in Canaan, _N. H.
before and after the Rev was a Capt. in the
War.— M. LeC.

10288. Turner.— Wanted all dates and maiden
n of w of Hezekiah Turner and of his s George
Robert, whose s George Robert Turner b Nov.
30, 1820. d Jan. 1905 m Apr., 1847 Mary Fran-
ces Kelly b Apr. 14, 1827, d 1902. The family
resided in or near Harrisonburg. Rockingham
Co., Va.-J. T. McQ.

10289. Truesdell.— Wanted name of f of
Richard Truesdell, also place and d of his birth.
The Truesdell's orginally came from Boston
and Cambridge, Mass. Richard Truesdell at
Warner's Patent Land, N. Y. age 90 yrs. He
m first Lydia Linsley of Brandford, Conn. Feb.
20, 1723. He m his second w Lucy Wheaton
abt 1750. Ch Johanna b 1725 m Levi Rogers,
Mary b 1727. Lydia b 1729, Ebenezer b 1731,
Jonathan b Dec. 25, 1733 at Brandford, Conn.,
m at Mansfield, Conn. Jerusha Hutchins, Nov.
14, 1765; James b 1736 m Rachel Wheaton;
Samuel b 1739, Lucy, Justin.— H. F. P.

10290. Mosley-Van Voorhis.— Wanted gen
of Jonathan Ogden Mosley and his w Ger-
trude Van Voorhis who lived in East Hadden,
Conn, in the latter half of 18th century. Their
dau Phoebe Ann Ogden Mosley m Jacob Bo-

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gardus b 1785, d 1868. Jonathan Mosley said
to have served in Congress for 16 yrs d at
the home of his s Wm. in Saginaw, Mich.
Did he have Rev rec?

(a) Buck MINSTER.— Was Rev. Joseph Buck-
minster b 1720 d 1792 Chaplain in Col. Webb's
Regt., Capt. Bostwick Co. at the time of
Washington's crossing the Del. or vi^as it his s?
— B. B. B.

10291. Felton.— Is James Felton shown m
" Mass. Soldiers and Sailors " as sol from New
Salem, Mass., the same James Felton who was
baptized in Old Salem, Mass. Oct. 8, 1738? If
so, is there Rev rec for his f David who was
baptized Feb. 21, 1713?

(a) Millard.— Wanted parentage of Susanna
Millard b Mar., 1764 m at Berlin, Rensselaer
Co., N. Y. June, 1788 to Joshua Vincent Rev
sol formerly of R. I. or Conn.

(b) Williams. — Samuel Williams b Ston-
ington, Conn. 1734 moved to Hartland, Vt.
prior to Rev, has he Rev rec? He was the s
of Samuel and grandson of Ebenezer Williams
of Stonington. Did his s James have Rev rec?
— C. F. P.

10292. Rounds.— Wanted Rev rec of f and
parentage of Sarah Rounds who m Robert S!em-
mons. Please give all names and dates.

(a) Morris. — Wanted parentage and Rev rec
of f of Maurice Morris of Va. also maiden n
of his w.

fb) Wanted any information of Ellis family,
especially the Rev rec of John Ellis f of James.
— C. L. M.

10293. ScoTT.- — Wanted Christian name and
Rev rec of — Scott f of James who lived in
Marlboro, Ulster Co., N. Y.

(a) Gage. — Wanted gen of Polly Gage of
Methuen, Mass. who m Joshua Buswell, Apr.
12, 1797.— D. D.

10294. WooDWORD. — Wanted n of w and ch
and any other data of Joshua Woodword pri-
vate in Lt. Col. J. Olney's Co. Israel Angell's
Regt b in Smithficld, R. I. enlisted in Smithfield,
1776.— R. N. T.

10295. Van Vlack. — Wanted ances back to
the immig., of Abram Van Vlack b Feb. 2, 1755
at Fishkill, N. Y. d Nov. 19, 1836 at La Grange.,
Dutchess Co., N. Y. m Margaret — b 1757 d
Apr. 8, 1839. Was her n Scouten? Their ch
Abraham, b 1777 m Catherin Weevcr; Henry
b 1779, John A. b 1781 m first Elizabeth Gid-
ley and second Maria James, widow; Martin
b 1783. Andrew b 1785 m Catherine Jewell ; Jacob
b 1787. Lsaac b 1789. Maria b 1791, Wm. 1793,
Cornelius b 1795, Betsey b 1798.

fa) TlALL-WKTiiERnEE. — Capt. l'"])liraim
Wetherbee b Stow, Mass. d Nov. 7, 1745 Bos-
ton, Mass. also lived in Lunenburg. Mass. and
was one of the Founders of Charlcstown. N. II.
He ni first at Stow, Apr. 20. 1721 l-:iizal)eth

Hall who d June 17, 1732 at Lunenburg. Their
ch were Ruth b Feb. 28, 1722, m Joseph Wood ;
Ephraim, Paul b 1726 m Hannah Pierce; Mary
b Jan. 6, 1729, m Ephraim Kimball ; Betsey b
May 15, 1732. Wanted ances of Elizabeth Hall.
— E. N. C.

10296. Tandy. — The Historical Commission
of S. C. shows that Private Achilles Tandy
was paid July 5, 1785 and again Oct. 29, 1785
for ser rendered as sol during the Rev. War
Dept rec refer to a Lt. Achilles Tandy and on
a monument in Balto. is the name of Capt.
Achilles Tandy. Wanted date and place of
birth of Achilles Tandy and his gen. — S. E. B.

10297. N EVER s.— Wanted ances of Joseph
Nevers who had sons Bryling. John and Al-
theus. Bryling b 1801 lived in Rockingham,
Vt. Charlestown and Claremont, N. H. John
lived in Northfield, Mass. Joseph Nevers had
a bro who lived in Northfield, Mass, known as
the Esq. and Gen. Any information concern-
ing these will be greatly appreciated.

(a) Adams. — Deacon Thomas Adams cap-
tured by French and Indians Apr. 20, 1757
near Charlestown, N. H. taken to Canada, and
exchanged next Nov. d on his way home at
Quebec of Small Pox. His s Daniel was the
f of Lucretia who m Bryling Nevers. Would
like any information concernig this fam. —
L. E. N.

10298. Hyde.— Wm. W. Hyde came to Iowa
abt 7 yrs ago from Clayville, N. Y. His f
was Eleazer from Norwich, Conn, and his f
was Capt. Mathew Hyde. Was he a Capt. in
the Rev? give proof. Wanted also his dates
and n of his w. — E. H. W.

10299. Merrit. — Ebenezer Merrit of Port
Chester, N. Y. m Aug. 17, 1723 at Sing Sing,
near Ossining, Synthia Willis. She had a bro
Caleb. Joseph and Caleb Willis enlisted 1777
at Brookficld, Conn. Can this be Caleb, bro
of Cynthia Willis. Both fams were Metho-
dists. Wanted any information concerning
ances of Cynthia Willis.— S. H. N.

10300. Perry-Tucker. — Wanted gen of Ze-
bedee Perry of Norway, Me. and also of his w
Judith Tucker. Wanted also ances of Oliver
Perry of War of 1812 and n of his w and ch.
— F. B.

10301. Curry. — Wanted gen of Elsie Curry
whose family was connected with the early pio-
neer life of Cincinnati, Ohio. She m Apollos
Kinsley. Wanted also Apollos Kinsley's gen.
He was active in the early pioneer life of Ind.,
was commissioned Major in the Ind. State Mil.
in 1835 and d in Shelbyville, Ind.— N. B. K.

10302. Hendricks. — Wanted parentage of
Martha Hendricks who m first — Duke and
had s Charles who moved to Lccsville. Fla. and
Thomas who was killed in the Mex. War. Mar-
tha llrnilrioks m second Samuel Stanley. She

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d in Columbia, S. C. abt 1818. She had a bro
Dr. Robt. Hendricks who m Polly Daniels from
S. C. in 1795 and sis Sarah who m Robt. Grey,
(a) Stanley.— Wanted gen of Samuel Stan-
ley who settled in Va. abt 1740 in Hanover Co.,
St. Paul's Parish 1782. M first Miss Peasley and
had six dau. M second Martha Hendricks, and
had ch Robt., Wm.. Byrd and Martha. — L. M.

10303. Pitts- Weldon -Powell- Anderson-
Pinkethmam-Shields-Eaton-Fordbooker. —
Correspondence desired with desc of any of
these fams of Amelia Co., Va. — A. L. B.

10304. Lewis. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
John Lewis who m Viney Ward. His ch lived
in Burke Co., Ga. Wanted proof of his ser and
whether he fought from N. C. or Ga. — M. G. R.

10305. Marshall. — Wanted place and date
of m of James Marshall and Elizabeth Reyn-
olds. James Marshall Sr. was b in 1730 and his
f Nathaniel was b 1710.— J. M. H.

10306. MoFFiT. — Wanted maiden n of w of
Wm. Moffit, sol in Capt. Patrick Hays' Co.,
9th Bat., Lancaster Co. Mil. commanded by Col.
John Rogers.- — M. E. L.

10307. Nelson-Loughhead. — Wanted Rev
rec and parentage with dates of Samuel Nelson
and also of his w Rebekah Loughhead whom
he m in 1768 in York Co., Pa. Their dau Jane
b 1770 d 1828 m James Buchanan.

(a) Cochran. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
John Cochran who immig. from the north of
Ireland abt 1750 settled near Waynesboro,
Franklin Co., Pa. m — Baird. Their dau
Eleanor b 1761 d 1812 m Joseph Duncan.
Wanted also Rev Rec of Joseph Duncan Sr.
who immig. from Co. Antrim, Ireland in 1742
located in Cumberland Co., Pa. and m Eliza-
beth dau of John Wallace in 1742.

(b) Rowan. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of f
of Jane Rowan b 1740 d 1814 m John Buchanan
and lived in York Co., Pa.— E. J. D.

10308. Crawford. — Wanted maiden n of w of
Col. John Crawford of Pa. and place of resi-
dence and burial.

(a) Stewart. — Wanted parentage of Mathew
Stewart. He came from Scotland or Eng. and
settled in Mechlenburg Co., N. C. Wanted also
maiden n of his w Elizabeth. Did he or his s
John render Rev ser. — E. S. B.

10309. Crute-Cruit.— Wanted gen and Rev
data of parents of Henry Crute who m first
Priscilla Henderson. Wanted her ances. He m
second Miss Hart and lived near Russellville,
Brown Co., Ohio. Ch of Henry and Priscilla

Crute were Jefferson, Wilson, John, Henderson
b 1820, Amanda, and Sarah.

(a) Tucker. — Wanted parentage of Jesse
Tucker, Rev sol, and of his w Nancy Lane
whom he m 1781. Their ch were Permelia,
Claudius Lucius, Presto, Granville, Sinclair
and two dau.

(b) Ruffner. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
Amanuel Ruffner b 1758 d 1848 m first Magde-
line b 1757, m second Elizabeth Groves b 1779.
Family rec show he served in Rev, as teamster
from Va. — G. C. A.

10310. Norris.— Robert Norris b abt 1725
lived at Long Cane, Abbeville Co., S. C. M
first Rebecah Wench, and second Rachael dau
of Wm. and Agnes Long Calhoun. Wanted Rev
rec with dates of b, d and m of Rebecah. Many
of the early settlers of Long Cane belonging to
the Norris family were massacred prior to the
Rev. Is Robt. Norris of the Norris family
of Md.

(a) Double. — Wanted Rev rec of Robt.
Doudle, name of his w and dates of their b, d,
and m. I think both are from S. C— U. C. R.

10311. Stuart.— Wanted gen of Charles Stu-
art who m Philadelphia Simpson and had a
s James who m Parthenia Thaxton in Bridge-
port, Ky abt 1842. This f came from Va. Is
there Rev ser in this line? — C. S. R.

10312. Hall.— Wanted dates of b and m and
names of w and ch of Lyman Hall, Signer of the
Declaration of Independence. — E. H. H.

10313. Ford.— Wanted gen data of the fam
of Jacob Ford from Morristown, N. J. He had
powder mills in Rev and furnished powder for
the army and his house was used for head-
quarters for Gen. Washington. His s Jacob b
1772 d in Charleston, S. C. 1834. Had s Freder-
ick Adams Ford of Va. Wanted names of
wives and dates of Jacob Sr. and Jr. and Rev
rec of Jacob Sr.— M. F. S.

10314. Felton.— Wanted names and dates of
the first Felton who came to America and where
he settled.— G. E. F.

10315. Porter.— Wanted parentage of David
R. Porter, Gov. of Pa. 1839-45. He was b in
Pa. 1788 and d 1867. Wanted also n of w
and ch of Moses Porter, " Rev officer," dis-
tinguished at Fort George. He was b at Dan-
vers, Mass. in 1788 and d at Cambridge, Mass.
1822.— M. L. C.

10316. Loud.— Wanted parentage of Rufus
Woodbury Loud and of his w Jane Scammon.
—A. M.

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The Wichita Chapter (Wichita, Kan.) was
organized December 16, 1916. That a study
course in United States history might be pur-
sued to advantage, and because there was
already a strong and rapidly growing Chapter
in the city, the membership was limited to
twenty-five. Perhaps the most outstanding
feature of this Chapter has been its recognition
of the American Indian Institute as a logical
interest of the Daughters of the American
Revolution. It was only by chance that at the
very beginning of its Chapter life Mrs. W. C.
Roe, one of the trustees of the school, pre-
sented her work to the members.

Mrs. Roe's application was filed at once and
as member of the Wichita Chapter, she made
her first appearance in Washington in 1917.
Again in 1919 she focused attention upon the
school by offering a prize of $50 for the best
essay on " The 20th Century Patriot — an In-
dian." At last, in April, 1921, the 30th Conti-
nental Congress crowned her efforts with suc-
cess by placing the school upon the accredited
list and pledging its help in behalf of the
American Indian. Already as a result many
scholarships have been received and State con-
ventions are asking Mrs. Roe to speak.

The Wichita Chapter will always be glad to
answer questions about the institute. It is in
close personal touch with the leaders and stu-
dent body and will account for any funds
received for the school. Yearly since our
organization we have given $150 to the work.

This, however, has not interfered with the
regular Chapter routine. For the first two
years a broad outline of American History of
the earlier period was covered. Last year
Revolutionary cities were studied. The win-
ter of 1921-22 will find the members busy with
" Early Religions of America and Women
Prominent in Early History of America." At
each meeting the letter from the President
General in the current issue of the Daughters
OF THE American Revolution Magazine is
read. Thrift programs are squeezed in and a
call for workers or money for the welfare of
women and children is never neglected.
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Our war service record is open for inspec-
tion in all its departments and we have kept
an accurate record of the work in our His-
torian's book.

Considering the size of our Chapter, the work
accomplished has been very creditable and we
are not lacking in interest to make our future
useful and a credit to the National Society.
Irma D. Whitney,

Regent.

Alice Whitman Chapter (Lewiston, Idaho)
entered an attractive float in the Rose Carnival
Parade during the past summer. Built en-
tirely from the two wild flowers, the blue
Lupin and white Yarrow, with " 1776 " in red
roses, the effect was artistic. A Colonial
Sedan in the blue Lupin, curtained with chintz,
enclosed the chauffeur, behind which two fig-
ures, the gentleman beside a garden chair, the
lady in old silk gown seated beside her spin-
ning wheel.

The need of patriotic education was demon-
strated by a spectator remarking, as the float
passed, " 1776t Why did they not number all
the cars ? "

(Mrs. J. E.) Daisy T. Babb,
Regent.

Quassaick Chapter (Newburgh, N. Y.).
Our active membership is ninety-two. Monthly
meetings of the Chapter and of the Executive
Committee have been held except during
August. We have revised the Constitution and
By-laws to conform to those of the State Con-
ference and of the National Society. We have
advanced our dues twenty-five per cent. Our
annual meeting will be held the third Thursday
of May.

The anniversary of the founding of the
Republic by the Pilgrim Fathers and Mothers
was observed. Likewise the adoption of
the Constitution.

On the Chapter's twenty-seventh anniver-
sary, forty-seven members responded to roll-
call, each giving a few words of greeting. Miss
Betts, delegate to the Saratoga conference, and
the Regent, Mrs. Kelley, gave their reports.

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The present Regent, Mrs. Robert H. Barr, read
an original poem entitled " For Liberty."

On Armistice Day representatives of ten
local women's societies gave brief reports of
what their organizations were doing in Ameri-
canization work.

Our honored State Regent, Mrs. Charles W.
Nash, in her visit to us December 8th in an
inspiring address, put us in touch with the
work and aims of the National Society.

At the annual luncheon February 22nd, the
Father of his Country received a generous
measure of attention. The speakers were the
Chaplain, Rev. J. Lewis Hartsock, Rev. J.
Woodman Babbitt, Rev. David M. Hunter and
Rev. J. Marshall Chew.

On March 4th, National Day, Mrs. Russell
Kohl gave an entertaining talk on " What
America should mean to me and what I should
mean to America." In April a study of feath-
ered neighbors of the air, through the medium
of lantern slides, was made.

The day when Mrs. John W. Crowell, dele-
gate to the 30th Continental Congress and the
Regent, Mrs. William H. Kelley, brought in
such fine reports of the activities of the
National Society through the fifty-one States
represented in the organization, was possibly
the fullest in enlightenment and enthusiasm.

The Treasurer reported : Receipts, $369.35
Disbursements, $367.25 ; Contributions, Fourth
of July observance by Patriotic Societies, $5
Dues Knox Headquarters' Association, $5
D. A. R. Room, St. Luke's Hospital, $25 ; High
school honor student in American history, 5
Pilgrim Day observance December 21st, $5
Quota — four special funds endorsed by Na
tional Society, $45. State Utility Fund, $23.50.
The Chapter owns a $100 Liberty Bond. We
held a luncheon and cake sale which netted $50.
A sale of poppies netted $43.60 for the French
Orphans' Relief Fund.

A copy of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine is on file at the
City Library.

The Secretary prepared a brief record of the
work done by the Chapter in the Red Cross and
Canteen activities, and of the service given by
the sons of members, which will be published
in " Newburgh in the World War."

(Miss) Ida C. LeRoy,
Recording Secretary.

Cumberland Valley Chapter (Ida Grove,
Iowa) has held ten regular meetings besides
Regent's day, which was observed as a winter
picnic, having a one o'clock luncheon and study
of the Lineage books and preparing of supple-
mental papers. At this meeting our organiz-
ing Regent presented us with a frame for
our Charter.

Our By-laws were revised to conform to

those of the National Society. Our study this
year has been of the women of Colonial and
Revolutionary times, and has been very
interesting.

Armistice Day was observed by having two
young ladies who had just returned from the
battle fields of France and Belgium describe
these and tell the Chapter of the cemeteries
and conditions in these countries. We assisted
the American Legion in their Armistice Day
celebration and bazaar. The Pilgrim Tercen-
tenary was duly observed by a special program.
The American's Creed is used in our open-
ing exercises.

The Regent and Magazine Chairman offered
to the pupil in the city school who has the
highest grades in American History, a gold
and a silver medal. These medals were given
for securing 75 per cent, or more of our mem-
bers as subscribers to our Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine.

We have given 200 copies of the American's
Creed for distribution in the schools of the
county, and placed three copies of the Ameri-
can Constitution in public buildings. Our
pledge, which was made last spring at the
conference of $50, was paid to the Interna-
tional College at Springfield, Mass. We made
our third payment of $25 of our foundership
pledge to Tomassee. We gave $10 towards
buying a carload of corn, which Ida County
is sending to European sufferers.

Also $15 to our local American Legion Post.
Two hundred and forty-two dollars and sixty
cents was collected from " Poppy Day " in
Ida County through our Chapter and sent to the
American and French Children's League. Our
budget is lOO per cent, as is also our
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine subscription, having 34 subscribers.
We have the honor of having the State Chair-
man of the Magazine Committee, Mrs. Laura
Lynch, chosen from our members. By her
untiring efforts she has nearly doubled the
number of subscribers in the state since
last year.

Our Chapter assisted in the observance of
Alemorial Day.

We sent fifty pounds of home-made candy
to the Federal Hospital at Knoxville on St.
Valentine's Day, and received most apprecia-
tive letters from Mrs. Gebhardt and the
boys there.

Our membership the past year was 38 and
since January 1st we have added four new
members, and have four more applications in
Washington. Our entrance fees have been
raised to $10.

In the fall we planned and carried out a
surprise on our organizing and retiring Regent
and presented her with an ancestral shield as

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a slight token of our appreciation of her work
for our Chapter.

Mrs. Bertha B. Finch,

Regent.

Patterson Chapter (Westfield, N. Y.) has
spent a pleasant and profitable year. Patriotic
education has been the keynote of the work of
the Chapter. In furtherance of this, at one
meeting, Mrs. Grace Sippi read " The Immi-
grants," by Percy MacKaye.

For many years Patterson Chapter has given
a prize to the Westfield high school student
writing the best essay on an historical subject.
This year an additional prize was given to the
students of the Ripley high school.

At the beginning of the year, the Regent,
Mrs. Ben Boult, assisted by the Vice Regent,
Mrs. John Jones, delightfully entertained Pat-
terson Chapter in honor of the State Regent,
Mrs. Charles Nash, of Albany. Mrs. Nash
gave a fine talk on Americanization and the
activities of the State and National organiza-
tions. Our former State Regent, Miss Broad-
head, of Jamestown, also spoke, emphasizing
Mrs. Nash's remarks.

The Chapter has paid the sixty cents per
capita to the four great enterprises presented
by Mrs. Nash. We have further contributed
to the American Library Association, the Near
East fund, the memorial for the Schuyler Man-
sion in Albany, the Tomassee School in South
Carolina and the Martha Berry School
in Georgia.

A dark blue silk banner, lettered in gold, was
presented by the Chapter to the John W.
Rogers Post of the American Legion.

As the members have shown a splendid spirit

of cooperation, Patterson Chapter is looking

forward with enthusiasm to the opportunities

of service to he offered during the coming year.

Cora E. House,

Historian.

Hollywood Chapter (Hollywood, Calif.),
organized in 1910, has a limited membership
of one hundred. Many of our members have
been transferred from eastern chapters, so the
diversity of our interests affords us inspira-
tion along many lines of D. A. R. endeavor.
The year just ended, under the able leadership
of Mrs. Eunice J. Ea.stman, has been one of
achievement. Interesting programs, presented
by able speakers, have been given at our
monthly meetings, while our October picnic,
Christmas party and June musicalc were note-
worthy social affairs.

For several years the Chapter has contrib-
uted two scholarships to Berea College. Ken-
tucky, and an additional part of our Ameri-
canization work has consisted in helping the
school at Avenue 19, with clothing, money and
other necessities.

Over two hundred dollars was raised at a
card party given at the home of our Vice
Regent, Mrs. J. F. Kent. This sum was con-
tributed to work being done for disabled vet-
erans of the World War. As a further token
of our interest in the returned soldiers, a post
banner was presented to Hollywood Post, No.
43, of the American Legion.

(Mrs. Thos. F.) Nellie F. Cooke,

Historian.

Triangle Chapter (North East, Pa.). Have
had a profitable year. Aside from our
regular meeting we have had some pleasant
social affairs. Have added 16 new members,
making a total of 59. On July 21, 1921, a
lawn party was given at the home of the Re-
gent, Mrs. George E. Pierce. The spacious
grounds presented a beautiful scene. The
Italian band, several of whom were students of
the night school, rendered excellent music dur-
ing the evening. Ice cream and cake was
served and cakes were on sale. The proceeds
which were in the neighborhood of $100,
were given to the night school for the
education of the foreigners, along the lines
of Americanization.

We also gave a fine concert which added
about $15 to the treasury. Report of work
accomplished for the year : Immigrant Manual
fund, $12.50; markers for soldiers' graves,
$2.50; Tomassee School Scholarship, 5; Na-
tional Tuberculosis Association, $5 ; Ameri-
canization Night School, $120; Lineage books
and histories for library, $21. Total, $166.
(Mrs. Geo. A.) Carrie E. Watt,

Historian.

Bonny Kate Chapter (Knoxville, Tenn.)
has had an interesting year, as professors from
the University of Tennessee gave addresses on
the important questions of the day. The slo-
gan for the year was " Patriotic Education "
or education of the " Mountain Child " which
was launched with a " Tag Day " on September
25, 1920. The sum of $1300 was realized for
the completion of a beautiful D.A.R. Hall at
Lincoln Memorial University at Harrogate,
Tenn., to be used as a dormitory for 120 boys.
This building is to cost $50,000 and $25,000 of
this is to be the gift of the Tennessee Daugh-
ters, $185 was given by various members for
patriotic education. $100 was appropriated for
repairs to the D.A.R. cottage at Devil's Fork,
Unicoi County. The April report showed that
over $1825 has been collected to date. In May
a rummage sale was held, realizing the sum
of $201, to be used in our mountain work, plac-
ing the amount at over $2,000. Bonny Kate
was 100 per cent, on the Americanization
pamphlet, Guernsey scholarship, Plymouth
Assessment and Paris Museum. The Chapter
has contrihnted to the Traveler's Aid and

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Hunter settlement, also to the $100 scholar-
ship at University of Tennessee known as the
Mrs. J. Harvey Mathes scholarship.

Bonny Kate has started libraries in two
mountain schools, the Regent having collected
and packed a box of 125 books, for Oliver
Springs, and 120 for Devil's Fork.

Bonny Kate felt highly honored when her
former Regent Miss Mary B. Temple was
elected State Regent in 1920, and reelected in
1921. On July 30, 1920, Miss Temple was
asked to present the flag to the super-dread-
naught Tennessee at Brooklyn Navy Yard.
The Chapter feels proud to have one of its
members Mrs. W. M. Goodman elected State
President of the United Daughters of the Con-
federacy, and also to have another D.A.R. State
officer in Mrs. R. J. Yearwood, State Secretary.
Three members of Bonny Kate have been ac-
tive officers of the Y.W.C.A. During the year
the Chapter felt distinctly honored by a visit
from our President General, Mrs. George M.
Minor and Mrs. Buel. A luncheon at the
Cherokee Country Club, a dinner at the Farra-
gut Hotel and a drive to the historic spots in
the city completed their short stay. Eighteen
new members have been admitted during
the year.

King's Mountain day, the anniversary of
Bonny Kate's Charter, and Constitution day
were fittingly observed. Flag Day was ce'e-
brated with an excellent program. General and
Mrs. L. D. Tyson, the latter a member of
Bonny Kate Chapter, have given to the City,
a park of 21 acres, in memory of their son
Lieutenant Charles McGhee Tyson, who made
the supreme sacrifice during the World War.
The Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine is taken by a number of the
members, and has proven both interesting and
of great help genealogically.

During the summer it was found necessary
to continue our work to complete the amount
for our D.A.R. Hall at L.M.U. and a campaign
was conducted, in which Miss Temple our State
Regent solicited over $2,534, a wonderful record
which with contributions from the other mem-
bers of Bonny Kate, and $1300 previously re-
ported gives the Chapter $5,234 for this splen-
did work. A $50 scholarship was given to Tus-
culum College at Greenville, Tennessee.

Our Historian turned in 26 questionnaires
representing the number of sons and husbands
engaged in the World War. The Chapter's
Flag recorded only one Silver Star.

(Mrs. Benj. B.) Alice Smith Gates,

Regent.

St. Anthony Falls Chapter (Minneapolis,
Minn.) organized in 1917, now has a member-
ship of sixty, forty of whom are active mem-

bers and two Life Members. Seven have been
admitted during the year.

Our Chapter has the best record of any Chap-
ter in the State for number of subscriptions
sent in for the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine, in the past year.

One benefit movie was given during the year,
and the proceeds added to the Americanization
fund. Our Americanization committee has
been especially active, classes of foreign women
are taught regularly and parties are given
for them.

St. Anthony Falls Chapter has done much
work for the disabled soldiers in hospitals
here. We furnish entertainers two days every
week, and give dances in the hospitals for the
boys able to indulge in that pleasure. For the
past few months our time during meetings has
been given over to cutting and sewing cotton
and silk rags, which the soldiers weave into
rugs and portierres.

The biggest thing accomplished by our Chap-
ter this year was the placing of two bronze
tablets on the beautiful bridge across the Missis-
sippi river at Third Avenue, which through
the efforts of our special committee, enlisting
the support of several well known men, and
appearing before the City Council at different
times ; is now known by the name of St. An-
thony Falls Bridge.

On Constitution Day, September 17, 1921, we
unveiled the tablets with appropriate cere-
monies, which included : a presentation speech
by our Regent, Mrs. D. C. Bennett; acceptance
on behalf of the City by Mayor George C.
Leach; a history of the Chapter by Mrs. M.
H. Coolidge, State Regent: Story of the Falls,
by Mrs. James T. Morris, Vice President Gen-
eral and Chairman National Committee, Pre-
servation of Historic Spots ; unveiling by Mrs.
George E. Tuttle, Chairman of Tablet Com-
mittee, and Mrs. H. A. Barnard, who, with the
third member of the Committee, Mrs. B. W.
Capen were born within hearing of the Falls.
The ceremony was concluded by the scattering
of flowers over the Falls by several little girls,
daughters of Chapter members, in memory of
pioneer women.

At the time the bridge was built, St. Anthony
Falls Chapter planned to have it named for St.
Anthony Falls and the ceremony on Constitu-
tion Day marked the fulfillment of that resolve.
The tablets are 13 by 99 inches in size and are
erected at each end of the bridge. Following
is the inscription :

1680 LOUIS HENNEPIN DISCOVERED AND NAMED
THE FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY.

1766 — Jonathan Carver visited the Falls.
1819 — First white woman looked upon the
Falls.

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1821-23— Government saw and grist mills
built.

1848 — First dam and saw mill built on east
side of river.

1851— First flour mill on east side of river
built.

1859— First flour mill on east side of river
built.

1867 — First apron built to avoid erosion.

1876— Government dike under river com-
pleted.

This tablet was erected by the St. Anthony
Falls Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, 1921, at whose request the name
St. Anthony Falls Bridge was adopted by the
City Council.

The bridge is directly over St. Anthony Falls
and the imposing outlines of its structure are
visible to all travellers entering the city by rail
and from many points along the river. There
is no engineering record in the United States
of so large a bridge as this built of concrete
arches on a curved line.

(Mrs. E. J.) Clarissa T. Wallace,
Historian.

Thomas Wynne Chapter (Greenville, Tex-
as). Our Public Schools and Literary Clubs
have done splendid work along Civic improve-
ments, Americanization, etc., having been until
recently the baby Chapter of the state, we have
been, through cooperation, able to accomplish
the following:

In January, 1918, there were only two D.A.R
members in our town. Mrs. C. B. Jones was
appointed Organizing Regent, and April 30,
1918, organized our Chapter, which was named
for Thomas Wynne, her ancestor, with 15
charter members.

The first year Mrs. C. B. Jones served as
Regent and the following was accomplished :
Individual Bonds purchased by members $5,000;
Thrift Stamps $1550; Red Cross Work 1620
hours ; Canteen Workers^ 1 Captain, 1 Lieu-
tenant, 3 workers three earning R. C. Service
pins. Quota to Tilloloy and Liberty Loan paid.
Red Cross and Y.M.C.A. $125; Devastated
France $5; Belgium Relief $5; Polish victims
$5; Hospital in Ncuilly $5; Fatherless Children
in France $5; French War Orphans $192, five
having been adopted through work of Chap-
ter; Storm sufferers two boxes of clothing
(minimum value) $821 ; Magazine Fund $8.

The second year Mrs. Lcc R. Hoover served
as Regent and a Children of American Revolu-
tion was organized by our registrar. Miss Carr,
with 25 members; Y.W.C.A. $5; W.C.T.U.
$10; hospital for soldiers $4; Y.M.C.A. $25;
Old Ladies Home $30; Orphanage $13, Sunday
Dinner to orphanage; hotter schools campaign
$4.55; SchonI Loan $13; Dinton Normal scholar-

ship $10; Philippine scholarship $5; Tomassee
mountain school $10; Elizabeth Guernsey
scholarship quota $1.25 Basket to convalescent
$5; to State Health Department for Home for
Tubercular soldiers at Kerrville, Texas $521.
The State Regent in her report at the continental
Congress emphasized this part of our work,
giving us first place. One year Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine to Pub-
lic Library; 15 subscriptions to Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine which
puts the magazine in the home of every mem-
ber in the Chapter. Two framed copies of
constitution, one in high school, one in Library
$8, Red Cross 100 per cent.

The By-laws of our constitution make suc-
cession ineligible for all officers except the
registrar and Mrs. R. R. Neyland served as
our third regent, and the Chapter reports 12
hours work for Armistice Day; one decorated
car for Armistice Day, a report to State of
Chapter heroes of World War with their ser-
vice records and photos showing 14 direct de-
scendants of Revolutionary ancestors. We are
indebted to Owl Club (young boys) for a dona-
tion of $50 to Armenian Relief. The follow-
ing has been given : Southern Europe Relief
$60; Sunshine Relief $3.50; Box to Eastern
Relief $70 ; Committee on Education of For-
eign women $6.50 ; City Forum $3 ; Chinese Re-
lief $35; Korea $3; Salvation Army $5.50,
Welfare Workers $7; Y.M.C.A. $10; Tubercu-
lar Tags $8.50, work on same 24 hours ; Sell-
ing French Orphan Poppies 12 hours ; one con-
stitution framed $4.00 four others placed, total
placed 5. Armenian Relief $75; Denton Nor-
mal scholarship $20 ; Philippine scholarship $5 ;
Charity, money $75, food and clothing $110;
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine to Public Library $1 ; D.A.R. sub-
scriptions $13.

The organizing regent Mrs. C. B. Jones, has
served for the last two years as State Chap-
lain and has represented the Chapter at the
Continental Congress each year since organiza-
tion and at each State Conference we have
two delegates.

All communications asked for by our Na-
tional Society have been complied with and we
are remembering our " fallen heroes " with the
" palm leaves " as suggested by Society.

We have voted to place in the hands of every
child above the third grade in the County the
" American Creed " and " Salute to the Flag,"^
and to run same in local picture theatre.

Bess Waters,
Secretary.

Willard's Mountain Chapter (Greenwich,
N.Y.). During the year nine meetings have
lieon held. Our mcmiicrship is now 47. Start-

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ing from 17 Charter members in 1897, the total
number is 71, 15 deceased.

The program has proved to be most interest-
ing and has added valuable papers to the ar-
chives. County history by towns, ancestry
records, three minute papers on special topics,
Our Charter of Liberties. Parlor Bolshevists,
Japan and the Japanese Menace, the Genius of
Theodore Roosevelt, the Block Mothers, Young
America, the Hope of the World and roll-call
quotations on such subjects as a Summer Ex-
perience, Anecdotes of the Revolution, the
World War, the Martyred Presidents, Ameri-
can Patriots, Wit and Wisdom of Our Chil-
dren, Current Events, Patriots of Today,
" The Flag."

We all feel gratified at the success of the
Tercentenary celebration, with the Stereopticon
lecture on the Romantic History of the May-
flower Pilgrims, the cantata on the Landing of
the Pilgrims, the Loan Exhibition and its esti-
mated attendance of six hundred, to say noth-
ing of the Americanization Fund resulting there-
from, which has enabled the Chapter to contri-
bute to many worthy causes. The Chapter has
contributed its quota to the State Utility Fund,
the Manual, the Plymouth Fountain, the Paint-
ing of a Convoy, Mantle Ornaments for the
Schuyler Mansion, has given to the Berry
school, Tomassee and the International Col-
lege; has twelve subscribers to the Daughters
OF THE American Revolution Magazine;
holds membership in the State Historical So-
ciety, and the Washington County branch of
the State Charities Aid.

Ten members attended the State Conference
at Saratoga.

A report of the history of the Chapter since
its beginning was sent to the State Historian.
Five hundred copies of the Flag Code have been
distributed. Graves of 52 soldiers were deco-
rated with flags on Decoration Day ; 256 War
Records have been collected by and for the
Town Historian. The prize for the best
examination in U.S. History, offered to pupils
of the eighth grade, will be presented to four
this year. This list for 24 years now contains
42 names.

Respectfully submitted,
(AIrs. B. F.) Louise Boris Sharpe,
Recording Secretary.

Big Spring Chapter (Georgetown, Ky.).
Meeting once a month in homes of members.
As Kentucky's Woman, in Historical Program,
we chose Rebecca Bryan Boone, who was ad-
mirably represented by Mrs. Bedel Parker of
N. Y., formerly Miss Fannie Gaines of George-
town, Ky.

For the incoming year our program will be
Historic " Buildings and Sculptured Memorials."

Our big work was a beautiful Gray Granite
Monument, in memory of McClelland and his
men who defended the fort in 1776, 36 men and
one woman whose name is on the monument,
Polly Hawkins Craig.

Major Wilson delivered the original survey
" made by Col. John Floyd, of the Big Spring
and its branch July 9, 1774 and called the
stream Royal Spring " Major Wilson quoted

MONUMENT ERECTED BY BIG SPRING CHAPTER.
GEORGETOWN, KY.

from a diary written by Thomas Hansen ; " All
the land here is like Paradise, so good and
so beautiful."

For the mountain school we have chosen
Hueyville, Floyd County, on account of easy
access. Big Spring Chapter will give $100 and
other chapters will contribute. Daughters of
the American Revolution of Lexington gave a
Fourth of July picnic to celebrate Independence
day. It was at the Bryan Station Spring where
the Memorial Wall was placed 28 years ago by
the Lexington Chapter, in honor of the women
who went to this spring for water at the time
of the seige and thereby saved the Fort from
the attack of the Indians.

Mrs. John A. Herring.

Jemima Johnson Chapter (Paris, Ky,).
On June 24, 1921, our Chapter unveiled a stone
tablet to mark the site of what was known in
early pioneer days as Martin's Fort.

The place is on the E. F. Clay farm three
miles from Paris, the exact spot was located

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through the research work of Mrs. Wade
Whitley.

Mrs. Cassius Clay, Regent, opened the ser-
vices by stating the purpose of the meeting,
and introduced the speaker of the occasion, Mrs.
W. T. Lafferty, of Lexington, who has done
such valuable research work in gathering to-
gether data concerning early Kentucky history.
She gave interesting accounts of the lives and

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PARIS. KY., TO MARK MARTIN'S FORT

characters of many of the pioneers who had an
active part in the settlement of our beloved
Commonwealth, Boone, Harrod, Hinkson,
Townsend, Cooper and Martin being among the
foremost. Mrs. Lafferty stated that this par-
ticular spot was the cradle of Bourbon County
history. Martin's Fort built in 1779 was one
of the most formidable on the frontier. It was
destroyed by the British and Indians on June
24, 1780, its occupants taken prisoners and car-
ried across the border into Canada.

The tablet was then unveiled by the two little
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Brutus Clay, Mary
and Ann, assisted by the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Tali)ott.

Mi.ss E. E. (ioMis.

Cumberland County Chapter (Carlisle,
Pa.) is in its twciitv -seventh year. It was
organized on May 9, 1895, chartered July 15,
1895, and at present has seventy-five members,
with a waiting list for admission. Si.\ meet-
ings arc held during the year, five in Carlisle
and the June meeting is held either in Shippens-
burg or Newvillc. Pa., as there are members
residing in bntli of these towns. At all of

our meetings the American's Creed is recited,
historical papers are read, and this year the
Chapter will study the Constitution and
Americanization. Our Chapter was awake and
busy during the World War; the assessment
to the $100,000 Liberty bond and for Tilloloy
were fully met and every member of the Chap-
ter was actively engaged in Red Cross work.
We have contributed to the Immigrant's Man-
ual fund, to the International College at Spring-
field, Mass, to the Pilgrim Memorial at Ply-
mouth and to the French Memorial painting
as well as having given regularly to the Hind-
man and Pine Mountain schools in Kentucky.
The Chapter has sent ten valuable books to
the Library at Memorial Continental Hall.

The graves of one hundred Revolutionary
soldiers have been located, some have been
marked and it is hoped, all may be marked.
The Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine is much appreciated for its
valuable information and is read by all mem-
bers of the Chapter.

A very delightful meeting was held in June,
1920 when we were honored by the presence
of Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, then our State
Regent and now Vice President General, and
four Regents from neighboring societies.

Our hope is to cherish and foster a patriotic
spirit to uphold our flag, increase love of coun-
try as well as to assist in all the work of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.

Mrs. George H. Stewart,

Historian.

Robert Gray Chapter (Hoquiam, Wash.)
opened the year's work with a luncheon held
in honor of our National Vice President Gen-
eral, Mrs. Henry McCleary, who is an Honor-
ary Member of the Chapter, and Mrs. William
S. Walker of Seattle, our State Regent. About
thirty members and guests being present. After
the luncheon, the dignified chapter ritual was
given and then Mrs. McCleary gave an inspir-
ing talk upon the National Society and its
scope. Following this, Mrs. Walker told of the
duties of the Chapters to the State work and
outlined, tentatively, some of the proposed
measures that her administration wishes to
carry through.

The Chapter Regent, Mrs. H. W. Patton,
who is also 1st State Vice Regent, presided
and welcomed the two distinguished guests.
.Among the guests of the Chapter were Mrs.
Jackson, a daughter of U. S. Congressman
Fordnay. and Mrs. Bruen of Rainier Chap-
ter, Seattle.

Robert Gray Chapter feels that this meet-
ing with National and State officers will be an
inspiration and help throughout the year.
(Mrs. a. M.) Ida Soule Kuhn,
Cflvrcsponding Secretary.

HONOR ROLL OF THE

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

MAGAZINE

In this Honor Roll the list of membership in each State is shown in the
outer rim, and the list of subscribers according to States is in the inner circle

IN THE HUB OF THE WHEEL IS GIVEN THE TOTAL
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

The Magazine also has subscribers in

JAPAN, KOREA, CHILI, FRANCE, WEST INDIES,
PANAMA, PORTO RICO AND CHINA

Pennsylvania at this date of publication
leads all States with 1275 subscribers

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NATIONAL'BOARD^OF
iVM^AGEMENT

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special Meeting, November 18, 1921

SPECIAL meeting of the National
Board of Management for the ad-
mission of members and authoriza-
tion and confirmation of chapters was
called to order by the President Gen-
eral, Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
in the Board Room of Memorial
Continental Hall, Friday, November 18, 1921,
at 10.05 A.M.

The meeting was opened with the Lord's
Prayer by the members of the Board.

In the absence of Mrs. Yawger, the Corres-
ponding Secretary General was requested to act
as Secretary pro tern.

The following members responded to the roll
call: National Officers: Mrs. Minor, Miss Ser-
pell. Airs. Morris, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Elliott,
Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs.
Ellison, Mrs. White; State Regents, Mrs. St.
Clair, Mrs. Young, Miss Temple.

Mrs. Hunter moved that " Under Five Flags "
Chapter, of Mobile, Alabama, which ivas auto-
matically disbanded April 23, 1921, be reinstated
as of that date. This was seconded by Miss
Strider and Mrs. Hanger and carried.
Miss Strider read her report as follows :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
I have the honor to report 750 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submitted,

Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Miss Strider moved that the Secretary cast
the ballot for the admission of ''•'iO applicants.
Seconded by Mrs. Hunter and carried. The
Secretary pro tem announced the casting of the
ballot, and the President General declared these
750 applicants elected as members of the Na-
tional Society.

Mrs. Hanger then read her report.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
I have the honor to report as follows :
Through their respective State Regents the
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following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents :

Mrs. Lucie Irby Chambers, Uniontown, Ala. ;
Mrs. Addie Kent Morton Johnson, Gray, Ga. ;
Mrs. Mary Jarrett White, Toccoa, Ga. ; Mrs.
Eva M. Hill, McPherson, Kan.; Miss Claribel
Elizabeth Orton, Marietta, Minn. ; Miss Fara
Gladyce Maurer, Sleepy Eye, Minn. ; Mrs. Ab-
bie Edna Roach Dawson, Grant City, Mo. ;
Mrs. Isabel Vernon Chase, Mountville, S. C. ;
Mrs. Aileen Hankinson Newsom, Williston, S.
C. : Mrs. Emma L. Chenowith, Yorktown, Va. ;
Mrs. Elizabeth Banks Fredeking, Hinton, W.
Va. ; Mrs. Eunice Proctor Perkins, Ravens-
wood, W. Va. ; Mrs. Alcinda B. Jackson, Wes-
ton, W. Va.

The State Regent of Virginia requests a
chapter be authorized at Norton, Virginia.

The State Regent of West Virginia requests
that the Alexander Scott Withers Chapter of
Weston be officially disbanded. (This request
to disband came from the Chapter to the State
Regent who has acceeded to their request.)

The following Chapters have reported
organization since the last Board meeting :

" Gov. Jonathan Trumbull " of Lebanon,
Conn.

" Bainbridge " of Bainbridge, Ga.
Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Organising Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
approved as read.

The Treasurer General reported the loss to
the National Society through death of 195
members. The Board stood in silent memory
of these departed members. Mrs. Hunter re-
ported also 51 resignations, and the request for
reinstatement of 84 former members, and
moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast
the ballot for the reinstatement of 8-'/ members.
The Secretary announced the casting of the
ballot and the President General declared these
former members reinstated.

After the reading of the minutes, on mo-
tion, the meeting adjourned at 10.45 a.m.

L. Tyson Elliott.
Secretary, pro tem.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS

OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS

MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL" HALL

SEVENTEENTH AND D STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

1921-1922

President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1922)
Mrs. William H. Wait, Mrs. William D. Sherrerd,

1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. Highland Ave., Haddonfield, N. J.

Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, Mrs. James Lowry Smith,

Eola Road, Salem, Ore. Amarillo, Tex.

Miss Alethea Serpell, Mrs. Frank W. Bahnsen,

902 Westover Ave, Norfolk, Va. 1720 22d St., Rock Island, 111.

Miss Louise H. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me.

(Term of office expires 1923)
Mrs. Cassi-us C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

2272 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N. Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N. C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. I.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1830 T St., Washington, D. C.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,
Memorial Continental Hall. Alemorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,
Memorial Continental Hall.
Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1921-1922

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St.. Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

BiSBEE.

MRS. GEORGE W. VICKERS,
394 N. 3rd St., Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. CLARENCE S. WOODWARD,
2005 Scott St., Little Rock.

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,
817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. OSWALD H. HARSHBARGER,

269 Mather St., Oakland.
MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. WILLIAM HENRY KISTLER.
1145 Logan St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL,

Litchfield.
MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,

SOUTHINGTON.

DELAWARE

MRS. JOHN W. CLIFTON,
Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. FRANCIS A. ST. CLAIR,

1319 T. St., N. W., Washington.
MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E., Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. EVEREST G. SEWELL,
143 S. E. 2nd St., Miami.

MRS. .1. A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

GEORGIA

MRS. MAX E. LAND,

305 Hth Ave., Cordele.

MRS. WILLIAM C. VEREEN,
Moultrie.

HAWAII

MRS. N. L. SCOTT,

The Coi;rtland Hotel, Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. ROBKUT C. IIUDELSON.

Box 324, <;ooi)iN(i.
MRS. KENNKDY PACKARD,

421 2nd Avk., E., Twin Falls.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EUGENE CHUBBUCK,
(Jrand View Avr., Peoria.

MRS. FRANK O. LOWDEN,
Springfield.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,
1011 N. Penn St., Indiasai'olis.

MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW,
3128 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne.

IOWA

MRS. FREDERICK ERNEST FKISBEI

" FAiriiiri.i,," SiiKi.DON.
MISS AMY E. CILMERT,
State Ckntrr.

KANSAS

MR.S. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL.

" Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. J. M. ARNOLD,

539 Garrard St., Covington.
MRS. GEORGE BAKER,
Frankfort.

LOUISIANA

MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,

2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.
MRS. CHARLES FLOWER.

Alexandria.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,
282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 Goff St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.

MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,
2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,

Pinbhurst, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MISS ALICE LOUISE McDUFFEE,
1012 W. Main St., Kalamazoo.

MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis

MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON,
1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MRS. JAMES HARPER WYNN,

Greenville.
MRS. CHARLTON HENRY ALEXANDER,

850 N. Jefferson St., Jackson.

MISSOURI

MRS. PAUL D. KITT,

Chillicothe.
MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedalia.

MONTANA

MRS. ALVAN L. ANDERSON,

420 S. Idaho St., Dillon.
MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

814 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

1731 L St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH,

ClIADliON.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. LOUIN WEBSTER,

Plymouth.
MRS. LESLIE P. SNOW,

Rochester.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY D. FITTS.
44S RiDiiE St., Newark,
MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watchuno Ave., Plainfield.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. J. F. IlIXKLE,

R0«WRM,.

MRS. R. P. BARNES,

ALBr«UBRQUE.

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NEW YORK

MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,

8 Lafayette St., Albany.
MRS. CHARLES M. BULL,
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPENCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TILLETT,

810 N. Tryon St., Charlotte.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

Valley City.
MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,

300 8th St., S. Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. Wn.LIAM MAGEE WILSON,
CnoRCH AND Kino Sts., Xenia.
MRS. .TAMES HENRY ALLEN,

431 N. Detroit St., Kenton.

OKLAHOMA

MI{S. H. II. McCLINTOCK,

903 Johnstone Ave., Bartlesville.

MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

OREGON

MRS. JOHN A. KEATING,

8 St. Helen's Court, Portland.
MRS. WILLARD MARKS,

807 S. Ferry St., Albany.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS.

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston, Linden Ave., Pittsburgh.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westerly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,

4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN 0. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,

Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. M. R. HOPKINS,

\-l\, .TTH AVK.. N- W. .\BEHnEEN.

MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL.

Sioux Falls.

TENNESSEE

MISS MARY B. TEMPLE,

316 West Cumberland St., Knoivillb.
MRS. PERCY H. PATTON,

1092 E. Moreland Ave., Memphis.

TEXAS

MRS. I. B. McFARLAND,

1313 Castle Court Blvd., Houston.
MRS. A. D. POTTS,

Belton.

UTAH

MRS. GEORGE H. DERN,

36 H St., Salt Lake City.
AIRS. CLESSON H. KINNEY,

820 E. 4th South St., Salt Lake Citt.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

Middlebury.
MISS JENNIE A. VALENTINE,

302 Pleasant St., Bennington.

VIRGINIA

MRS. KATE WALLER BARRETT.

Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,

915 Orchard Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER,

1804 15th Ave., Seattle.
MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,
724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. CLARK W. HEAVNER,

BUCKHANNON.

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.

WISCONSIN

MRS. RUDOLPH B. HARTMAN,

4001 Highland Park. Milwaukee.
MISS HELEN DORSET.

330 S. 6th St., La Crosse.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON.
Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER,

Shanghai, China.
MRS. TRUMAN SLAYTON HOLT,

Manila, Philippine Islands.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER,
II US. DANIEL MANNING.

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,
MRS. WILLIAM GUMMING STORY.
MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD.

Honorary Vice Presidents General
MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK. 1895. MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH. 1911.

MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1S99. MRS. THEODORE C. B.ATES, 1913.

MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD. 1905. MRS. F. GAYLORD PUTNAM. 1913.

MRS. WILLIAM LINDSAY. 1906. MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.

MRS. HELEN M. BOYNTON. 1906. MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL. 1914.

MRS. SARA T. KINNEY. 1910. MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.

MRS. GEORGE M. STERNBERG. 1917.

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THE STORY OF THE PURPLE HEART

The Medal of Honor of the Revolution

By John C. FItzpatrIck, A.M.
Assistant Chief, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

HE Purple Heart Badge of
Military Merit was established
by General George Washington
in a General Order of August
7, 1782, which reads:

The General ever desirous to cherish a
virtuous ambition in his soldiers, as well as to
foster and encourage every species of Military
merit, directs that whenever any singularly
meritorous action is performed, the author of
it shall be permitted to wear on his facings over
the left breast, the figure of a heart in purple
cloth or silk, edged with narrow lace or binding.
Not only instances of unusual gallantry, but
also of extraordinary fidelity and essential
Service in any way shall meet with a due
reward. Before this favor can be conferred
on any man, the particular fact, or facts, on
which it is to be grounded must be set forth
to the Commander-in-chief accompanied with
certificates from the Commanding officers of
the regiment and brigade to which the Candi-
date for reward belonged, or other incontest-
able proofs, and upon granting it, the name and
regiment of the person with the action so
certified are to be enrolled in the book of merit
which will be kept at the orderly office. Men
who have merited this last distinction to be
suffered to pass all guards and sentinels which
officers are permitted to do.

The road to glory in a patriot army and a
free country is thus open to all — this order is

also to have retrospect to the earliest stages
of the war, and to be considered as a
permanent one.

This was the first time in the history
of the United States Army that an honor
badge was provided for the enlisted man
in the ranks and the non-commissioned
officer and, though a badge of cloth
and sewn on the uniform coat, in-
stead of fastened as a pendant medal,
it was, in efl^ect, the medal of honor of
the Revolution.

So far as the known surviving records
show, this honor badge was granted to
only three men, all of them non-commis-
sioned officers : Sergeant Daniel Bissel,
of the 2d Connecticut Regiment of the
Continental Line, Sergeant Daniel
Brown, of the 5th Connecticut Regiment
of the Continental Line, and Sergeant
Elijah Churchill, of the 2d Continental
Dragoons, which was also a Connecticut
regiment. Connecticut certainly had
reason to be proud of her soldiers.

The stories of how the Purple Heart
was won by each of these three men can

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nowhere be found in detail. They can
be pieced out from cold official records
and by inference, but even in this bare
form they should be preserved as a
cherished part of the proud record of the
old Continental Army.

The first, in point of time, is that of
Sergeant Elijah Churchill's, of the 2d
Continental Dragoons. It is in two parts,
for it is the story of two raids within
the British lines, the first in November,
1780, and the second a year later,
in October, 1781. Major Benjamin
Tallmadge, of the 2d Continental
Dragoons, was in charge of the Head-
quarters secret service, which he managed
from the year 1778 to the end of the
war, and on November 7, 1780, he
received word from his most trustworthy
spy that the British had stored several
hundred tons of hay, for winter forage,
at Coram, Long Island, which is on the
north shore, about nine miles southeast
from Setauket. or Brookhaven. This
forage magazine was protected by a
nearby stockade fort, which consisted
of three strong block houses, connected
by a stockade of heavy stakes, twelve
feet long and sharpened at the end.
There was also a deep ditch, a high wall
and a strong abatis. The work was to
mount six cannon, but only two of them
were in place when the spy sent in his
report. The fortification was called Fort
St. George. The spy's report gave a good
description of the work and urged an
attempt upon it. Tallmadge, in for-
warding the report to Headquarters,
volunteered to make the attempt and
Washington, whose prescience in such
matters was remarkable, at once gave his
permission and left the management of
the entire matter to the major. Talhnadge
decided to stake everything on a surprise
and formed a party of about 50 of his
dismounted dragoons. To take but 50

men across twenty miles of salt water,
land them within the enemy's lines,
march them at least several miles therein
and attempt such a strong fortification
as Fort St. George, might seem to us, at
this distance, a reckless and foolhardy
thing; but Benjamin Tallmadge, as chief
intelligence officer, knew his ground and
more important than all, knew his
troopers. Sergeant Elijah Churchill was
one of the men Tallmadge selected. The
small detachment marched to Fairfield,
Connecticut, nearly opposite to Setauket,
Long Island ; but there they were delayed
eight days by a violent November gale
upon the Sound. In the afternoon of
November 21st the wind died down. At
4 P.M. the expedition embarked in the
whale boats provided by Lieutenant Caleb
Brewster, of Tallmadge's regiment, who
had charge of the Continental armed
boats on Long Island Sound and who
was the conveyor of secret intelligence
from the New York and Long Island
spies. The cold blackness of a November
night had already settled down when the
boats put out from the land, but with
wind and oars they crossed in four hours
and landed on a deserted stretch of the
Long Island shore. They found they
had drifted farther from their objective
than they expected and a longer march to
reach the British fort was now necessary.
A large force of British regulars were in
winter quarters on Long Island and there
were, in addition, several thousand loyal-
ist troops, distributed at various points,
making it an hazardous venture to march
a body of troops for any considerable dis-
tance without grave risk of being cut ofT
from their boats. Capture was inevitable
if they could not get away from the
Island, and the gale that had delayed them
on the main land again swept down upon
the Sound. Tallmadge could not risk
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shore, so he concealed his men in a wood
and made the boats as inconspicuous as
possible. All day long the men shivered
under the forest cover but, when dark-
ness came again, the wind died down
and the cold and stiffened troopers started
upon a rapid march down the deserted
wintry road. At 3 a.m., November 23rd,
they were within two miles of Fort St.
George and halted to receive orders for
the attack. Tallmadge divided his men
into three groups, each of which was to
give its entire attention to a specified block
house. Sixteen men, in charge of Ser-
geant Churchill, were to attack the main
and largest of the fort buildings. At
4 A.M. the three bodies separated to move
against the works from as many different
directions. They moved like shadows
and with the swiftness of Indians ;
Churchill and his men were within fifty
feet of the fort before the sentinel chal-
lenged and fired. Instantly the black
winter morning became alive with flame
and uproar. Led by the intrepid ser-
geant, the little party of sixteen plunged
through the ditch, swarmed the stockade,
and crashed into the fort building before
the defenders could settle into organized
resistance. The other two attacking
parties cleared the defenses almost at the
same time and the entire detachment met
in the centre of the enclosed stockade.
But the other parties had expended their
energies in getting inside the defenses,
and two block houses still remained to be
taken. A brisk fire was beginning to pour
upon the Americans from these two
houses, but battering parties beat in the
doors and inside of ten more minutes
Tallmadge's men had possession of tlic
entire works. The growing light now
showed a British supply schooner at
anchor close to the shore, near the fort.
A detachment captured her with ridicu-
lous ease. The rapidity of the attack

had protected the attackers and they had
not lost a man, and only one of them was
wounded. The British loss was seven
killed and wounded and most of the latter
were mortally hurt. The fort and the
schooner were set on fire and the pris-
oners, over fifty in number, were started
back toward the boats under a guard.
Leaving a small force to see to it that the
fort was completely destroyed, Tallmadge
marched with the rest to Coram. The
few sentries found there fled, and the
hay was pulled loose and set on fire. Over
three hundred tons went up in rolling
clouds of smoke and as soon as the fire
w^as going beyond all hope of extinguish-
ment, Tallmadge and his hay burners
started back for the boats. By taking
a different road and by rapid marching,
they joined the men they had left at Fort
St. George, and overtook the prisoners
and their guard inside of two hours. It
was now broad daylight and the loyalist
militia were beginning to swarm in their
rear. But the two huge columns of
smoke, one at Fort St. George and one at
Coram, several miles apart, as well as
the unbelievable audacity of a body of
rebel troops daring to land on Long
Island, kept the loyahst militia from
approaching too near. They could not
believe that only a small party would dare
such a thing and they preferred to wait
until their own numbers were sufficient to
insure success against the supposedly
large force. By 4 o'clock in the evening
the American party reached the boats,
and by this time the British were firing
long-range shots at the little column ; a
small counter-demonstration held the
enemy back and the entire force embarked
and got away from land without casual-
ties. At 11 P.M., November 23rd, they
reached Fairfield, having twice crossed
Long Island Sound, a total distance of
40 miles, marched an equal distance,

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67

stormed and taken a fort, destroyed a
vessel, the fort and over 300 tons of hay,
all in less than 24 hours.

This was the first exploit in the story
of the Purple Heart. The second was
Sergeant Churchill's second raid on Long
Island, this time against Fort Slongo,
which was about 48 miles northeast of
Brooklyn, on the North Shore. Here
the British had built a fort that was a
nuisance and Washington directed Major
Tallmadge to look over the ground and
report, on the advisability of attempting
the destruction of the work. The major
immediately slipped over to Long Island
to investigate. The risks taken by this
brave dragoon officer in establishing and
keeping open his channels of spy intelli-
gence to Headquarters were tremendous.
The Commander-in-chief frequently cau-
tioned him and, at times, actually forbade
some of his excursions within the British
lines. This time Tallmadge returned with
drawings of Fort Slongo, exact reports of
the British vessels there, their size and
strength and the number of troops in the
fort and at Lloyd's Neck nearby. With
this information he set out for Rhode
Island, where the French troops lay, to
obtain a naval cooperation from the
French fleet. He met and talked with
the Comte de Rochambeau and the
Chevalier Destouches, but, unfortunately,
when he reached Newport, the frigates
were out on a cruise and the smaller ves-
sels were scattered. Speed was essential
for the success of the plan, so the matter
was laid aside. Five months later, when
W^ashington and the main army were in
the trenches before Yorktown, Tallmadge
made the attempt. This time he formed
f a force of about 100 men from the 5th
Connecticut regiment and the 2d Conti-
nental Dragoons and sent them over from
Compo Point under the command of
Major Lemuel Trescott, of the 9th

Massachusetts, who volunteered to
manage the raid. Through his spies
Tallmadge had such complete informa-
tion that he knew even the exact spots
where the British sentries stood.

The expedition started across the
Sound at 8 o'clock in the evening of
October 2, 1781, and at 3 a.m. of October
3rd, the fort was in its hands. Again
Sergeant Churchill was in the van of the
first attacking party and again he
acquitted himself with the utmost gallan-
try. The fort was so strong that
Tallmadge had advised Trescott not to
make a direct attack, but to try to draw
off the defenders by a feint. This idea
was not followed. The attacking force
went at their job with such vigor that the
fort was taken without the loss of a
single man and only four of the British
were killed before the works surrendered.
The report of the affair shows 21
prisoners taken, the destruction of a
goodly quantity of artillery and stores of
small arms, ammunition and clothing. It
was these two completely successful raids
upon fortified works within the enemy's
lines on Long Island that gained the
Purple Heart for Sergeant Churchill, the
award of which was couched in these
words : " Sergeant Churchill, of the 2d
Regiment of Light Dragoons, in the
several enterprises against Fort St.
George and Fort Slongo on Long Island,
in their [the board of award's] opinion
acted a very conspicuous and singularly
meritorious part ; that at the head of each
body of attack he not only acquitted
himself with great gallantry, firm-
ness and address, but that the surprise
in one instance and the success of
the attack in the other, proceeded
in a considerable degree from his
conduct and management."

The second Heart, awarded to Sergeant
Brown, was gained on the historic field

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of Yorktown. On the evening of
October 14, 1781, the two British redoubts
that checked the progress of the siege
were stormed and taken by the AUied
troops. The French took the inner, the
Americans the outer redoubt, or the one
nearest the river. Sergeant Brown led a
" forlorn hope," as it is called, because,
being the advance party and the first to
attack the hazard is so great that the
attackers can have but a forlorn hope of
coming through alive. The assault on
this British redoubt was under the direc-
tion of Lieutenant Colonel Alexander
Hamilton, then serving as a volunteer.
Sergeant Brown's party was the first to
dash forward and the brave sergeant did
not wait upon the sappers to cut away
the abatis and breach the obstacles, but
carried his men over all the obstructions
and into the redoubt in the face of
a murderous fire. The British seem to
have been confused by this unethical
performance and the redoubt was cap-
tured in less than a quarter of an hour,
with small loss to the stormers.

The third Purple Heart, which went to
Sergeant Bissel, was awarded for an
exploit that began in August, 1781. and
did not end until September, 1782. In
August, 1781, Washington had need of
exact and detailed information respecting
the British army in New York City that
he was unable to get from his spies and
Sergeant Bissel was sent into the city
by Lieutenant Colonel Robert Hanson
Harrison, one of Washington's aides, to
obtain it. Though there is no ])ositive
evidence of it, it is extremely likely that
the plucky sergeant saw and talked with
the Commander-in-chief himself, before
he set out upon his hazardous enterprise.
He got into the British lines at once, but
failed in the main purpose, through no
fault of his own, because he could not get
out again. For one long year he acted

the part of a British soldier, in New York
City and on Long and Staten Islands,
before he found means to escape from the
latter place. His life hung by a thread
every moment of this time. When he first
entered New York there was a hot naval
press going on and to escape being forced
into the British fleet, Bissel enlisted in
Benedict Arnold's corps. He made notes
and kept memoranda of troop strengths
and locations and checked his informa-
tion, one item against another, until he
knew, practically, the exact situation of
the British forces and their condition.
Then the enemy became suspicious of
something and an order was issued that
any soldier found with written informa-
tion on him would be treated as a spy. To
save his life, Bissel was forced to destroy
his precious memoranda, but he had a
good brain and used it to advantage.
\\'hen he escaped, in 1782, he went at once
to Headquarters, where he reported to
Washington, and his account was written
down by Lieutenant Colonel David
Humphreys. The first four pages of this
report are in Humphreys' handwriting
and Bissel, himself, wrote the last three.
It is a remarkably clear statement of
facts ; what the sergeant knew from
personal observation being distinguished
carefully from what was reported by
others and what was mere hearsay. He
described the Staten Island forts and gave
minute descriptions, with sketches, of the
forts on New York and Long Island.
The report is endorsed by Washington
himself : " Sergeant Bissel's acct. of the
Enemys force and Works at New Yk &c."
These are the exploits of high bravery
that gained for three Continental soldiers
the Revolutionary medal of honor.
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Trumbull,
junior's first draft of the form of the
certificate conferring the Purple Heart
upon Sergeant Churchill, is shown in the

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accompanying illustration. It is endorsed :
" Certif for The Badge of Military Merit
granted to Sergeant Churchill, 2d Light
Dragoons to Serjt. Brown 5th Connct to
Serjeant Bissel 2d Con R." It recites
that " it hath ever been an established
maxim in the American Service that the
Road to Glory w^as open to All, that
Honorary Rewards and Distinctions were
the greatest Stimuli to virtuous actions,
and that distinguished Merit should not
pass unnoticed or unrewarded ; and.
Whereas, a Board of Officers have
reported . . . Now. therefore, Know ye
That the aforesaid Sergeant Elijah
Churchill, hath fully and truly deserved,
and hath been properly invested with the
Honorary Badge of Military Merit, and
is hereby authorized & intitled to pass and
repass all Guards & Military Posts as
fully and amply as any Commissioned
officer whatsoever ; and is hereby further
Recommended to that favorable Notice
that a Brave and Faithfull Soldier
deserves from his Countrymen."

One month after the Purple Heart
Badge of Military Merit was established
by General Orders, on September 9, 1782,
another General Order directed that :
"The Inspector General (or in his absence
the inspector of the Northern Army), the
Adjutant General, Brigadier General
Huntington, Colonel Greaton and Lieu-
tenant Colonel Barber or any three of
them are appointed a Board to examine
the pretentions of the non-commissioned
officers and soldiers who are candidates
for the Badge of Merit — The Board will
report their opinion to the Commander-
in-Chief. All certificates and recommen-
dations will be lodged with the Adjutant
General, who will occasionally summon
the Board to assemble."

The only surviving record in the
Washington Papers, in the Library of
Congress, of the proceedings of such a

board, is dated April 24, 1783. This board
was composed of Brigadier General
John Greaton, Colonel Walter Stewart,
Lieutenant Colonel Ebenezer Sprout and
Majors Nicholas Fish and Lemuel
Trescott. This board recommended the
award of the Purple Heart to Sergeants
Churchill and Brown. To Churchill, in the
words quoted previously, and to Brown
because " in the assault of the enemy's
left redoubt at Yorktown, in Virginia, on
the evening of October 14, 1781 [he]
conducted a forlorn hope with great
bravery, propriety and deliberate firmness
and that his general character appears
unexceptionable." This choice of staid
words on the part of the board holds
some unconscious and unintentional
humor. It would be interesting to know
if the British soldiers defending the
redoubt would have thus described the
Connecticut sergeant as he came raging
over their breastworks at the head of his
glittering bayonets.

April 27, 1783, Washington's General
Orders recited that: "The Board
appointed to take into consideration the
claims of the Candidates for the Badge
of Merit Report : That Serjeant Churchill
of the 2d Regiment of Light Dragoons
and Serjeant Brown of the late 5th Con-
necticut Regiment are in their opinion
severally entitled to the badge of military
merit and do therefore recommend them
to His Excellency the Commander-in-
Chief, as suitable characters for that
honorary distinction. The Commander-
in-chief is pleased to order the before
named Serjeant Elijah Churchill of the
2d Light Dragoons and Serjeant Brown
of the late 5th Connecticut regiment to be
each of them invested with the badge of
merit. They will call at Head Quarters
on the third of May, when the necessary
Certificate & Badges will be ready for
them." It is greatly to be regretted that

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no description of this presentation
ceremony has come to Hght.

The last entry, so far known, regard-
ing the Purple Heart, is found in Wash-
ington's General Orders of June 8, 1783,
at Newburgh, when Sergeant Bissel was
cited for the decoration. It states that :
" Serjeant Bissel of the 2d Connecticut
regiment having performed some import-
ant Services within the immediate
knowledge of the Commander-in-chief, in
which the fidelity, perseverance and good
Sense of the said Serjeant Bissel were
conspicuously manifested ; it is therefore
ordered that he be honored with the badge
of merit; he will call at Head Quarters

on tuesday next for the insignia and
certificate to which he is hereby entitled."
There were few greater honors possible
in the Continental Army than to have
General George Washington publicly
praise a man for his " fidelity, persever-
ance and good Sense."

The General Orders of this same June
8th also directed that " A Board of
officers will assemble at the public Build-
ings on tuesday at 10 o'clock a.m. to
decide upon such pretentions for the
badge of merit, as shall be exhibited to
them," but no further record has come to
light of any awards, other than those to
the above three men, of this highest of
honors obtained by Continental soldiers.

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HISTORIC YORKTOWN, VIRGINIA

By Mrs. James T. Morris
Chairman Historic Spots Committee, N. S. D. A. R.

O you know that there is only
one-third of an acre of Revohi-
tionary National Military Parks
in the United States, that of
Guilford Court House in North
Carolina, and nearly fourteen
thousand acres of Civil War National
Military Parks?

We rejoice that the Civil War has been
so commemorated, but why not also pre-
serve historic Yorktown, Virginia, as a
national shrine in honor of our Rev'^olu-
tionary heroes?

Yorktown at the present day is a town
of one hundred and fifty-five people, one-
third of them colored. Immediately
surrounding it on three sides are
wonderful earthworks overgrown with
cedar, cherry, and the yellow broom of
England (the Planta Ganista of France),
the seeds of which are supposed to have
been brought in the oats for Cornwallis'
horses. The broom grows wild in
Yorktown and nowhere else in our
country. As it lifts its large yellow
blossoms to the sun it seems to say :
" I'm on the job imnKMtalizing this place.
Are you? "

The earthworks were thrown up by
Cornwallis' soldiers and by slaves most
leisurely during August and September,
1781. The general was an expert engi-
neer, so they were perfectly done. They
consisted of four forts, one now forty
feet high, called " Star Fort," from its
shape and " Fusileers Redoubt " from its
use. These forts were connected h-f
parallels of earth and trenches which
extended a mile. In the Civil War they
were used by the Confederates. An old
Confederate soldier said that the entrench-

ments now were much the same as they
were when he played on them as a boy.

There was a second rectangular earthen
entrenchment about a quarter of a mile
southeast of Yorktown, but little of this
is left. In places it may be plainly seen
as a low ridge of earth. The sites where
Washington, Rochambeau, Steuben, and
Knox had their headquarters are nearly
two miles to the south ; those of Lafayette
and Nelson about a mile to the southeast ;
the French troops were half a mile west.
Moore's house, on the historic Temple
farm where the articles of surrender
were drawn, to be later signed in the
trenches, still stands in a perfect state
of preservation seven-eighths of a mile
from Yorktown.

These sites preserved themselves for
over a century. Only the worst roads
led to them. Now all is changed. Dur-
ing the World War an oil station was
established by the Federal Government
and half of Temple farm sold for it.
Camp Eustis is about ten miles from there,
and there is now a mine station one mile
northwest. The Government built a tine
concrete road to connect these places with
Newport News. Sleepy Yorktown then
became a Mecca for motorists and a
clumi)ing ground for tlic i)icnic debris
left liehind them.

A land company is now exploiting these
holy acres as "Bungalow Sites!"

May we reiterate : The Revolution
has only one-third of an acre of its
battle-grounds preserved as a National
Military Park.

It was before Yorktown liiat Wash-
ington sent this memorable message to his
encamped troops: " The f^rcsciif iiioinciit

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73

offers the epoch zvJiich zvill decide Aiiieri-
can Independence."

In 1781 the American forces were
divided into a northern division under
Washington and a southern division under
Nathanael Green. The spirit, or as we
would say to-day, the pep of the army
was at the lowest ebb. Even Washington
could not put heart into his restless,

TRENCHES AND I'ARALLHI. CONN ECl IN< ; THE EOUR
LORD CORNWALLIS IN THE DEFENSE OF YO

homesick, ragged and hungry army who
had not had a decisive victory in months.
There were nearly 4000 French troops
at Newport with a fleet of twelve ships
that the British fleet had cooped up there.
They came to fight and were rest-
less and unhappy because they could not.
Washington hoped and prayed for a great
victory. Clinton and the northern divis-
ion of the British x\rmy were strongly
entrenched in New York City, supported

by their great fleet. They could not be
engaged without a powerful fleet and
that was just what Washington did
not have. In the early summer he called
Rochambeau, Lincoln and Duportail to a
war council at W^etherstield. Connecticut.
They decided to attack New York. De
Grasse, the noted French admiral, was in
the West Indies with a great fleet.
Rochambeau sent a swift
sailing vessel to him ask-
ing him to come at once
^ to New York to engage

the British fleet by water
while our army attacked
them by land. He was
asked to bring all the
extra troops possible. In
the interval, while the
reply was awaited. Gen-
eral Lincoln and the Duke
of CastuUux combined
forces and attacked the
other forts at New York,
only to be defeated.

Wliat of the Southern
division at this time ?
Cornwallis commanded
the British forces with
many able officers under
him, among them the
raider, Tarleton, and
that arch traitor,
Benedict Arnold.
The Americans had most able officers —
Nathanael Green, Morgan, Lafayette and
others, but only a small force. Cornwallis
had left his headquarters in South
Carolina expecting his forces to be greatly
augmented by Royalists from North
Carolina and Virginia. To his bitter dis-
appointment they did not materialize. He
then decided to unite with the forces of
Phillips and Benedict Arnold in Virginia
for a campaign against the Chesapeake.

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Clinton expecting Washington to attack

New York, ordered Cornwallis to send

him 3000 of his southern troops. This

the general strenuously objected to, and

Clinton finally ordered Cornwallis to

establish headquarters at Old Point

Comfort. After carefully examining this

location Cornwallis decided to return and

fortify Yorktown, considering it a finer

strategical point. 1 1

lies on a peninsula

made by the York and

James rivers and

the Chesapeake about

twenty miles from the

mouth of the York river,

where it is very deep and

about a mile wide.

Early in August the

earthen entrenchments

were begun. We have

already described these

fortifications.

The headquarters of
Washington, Rocham-
beau, Knox and \'on
Steuben were nearly
two miles south of Corn-
wallis' outer entrench-
ments. Those of Lin-
coln, Nelson and La-
fayette about a mile
southeast on a line with
Moorfe's House. Every
one of the Colonies had soldiers in this
engagement. It was the only time
in llie Revolution that both northern
and soulliern divisions took part. Our
ahics, tlie iM-cnch. also had 7(X10 men
with their officers and thirty-two war-
shij)s. Johnston says : " On the morning
of the 30th it was found that the British
had abandoned their outer entrenchments.
These were immediately occupied by the

Americans, who began the construction of
new redoubts and parallels. Two separate
redoubts, numbers 9 and 10, in connection
with the enemy's works were not
evacuated by them."

Washington spent much time in the
saddle reconnoitering. The siege pieces,
which could not be brought from the
James River, as the teams had not come,

RT OR KUSILEERS' REDOUBT, FORTY FEET IN HEIGHT. IT WAS ONE
FOUR FORTS USED BY THE BRITISH DURING THE SIEGE OF YORK-
A. THE C;R0UND IS COVERED WITH THE YELLOW BROOM WHICH
GROWS NOWHERE ELSE IN AMERICA

were greatly needed. Washington and
the other officers sent their own baggage
wagons for them on the 2nd of October.
Twelve Inmdrcd of the infantry engaged
in cutting the material for staying the new
ramparts. Chaplain Evans writes : " Our
troops vie with each other in the perform-
ance of duty and the love of danger."
On the 4th the Americans under
.Alexander llamihon after severe fighting

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75

took redoubt 10. Hamilton is reported enemy's left. The distance from our
as acting with " conspicuous gallantry." parallel to the enemy was 1800 to 2400
The French took redoubt 9 after a most feet. On the night of the 6th 4000

PLAN OK THE SIEGE OF YORKTOWN

REFERENCES: A, WORKS OF CORNWALLtS' OUTER POSITION. EVACUATED NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 29tH. B.E, FIRST PARALLEL
C, AMERICAN BATTERY ON EXTREME RIGHT, FROM WHICH WASHINGTON FIRED THE FIRST SHOT. D. CAPTAIN MACHIN's AMERICAN
BATTERY. E, AMERICAN MORTAR BATTERY. F, FR.ENCH BATTERY ON EXTREME LEFT, FIRST TO OPEN FIRE OCTOBER 9tH. G, G,
FRENCH GRAND AND MORTAR BATTERIES. H, ZIGZAG TO SECOND PARALLEL. I, M, SECOND PARALLEL. O, N, N. FRENCH BATTERIES.
K, REDOUBT STORMED BY AMERICANS NIGHT OF OCTOBER 14tH. Q, REDOUBT STORMED BY FRENCH. P. P, FRENCH AND AMERICAN
HV. NIGHT OF OCTOBER 15th. S, BRITISH FUSILEERS' REDOUBT^ T, FRIGATE C/Z(2ro« AND TRANS-

BATTERIES ATTACKED

PORTS ON FIRE.

R, FRENCH SHIPS APPROACHING AFTER THE SURRENDER.

valiant charge under Colonel Deuxponts.
Washington himself fired the first gun
when the advance was made from paral-
lels thrown up by the Americans. The
first general attack was made against the

Americans, commanded by General
Lincoln, dug another parallel so secretly
that the enemy did not know it until
morning. About twenty-eight hundred
troops lying on their arms covered this

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Avork. Complete success attended this.

During the seige fifty-two big guns
were used by the Americans, Lafayette
wrote a friend : " I could not conceive
that an army so ragged could face the
enemy with such courage and shoot
so straight."

On the 17th of October, after a severe
siege, the enemy waved a flag of truce.
The officer bearing it was blindfolded and
conducted to Washington. He asked for
the suspension of hostilities for twenty-
four hours and that joint commissioners be
appointed to arrange terms of surrender.
Washington asked that Cornwallis submit
his proposals in writing first. These,
when submitted, were not all com-
plied with, Washington insisting that the
terms should be the same as those imposed
on Lincoln at Charleston in 1780. On the
18th the Commission met at the Moore
House and drew up fourteen articles of
surrender. On the morning of the
19th they were submitted to Cornwallis.
Washington suggested to him that they be
signed at once and that the troops sur-
render their arms at two o'clock. The
articles were signed in the trenches and
the surrender took place to the tune of
" The World Turned Upside Down."
Cornwallis was indisposed, so General
O'Hara ofifered his sword to Washington.
Remembering the humiliation of General
Lincoln at Charleston, Washington
ordered that it be delivered to Lincoln.
As soon as he received it he at once
returned it to General O'Hara. The
British were allowed a few days' rest
before being sent to jirison camps
at Winchester. Virginia, and Im-ccI-
crick, Maryland.

So ended the last engagement of the
American Revolution. It was voted by
Congress that a monument to commemo-
rate the victory be erected ; this was done
just one hundred years from that date.

The following resolution was pre-
sented and unanimously adopted by the
Daughters of the American Revolution
representing 120,000 American women,
at their thirtieth Continental Congress
last April :

" Whereas, The ground on which the Revo-
lutionary fortifications at Yorktown, Va., stand
most sacred to every American, having preser-
ved itself intact for 140 years, is now being
despoiled through the sale of the property, the
commercializing of the same, and the razing of
the old fortifications ; and

"Whereas, it is in the interest of America
the study of its history and teaching of future
generations, that Yorktown and surrounding
fortifications and other historic places in and
about there, be preserved ; therefore, be it

'' Resolved, That we, the Daughters of the
American Revolution, in convention assembled,
call this to the attention of the President of the
United States and the Congress, and petition
them to take immediate steps by the appoint-
ment of a proper commission for the purpose
of making the necessary survey looking toward
the purchase of the land upon which these forti-
fications and these historic places are located,
with the object of making the same into a
national military park and monument. Be
it further

" Resolved, That copies of this resolution be
sent to the President, the Vice President, and
the Speaker of the House of Representatives."

Honorable Walter H. Newton later
framed and introduced a bill (No. 6774)
in the United States House of Represen-
tatives asking that Yorktown be made a
national park. This bill was presented
to the Senate by Honorable Frank
Kellogg, lu'ery American is asked to
work for this bill by urging his U. S.
senator and representative to vote for it.

NAVAL WAR MEDALS OF THE
UNITED STATES 1800-1815*

By Theodore T. Belote

Curator of History, United States National Museum

Part III

HE most notable victories of the
War of 1812-15 were won on
the sea. The land forces of
the United States accomplished
much during this period and
won many hotly contested bat-
tles. They did not, however, succeed in
doing more than was expected of them.
The infant American navy, on the other
hand, during the same period, surpassed
the fondest expectations of its greatest
admirers, by the number of British ships
defeated in single combat, and also in the
case of engagements fought between flo-
tillas. In view of the fact that one of
the primary causes of the war was the
total disregard by Great Britain of Ameri-
can rights and privileges on the ocean,
it was particularly gratifying to Ameri-
cans at home to see British war vessels,
which had been engaged in attacking our
commerce and impressing" our seamen,
destroyed or disabled by American naval
power. And while the army by its vic-
tories along the Niagara frontier and

* The illustrations of the medals are from
photographs taken by L. C. Handy, Washington,
D. C, of bronze replicas in the U. S. National
Museum. This medal series commenced in the
September, 1921, Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine.

those of the Thames, Plattsburg, and
New Orleans enabled the United States
to retain and consolidate the territory
which it had won by the War for Inde-
pendence, the Navy by its wonderful
achievements on the sea not only assisted
in this most desirable result, but also en-
sured the freedom of the seas to Ameri-
can commerce at the close of the war,
although this subject was not specifically
mentioned in the treaty of Ghent in 1814.
The medals described in the present
article relate for the most part to naval
exploits of the War of 1812-15.

Prior to the War of 1812, however,
two medals were awarded by Congress of
great importance so far as the develop-
ment of the United States Navy was
concerned and marked as well notable
strides in the expansion of American
power and prestige. These were the
medals awarded respectively to Captain
Thomas Truxtun in 1800 for services
during the quasi war with France, and to
Captain Edward Preble, in 1804, for ser-
vices during the war with Tripoli.

The trouble with France arose from a
number of causes, the principal one of
which was, perhaps, the seizure of Ameri-
can merchant vessels. Relations between

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the two countries, however, had been
strained since the outbreak of the French
Revolution and the change of govern-
ment which that entailed. The refusal
of America to join France in the latter's
war on England was keenly felt by the
French leaders, and the American treaty
of 1795 with Great Britain was, with
some justification, interpreted by the
French as an infringement of the treaty
of 1778 with France. The irritation of
the French government was extreme and
clearly shown in its attitude towards the
official representatives of America in

ment Captain Truxtun was cruising in
West Indian waters in command of the
frigate Constellation on February 1, 1800,
when he encountered the French frigate
La Vengeance, and immediately gave
chase. After a pursuit of thirty-six
hours the ships were within hailing dis-
tance of each other and the French com-
mander opened fire without further cere-
mony. After a sharp action lasting until
one o'clock in the morning, the fire of the
La Vengeance was entirely silenced and
she began to sheer oiT. Truxtun was now
certain he would take the French vessel

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN THO.MAS TRUXTUN FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE FRENCH
FRIGATE La 'I'eugeance, 1800

Paris. In the spring of 1797 three into port as his prize, but a few minutes
special commissioners were dispatched to after the mainmast of the Constellation,
France to improve the situation by diplo- ,vhich had been badly shattered during
macy if possible. Bills were meanwhile the engagement, went' over the side and

the La Vengeance made good her escape.

This victory was notable on account of

passed by Congress providing for the
completion and equipment of three frig-
ates, two of which were destined to be-
come famous in the history of the United
States Navy, the Constitution and the
Constellation. In ihe following year
the situation became even more threaten-
ing and Congress, without a declaration
of war, gave American merchant ships
the right to defend themselves and em-
powered shii)s of the Navy to take iMx-nch
vessels which interfered with our com-
merce. In accordance with this arransa'-

the fact that while the La Vengeance
carried fifty-four guns the Constellation
carried only thirty-eight. Prior to this
action Captain Truxtun had proven him-
self a most energetic and able commander
and a year previous to his engagement
with the La Vengeance had captured the
l^'rench frigate L'Lisurgente. By Act of
Congress, approved March 29, 1800, it
was resolved :

NAVAL WAR MEDALS OF THE UNITED STATES lFOO-1815

" That the President of the United States be
requested to present to Captain Thomas Trux-
tun a golden medal emblematical of the late ac-
tion between the United States frigate Con-
stellation, of thirty-eight guns, and the French
ship-of-war, La Vengeance, of fifty-four guns
in testimony of the high sense entertained by
Congress of his gallantry and good conduct in
the above engagement, wherein an example was
exhibited by the captain, officers, sailors, and
marines, honorable to the American name, and
instructive to its rising navy."

The medal awarded to Captain Trux-
tun in accordance with this resolution
bore upon the obverse the bust of this
gallant officer to the left in naval uniform

France were suspended in 1801 by the
terms of a treaty which provided for the
return of captured vessels.

The next work of the infant navy was
the prosecution of the war between the
United States and Tripoli, declared by
the latter power in 1801 as a result of the
dissatisfaction of that power with the
treaty which had been concluded in 1796,
to protect American merchantmen from
the ravages of the Tripolitan corsairs. In
this contest the United States accom-
phshed little for two years and a half.
In 1803. however. Commodore Edward

MEDAL AWARDED TO COMMODORE EDWARD PREBLE FOR THE ATTACKS ON 1 RIPOLI, 1804

with the inscription " Patriae patres filio
digno " above and " Thomas Truxtun "
below, or " The fathers of the country to
their worthy son Thomas Truxtun." The
reverse bore a view of the close of the
engagement surrounded by the inscription
" United States frigate Constellation of
38 guns pursues, attacks, and vanquishes
the French ship La Vengeance of 54
guns 1 February, 1800," and in the ex-
ergue " By vote of Congress to Thomas
Truxtun 29 Mar. 1800." This medal is
of interest as the first of a long series of
such medals awarded by Congress to
naval officers in recognition of individual
victories won by the ships under their
command. Naval operations against

Preble took command of the American
squadron in the Mediterranean, main-
tained a rigid blockade of the Tripolitan
coast and bombarded the city a number
of times. Although Preble was super-
seded in 1804 by Commodore Barron,
the conclusion of peace in the following
3'ear was largely the outcome of the
energetic action of the former, and his
services were recognized by Act of
Congress approved March 3, 1805,
which resolved :

" That the thanks of Congress be, and the
same are hereby, presented to Commodore Ed-
ward Preble, and through him to the officers,
seamen, and marines attached to the squadron
under his command, for their gallantry and
good conduct displayed in the several attacks

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on the town, batteries, and naval forces of Tri-
poli, in the year one thousand eight hundred
and four," and " That the President of the
United States cause a gold medal to be struck
emblematical of the attacks on the town, batter-
ies, and naval force of Tripoli by the squadron
under Commodore Preble's command and to
present it to Commodore Preble."

The medal awarded in accordance with
this resokition bore upon the obverse the
bust of Commodore Preble in naval uni-
form to the left surrounded by the in-
scription " Edwardo Preble duci strenuo
comitia americana " or " The American
Congress to Edward Preble, the valiant

fall naturally into two classes. The first
of these includes those medals awarded
for single ship actions and the second
those awarded in connection with actions
between fleets. The first series includes
eleven medals and the second five. The
latter have already been described in a
previous article in this Magazine.

The first action to be thus commemo-
rated, in many ways the most famous of
the kind during the entire war, was the
engagement between the American frig-
ate Cofistitution and the British ship
Giierriere which occurred on Ausfust 19,

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN ISAAC HULL VO\
SQUADRON IN JULY AND THE CAPl

commander." The reverse bore a view of
the American squadron attacking the port
of Tripoli with the inscription " Vin-
dici commercii americani ante Tripoli
MDCCCIV " or " to the vindicator of
American commerce before Tripoli,
1804." The two medals just described
are of great interest as the first of the
kind to be awarded by Congress for ser-
vices rendered after the adoption of the
Federal constitution in 1789, and they
form a link between the medals of the
Revolution and those of the War
of 1812-15.

The medals awarded by Congress in
recognition of special services and
achievements during the War of 1812-15

THE ESCAPE OF THE Constitution FROM A BRITISH
URE OF THE Guerriere IN AUGUST. 1812

1812. The medal commemorating this
event was awarded by Act of Congress
approved January 29, 1813, to Captain
Isaac Hull, who commanded the Consti-
tution at the time, and as may be noted
by its design this medal commemorated
not only the prowess of Captain Hull as
a fighter, but also his skill as a mariner
in escaping from a British fleet of five
vessels by which he was pursued in July
of the same year. This episode, one of
the most famous in the history of the
American navy, has often been made the
subject of pictorial and written descrip-
tion. On the afternoon of July 16th, the
Constitution, while off the coast of New
Jersey on her way to New York to join

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81

the squadron to which she had been
assigned under the command of Commo-
dore John Rodgers, sighted a British
squadron under Captain Philip Broke,
which was at first supposed by the offi-
cers of the Constitution to be made up
of American ships. This impression
was, however, soon corrected, and on the
following morning the Constitution was
compelled, by superior numbers, to seek
safety in flight. The wind was exceed-
ingly light and every means was resorted
to on both sides to increase the speed of
the respective vessels. Both parties de-

chase, which lasted two days, was over
and the British vessels left far in the rear.
The escape of the American frigate on
this occasion was one of the most remark-
able naval feats on record and was due to
almost unparalleled coo-lness, persever-
ance, and good seamanship of her offi-
cers and crew. After thus eluding the
British fleet the Constitution put into the
port of Boston, where she remained from
July 27th to August 2nd. On the latter
date Captain Hull once more put to sea
and on August 19th, about 750 miles east
of Boston, sighted the British ship Guer-

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAI

JONES FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Frolic,

voted much time and energy to towing
the ships by means of their small boats,
and the Constitution was successfully
warped ahead for a considerable period,
a device which could be employed on
account of the comparatively shoal
water. By these means and a skillful
manipulation of the sails which were con-
stantly kept wet so as to retain as much
of the light air stirring as was possible,
the Constitution escaped from her ene-
mies. This desirable result, however,
was not attained without strenuous
elTorts on the part of the crew and skill-
ful management of the ship by her com-
mander and other officers, none of whom
could take a moment's repose until the

ricrc and immediately closed for the
action which was to become so noted in
American naval annals. For about one
hour the two ships manoeuvred for posi-
tion and finally engaged at close range,
side by side. In less than thirty minutes
the Giierricrc was a helpless wreck with-
out a spar standing. She was in such a
shattered condition, indeed, that on the
following day Hull decided it would be
impossible to get her into port. She was
accordingly blown up and the comman-
der of the Constitution proceeded to Bos-
ton with his prisoners of war. He and
his fellow-officers and crew were received
with the greatest enthusiasm and ac-
claimed heroes bv the citizens of a section

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which had consistently opposed the war.
The capture of the Guerriere was notable
as the first important naval victory of
the war; it established the superiority of
the American navy, ship for ship, over
the British; and it came at a time when
the American public was profoundly de-
pressed, owing to the surrender of the
important post of Detroit, an event which
occurred three days prior to the capture
of the Guerriere.

The medal, awarded to Captain Hull in
recognition of the bravery and skill dis-
played on the two occasions just de-

above " Horae momento victoria " or
" victory in an hour."

Almost two months to a day after the
engagement between the Constitution and
the Guerriere occurred the second naval
engagement of the war in recognition of
which a medal was awarded. The sloop-
of-war Wasp, commanded by Captain
Jacob Jones, sailed from the Delaware
river, October 13th, to join a squadron
under the command of Commodore
Rodgers. On October 18th she fell in
with the British brig Frolic at the time
convoying a number of merchantmen to

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN STEPHEN DECATUR FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Macedonian. 1812

scribed, bore upon the obverse the bust
of this commander in naval uniform to
the left surrounded by the inscription
" Isaacus Hull, peritos arte superat Jul,
MDCCCXII Aug. certamimine fortes "
or " Isaac Hull conquers in July, 1812,
the skilled, by strategem ; and in August,
the strong, in battle." The reverse de-
sign showed the close of the engagement
between the two ships with the Guer-
riere a dismantled wreck at the mercy of
the waves and the Constitution, but
slightly injured, firing a final broadside.
Below appears the inscription " Inter
Const, nav. amer. et Guer. angl." or
" Between the American ship Constitu-
tion and the I'>nglish ship Guerriere," and

England. The two vessels were very
evenly matched both in size and arma-
ment and the engagement between them
was sharp and bloody. It was fought
while the sea was running high and the
consequent unsteadiness of the vessels
furnished a severe test of the marksman-
ship of the respective gunners. After an
interval of about three-quarters of an
hour the Frolic was taken by boarders
from the American vessel, the two ships
having fouled each other a short time be-
fore. The victory was decisive and too
much credit could not be given to Captain
Jones and his crew for the courageous
manner in which the fight had been con-
ducted. Unfortunately it was hardly

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83

over before a British frigate of seventy-
four guns appeared and as the Wasp had
suffered too severely in the engagement
with the Frolic to be able to escape, she
was captured and taken to Bermuda.
Congress nevertheless recognized the ser-
vices of Captain Jones by presenting him
with a gold medal, the obverse of which
bore his bust to the right in naval uniform
surrounded by the inscription " Jacobus
Jones virtus in ardua tendit " or " Jacob
Jones, valor seeks difficulties." The re-
verse design showed the close of the
engagement with the Americans boarding

neighborhood of the Canary Islands on
October 25th. For some time after the
opening of the engagement the British
commander Captain John Carden, sup-
posed that he was in action with the
American ship Essex which was weak in
long guns. He accordingly engaged at
long range, thus giving the gun crew of
the United States the opportunity to use
their heavy guns with terrible execution
on board the British vessel, shattering
her hull in many places. Perceiving his
error, Captain Carden bore down to close
with his adversary, but this manoeuvre

IK

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN WILLIAM BAINBRI

the Frolic. Below appears the inscription
" Inter Wasp nav. amer. et Frolic nav.
ang. die XVIII Oct. MDCCCXII " or
" Between the American ship Wasp and
the English ship Frolic, October 18,
1812," and above " Victoriam hosti
majori celerrime rapuit " or " He quickly
snatched victory from a superior enemy."
The third single ship engagement of the
war to be thus signalized was that be-
tween the frigate United States and the
British ship Macedonian. The United
States, commanded by Captain Stephen
Decatur, had left Boston, October 8, 1812,
in company with a small squadron and,
after separating from the other ships,
encountered the British frigate in the

DGE FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Java, 1812

was executed too late to succeed. The
Macedonian was captured and navigated
to the United States, where she was re-
paired and added to the American navy
and as such did excellent service. The vic-
tory over this first-class ship was received
with the most extravagant rejoicing in the
United States and with equal regret and
disappointment in Great Britain. The
British public were amazed to learn that
their best men-of-war appeared to be at
the mercy of their American antagonists.
The medal awarded to Captain Decatur
for the capture of the Macedonian bore
on the obverse the bust of that officer
in naval uniform to the right, surrounded
by the inscription " Stephanus Decatur

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navarchus pugnis pluribus victor " or
" Stephen Decatur, a naval Captain, con-
queror in many battles." The reverse
showed the action between the two ships
with the United States to leeward firing
a port broadside and the Macedonian
without her mizzenmast, her fore and
main topmasts and her mainyard. The
inscription " Inter sta. uni. nav. ameri.
et macedo nav. aug. die XXV Octobris
MDCCCXII " or " Between the American
ship United States and the English ship
Macedonia)!. October 25, 1812," appeared
below, and above " Occidit signum hostile

killed during the action between the
United States and the Macedonian.

The next engagement in recognition of
which Congress saw fit to award medals
was one of peculiar interest in that the
American ship which participated was
always known as a lucky ship, whereas
her commander on this occasion had pre-
viously experienced such a series of mis-
fortunes as to deprive him of prestige in
naval circles and to discourage, to a cer-
tain extent, the men who served under
his command. Captain William Bain-
bridge, the recipient of the next medal to

MEDAL AVVARDKD IN HONOR OF CAPTAIN JAME5 LAWRENCE FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Peacock, 1815

sidera surgunt " or " The enemy's stand-
ard falls, the stars arise."

The Act of Congress granting the
three gold medals just described was ap-
proved January 29, 1813. It provided
also that each commissioned officer of the
American ships concerned be presented
with a silver medal of the same respec-
tive designs as those employed on the gold
medals awarded to the commanders.
Silver medals of the same respective
types were also to be presented to the
nearest male relative of Lieutenant W. S.
Bush, of the Marines, who was killed dur-
ing the action between the Constitution
and the Guerriere, and to the nearest male
relative of Lieutenant John AL Funk,

be described, had been the only American
naval commander to surrender his ship,
the Retaliation, to the enemy during the
war with France. In 1800 when in com-
mand of the George Washington he car-
ried the annual tribute paid by the United
States to the Dey of Algiers and was
obliged by that Oriental potentate to place
his ship at the latter's disposal for the
jjurpose of making a trip to Constanti-
nople. During the War with Tripoli his
ship, the FhiladelpJiia, was lost and he
himself made prisoner. In all these
occurrences Bainbridge seems to have
been largely the victim of ill luck and in
the contest now to be described regained
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he seems to have deserved on account of
his natural ability and courage.

In October, 1812, Bainbridge was
placed in command of the Constitution,
Captain Hull having at his own request
received charge of the Charlestown Navy
Yard and the naval defenses of the city of
New York. The Constitution sailed from
Boston on October 25th in company with
the sloop Hornet, of 18 guns, com-
manded by James Lawrence, of whom
more will be said later. On December
13th they arrived at Bahia and encoun-
tered a British sloop-of -war which refused

usually accurate and with corresponding
deadly results. The Constitution had
been manoeuvred in such a manner as to
avoid being raked by her adversary and
at the same time poured in a number of
terrific broadsides which found their
mark. So badly was the Java damaged
that Bainbridge made no attempt to
carry her into port but destroyed her on
the scene of the victory, and after parol-
ing his prisoners at Bahia returned to
Boston, and arrived on February 27, 1813.
By an Act approved March 3, 1813, Con-
gress resolved :

MEDAL AWARDED IN HONOR OF LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BURROWS FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE

an invitation to come out and fight the
Hornet in single combat on the ground
that the Constitution would interfere with
the engagement. Leaving the Hornet
alone to confront the enemy ship, which
was about her own size and armament,
Bainbridge sailed south in the Constitu-
tion and on the morning of the 29th en-
countered the British frigate Java. The
action began about two o'clock in the
afternoon and when it ended two hours
later the Java was a complete wreck un-
able to ofifer further resistance. Her
Captain, Lambert, was mortally wounded,
and forty-eight of her officers and crew
were dead or dying. The aim of the
American gunners had been more than

" That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby, requested to present to
Captain William Bainbridge, of the frigate Con-
stitution, a gold medal, with suitable emblems
and devices ; and a silver medal, with suitable
emblems and devices, to each commissioned
officer of the said frigate, in testimony of the
high sense entertained by Congress of the gal-
lantry, good conduct, and services of Captain
Bainbridge, his officers and crew, in the cap-
ture of the British frigate Java after a brave
and skillful combat."

The gold medal presented to Captain
Bainbridge in accordance with this act
bore on the obverse his bust to the right
in naval uniform surrounded by the in-
scription " Gulielmus Bainbridge patria
victisque laudatus " or " William Bain-
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vanquished foe." The reverse design
showed the close of the action between
the Constitution and the Java, the former
undamaged and the latter entirely dis-
mantled. Below appeared the inscription
" Inter const, nav. ameri. et jav. nav.
angl. die XXIX decern. MDCCCXII "
or " Between the American ship Constitu-
tion and the English ship Java, Decem-
ber 29, 1812." The silver medals men-
tioned in the Act of Congress just quoted
were replicas of the one described above.
As already stated the sloop-of-war
Hornet, commanded by James Lawrence

rendered. She was in a sinking condition
as the result of the American fire, and
although every effort was made to keep
her afloat she finally went down so sud-
denly as to drown nine of her own crew
and three Americans. Lawrence pro-
ceeded to New York where he arrived and
discharged his prisoners after a cruise of
145 days, in which time he had captured
one ship, two brigs, one schooner, and a
man-of-war. He was at this time one of
the most popular officers 'in the American
naval service and seemed to be on the
threshhold of a brilliant career, when he

MEDAL AWARDED TO LIEUTENANT EDWARD R. McCALL FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE Boxer, 181?

at that time Master-Commandant, and
later captain of the ill-fated frigate
Chesapeake during her combat with the
Shannon, formed a part of the squadron
under the command of Bainbridge and
parted company with the Constitution off
the coast of Brazil. After vainly seeking
an engagement with the British sloop
Bonne Citoycnne which he had been left
to watch, the commander of the Hornet
proceeded northward, and on February
24, 1813, encountered off the mouth of
the Demarara river the British brig Pea-
cock, a ship about the same size as the
Hornet, but with a lighter broadside.
After a brief action, which lasted hardly
a quarter of an hour, the Peacock sur-

took command of the frigate Chesa-
peake, May 20, 1813. Within the brief
period of eleven days thereafter he had
lost his ship and was soon to lose his life
from wounds received in the fatal combat
with the Shannon, in many ways the most
tragic engagement of the war. His heroic
death did much to atone for his misfor-
tune in losing his vessel, and his dying
words, " Don't give up the ship," have
become perhaps the most famous saying
in American naval annals. They were
used to good advantage a few months
later when inscribed upon the banner of
the flagship of Commodore Oliver II.
Perry, they inspired the crews which won
the battle of Lake Erie.

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The unfortunate close of Lawrence's
naval career did not dim the memory of
his former services, and by Act of Con-
gress approved January 11, 1814, it
was resolved :

" That the President of the United States
be requested to present to the nearest male rela-
tive of Captain James Lawrence, a gold medal,
and a silver medal to each of the commissioned
officers who served under him in the sloop-of-
war Hornet, in her conflict with the British
vessel-of-war, the Peacock, in testimony of the
high sense entertained by Congress of the gal-
lantry and good conduct of the officers and
crew in the capture of that vessel ; and the
President is also requested to communicate to

the inscription " Inter hornet nav. ameri.
et peacock nav. ang. die XXIV Feb.
MDCCCXIII " or " Between the Ameri-
can ship Hornet and the English vessel
Peacock, February 24, 1813," and above
" Mansuetud maj quam victoria " or
" Clemency greater than victory."

Captain Lawrence was not the only
naval commander of the war to be
awarded a medal posthumously. On Sep-
tember 4, 1813, the American brig Enter-
prise, commanded by Lieutenant Com-
mander William Burrows, encountered
the British brig Boxer off the coast of

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN LEWIS WARRINGTON' FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Eperi

the nearest male relative of Captain Lawrence
the sense which Congresss entertains of the
loss which the naval service of the United
States has since sustained in the death of that
distinguished officer."

The medal awarded in accordance with
this Act bore on the obverse the bust of
Captain Lawrence to the right in naval
uniform surrounded by the inscription
" Jac. Lawrence dulce et decorum est pro
patria mori " or " James Lawrence to die
for one's country is sweet and becoming."
The reverse design showed the close of
the action between the Hornet and the
Peacock, with the former vessel sending
her boats to the rescue of the crew of
the latter, which has lost her mainiuast
and is sinking by the bow. Below appears

Maine and a decisive engagement ensued
in which both the American and British
commanders were killed early in the en-
gagement. Under the command of Lieu-
tenant Edward R. McCall, the Enterprise
proved her superiority by capturing the
Boxer in less than an hour. By an Act
of Congress, approved January 6, 1814,
it was resolved :

" That the President of the United States
be requested to present to the nearest male rela-
tive of Lieutenant William Burrows, and to
Lieutenant Edward R. McCall, of the brig
Enter prhc, a gold medal, with suitable emblems
and devices ; and a silver medal, with like em-
blems and devices, to each of the commissioned
officers of the aforesaid vessel, in testimony
of the high sense entertained by Congress of
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and crew in the conflict with the British sloop
Boxer, on the fourth of September, in the year
1813. And the President is also requested to
communicate to the nearest male relative of
Lieutenant Burrows the deep regret which Con-
gress feels for the loss of that valuable offi-
cer, who died in the arms of victory, nobly
contending for his country's rights and fame."

The medal awarded in honor of Com-
mander Burrows bore on the obverse a
funeral urn upon a tomb inscribed " W.
Burrows," and surrounded with naval
war trophies including cannon balls, an
anchor, standards, a sword, a rifle, and
a trident from which hangs a laurel

the inscription " Edward R. McCall navis
Enterprise prsefectus sic itur ad astra "
or " Edward R. McCall, commander of
the ship Enterprise. Thus is glory at-
tained." The reverse design was the
same as that of the medal awarded to
Commander Burrows for the same
engagement.

The year 1814 was signalized by only
two American victories at sea for which
Congress awarded medals. One of these
was presented to Captain Lewis Warring-
ton, the other to Captain Johnston
Blakelev. The former officer, in command

MEDAL AWARDED IN HONOR OF CAPTAIN JOHNSTON BLAKELEY FOR THE DEFEAT OF THE Reindeer, 1814

wreath. Above appears the inscription
" Victoriam tibi claram patriae maestam "
or " A victory brilliant for thee ; sorrow-
ful for thy country." The reverse de-
sign showed the engagement between the
Enterprise and the Boxer, the former
raking the latter which has lost her main
topmast. Above appears the inscription
"Vivere sat vincere" or "To conquer is
to live enough," and below " Inter enter-
price nav. ameri. et boxer nav. brit. die
IV Sept. MDCCCXIII" or "Between
the American ship Enterprise and the
British ship Boxer."

The medal awarded to Lieutenant Mc-
Call bore on the obverse side his bust to
the right in naval uniform surrounded by

of a new sloop named the Peacock, in
honor of Lawrence's victory over the
vessel of that name, engaged the British
brig Epcrvier, of nominally equal
strength, off the southeast coast of
Florida, on April 29, 1814. After an
action of about three-quarters of an hour
the Epervier surrendered and was taken
into the port of Savannah as a prize in
spite of the fact that two British frigates
pursued both the conqueror and her cap-
ture. This engagement was a remark-
able one in that not a man on the Peacock
was killed, and only two wounded. The
Eperiner, on the other hand, lost eight
killed and fifteen wounded. The Pea-
cock was handicapped at the beginning

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of the combat by the disabling of her
foreyard. This, however, was the only
serious injury she received, while the
Epervier's masts and rigging were ser-
iously damaged, and the latter ship also
received forty-two shot holes in her hull,
thus attesting to the deadly aim of the
American gunners.

By an Act of Congress, approved Octo-
ber 21, 1814, it was resolved:

" That the President of the United States
be requested to present to Captain Lewis
Warrington, of the sloop-of-war Peacock, a
gold medal, with suitable emblems and devices,

verse design showed the close of the
engagement with the Peacock to leeward
firing her port broadside and the Epcrvier
with her main topmast wrecked. Below
appeared the inscription " Inter peacock
nav. ameri. et eperz/ier nav. ang. die
XXIX Mar. MDCCCXIV " or "Be-
tween the American ship Peacock and the
English ship Epcrvier, March 29, 1814 " f
and above " Pro patria paratus vincere
aut mori " or " Prepared to conquer or
die for his country."

Prominent among the brilliant Ameri-
can naval commanders of this period was

MEDAL AWARDED TO CAPTAIN CHARI-ES STEWART FOR THE CAPTURE OK 1 HE Cyane AND THE Levant, 1815

and a silver medal, with like emblems and de-
vices, to each of the commissioned officers and
a sword to each of the midshipmen, and to the
sailing-master of said vessel, in testimony of
the high sense entertained by Congress of the
gallantry and good conduct of the officers and
crew, in the action with the British brig
Epcrvier, on the 29th day of April, in the
year one thousand eight hundred and four-
teen, in which action the decisive effect and
great superiority of the American gunnery were
so signally displayed."

The obverse of the medal awarded to
Captain Warrington in accordance with
this resolution bore his bust in naval uni-
form to the right surrounded by the in-
scription " Ludovicus Warrington dux
navalis ameri." or " Lewis Warrington
American naval commander." The re-

Johnston Blakeley, who as lieutenant had
fitted out the brig Enterprise and pre-
pared the inexperienced crew for their
splendid work during the combat de-
scribed above between that ship and the
Boxer. As Master Commandant in
charge of the sloop-of-war Wasp, he
sailed from Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, May 1, 1814, and stationed himself
in a position near the English Channel
where he was indeed in a position to prey
upon enemy commerce, but also exposed
to constant attacks by larger ships than
his own. On the morning of June 18th, he

t Apparently an error of the engraver since
the engagement actually took place a month
later.

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sighted the British brig Reindeer, com-
manded by Captain WilHam Manners,
who waited for his adversary to ap-
proach. The Reindeer was captured
after an action of only nineteen minutes.
The sea was perfectly smooth and the
engagement fought at very short range.
The ships having fallen afoul of each
other the British crew, led by their com-
mander, attempted to board the American
vessel, but were repulsed with the loss of
their captain, who had previously been
twice wounded. The Reindeer was very
badly damaged, both in spars and hull, and

the sea, but it is supposed that being deep
in the waist and heavily armed and
sparred she foundered, with her brave
crew, in some of the gales frequent in
that region. Her gallant and capable
commander thus never returned to re-
ceive the gold medal awarded to him by
an Act of Congress approved November
3, 1814. His death was commemorated
in the inscription on the reverse of this
award which was the only one of the
series now being described awarded to the
victim of nature's forces and not the shot
of the enemy. This fact lends an added

MKDAl, AWARDED TO CAPTAIN JAMES KIDDLE FOR THE CAPTURE OF THE Pegllin, 1815

was blown up on the following evening.
Captain Blakely proceeded to L'Orient,
where he made the needed repairs to his
ship. He again put to sea on August
27th, and soon made a number of other
valuable captures. On the evening of
September 1st he engaged the brig Avon
and compelled her to surrender, after an
engagement of three-quarters of an hour.
Later he sailed southward, and in the
neighborhood of the Madeiras captured
the brig Atlanta, which he sent home to
Savannah. This was his last recorded
success. The Wasp was spoken of some
three weeks later about a thousand miles
to the south and then disappeared forever.
Her end is another of the mysteries of

interest to the medal, the obverse of which
bore the bust of Captain Blakeley to the
right in naval uniform surrounded by
the inscription " Johnston Blakeley, reip.
faed. ameri. nav. Wasp dux " or " John-
ston Blakeley, Captain of the American
Federal Republic ship Wasp." The re-
verse bore a vie\v of the close of the
action between the Wasp and the Rein-
deer with the former to windward firing
her port broadside and the Reindeer
striking her colors. Above appears the
inscription " Eheu bis victor patria tua te
luget plauditq " or " Alas ! Twice con-
queror, thy country laments and applauds
thee;" and below "Inter JVasp nav.
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Junius MDCCCXIV " or " Between the
American ship IVasp and the Enghsh ship
Reindeer, June 28, 1814."

The treaty of peace with Great Britain,
which was ultimately to end the War of
1812, was signed by the American Com-
missioners at Ghent, December 24, 1814.
Hostilities continued, however, on sea and
land for a number of months subsequent
to that date, partly owing to the fact that
means of communication were few and
slow at that period. Two naval engage-
ments were fought in 1815, in recognition
of which gold and silver medals were
awarded by Congress. One of these vic-
tories was achieved by the good ship Con-
stitution, two of whose commanders had
already won laurels. The third com-
mander of Old Ironsides to be thus
rewarded was Captain Charles Stewart,
who was placed in charge of that vessel
in 1813. but was unable to get to sea until
the fall of 1814, when he made a brief
cruise to the south as far as the
^^'est Indies.

On December 17th the Constitution
again sailed from Boston and on this voy-
age did not linger in American waters but
proceeded to the coast of Europe. On
the morning of February 20th, while run-
ning before the wind, two ships were
sighted in rapid succession to the leeward.
The vessels were soon identified as enemy
ships and were apparently endeavoring to
escape. The Constitution crowded on all
sail in pursuit. The strangers having ex-
changed signals with each other, prepared

; to engage, and Captain Stewart cleared

I his ship for action. The engagement
commenced with the three ships forming

; nearly an equilateral triangle, the Consti-
tution being to windward. At the end of

;■ a sharp fight of about a quarter of an
hour's duration, the fire from all three
ships slackened, and by means of skillful
manoeuvring on the part of Captain

Stewart the Constitution succeeded in
raking both her contestants. One sur-
rendered soon after and the other about
an hour later. The two British vessels
proved to be the Cyane, a frigate built
ship of twenty- four guns, and the Levant
of eighteen. The action had been fought
during the night, and the manner in which
the Constitution had been handled con-
tributed very materially to her success.
Captain Stewart proceeded with his prize
to Port Praya, arriving there on March
10th. On the following day three British
ships appeared ofif the harbor and the
Constitution was obliged to attempt a
hasty flight with the vessels she had cap-
tured such a short time before. The
Lez'ant was recaptured by the British
ships, but the Constitution and Cyane
both made good their escape and reached
the port. of New York without mishap.
The Constitution had again made good
her reputation as a lucky ship and won
another gold medal for her commander.
Her wonderful sailing powers, the skill
of her commander in handling his ship,
and the accuracy of her gun crews w'ere
doubtless the essential qualities which
contributed to her success.

By an Act approved February 22, 1816,
Congress resolved :

" That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby requested, to present to
Captain Charles Stewart of the frigate Con-
stitution a gold medal, with suitable emblems
and devices and a silver medal with suitable
emblems and devices to each commissioned
oflficer of the said frigate, in testimony of the
high sense entertained by Congress of the gal-
lantry, good conduct and services of Captain
Stewart, his officers and crew, in the capture
of the British vessels of war, the Cyane and
Levant, after a brave and skillful combat."

The obverse of the medal presented to
Captain Stewart in accordance with this
resolution bore his bust to the right, in
naval uniform, surrounded by the inscrip-
tion " Carolus Stewart navis ameri. Con-

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stJiitio)i dux." or " Charles Stewart,
Captain of the American ship Constitu-
tion." The reverse design showed a view
of the engagement between the Constitu-
tion and the two British ships, with the
former raking her adversaries. Below
appears the inscription " Inter constitu.
nav. ameri. et levant et cyane nav.
ang. die XX febr. MDCCCXV " or
" Between the American ship Constitution
and the British ships Levant and Cyane,
February 20, 1815" and above "Una
victoriam eripuit ratibus binis " or " With
one ship he snatched victory from two."
The war was now over, but in addition
to the final exploit of the Constitution
another victory was won for which a gold
medal was also awarded by Congress.
On the twenty-third of March the sloop-
of-war Hornet, commanded by Captain
James Biddle, engaged the British brig
Penguin off the island of Tristan
d'Acunha, captured her in less than half
an hour. The British captain had at-
tempted to board, but his men had not
responded to his orders, and the only
result of this manoeuvre was to expose the
Penguin to a raking fire, which left her a
partial wreck. An English officer having
called out that the Penguin had surren-
dered, Captain Biddle sprang upon the
tafTrail to inquire whether such was
actually the case. In the excitement of
the moment two marines on the enemy's
forecastle discharged their muskets at
him, inflicting a severe wound in his neck.
A few moments later the Penguin actually
did surrender, while the American crew,
angered at the wounding of their com-
mander, were on the point of firing a
fresh broadside. The engagement be-
tween these two vessels was one of the
best contested during the entire war, and
furnished a splendid exhibition of Ameri-
can pluck and skill. After removing the
stores and vahiahle ])r()visions from the

Penguin, the vesel was sunk, and Captain
Biddle proceeded on his cruise. During
the last week in April, however, he was
pursued by the British ship Cormvallis,
of seventy- four guns, and in his endeavor
to escape threw overboard all his guns,
and even cut away much of his upper
works. He was successful, however, in
evading capture, and arrived in New York
on July 30th.

By an Act approved February 22, 1816,
Congress resolved :

" That the President of the United States
be, and he is hereby requested to present to
Captain James Biddle, of the sloop-of-war
Hornet, a gold medal, with suitable emblems
and devices, and a silver medal with suitable
emblems and devices to each commissioned offi-
cer of the said sloop-of-war, in testimony of
the high sense entertained by Congress of the
gallantry, good conduct and services of Cap-
tain Biddle, his officers and crew in capturing
the British sloop-of-war Penguin, after a brave
and skillful combat."

The medal presented to Captain Biddle
in accordance with this resolution bore
upon the obverse the bust of this officer
in naval uniform to the right surrounded
by the following inscription in English : ij:
" The Congress of the U. S. to Captain
James Biddle for his gallantry, good con-
duct and services." The reverse bore a
spirited view of the engagement between
the Hornet and the Penguin, with a moun-
tain peak in the background surrounded
by the inscription " Capture of the British
ship Penguin off Tristan D'Acunha,
March XXIII, MDCCCXX' l)y the
U. S. ship Hornet."

The medal presented by Congress to
Captain Biddle was not only the last
medal won during the War of 1812-15.
but the final naval award of this charac-
ter made by that body up to the present
time. The naval activities of the War

X The only instance of the use of the English
language in connection with the inscriptions on
a medal of the series under discussion.

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with Mexico were negligible in character,
and while a number of naval engagements
of the Civil War were of sufficient im-
portance to be commemorated in this man-
ner, no such action was taken by Con-
gress, which, as a matter of fact, awarded
only a single medal of this character dur-
ing the conflict, and that was presented
to a military commander, General Ulysses
S. Grant. From that time to the present
no such medals have been granted either

to military or naval commanders, the
place of such medals being supplied by
the regular military and naval decora-
tions, which will be described in a subse-
quent article.

The series of medals awarded by the
United States Congress to American mili-
tary and naval commanders for victories
during the War of 1812-15 was unusually
complete, and constitute an exception-
ally fine medallic record of that conflict.

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not yet been found practicable to distribute it at
the ports of entry, a new ruling of the National
Society allows chapters to have it free of charge
upon application through their State Regents, if
it is wanted for direct distribution to the immi-
grants. In this way spirit and purpose of our
work will be accomplished, quite as well, perhaps,
as at the ports of entry.

For text-book use, or for purposes other, than
the above, a charge will be made as here-
tofore, viz :

Single copies 20 cents each

In lots of 25 or more 15 cents each

In lots of 100 or more 12 cents each

In lots of 1000 or more.... 10 cents each
This to apply to all languages.
Orders with money should be sent to the
Treasurer General, Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C.

Orders for free books should be addressed to
the State Regent, stating the purpose to give
it directly to the immigrant. The State Regent
will forward the order to the Corresponding
Secretary General.

State Regents are asked to keep a record of all
orders thus received and forwarded, and to re-
port same to Mrs. John L. Buel, Vice Chairman
in Charge of Immigrants' Manual, Litchfield,
Connecticut.

THE AMERICAN'S CREED
FELLOWSHIP

Bv Matthew Paee Andrews

i

HE National Committee of Pub-
lication for The American's
Creed announces the establish-
ment of an American's Creed
Fellowship, in which life })iem-
bership is $1.00. This nominal
contribution represents a token of interest
on the part of the applicant and records
the name upon the rolls as a " Founder."
In return therefor the subscriber receives
a specially numbered "Founder's Copy''
of " The Book of The American's Creed,"
and also the privilege thereafter of order-
ing this attractive little booklet at cost of
publication, namely, at 35 cents the copy
when ordered in lots of three or more.

'* The Book of The American's Creed "
is issued under the auspices of the his-
torical and patriotic societies of America,
and it contains the Creed, the story of its
origin, and the bases for its phrases in the
sayings of the founders and builders of
our great Republic. Issued under the
auspices of national patriotic organiza-
tions, of which the respective Presidents
General are ex-officio members of the
Publication Committee, this little book
carries the name of no author and adver-
tises no publisher. The explanatory mat-
ter is set forth in tliose words which have
been used most successfully in explaining,
through the Creed, the nature of the
American Government.
94

The book is further unique in that it
cannot be purchased through trade chan-
nels or in bookstores, and it may only be
secured through American's Creed Fel-
lowship sources for patriotic and educa-
tional purposes.

This little book of sixty-eight pages
(illustrated) appeared from the press in
June, 1921, and immediately, under the
leadership of the ^Maryland Society of the
Sons of the American Revolution and
other patriotic societies and individuals,
sufficient copies were subscribed for to
supply the graduates of the grammar
schools of the city of Baltimore. A simi-
lar local Committee had been created in
\\'ashington and the book would have
been distributed in the Capital City of the
Nation if they had arrived on time for
the graduation exercises.

In Baltimore, however, formerly the
home of the author of The American's
Creed, the children received these copies
upon graduation. The name of the child
was written in his or her book, which
was countersigned by the Principal of the
school and. in many cases, also by the
representatives of the patriotic societies
which presented the books to the respec-
tive schools.

The book was awarded the child on the
sole condition that he or she could recite
The American's Creed. The National

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95

Committee believes that if this movement
be promoted throughout the United
States three objects will thereby be
accomplished, which have not yet been
successfully combined in any patriotic
endeavor:

(1) It will interest the child; (2) it will
carry an effective message to the home,
and (3) there will be little or no wastage
of money or material.

The child will value the volume as an
autographed gift book received at the
time it leaves school. The parent will
take an interest in the book because the
child brings it home, and as it is an attrac-
tive little book and represents the simplest
exposition of the fundamental principles
of American government which has ever
been put in print, thousands, if not mil-
lions, of parents would, for the first time,
read such an exposition of government
and learn why our institutions should be
supported, in contravention of the plaus-
ible but impractical and destructive radi-
cal doctrines, many of these same parents

are constantly hearing around and
about them.

It is believed that this final specific plan
for the promulgation of The American's
Creed will produce more direct and last-
ing results than any one plan or series of
plans proposed at any time in this country.
It is particularly good because of certain
unique features and because of its ex-
treme simplicity. Moreover, the cost for
each community in carrying out the plan
is less than the cost of almost any patriotic
project offering anything like such prom-
ising results. It has been discovered
already that the society or individual who
promotes the plan is gratified by the re-
sponse, perhaps unequalled in any other
eff'ort made to carry the ideals of Ameri-
can citizenship simultaneously into the
schools and homes.

Further information concerning the
Fellowship and what it aims to accom-
plish may be obtained directly through
the Committee ox Publication of The
American's Creed, 849 Park Avenue,
Baltimore, ]\Iarvland.

WANTED, JANUARY 1921, D. A. R. MAGAZINE

The office of the Recording Secretary
General, X.S.D.A.R., needs a copy of
the January, 1921, Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine for
its files. A subscriber, having such

a copy and not desiring it for her
own use, will confer a favor by
sending the magazine to the Re-
cording Secretary General, Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

By invitation of Asquamchumauke Chapter,
the twentieth Annual State Conference of the
Daughters of the American Revolution of New
Hampshire convened in the Congregational
Church in Plymouth, on the afternoon of
October 18, 1921.

The church was most attractive with its
decorations of autumn foliage. There was a
beautiful silk flag on the platform, which had
been presented by the United States Govern-
ment to the Boy Scouts of Plymouth for their
admirable work in selling Liberty Bonds. The
State Regent, Mrs. Lorin Webster, called the
Conference to order. The Lord's Prayer was
repeated, led by the Chaplain, Mrs. George H.
Adams. A very cordial welcome was extended
by Mrs. William J. Foss, Regent of the hostess
Chapter, with a response by Mrs. Leslie P.
Snow, State Vice Regent.

Greetings were extended to the Conference in
a notable address by Major Frank W. Russell,
S.A.R. Mrs. Charles C. Abbott, ex-Vice
President General, who was absent on account
of illness, sent greetings and her best wishes for
a successful Conference, as did Mrs. Josiah
Carpenter, an Honorary State Regent, who also
was unable to be present. Mrs. Robert
Pearson, an ex-State Regent, from Birming-
ham, Alabama, extended greetings, and spoke
of her work as State Regent, saying that since
the close of the War much had been done along
the lines of rural education, and in establishing
schools for the southern mountaineers of
Tennessee and northern Alabama.

The reports of the State Officers were read,
also the reports of the various State Chairmen
and Chrii)ter Regents. Mrs. Walter H. Story,
State Historian, reported that the War Service
Records had been hound in two volumes; that
one set was to be kept at the State Library in
Concord, and that another had been sent to
Memorial Continental Hall Library at Washing-
ton. A rising vote of thanks was given Mrs.
Story in recognition of the faithful discharge
of an arrhious task.

The annual report of the State Regent told of
her various activities during the year, and of
the evident interest manifested by the Chap-
ters in the State. In closing, .she .said : " In
these days of unrest, of reorganization and
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reconstruction, let us think clearly, act discreetly
and wisely, and, with a broad vision of service
ever before us, do our part in all good work.
Let us remember that our great patriotic organ-
ization is founded on sacrifice, and let us give
our whole-hearted devotion to the upholding of
those principles that stand for liberty, freedom
and justice."

Mrs. Will B. Howe, an Honorary State
Regent of New Hampshire, read an impressive
Memoriam for the National Officers and the
Daughters of New Hampshire who had died
during the year. Mention was made of the
death of Col. Arthur E. Clarke, husband of the
Organizing and Honorary State Regent, and
of Mr. Ira F. Harris, husband of the
State Treasurer.

The evening session was opened with prayer
by Rev. Arthur H. Gilmore. The reading of
the American's Creed, by Miss Mudgett and the
audience, was followed by the salute to the
flag, led by Miss Annie Wallace, National
Chairman of the Committee on the Correct Use
of the Flag, and also an Honorary State Regent
of New Hampshire. Mrs. John Peppard, of
Asquamchumauke Chapter, was color bearer.
The Star Spangled Banner was sung by
Mr. Ralph Morton, the audience joining in
the chorus.

An interesting address on the subject of the
Neighborhood House at Dover, N. H., was
given by Mrs. Edna Crewe, who is in charge
of this Social Work. Miss Harriet Huntress,
Vice Regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Associa-
tion of the Union, was the second speaker. A
delightful reception was given to the State
Officers and guests by the hostess Chapter.

A business session was held Wednesday
morning. The State By-laws were proposed
and discussed ; they will be acted upon at the
next State Conference.

It was voted to furnish the office of the
Corresponding Secretary General in the new
Administration Building at Washington. The
candidacy of Miss Annie Wallace, Honorary
State Regent, for Vice President General, was
unanimously endorsed by the Conference.

The following State Officers were elected :
State Regent, Mrs. Lorin Webster, State Vice
Regent Mrs. Leslie P. Snow, State Secretary
Mrs. Harry A. Merrill, State Treasurer Mrs.

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Ira F. Harris, State Historian Mrs. Walter
H. Story.

Resolutions were adopted protesting against the
taking over of Mt. Vernon by the Govern-
ment, also endorsing the Sheppard-Towner
bill, and the movement for better motion pic-
tures. A rising vote of thanks to Asquamchu-
make Chapter for its hospitality brought to a
close one of the most successful Conferences
held in the State.

(Mrs. H.\rry A.) Lucy B. Merrill,

State Secretary.

NEW JERSEY

Thursday, October 6th, the New Jersey
Daughters of the American Revolution held
their annual conference at the Town and
Country Club, Elizabeth, New Jersey, Boudinot
Chapter, Mrs. C. Symmes Kiggins, Regent,
entertaining. There were about 175 Daughters
present when Mrs. Henry Dusenberry Pitts,
State Regent, called the meeting to order.

Four young ladies carrying the Stars and
Stripes, State and Chapter flags, escorted the
officers and guests to the platform. New Jersey
was honored in having Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, President General, as her especial guest,
inasmuch as she had but lately returned from
her tour of the battlefields of France and the
inspection of the water system at Tilloloy.

The other guests whom the State was to
welcome were : Mrs. William D. Sherrerd, Vice
President General of New Jersey; Mrs. John
Francis Yawger, Recording Secretary General ;
Mrs. Nash, State Regent of New York ; Mrs.
John Laidlaw Buel, State Regent of Connec-
ticut; Mrs. Althea Randolph Bedle, Mrs.
Erastus G. Putnam, ex-Vice President General
of New Jersey; Mrs. Charles B. Yardley and
Mrs. James Fairman Fielder, ex-State Regents
of New Jersey.

The Lord's Prayer, the presentation of " The
Colors " and the " Pledge to the Flag," were
given by those assembled, followed by the
singing of the National Anthem.

Our President General told a most interest-
ing story of her trip, which held the attention
of all. A graphic story of the reception and
luncheon attendant upon the presentation of the
fountain, and a recital of the enlightening
inscription thereon which reads : " As a token
of sympathy for the cruel sufferings endured by
the French people during the Great War, and
with the desire to be of some needful assistance,
this fountain and this water system for the
village are offered to Tilloloy, by the National
Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution of the United States."

The modest recital of the presentation to her
of the decoration known as the " Reconnais-
sance Francaise," by the Mayor of the village

made every Daughter proud to be represented
by Mrs. Minor.

The description of the journey to England to
place a wreath on the grave of the unknown
British soldier, buried in Westminster Abbey,
" deep down in the white sand of the Thames,
and the infinite pathos of the simple but digni-
fied inscription : " A British Warrior who fell
in the Great War, 1914-1918. For King and
Country. Greater love hath no man than this,"
made a lasting impression.

Her tour with the American Legion to the
battlefields, where the white wooden crosses
over the graves of our own American heroes,
catch the gleam of the sun, and the ceremony
attendant upon the unknown French Poilu
under the Arc de Triumphe, with the use
of the President General's ribbon, were
intensely interesting.

Festivities were not lacking in this wonderful
story, as President and- Mme. Millerand re-
quested her to attend a reception given
at Versailles.

Greetings and felicitations were heard from
all the guests and our own officers, each one
leaving a thought for every loyal Daughter,
and after a most delightful luncheon the State
Regent adjourned a meeting which was fraught
with much pleasure and profit to all.

Nettie Hellerman,

VIRGINIA

The Virginia State Conference convened in
Roanoke, Va., by invitation of the Margaret
Lynn Lewis Chapter every state officer was
present and each chapter represented. The
report of the work done was marvelous. The
State Regent, Dr. Kate Waller Barrett possesses
the faculty of bringing out all that is best in
her associates. The work done along educa-
tional lines was noted in the Congress of the
National Society when Virginia led all the states
in patriotic education.

The hostess chapter had arranged every detatl
so efficiently that the time was spent most
pleasantly and profitably. The social side wa-s
charming, several luncheons, teas and receptions,
an automobile ride to the Tomb of General An-
drew Lewis and one to Hollins Institute re-
freshed the delegates after the business sessions.
The election resulted as follows : Regent, Dr.
Kate Waller Barrett; Vice Regent, Mrs. James
R. Schick; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
James Kyle; Recording Secretary, Mrs. Wm.
Wallis; Treasurer, Mrs. A. J. Work; Historian,
Mrs. Robert Pierce; Registrar, Mrs. A. K.
Davis; Librarian, Mrs. W. W. Richardson,
Mrs. Henry Fitzhugh Lewis,
Corresponding Secretary.

Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

\ I. Woman Before and in the Civil War

L Before the Civil War. — The preceding
number of this program has indicated the part
played by women in the westward movement.
Conditions in the East had been changing, but
more slowly. Gaillard Hunt's Life in America
One Hundred Years Ago 74-84, describes con-
ditions about 1814, at the time when the United
States was finally shaking off colonial ideas.
The position of woman twenty years later can
be fairly seen in De Tocqueville's Democracy
in America, book HI, ch. 8, 9, 10 and 12. Mrs.
Frances M. TroUope's Domestic Manners of the
Americans, describing conditions about 1830.
is the reverse of complimentary; her opinion
of .-American women can be drawn from chap-
ters, 2, 6, 14, and 26. Calhoun's Social History
of the American Family, vol. ii, ch. 4 and 5,
furnishes a number of interesting illustrations.
Rhodes" History of the United States from the
Compromise of 1850, i, 354-362, gives a sketch
of social conditions in the North and South
about 1850.

2. The Abomtio.v Movement.— A sketch of
woman's participation is given in Bruce's
Woman in the Making of America. 156-187.
The biographies of prominent individuals will
furnish more material, for example, the cliapter
on Julia Ward Howe in Miss Humphreys
Women in American History. The reference
already given to K. J. Putnam's The Lady. 282-
323, gives the southern aspect of the slavery
question, also Swede's Memorials of a
Southern Planter.

3. The Civil War.— .\ general account show-
ing the field within which woman's work was
carried on, is given in Rhodes' History of the
United States from the Compromise of 1S30,
vol. v, ch. 27 (North), and ch. 28 (South).
For the South see also Wilson's History of the
American People, iv, 248-251. Mrs. Logan's
Part Taken by Women in American History.
305-308, gives a general characterization of
women's activities; nu)re satisfactory is Bruce's
Woman in the Making of America, 188-223; a
much more complete account, if accessible, is L.
P. Brockett's Jl'oman's Work in the Cii'il ll'ar.

The North.— I'or the services rendered by
northern women see File's Social and Industrial
98

Conditions in the North during the Civil War
(use Index). Fite gives also (ch. x) the less
pleasing side, the tendency to luxury and
extravagance, which Rhodes also describes (v,
209-214) with the reaction from it.

The organized work of women expressed
itself most prominently in the Sanitary Com-
mission. Rhodes gives a compact account of
its work (v, 244-259) ; its official History was
written by Charles J. Stille, and a more popular
account may be taken from Mary A. Liver-
more's My Story of the War. In this connec-
tion Bret Harte's poem "Sanitary" is of interest.

The work of the army imrses is described
in Mrs. Livermore's book, chapters 7 and 8.
Other personal experiences are found in
Louisa M. Alcott's Hospital Sketches and
Katharine Wormeley's Other Side of War.
For prominent examples see the Life of Clara
Barton, by P. H. Eppler, and Mrs. Livermore's
chapters (xxiv-xxvii) on "Mother" Bicker-
dyke. More detailed is Mary A. G. Holland's
American Army Nurses.

The South. — The southern literature of the
war is filled (and deservedly) with references
to women's work, but satisfactory collected
accounts are hard to find. Rhodes has a brief
mention of woman's special place in the South
(v, 464-466, ])ut compare pp. 424-427). More
can be found in Mrs. Logan's Part Taken by
Women, 485-506 (here again in the form of
individual biography.) A better idea can be
gained by such works as Mary B. Chestiuit's
Diary from Dixie. Mrs. Burton Harrison's
Recollections (originally published in Scribner's
Magazine, vol. xlix), Smedes' Southern
Planter, and Hague's A Blockaded Family. For
the position of southern women after the war
compare with the works cited McCrackcn's
Women of America. 57-84. For the whole
field Calhoun's Social History of the American
Family, vol. ii, ch. 14, gives many illustra-
tive quotations.

Local activities of women during this period
would furnish an interesting subject of study
for individual chapters. Obviously no references
can be given, but a meeting could be devoted
to bringing together of recollections and
traditions known to the members, and something
of real value could be done for local history.

^ ^aoe in
Heralbrp

Conducted by
Edith Roberts Ramsburgh

Drawings by
Zoe Lee H. Anderson!

flrmrr

FARMER

The family of Farmer, name spelled various
ways, is derived from one of the companions
of William the Conqueror, and was at an early
period established in the Lordship of Somerton,
Oxfordshire, England. Resided at Easton-
Xeston about 1480.

Anne, daughter of Richard Farmer, Esq.,
married before 1545, William Lucy, and their
son. Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, Knighted
by Queen Elizabeth 1565, was the magistrate so
famous in the time of Shakespeare.

John, eldest son of Richard Farmer, was
made Knight of the Carpet at Westminster
1553, the day of the coronation of Queen Mary,
in Her Alajesty's presence, under Cloth of
State, by Earl of Arundel, Commissioner for
the occasion. He married Maud, daughter of
Sir Nicholas Vaux, Knight.

His eldest son George, knighted 1586, had
the honor of entertaining King James 1st and
his Queen at Easton-Neston 1603, when His
Majesty was pleased to confer the honor of
knighthood upon his eldest son, Sir Hatton
Fermor. Sir George married Mary, daughter
of Thomas Curzon. He was the personal
friend of Sir Philip Sydney and was one of the
few invited to walk in his funeral procession
with the family.

Lord Nelson served under George Farmer
of the Royal Navy, who commanded His
Majesty's ship Quebec of¥ Ushant, 1777,
and engaged a French frigate of greatly
superior force.

Sixteen hundred and eighty-five Major Jasper
and Jasper Farmer, Jr., direct descendants of
George Farmer, with their respective families,
came to America and settled in Pennsvlvania.

MAXWELL

The Maxwells, of Maxwell, Caerlaverock
and Mearns, Earls of Nithsdale, Lords of
Maxwell and Herries, etc., begin with Maccus,
son of Undin, who gave the name to the Barony
and family of Maxwells, 1150.

His grandson. Sir John de Maccuswell,
Sherifif of Roxbury and Chamberlain, of Scot-
land, was the first of Caerlaverock, 1190-1241,
and his son. Sir Aymer de Maccuswell, through
his marriage with ]\Iary of Mearns, acquired
the Barony of Mearns, 1195-1266. Their son,
Sir John, became the ancestor of the Maxwells,
of Pollok, 1270-1306.

In this line, Sir John Maxwell, thirteenth of
Pollok, and first Baronet, 1595-1647, married
twice, but dying without male issue the Pollok
estate was inherited by the male heir of Sir
George Maxwell, of Auldhouse, which branch
still continues.

There are so many branches of the Maxwell
family, worked out, with all civil and military
records, it is impossible to give them here.

Nearly all men of Scottish birth or descent,
who are renowned in history, trace their family
origin back to the lowlands of Scotland, and
the greater number of those Scotch-Irish, who
emigrated to Virginia, entered the State by
way of Pennsylvania and Maryland.

The Maxwells, settled first in Lancaster Co..
Pennsylvania, then removed to Augusta Co.
and still later to Albemarle Co., Virginia. From
Albemarle they moved to South West Virginia,
finally settling in Kentucky.

Their men were prominent in both the Colonial
and Revolutionary Wars. Two daughters of
and family were scalped and killed and some of
the children were taken prisoners by the Indians.

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WORK ol the CHAPTERS

lb Insure Accuracy in the Reading of Names and Promptness in Publication
CFiapter Reports must be Typewritten EDITOR-

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Camp Middlebrook Chapter (Bound Brook,
N. J.). The spirit of cordiality and coopera-
tion has marked the year 1920-1921. The mem-
bership to date numbers 111. The Treasurer's
report shows receipts amounting to $875.32; of
which a rummage sale netted $133.47; a colonial
ball, $182.95; a card party at Mrs. Yeandle's,
$54; and the card party at Mrs. Olendorf's,
$53.63; collected for World War Veteran
grave markers, $6.50.

Apart from the usual expenses of the Chap-
ter the sum of $637.10 was given for the fol-
lowing: History prize, Repairing marker at
Manville, Bronze tablet on Real Daughter's
monument at Millstone, Washington Head-
quarters at Plainfield, four spoons for Chap-
ter babies. Immigrant's Manual, Mrs. Guernsey's
scholarship, Mrs. Fitts' scholarship fund. Me-
morial fountain and painting, Red Cross Health
Bond, New Jersey Revolutionary Memorial
Society, Contribution to Soldiers' Memorial.

Twenty-two subscriptions to the Daughters
OF THE American Revolution Magazine, of
which twelve have been added the past year,
go through the Chapter. Several other sub-
scriptions go directly to the Treasurer Gen-
eral at Washington.

Especial commendation should be given to
those pupils of our public schools — 18 boys and
19 girls — who entered the contest for the Chap-
ter prizes on American history. Much interest
was shown in the examination and the rating
was unusually high.

The " Neighborhood Luncheon," inaugurated
by the Jersey Blue Chapter, was given under
the auspices of that Chapter at Hotel Klein,
New Brunswick, on February 14th. So delight-
ful was the function that it w^s later decided
to make the " Neighborhood Luncheon," in-
cluding the Camp Middlebrook, Continental,
Francis Hopkinson, General Frelinghuysen,
and Jersey Blue Chapters, an annual affair.

The Chapter may be pardoned for referring
with pride to its scion, the Nathan Hale So-
ciety, C.A.R. which is now twcnty-fivc years
old, with 37 members, boys and girls, brimming
full of patriotic zeal.

This year's history would not be complete
100

without an expression of deep appreciation for
the splendid work done throughout the year
by its honored Regent, Mrs. Yeandle, and her
able co-workers.

M. E. L. Herbert,

Historian.

Virginia Cavalier Chapter (Mobile, Ala.)
has been an active, though small, part of the
National Society for nine years. Our charter
is dated November 11, 1912, with twenty (20)
members enrolled. At this time, we have
reached over thirty, with applications pending
for new members. No Chapter has been more
actively nor successfully, employed along
strictly patriotic lines, as required by the Na-
tional Society.

We meet Tuesday in each month from Octo-
ber until June, making a specialty of July 4th,
as on that date was held the preliminary meet-
ing at the home of the organizer and first
Regent who is again, for the third time, the
chosen presiding officer of her Chapter. Each
patriotic occasion, February 22nd, June 14th
and July 4th, is loyally celebrated.

Contributions have been given for educa-
tional purposes continually of $5 at a time; $10
yearly to the Alabama D..A..R. school since its
inception ; $10 annually to French orphans ; $10
to Belgium Relief Fund ; $10 to " Hoover "
Dinner; $5 to Memorial Continental Hall debt;
$5 to Banquet Hall fund ; contribution to flowers
for funeral of Felix Walker, the first Alabama
boy who died for the world's peace in Arizona ;
$5 annually to canning school for one girl's
instruction ; all of which come from the treas-
ury of the Chapter, since no entertainments
are given, no contributions solicited and no
tickets " peddled " for any purpose whatever, it
having been the successful policy of the Chap-
ter to levy no expense on the members save
their annual dues, each one knowing fully her
future expense when invited to become a member.

During the World War this Chapter took
its turn to entertain and serve all the troops
passing through Mobile when their time of
entertainment fell due.

The first auxiliary to the Mobile Chapter,
American Red Cross Society, was organized

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101

by the Regent of the Chapter two weeks after
the Mobile County Chapter was organized
and called by her the Virginia Cavalier Aux-
iliary, A.R.C. Among the work accomplished
was a gift of knitted articles, consisting ef
eight sweaters, four helmets, four pairs of
mitts and two scarfs, to the Battleship Ala-
bama. Over two thousand garments and arti-
cles of value were also knitted by the Aux-
iliary and distributed through the Mobile
Chapter; twenty Christmas boxes, valued at at
least $1.50 each, were sent by them for distribu-
tion to the boys in France; two beautiful quilts
were knitted by the Auxiliary and sent by
them to a Base Hospital in England, but were
never heard from after being placed in the
Post Office here.

A Society of C.A.R. was organized in March,
1914, by the Regent of this Chapter and con-
tinues in active service.

We are true to our motto : " We keep the
tradition " of loyalty, courage, honor and fealty
to our country, its history, its policy and its
tradition.

Each year adds to our interest, increases our
efforts and accomplishes new work. Two
Revolutionary graves were marked by the Chap-
ter and were attended by religious service and
patriotic ceremonials.

We feel that our efforts have not been in vain,
hope for continued success to our earnest en-
deavors.

Respectfully submitted,

Mary Carter Thurber.

Reqent.

New Rochelle Chapter (New Rochelle, N.
Y.) as one small unit in the National Society,
New Rochelle Chapter is awake to our worth-
while work. As it grows in size and years it
grows also in strength. W^ithin the year the
membership roll has been increased by ten new
names making a total at present of about sixty-
two members and several other names are
pending. The attendance has averaged about
thirty-four.

Americanization work remains foremost of
our activities. Mrs. Herbert L. Moore, cooperat-
ing with the local Central Americanization
Committee, has been very successful.

A Home and Neighborhood Class was organ-
ized and a teacher is to be supplied by the
f Board of Education. Lectures are given on
" Nation Building " and the studies, under the
New York University course were continued.
j Our committee presented local conditions

1 of New Rochelle's immigrant population to the

( Board of Education and have received an

j appropriation for the work. The Foreign

women have been entertained at the Community

rooms and also visited in their homes. The
Chapter's part in training alien races to be-
come American citizens is slowly but surely
forging ahead.

Besides the necessary expenditures in the
work just described we have done what we
could for other appeals from the National So-
ciety and also in educational lines, not for-
getting some local interests. As in former
years prizes for historical essays in the school
contests have been given. Contributions have
been made to the European Relief Fund; also
to the Tomassee school of South Carolina.
We responded to an appeal from the Washing-
ton's Headquarters Association in New York.
Social welfare work under Mrs. George C.
Cannon progresses and although no unmarked
graves of Revolutionary soldiers have as yet
been located, Mrs. William S. Beers continues
on the " Old Trails." Mrs. William S. Em-
berson of Ways and Means, Mrs. Herbert T.
Edwards of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine, and Mrs. Arthur H.
Titus, State Revolutionary Relics, have attended
to their respective committees faithfully.
Mrs. William L. Stone has taken care of the
chapter library, the collection being enlarged
by twenty-five more volumes within the year
fourteen of which are Lineage books.

In its entertainment programs the Chapter
is fortunate in having as chairman Mrs. John
F. Bennett.

The Chapter had its revised Constitution and
By-laws, also its Year-book of the season
printed.

The Regent, the Second Vice Regent and two
alternates attended the thirtieth Continental Con-
gress at Washington, and Mrs. Stegman went
also to the State Conference last October.

The salute to the Flag has opened each stated
meeting and the " Star Spangled Banner " or
" America " are never left out.

Anna B. Stone,
Historian.

San Bernardino Chapter (San Bernardino,
Calif.) was organized March 29, 1920 with a
dozen or over enthusiastic ladies. Our charter
was kept open a year and we now have a
membership of 42. We had several preliminary
meetings but since last August have had the
first Tuesday of the month as our day. For
a yearling we have accomplished a few things.
We have complied with the various requests
sent out from headquarters, contributing to the
Manual for Immigrants, the Tercentenary Foun-
tains at Plymouth; and the Painting for the
American section of the War Museum at Paris.
We also contributed to the scholarship at the
.A.merican International College at Springfield,
Mass. known as the Guernsey scholarship. As

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a bit of local work we offered a $5 medal to
the pupil who attained the highest mark in
United States history at our junior high school.
The principal of the school says the interest
aroused led to much outside reading and re-
search, and strongly recommends that the offer
of the medal be continued as the stimulation is
well worth while. Miss King Rogers was the
happy recipient of the medal this year.

At our February meeting we had the honor
of entertaining our State Regent, Mrs. Harsh-
barger and our State Vice Regent, Mrs. Stookey.
Our meetings are held at the homes of the
members and are very enjoyable, after the busi-
ness session we have an interesting program
and sometimes an outside speaker. At our
December meeting we had a thrilling address
by Mrs. Womersly on Americanization. Our
April meeting was one full of delight, as we
went to Devon Ranch the home of two of our
members, Mrs. Walker and daughter, Mrs.
Petus. The ranch is one of our beauty spots.
The Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine is taken by our members.

(Mrs.) Virginia M. Boggs,
Historian.

David Craig Chapter (Brownsville, Tenn.)
It is a pleasure to report for the first time the
accomplishments and activities of David Craig
Chapter, said by our State Regent to be one
of the banner chapters of the State.

Our Chapter was organized March, 1909 with
27 charter members and Mrs. Minnie McLesky
Halliburton as organizer and first Regent. She
held the office for four years. Mrs. John K.
Walker succeeded her and on her removal to
Memphis Mrs. Halliburton was reelected and
continued in office until 1917. During her term
the Chapter grew to 52 members.

Mrs. Myra Collins Short, a descendant
of Col. David Craig (for whom our Chapter
is named) a brave soldier of the Revolution
from North Carolina, was our war Regent.
The Chapter organized the Red Cross in Hay-
wood County. ICvcry Daughter was a member,
contributed liberally to French Orphans, bought
Liberty bonds, contributed 100 per cent, to
Liberty Loan and Tilloloy funds; and the only
Chapter in the state contributing to the Ameri-
canization .school in Massachusetts in 1919.
Gave her pro-rata to mountain schools.

The Daughters of the American Revoiai-
TioN Magazine has been placed in the Carnegie
Library.

Mrs. Short was succeeded by Mrs. Ora Baltic
Gray, who led our Chapter for two years. The
Chapter has gone 100 per cent, in every cause
— Manual, Pilgrim Fountain, Picture, Ameri-
canization, Mountain schools, patriotic educa-
tion. Gave flag's to both grammar school

and high school and placed framed American's
Creeds in both schools.

The Regent gave 11 lineage books, making:
28 books in the Chapter Library. In addition,
the Chapter raised from the County enougb
money to endow a bed in the Crippled Child-
ren's Hospital at Memphis, known as the Hay-
wood County Bed.

We have nine regular meetings during the
year, and among our members, we have two
Real Granddaughters.

The Chapter has been represented three times
at Continental Congress first by Mrs Short
who was confirmed as First Vice State Regent,
and Miss Mamie Gray as page, and the last
two years the Regent, Mrs. Gray attended botb;
Continental Congresses and State Meetings.
Two of our members were present and took
part when the D.A.R. flag was presented to
the Battleship Tennessee July, 1920. The-
Chapter has the honor of having a member on
the National Board. A paper by Miss A,Iamie-
Gray has been accepted and filed with the His-
torical and Reciprocity Committee.

To our retiring Regent Mrs. Gray, we can-
not say enough in praise of her faithfulness-
and devotion to the principles of this great;
organization. We welcome with tlie same-
loyalty our new Regent, Mrs. Myra Rice Taylor
and predict for her a term of great achievments.
(Mrs. Jno. C.) Mary Connell Rice,

Histo'-ian.

Deborah Champion Chapter (Adams, N.
Y.). The opening meeting of the year was-
held on September IS, 1921, with Harriet E.
Hale, Helen S. Glazier and Elizabeth W. Ingra-
ham as hostesses. The Regent, Helen J. Pierce^
held a short business session and the delegates.
were elected to attend the state conference at
Rochester in October.

Constitution Day being September 17th, it-
seemed fitting that this should be the subject of
the meeting. A number of interesting readings
were given, and a paper given by first \'ice
Regent Carrie W. Snyder was greatly enjoyed.

At the close of the program the Regent wel-
comed a number of new members, thirty-one
having joined recently, making at this time 13^
members. Light refreshments were served at.
the end of the session.

h2LI7.,\BETH WhITCOMH InGRAHAM,

Historiait.

Ondawa-Cambridge Chapter (Cambridge,.
N.Y.). On the afternoon of -Xugust 25, 192U
our Chapter unveiled the granite boulder erected'
by it to mark a historic site on the old turn-
]iike running from Troy to Canada. The Itronze-
tablet bears the following inscription : Site of
the Checkered House built by Major Tames.
Cowden 1765 Baum's Headquarters Aug. !.■?,

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1777 Continental Hospital Aug. 18, 1777
Erected bv Ondawa-Cambridge Chapter, D.
A.R., 192L

The exercises opened with a bugle call, fol-
lowed by the singing of the " Star Spangled

Our one great interest has been Dorothy Madi-
son whom we took as a little girl, from the
Herkimer Street Nursery, and renamed ; and
for her worked and planned ! She has now
grown beyond our care and is happily placed

Banner.' Rev. Thomas Cull led in prayer, and with a family where she is very welcome, but,

then the Regent, Miss N. Blanche Cramer, in she still considers and speaks of the " Women

a few graceful words introduced the speaker, of 76 " as her " real mothers."
Rev. John R. Fisher, who gave us a brief but The war brought us together in all our

interesting history of the site. strength and we were able to aid in several

The tablet was then unveiled by two little lines of work; particularly the Red Cross and

girls. Elizabeth Parrish and Betty Blackfan. the National League for Woman's Service.

As they raised the flag
it was drawn to the
top of a staff at the
rear of the boulder.
All joined in singing
"America."' and the
ceremony closed with
the salute to the flag.
Marv C. Atwood,

Historia)i.

Women of " '76 "
Chapter (Brooklyn,
N. Y.) was organized
on December 28, 1900,
at a meeting of the
Fort Green Chapter,
held at the home of
Mrs. 5. V. White.
Previous to this, at a
meeting of the Chil-
dren of the Revolu-
tion, it had been
suggested that steps
be taken to form a
new Chapter, corn-
posed of the graduates
of the " Little Men
and Women of '76 "
who were anxious
to become Daughters
of the American
Revolution.

The question of a
name for the Junior Chapter was first con-
sidered, and the " Women of '76 " suggested
by Mr?. Winthrop, National President of the
" Children of the American Revolution."

Our charter was presented on February 2,

The Canteen Unit,
practically all of
whose members re-
ceived special training
at the Y.W.C.A., did
good work under the
leadership of Miss
Mabel Hefifley, and
started in earnest at
the big Terminal
Building at Coney
Island : the goal for
all men in the service,
sick or well, while in
New York. And there
they received a hearty
welcome indeed. The
late Col. Theodore
Roosevelt was the
guest of honor and
speaker on the open-
ing day, and it was an
inspiring beginning,
for little did we know
how many boys we
were to cheer and
help. This Unit served
at Fort Hamilton, the
Officer's Club on High
Street, and later, the
Club for Service Men
on S che r m erhorn
Street, the Convales-
cent's Home on Gates
Avenue and the League Shop.

The two French War Orphans, toward
whose support we have contributed for the past
three years, are to be cared for for another
year. Our Chapter has also met its quota
1901, by Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, then New (100 per cent.) of the fund for the purchase
York State Regent and received by Miss Kate of Liberty Bonds by the National Society, be-

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CHAPTER

Carlton, our first Regent. The charter mem-
bers were the Misses Kate Carlton, Susan D.
Benedict. Hedelind E. B^ck, Mary H. Billings,
Edwina A. Chandler, E. May Jones, Madge
Miller, Edith Ray, Helen Ray, Eleanor Will-
iams. Anna D. Wight, Sarah E. Colson, and
Louise Buttrick.

sides owning two $50 bonds in its own name
to be held as a reserve fund for Dorothy.

When the invitation came from the Fort
Greene Chapter asking our assistance toward
the purchase of an ambulance for Squadron
" C " First New York State Cavalry here in
Brooklyn, we were glad to help.

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The Treasurer's report for twenty years
shows receipts amounting to $7,419.71, and ex-
penditures covering the same period, $6,817.34.

During these twenty years we have given
and taken part in nineteen entertainments which
netted $2,478.58 to carry on the work of the
Chapter. Our balance shows $282 belonging
to the Dorothy Madison Fund and a small
bank account held in Trust for Dorothy and
two fifty dollar Liberty Bonds.

Since 1917 the amount $687 has been raised
by subscription for the Dorothy Madison Fund,
the First Cavalry Ambulance, the Fatherless
Children of France, the Near East Relief, Mari-
zelle and Tilloloy Funds and Liberty Bonds
purchased by the National Society.

The following gifts have been made to
charity and for patriotic work: Dorothy Madi-
son, exclusive of the Dorothy Madison Fund.
$1,787.04; Continental Hall, $352.50; Support
of two French War Orphans, $304; Home for
Friendless Women and Children, including
Summerland Home, $297.17; Red Cross, 1914,
$263.63; First Cavalry Ambulance, $145;
Mount Berry school, $80; Victory Loan Bonds,
100 per cent., p3 ; Near East Relief, $52 ; Work
among the Southern whites, $25; Prisonship
Martyr's Memorial, $20; Permanent Blind Re-
lief, $20; International Institute, Y.W.C.A.,
$20; Per capita share of Immigrant's Manual
Fund, $15.75; Pocahontas Memorial, $15;
Brooklyn Parks and Playgrounds Association,
$10; Marizelle Fund, $10; Fund for preserva-
tion of Birthplace of N. Y., $10; State, $10;
Tomassee school, $10; Miscellaneous Gifts,
$602.90. Total, $4,095.49.

Edith J. Evans.
Historian.

Milwaukee Chapter (Milwaukee, Wis.).
Constitution Day, September 17, 1921, had its
second annual observance in the stadium in
Lake Park on the border of Lake Michigan
under the auspices of our Chapter. The Regent,
Mrs. George B. Averill, opened the meeting,
saying the signing of the Constitution guaran-
teed the liberties that the Declaration of Inde-
pendence only paved the way for. We have
grown to neglect Constitution Day while em-
phasizing Independence Day whereas both are
entitled to a place of equal importance in the
heart of every American.

Mr. A. K. Stebbins, of the S.A.R. was intro-
duced and asked to take charge of the meeting.
Mr. Stebbins pointed out that the Constitution
had always been the bulwark of American so-
ciety and that by all means must its memory be
kept in the hearts of the people. He was fol-
lowed by Col. J. A. Watrous, who urged that
public and parochial schools make a special
study of the Constitution which he said was
the greatest document that has blessed the

world, with the exception of the Bible. Under
it our country has become the foremost nation
of all time, under it America has contributed
more than all the nations combined, to the
spread of liberty and that freedom, for which
all mankind hungers. Little wonder that mill-
ions of mothers have given their sons to obey
such a Constitution and defend such a country.
Boys from the Detroit street school, where
there are many foreigners, sang a rollicking
sailor song as they did their swaggering march.
The boys in sailor costume executed drills in
excellent precision and the little girls came in
for their share of applause with a dance around
the American flag pole. Community singing
was directed by Mr. Frederick Carberry and
the large crowd joined with a will in singing
patriotic songs.

(Mrs. Edward) Marcia B. Ferguson,
Historian.

Liberty Hall Chapter (Charlotte, N. C.)
A bronze tablet was unveiled at the Mecklenburg
County Court House, Charlotte, N. C, on
Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, in memory
of the dead from Mecklenburg County who
gave their lives in the World War.

The tablet was the gift of Liberty Hall
Chapter, the 104 names — 74 white and 30 col-
ored-;7-having been compiled from the records
collected by the War Records Committee of the
Chapter. The tablet was designed by Mr.
Martin E. Boyer, Architect, of Charlotte, who,
himself an ex-servicq man, gave careful attention
to its erection.

Governor Cameron Morrison and his staff
were present for the occasion. Following the
Invocation by Rev. E. A. Penick and a patriotic
address by the Governor, the tablet was pre-
sented to the county by Mrs. W. O. Nesbit,
Regent of Liberty Hall Chapter.

The tablet was unveiled by little Miss Margaret
Holden Montgomery, who lost a brother in the
war, and by Master James Squires, whose father
was a captain and the ranking officer from this
county, who made the supreme sacrifice.

The names on the tablet were read aloud by
Lafferty Robinson, a former member of the
old Fifth Company. North Carolina Coast
Artillery, N. G., this company having been
adopted and sponsored by Liberty Hall Chapter
during the War. The tablet was then accepted
for the county by John W. Berryhill, a former
service man who had received several medals
for distinguished service.

An impressive part of the e.\erci.ses was the
two minute period of silence observed at twelve
o'clock. At the conclusion of the exercises, a
salute was fired by members of the Hornets'
Nest Rifles, after which buglers sounded taps.
Many beautiful wreaths were then placed,
beneath the tablet.

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The Mecklenburg County Court House stands
on the site of Liberty Hall Academy (for which
the Chapter was named) and which was form-
erly known as Queen's Museum. In presenting
a tablet to the county in memory of the men
from Mecklenburg who died in the World War,
and placing it on the Mecklenburg County Court
House, the Chapter has but marked a site already
hallowed by Colonial and Revolutionary history.
After the exercises at the Court House, the
Chapter invited the Gold Star Mothers of the
county to be their
guests at a buffet
luncheon at the
Woman's Club.

Liberty Hall
Chapter presents
an annual scholar-
ship of $100 to the
Southern Industrial
Institute, at Char-
lotte, in memory of
Ward Rogers
Evans and John
MacDonald
Wearn, two former
members of the
Fifth Company,
North Carolina
Coast Artillery,
National Guard,
who gave their
lives in the
World War.
Mrs. Isaac Harde-
man, Jr.,

Historian.
The Delavi^are
County Chapter
(Chester, Pa.) has
held its eight regu-
lar meetings, and
one special meet-
ing, also eight
meetings of Board
of Management.

As the object of our Society is to promote
patriotism and love of country, we have, during
the past year, endeavored to urge the use of the
American's creed in the public schools of
Chester, Media and Swarthmore; and at
Christmas we presented a silk American flag
to the highest grade in the Swarthmore pub-
lic schools.

To aid the Valley Forge Museum we pur-
chased the Valley Forge Christmas cards, and
sold them to our members. We are proud to
have our own room in the old Court House in
Chester, which was restored to its original state

TABLET ERECTED BY LIBERTY HALL CHAPTER
OK CHARLOTTE, \. C.

by our Governor, Hon. Wm. C. Sproul, that
we have laid stress on raising money to furnish
it, and this Fall held our first meeting there.
Through the generosity of our First Vice
Regent, Miss Denis, we were able to become a
"Founder" in the Tomassee School of South
Carolina, $50. being given by her, and $50. being
taken from our treasury. We also contributed
$10. to the Laura Haines Cook scholarship.
We contributed $10. to the Martha Berry school
in Georgia, but the needs of the school were so
appealing that our
faithful friend
Miss Denis again
gave in our name
$25. more, while at
Continental
Coiigress.

For the starving
children in the
Near East we sub-
scribed $80., $50.
given by our regis-
trar, Mrs. C. Frank
Williamson, and
the rest by individ-
ual members. Ten
dollars was given
to aid Daughters
of the American
Revolution from
Pennsylvania who
are suffering from
tuberculosis
in Arizona.

We have given
sixty cents per
capita for the
Pilgrim Fountain;
Painting for
France, and the
Immigrants' Man-
ual, $5. for the
Guernsey scholar-
ship, $10. for the
Caroline Scott
Harrison Memorial.

Our Chapter has been entertained each month
— Washington's birthday is always remembered
at our February meeting, and on Memorial Day
a wreath is placed on John Morton's grave.

On October 5th we held a delightful "Get
together" luncheon, and if the Chapter continues
to be as interested, and each member puts her
■jhoulder to the wheel, our report next year will
be the best ever given.

Maria Wilson Stoever,

Regent.

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Tucson Chapter (Tucson, Ariz.). One of
the most imposing features of the Tucson,
Armistice Day celebration, was a large float
draped in National colors, decorated with
Arizona palms, and driven by "Uncle Sam"

historic spots — a permanent evidence of pat-
riotic service among the early Arizona settlers.
These "Markers" will serve, a silent proof, of
heroic endurance on the part of pioneers who
faced peril when Tucson was but a village

I'l.OAT OF THK TUCSON CHAPTER IN THE A

himself. The float bore the spinning wheel of
revolutionary distinction, and a Colonial Dame,
impersonated by Mrs. W. B. Wilson of the
Tucson Chapter of the Daughter's of the
American Revolution, formed the central feature.

The work of the Chapter last year was to
place in the representative public school of
Tucson, the Safford, a portrait of Governor
Safford whose early efforts in the development
of the city educationally and otherwise, is a
part of Arizona history.

Our purpose this year is to place markers on

RMISTICE DAY PARADE, NOVEMBER 11, 1921

surrounded by Indians who sought the town only
to pillage and kill.

By careful map study we find that portions
of the old town wall still cling to sandy
moorings, and the four walls have been
authentically located. The work for this year
will be to mark these corners.

Our Tucson Chapter has fourty-one active
members, and we hope to enlarge our enroll-
ment sui)stantially before another anniversary.
Novella Routt Rkvnolds,

Act in [J Ilislorian.

D. A. R. CERTIFICATES OF DESCENT

The Block Certificate of Descent was en-
dorsed by the Twentieth and subsequent Con-
tinental Congresses as a means of liquidating
the debt on Memorial Continental Hall and
establishing an endowment fund.

The Hall having been freed from debt
through the generosity of the members of the
National Society, and payment made in full
for the additional land in the rear of the Hall
on which to erect an administration building,
the Twenty-ninth Continental Congress adopted
the resolution that the money from the sale

of the Block Certificates be applied, from that
date, to the new administration building fund
under the name of the Liquidation and Endow-
ment Fund.

The Certificates are sold for one dollar each.
With the arrangements for transferring, de-
scendants in the sixth generation will possess
the autographs of their ancestors.

In ordering give name, national number and
number of Revolutionary ancestor. Send all or-
ders and remittances to the Treasurer General,
Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

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EDITH ROBERTS RAMSBURGH

GENEALOGICAL EDITOR

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

QUERIES

10331. DiNSMORE. — Wanted parentage and
dates of b, ^d and m of Adam Dinsmore who
m Margot Findly and served in War of 1812
from Erie, Pa. He lived in North East, Pa.
in 1817 but left before 1832. Wanted the parent-
age of Wm. Dinsmore who m Isabella Parker
Aug. 26, 1788. Also names of their ch.

(a) GiLLETT. — Wanted parentage of Jerusha
Ciillett b May 27, 1768 and d May 13, 1842
at Covington, Genesee Co., N. Y. She m first
Chauncy Barnes and second Abel Pond of
Poultney of Vt. in 1806. Did her f have Rev
rec?— L. H. M.

10332. Williams.— Wanted gen of Elizabeth
Whitmell Williams of N. C. who m John John-
ston and lived in Bertie Co. Was her f in the
Rev?— R. H. S.

10333. White-Greenk.— William Greene b
July 29, 1719 m Hannah Tyler in 1745, sup-
posedly of Uxbridge, Mass. Their dau Mary
b Nov. 14, 1746 m Josiah White of Menden,
Mass. Is there Rev ser, mil or civil on
either line?

10334. Staats.— Wanted parentage and date
and place of m of Rchecah Staats who m —
Gold.sborough and was the m of his s Thomas
and Levi b Feb. 13, 1826 and mother or step-
mother of Hannah b 1789 in New Castle Co.
Del. In "account of Del. Wills" p 112 I find
Rcbccah Staats Redman mentioned, could she
have m Gold.sborough for her second husband?
Wanted specially the name of the m of Dr.
Levi Goldsborough b 1806 who named his first

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dau Margaret. The family removed from New-
castle, Dell, to N. Y.— J. C.

10335. Cross. — Wanted Rev rec of Joseph
Cross b Long Island, m Abigail Worden b Feb.
6, 1757. Also her gen. Their dau Huldah b
Apr. 6, 1799 m Daniel Waters before 1830.
They inoved from N. Y. State to Pa. about
1834.— M. A. G. A.

10336. Smith. — Wanted parentage of 'Sla.r-
tin Smith whose first w was Gretchen Sacia
and second Harriet Perry. He came to Port-
land, N. Y. from Schoharie Co. in 1809 where
he kept a tavern, moved to Tonowanda, N. Y.
in 1820. Also lived in Williamsville June 19.
1827. Was elevated to degree of Royal Arch
Masons by Niagara Chapter No. 71, N. Y.
Wanted also dates and place of b. Authority
History of Chautauqua Co.. N. Y. p. 498 and
Tavlor's History of Portland, Chautauqua Co.,
N. Y. p. 314.— H. A. S.

10337. Crawford. — Wanted date & place of
m and place of burial of Wul Crawford, Rev
sol, also dates of his w Hannah Vance. —
V. E. H.

10338. Andross-Putnam. — Wanted gen. and
any data of Apphia Putnam who m Samuel
.Andross. Their dau Lucy m Giles Cjiprou,
Jan. 12, 1768. Have an old i)ocket book marked
" Parks Putnam, this pocket book bought of
Jonas Putnam, June 30, 1777." Any Putnam
desc of the above, interested in same, please
write.— W. H. K.

10339. Pratt.— David Pratt, who m Elizabeth
Spaulding, was the s of Thomas Pratt, 1740-
1829, and his w Caty Cummings. Thomas Pratt

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is buried in N. H. Wanted his parentage and
Pratt gen— J. A. B.

10340. Protsman. — Wanted parentage & Rev
rec of ances of Jacob Protsman or Protzman
who m Catherine (Caty) Lewis Dec. 5. 1805,
in Nelson Co., Ky.

(a) McKiNLEY-ScHNEiDER. — Wm. AIcKinley
& his w Christina Schneider lived in Fred. Co.,
Md , early in 19th century. Had ch Wm., John,
Adam & Isabella, who m Funston. Wanted
Rev rec & any other data on these lines. — R. T.

10341. Stevens-Stephens. — Wanted gen of
Elizabeth Stevens, who m Joseph Field, s of
Joseph, 1st Lieut, at Battle of Bunker Hill.
Was Elizabeth Stevens a direct desc of Miles
Standish, of Plymouth?— M. H. I. T.

10342. Arnold. — Wanted parentage of Ed-
ward Arnold & names of his bros and sis who
lived in R. I. He m Mercy Pettibone 1780, ser
3 yrs in Rev in Col. Angel's Reg., Capt. Olney's
Co, enlisted at Providence, R. L, was present
when Gen. Washington took command of
Amer. forces, fought on both land & sea, was
with Gen. Washington when Cornwallis sur-
rendered. Ch Nancy. Esick, Lucy, Molly,
Samuel, Amy, David, Mercy Lavinia, Sophia,
Tryphena, Edward & Sabrina. He d in Little
Falls, N. Y., Oct. 28, 1842, only Rev sol buried
there. Would like to correspond with any of
his desc— M. A. L.

10343. Bi.AiR. — Wanted gen of John Blair,
Mem. from Va. of U. S. Constitutional Con-
vention and Signer of the Constitution Sept.,
1787.— F. B. D.

10344. Ci.AWSON. — Wanted gen of Samuel
Clawson, a Methodist preacher of the Pitts-
burgh Conference in 1854.

(a) McCreary. — Wanted any information of
family of Wm. McCreary, who came from
Bannock Co., Downs. Ireland, & set in Va. He
was there in 1718.— R. T. J.

10345 Porter-Harris. — John Johnson, of
Roxbury, with w Margery and sons Isaac &
Humphrey came from Eng. prob in fleet with
Winthrop, desired admission Oct. 19, 1630, was
Representative of 1st Court 1634, Surveyor-
General of arms & ammunition 1638. Isaac,
eldest s, was m Jan. 20, 1637, to Eliz. Porter,
who d Dec. 18, 1661 (Roxbury Town Recs).
Their s Isaac was bapt. according to town recs,
Jan. 7, 1644, m Mary Harris at Roxbury, Dec.
26, 1669. Wanted gen of Eliz. Porter &
Mary Harris.

(a) Johnson.— Caleb Johnson ser in Rev &
m Naomi Sutliff in Haddam, Conn., Aug., 1785.
Wanted SutlifF (Sutlief) gen— C. J. L.

10346. Scott.— Wanted gen of Clark Scott,
who came from New Haven Co., Conn., to
Delaware Co., O., abt 1832.

(a) Adams.— Wanted gen of Gilbert (')
Adams, who had ch Bartholomew, Gilbert,

Robert, Moses & Philip. They once lived in
N. Y.— M. C. S.

10347. Waters. — Wanted parentage with
dates & Rev rec of Daniel Waters 1796-1865,
of Conn., who m Huldah Cross.

(a) Cross. — Wanted Rev rec of Joseph
Cross, R. I., who m Abigail Worden or
Wording in 1786. Wanted also her gen. —
M. A. G. A.

10348. Parker. — Wanted maiden name &
gen of Martha, w of Elisha Parker, of N. Y.
He served in Rev under Col. Marinus Grey
& Willitts.— C. C. J.

10349. Barnhill. — The Barnhill fam came to
Balto., Md., from Eng. One of the immigrant's
sons or grandsons went to N. Car. & had ch,
all of whom went to Ky. & Ohio & were in
there: Wm. m Ruith Boone; Robt., b 1781, m

Eliz. Carter; Mary m Burton; John m

Hannah Russell ; Joseph m Rebecca Hopkins :
& James, b 1780, m Hannah Boone. Wanted
parentage with dates of these ch & Rev rec of
father.— M. E. D.

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3802. Sehorn. — My grt grandfather John ( ?)
Swann m Lydia Katherine Tsehorn or
Sehorn. According to family traditions the
family was originally Pennsylvania Dutch, but
Lydia K. Sehorn was from South Carolina.
She had four bros — John, Jim, Robert and
Nicholas, and a sis Malinda. These bros were
famous Indian fighters, since one of their sisters
had been killed by the Indians. After Lydia's
m to John Swann they lived in Tenn., owning
a plantation on the French Broad river and
another near Knoxville. It seems probable that
your Capt. John Sehorn may have been her
bro or father. If you have heard anything
more of the fam will be glad if you will share
it with me. — Mrs. F. M. Fly, Gonzales, Texas.

6654. Lewis. — There were in the 1790 Census
of Washington Co., Md., three men named
Wm. Lewis. One fam I have traced. Wm.
Lewis m Mary Forkler, and their ch were
Wayne, Elizabeth & Eliza, who m Mr.
Rickenbaugh and had desc. Elizabeth m
George Shryork «& her dau Susan m Wm.
Forkler. If your Wm. Lewis m a Miss Eliza
Rickenbaugh, it must have been the Eliza men-
tioned above or her dau. I am very anxious
to obtain the name of the w of Wm. Lewis,
also of Hagerstown, Md., who is supposed to
have been a Rev sol and who was b in Wales.
His ch were Harry, W., John, Jacob, Kesiah,
Lana, Daniel and Samuel. Samuel was b 1818
in Hagerstown m Catherine Suffecool, of
Chambersburg, Franklin Co , Pa., and their ch
were Susan, Emelina, Jacob, Malinda and
Harry. Susan Lewis m Daniel Westfall and had
ch McLain, Catherine, Davis and Samuel. —

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6659. If M. B. E. will write to Mr. H. C.
Alunger, 1439 St. Paul St., Denver, Colo., he
can give the desired information, as he has a
book of the entire Hunger family. — Mrs. Oscar
B. Steely, Pocatello, Idaho.

8803. "Cark.— Scotto Clark had a s Barnabas,
b March 9, 1743, d Dec. 12, 1831. His s Samuel
Clark, of Boston, b in Rawson's Lane in 1754
was at the Latin School in 1766. He m May 19,
1778. Martha, dau of Obadiah Curtis. At the
beginning of the Rev War he owned parts of
several vessels and some real estate in Boston.
He was Major in one of Gov. Hancock's Regi-
ments of Boston troops and served with it in
the Rhode Island campaign in 1778, when it
acted in cooperation with the French forces
under the Marquis de La Fayette. These regi-
ments were in a terrible storm Aug. 12, 1778,
and Major Clark contracted a severe cold which
caused lung trouble from which he died Oct.
15, 1780.— Mr.y. Sarah Clark Burdick, 5855
Trinity Place, West Philadelphia, Pa.

8811. Wheelock. — Henry Penniman, of
Mendon & New Braintree, Mass., b 1733, d 1809,
m April 13, 1769, Experience Wheelock, b 1749,
d 1807, dau of Josiah Wheelock, b at Mendon,
Mass., 1725, d Dec. 28, 1794, m Experience
Clark. Josiah was the s of Obediah Wheelock
b at Medfield, Mass. Apr. 25, 1685, d 1760, m
1708 Elizabeth Darling, who was the s of
Benjamin Wheelock, b Dec. 8, 1639, at Dedham,
Mass., d Jan. 1, 1684, m 1st, Eliz. Bullen, & 2nd,
Eliz. French. Benjamin was the s of Ralph
Wheelock, immigrant in 1637, b Oct. 7, 1563, d
Sept. 11. 1639. Bred at Cambridge University,
Eng., took Lst Degree in 1626 & 1631. M 1st,

Rebecca Wilkinson ; 2nd, Hannah . His

father, John Wheelock, b in Donington, Shrap-
shire. Eng., 1513. d March 11, 1595. m Eliza-
beth Rogers was the s of Humphrey Wheelock,
buried at Donington, Eng., & his w Margaret
Winter. Humphrey was the s of Hugh
Wheelock, b 1450 at Chester, Eng., who m
Mary, dau of Robert Spellman. — Mrs. Geo. S.
McFarland. 1768 Bedford Road, Columbus, O.

6684. Montgomery. — From marriages by the
Rev. John Casper Stoever, Lutheran Minister.
John Montgomery m Esther Houston at Earl-
town July 2, 1738 (Egle's Notes and Queries,
1896, p. 83). On Nov. 9, 1773, John Montgom-
ery', late of the Province of Pennsylvania,
received from William Harris and Martha, his
w, of the Parish of St. Paul's, in the Province
of Georgia, three certain parcels of land lying
in Mccklenbcrg Co., North Carolina, containing
in all 630 acres, and on the waters of McRees
Creek. His Will, dated Sept. 13, 1795. pro-
bated Oct. Term, 1796, mentions his w, name
not given, sons Samuel, James, Robert and
John and daus Elizabeth Johnson, Mary Irwin,

Isabel and Ruth. The executors were Thomas
Irwin and Nehemiah Harrison. Before Jan-
uary, 1800, Samuel Montgomery moved to Knox
County, Tenn., and was still living there in
1811. In a Deed dated June 25, 1795, Robert
Montgomery is mentioned as a planter. — Mrs.
E. L. Montgomery, 309 Chestnut Street,
Harrisburg, Pa.

Allen-Hudson. — This record is taken from
a family Bible in my possession which be-
longed to my great grandfather Nathaniel
Allen. Nathaniel Allen and Pamelia Hudson
were m in 1778. Their ch were Elizabeth, b
Sept. 11, 1779; Thomas, b July 12, 1781;
Nathaniel & Pamelia, b Nov. 3, 1783; Sally, b
Nov. 15, 1786; Nancy & Anphelada, b June 12,
1788; Susannah Patrick, b Aug. 22, 1791;
Hudson b Feb. 1, 1793; Polly b Aug. 21, 1795
Rebecca and Lucy, b Feb. 2, 1798. Nathaniel
Allen d in 1812 and Pamelia Hudson Allen
d Feb. 2, 1798. Another dau was b to Nathaniel
Allen by his second w Feb. 22, 1800; her name
was Sophia Pamelia Hudson, was related to
Henry Clay's mother. She had a sis who m
a Wade & their desc are living in Texas. — Mrs.
Geo. Berleth, 2017 Fannin St., Houston, Texas.

9971. Kaufman.— Esther Kaufifman, b 1770,
d 1829, m Andrew Hershey, b 1779, d 1835.
Ref., Biographical History of Lancaster Co.,
p. 306.— Gc«. Ed.

9974. Seavey. — In the Town Records of
Pepperellborough, now Saco, Maine, I find the
following concerning Samuel Seavey : He was
the s of Stephen and Betsy Seavey and was b
July 25, 1799. There is no mention of the
parentage of his father, but in Ridlon's " Saco
Valley Settlements and Families " I find that
Betsey Larrabee, dau of Philip and Sallie
Larrabee, bapt Aug. 26, 1776, and m Stephen
Seavey, Sept. 30, 1798. Philip Larrabee was b
presumably in Scarborough, Maine, Mar. 3,
1744. His w Sallie Smith was from Berwick,
Maine, and they settled in Scarborough, where
Philip d Aug. 23, 1823, aged 79 years.— .1/wj
X el lie M. Smith, Saco, Maine.

9989. Shelby.- Dr. John H. Wheeler in his
History of North Carolina, p. 97, under Cleave-
land Co., tells that its county seat Shelby was
named after Isaac, s of Gen. Evan Shelby, who
was b in Maryland. Dec. 11, 1750. and as a
Lieut, began his career at the mouth of the
Kenhawha. in Ohio, on Oct. 10, 1774, against
the Indians. He was made Captain of a
Minute Co., in Va. July 1776. while absent on
duties as a surveyor in Ky. 1777 Patrick
Ilcnry. as Governor of Va. made him Commis-
sary of Supplies. 1778, he was a niciwhcr of \'a.
Legislature in Washington Co., & appointed
Major of an escort of guards to extend the line
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land surveying, etc., in Ky. but his residence was
in N. Car. where he had been appointed by Gov.
Caswell, Colonel of Sullivan Co. The surrender
of Charleston aroused his spirit to arms & upon
arrival in Sullivan, he found that Gen. Charles
McDowell had requisitioned his aid to check the
enemy which was entering N. Car. By him he
was detached with Cols. Sevier & Clarke to sur-
prise & take a fort on the waters of Pacolet,
which was done expeditiously. In 1782 he m
Susannah Hart at Boonesboro, whose father
was a partner in the Transylvania Land Co.,
Ky., where he moved & became the first
Governor. General Evan Shelby, his father, a
Welshman by birth, settled in Maryland, when
but a lad. He fought as a capt under Braddock,
hut distinguished himself under Gen. Forbes
in 1758, when he led the advance upon Fort
Duquesne. He was the first Brig. Gen. (Va.),
" the first officer of that grade ever appointed
on the western waters." Note from a deed in
our Court House (Reg. office) : "Evan Shelby,
1773, Gentleman of Frederick Co., Va." Dr.
Wheeler says Brig. Gen. Shelby moved to the
West in 1772 & in 1774 commanded a company
against the Indians on the Scioto river and was
in the battle Oct. 10, 1774, at Kenhawa—
it was for his service in 1779 — against the
Chickamaugas on Tenn. river that he was
appointed Brig. Gen. North Carolina Booklet
of Jan., 1917, contains an article by Dr.
Archibald Henderson which says that Gen.
Evan Shelby was b in Wales in 1720, immigrated
to Maryland abt 1735 with his parents, Evan
& Catharine Shelby, & settled in the neighbor-
hood of Hagerstown, then Frederick Co., but
removed with his fam to Pa., abt '60's.
His s Isaac was living 1771 in Western Va. as
a rancher (he was a s by the 1st w Letitia
Scott, of Fredericktown, Md.). The father,
Evan, with sons Isaac, Evan, Aloses & James,
moved to King's Meadows near Bristol, Tenn.,
about 1771. Upon the Sapling Grove plantation
Evan Shelby built a fort named Shelby's Sta-
tion & hundreds were sometimes forted during
the Rev. They kept a store there & it was
there that Daniel Boone got his supplies for the
expedition of 1773. His 1st w Letitia Scott
d in 1777 & was bur at Charlottesville, Va.,
& in later life he m Isabelle Elliott, deeding
one-third of his estate to her before m. She
remarried after his d in 1794 aged 74. He was
bur in Bristol. — Mrs. Minnie G. McCubbin,
419 S. Main St., Salisbury, N. Car.

10119. Davidson-Adams.— If N. C. M. will
write to Mr. A. H. Davidson, 1342 E. 9th St.,
Des Moines, Iowa, who is compiling a Davidson
gen, he may be able to give her the desired
information. — Mrs. W. B. Guy, 426 Broadway,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

10008. Terrell. — In "Some Immigrants to

Virginia," compiled by W. G. Stanard, Robt.,
Richmond & Wm. Terrell are mentioned. Robt.
seems to have been the 1st to come over. The
item reads: "Terrell, Robt. (in Va., 1647),
York Co., citizen and fishmonger of London.
Died in London, 1677, bequeathed lands in
Hampshire. He was the s of Robert Terrell,
or Tyrrell, of Reading, and great grandson of
George Tyrrell, of Thornton Hall, Bucks."
York Records, Va., Magazine of History &
Biography, vol. 16, pp. 190-192; also the
Tyrrells or Terrells of America.— Mr.y. G. W.
Turnham, 1406 E. Oregon St., Evansville, Ind.

10028. YouNGE.— Have some records of the
Young family who were among the early set-
tlers of Georgia. Will be glad to correspond
with you.— Mrs. J. C. Lane, Statesboro. Ga.

10032. McCoNNELL. — William & Alexander
McConnell, bros, joined a company organized
by Robert Patterson & left Fort Pitt, now
Pittsburgh, in the fall of 1775, for the wilds
of Kentucky. Wm. was Patterson's subaltern.
Rauck's History of Lexington says Wm.
McConnell built the first log cabin, which was
destroyed, & about a year later Patterson built
a cabin on the site of Lexington. " Concerning
the Forefathers," a history published expressly
for the Patterson family, says Robt. Patterson
built the first log cabin on site of Lexington.
Col. J. H. Patterson, President of the National
Cash Register Co. of Dayton, O., had the log
cabin of his grandfather moved to Dayton &
rebuilt just as it stood in Ky. & built a rail
fence around it, as a relic of his forefathers.
About 1800, or a little before the McConnell
bros left Ky., went to Cincinnati & parted there.
Alexander went up the Miami river & located
near Franklin, O., and in 1806 moved to Dayton,
where he d 1821, leaving, ch Robert, James
Lindsa,y, Alexander and Thomas Jefferson.
Wm., bro of Alex., went up the Ohio river &
up the Muskingum river & located in Morgan
County on what is now the site of McConnells-
ville, Ohio.~Mrs. Fannie McConnell Lynch,
1035 5th St., Huron. South Dakota.

10053. Calvert. — Copied from the family
records of Richard Taylor, Esq., Norfolk, Va.
Cornelius Calvert, 1st, was Justice of Norfolk
Co. from July 18, 1729, to January 17, 1830.
He was a member of the Common Council,
Norfolk Borough, & July 7, 1741, was appointed
member of a committee to "form a law" to
prevent " all persons, being servants or slaves,
from purchasing any rum or spirituous liquors
under two gallons." June 24, 1747, Mr. George
Abyran & Mr. Nathaniel Portlock were
appointed Common Councilmen in the room of
Capt. Cornelius Calvert, deceased, & Mr.
Peter Dale, resigned. Cornelius Calvert m
Mary Saunders 29th July, 1719, in Princess Ann
County, Va. Their ch were Jonathan, b 23

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Sept., 1720, father of the 1st Mrs. King, Barry
King's grandmother; Maximillian, b 29 Oct.,
1722, father of Mary Calvert, who m James
Marsden; Cornelius, b 13 March, 1725, father
of Mary Calvert, who m Wm. Walke ; Thomas,
b 8 Sept., 1726, father of Mrs. Eliz. Ingraham
& Mrs. Sarah Martin; Saunders, b Jan., 1728,
Princess Ann Calverts ; Joseph, b 14 April,
1732 ; Wm., b 10 June, 1734, a Tory in the Revo-
lution (see Hawe's History of Virginia) ;
Christopher, b 26 Sept., 1736, a distinguished
officer in the Va. navy in the Rev War (Vide
Southern Literary Messenger) ; John, b 19
Sept., 1739, father of Mrs. Richard Taylor;
Mary, b 31 July, 1741, m Col. Anthony Lamson
20 June, 1758; Samuel, b 8 Dec, 1743;
Elizabeth, b 27 Nov., 1745. This is copied
from " The Whole Duty of Man " in the
Calvert Family. The will of Cornelius Calvert
1st is dated 29 May, 1796, proved 18 June,
1747-8. See Lower Norfolk County, Virginia
Antiquary, vol. 1, No. 4, pp. 109-114. His w
Mary Saunders was the dau of the Rev.
Jonathan Saunders and Mary (widow Ewell,
who afterwards m Maximilliam Boush). —
Mrs. Catherine Lindsay Greer, 1401 Linden St.,
Pine Bluff, Ark.

10105. Thompson. — I am now tracing the
Thompson family and would be glad to corre-
spond with you. — Mrs. Julian Lxine, States-
boro, Ga.

10107 (b) Humphries. — Mary Humphries'
father must have been Abraham or Richard. I
am trying to secure the Rev recs of the fam &
will be glad to hear from you. — Mrs. Julina
Lane, Statesboro, Ga.

10109. Herrick. — Stephen Herrick, of Mont-
gomery, and widow Nancy Ferre, of
Springfield, m Aug., 1786. Their ch (see
Montgomery Vital Records) were Sophia, b
13 Dec, 1786, m int 14 Dec, 1807. Luther
Gorham; Pamela, b 24 May, 1788, d 25 Jan.,
1804: Margaret, b 23 Apr., 1790, "in West-
field " ; Stephen, b 16 Aug., 1792, in Westfield,
m 25 Nov., 1813, Eunice Green; Eunice, b 27
June, 1794, in Westfield, m int 9 July, 1815,
Abner Avery ; Henry, b 22 Sept., 1797. Stephen,
Sr. d 25 July, 1812, in 28th year in Mont-
gomery. He was the s of Jonathan Sc Elizabeth
who resided for a time in Westfield, Mass. —
Mrs. Jessie A. Porter, 95 Euclid Ave., Spring-
field, Mass.

10110. DooLiTTLE. — The following answers
are taken from " The Doolittles in America,"
pub by Dr. Wm. Doolittlc, Cleveland, O. :
Thankful Doolittle (Isaac, Joseph, Capt.
Abraham) was the dau of Isaac & Sarah Todd
Doolittle, b Jan. 21, 1754, who m Capt. Jean
Trowbridge, New Haven, Conn.

(2) The ch of Ambrose Doolittle were
Ambrose, Amos, Martha, Eunice, Abner,

Samuel and Silas (twins), Reuben, Lely, Mary
Ann, Eliakim, Lois and Thankful. — Mrs. C. W.
Woodford, Lake City, Minn.

10152. Bailey.— In History of Ashfield,
Mass., p. 54, there is a list of names of men to
whom rights or lots were given for service. In
that list is "A 21-2-3-4-5-6-10, etc. Jonathan
Webb for Herv Baly in ye Right of Sam'l
Baly" {\739).—Mrs. Jos. A. Bailey, 62 Broad-
way, Clinton. S. Car.

10180. Gore.— If the party who wishes
information of John Gore, of New London and
Norwich, will write, I think I can furnish them
what is wanted. — Mrs. Emma L. G. Darrah, 105
Elm St., Big Rapids, Mich.

10182. Randall.— John Randall, b 1703, in
Taunton, North Purchase, d Mar. 16, 1765, in
Easton. 1st w — a Stacey — no issue; 2d w m
1732 Experience Willis, b abt 1706, dau of John
and Mary Brett Willis, of Bridgewater. Their
oldest ch was Ephraim, b Apr. 12, 1735, d Oct.
8, 1806. His house was in N. Eastonon. He
was owner of the grist mill, clerk of the Baptist
Society, constable & for four yrs one of the
Selectmen, 1798-1802. Ephraim marched in
Capt. Abiel Mitchell's Co. " down at the Lex-
ington Alarm," in April, 1775. He was a
corp. in Capt. Joshua Wilbore's Co. of Col.
John Hathaway's Reg. in April, 1777, serving
23 days, later in same year was in Capt. Shaw's
Co. of Col. George Williams" Reg. He served
in 1778 in Capt. Randall's Co. & in 1780 enlisted
in Capt. Seth Pratt's Co. of Col. James
Williams' Regt. Notes copied from Ephraim
Randall's acct. book, show he was a shoemaker
and storekeeper. Isaac Stokes was a nailer.
P^phraim Randall m 1st, Mary Blake, of Milton,
b 1740, d May 10. 1776, dau of Moses & Hannah
Horton Blake. Their ch were Ziba, b July 11,
1760, d Mar. 23, 1835; Elijah, b Oct. 14, 1762,
d Oct. 11, 1766; John, b Apr. 11, 1765, d Aug.
13, 1837; Hannah, b Aug. 14, 1769. d Feb. 15,
1800, m Sept. 10, 1789, John Packard
Stoughton ; Mary, b May 16, 1770, m Sept. 1,
1793, Isaac Stokes, Jr.. went to Maine; Elijah,
b Nov. 25, 1772, d 1850 ; Moses, b July 16. 1775,
d Nov. 11, 1844. Ephraim Randall, m 2d Louise
Stone, d Nov., 1812. Their ch were, a ch b
1778, d 1778; Lemuel, b Oct. 1. 1779, d Oct. 11,
1802: Zephaniah, b Sept 24, 1783, d Jan. 5, 1855;
Mindwell. b Feb. 8. 1786. d June 23. 1870; Caleb,
b Apr. 8, 1788, d 1813, with camp distemper in
U. S. service in War of 1812.— A/m Sara E.
Jl'ilhar. 568 Pleasant St., Bridgewater, Mass.

10125. I'"/\RRow. — John Farrow is not believed
to have been a Rev .sol. but his w Rosannah
Waters Farrow rendered Rev ser which make
her desc eligible for membership in the
D. A. R. A sketch of her life was published
in the Dauc.hters of thk American Revolu-
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write, I will give you the data you wish. I
am descended from John & Rosamond Farrow's
eldest s Capt., later Major Thomas Farrow.—
Mrs. J. IV. Simpson, 515 N. Elm St., Greens-
boro, N. Car.

10171. Marshall. — The ch of Col. Wm.
Marshall, of Mecklenburg Co., Va., who d in
Henderson Co., Ky., were Bennet, who m Lucy
Wilson and had 5 ch ; Elizabeth m Thos.
Puryear & had 8 ch ; Alice m Jas. Cunningham
& had 8 ch ; Martha Goode m Francis Lockett
& had 9 ch ; Phebe m Wm. Bagley & had 5 ch ;
Nancy m James Shelton & had 5 ch ; Wm.
Jefferson m Sarah Lyne Holloway & had 4
ch. — Ho)i. Starling L. Marshall, Henderson, Ky.

10207. There was an Oath of Fidelity of
Connecticut which is given in Conn. Colonial
Records with list of legislators who signed
same. There seems to be no complete list of
Signers published, but you will find those of
Glastonbury listed in " Glastonbury for 200
Years " & East Windsor Signers in Vol. 1,
"History of Ancient Windsor, Conn.," by Henry
R. Stiles, while the manuscript material in the
State Library at Hartford includes a list of
Signers in Derby, Middletown, Union &
Wallingford. There were many committees of
Safety, Correspondence & Inspection, etc., also
memorials & petitions which include names of
citizens from Groton, Stonington, Newhaven,
Newfield (Bridgeport), Norwalk, etc.. all of
which prove civil service. — Mrs. F. C. Buckley,
1511 19th St., Superior, Wis.

10234. HiNDMAN. — Egle's Notes & Queries,
Vol. 2. 4th Series, pp. 100-105. Rocky Spring
Church, James Flindman, private in Capt.
Matthes' Co., Dec, 1776. James Hindman
occupied pew 44 in Rocky Spring Church, 1794.
Wills at Chambersburg, Pa , Court House —
Robert Hindman. Book A, p. 315 (1794).
James Hindman, Book B, p. 258 (1805). James
John Hindman taxables in 1786 in Hami'ton
Twp., Franklin Co., Pa. Rocky Spring Church
is in Letterkenny Twp., which adjoins
Hamilton. For records previous to 1784 apply
to Court House, Carlisle, Pa. An historical
sketch of the old Rocky Spring Church in
Letterkenny Twp. can be secured from the
Regent of Franklin Co. Chapter. Chambers-
burg, Pa , price 25 cents. Pa. Arch., 3rd Series,
Vol. 24, p. 427 — James Hindman took up 200
acres land, in Lancaster Co.. Pa., in 1738. This
will probably be found to be in what is now
Hamilton Twp., Franklin Co., Pa. Write to
Office of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg. Pa., to
verify the above. — Mrs. C. F. Fendrick,
Mercersburg. Pa.

10240. Skelton. — John Skelton's name ap-
pears in Solebury Twp., Bucks Co., Pa. Penna.
Arch. Series 5, Vol. 5. p. 382, and elsewhere in
the same vol. in other Soleburv lists. This

name appears in the Census of 1790, same twp.
— Ezra M. KuIdis. Dayton, O.

10120. Crane.— Benjamin Crane, b abt 1740,
was the s of John, the s of Azariah, the s of
Jasper Crane, who was one of the original set-
tlers of New Haven, Conn., abt 1639, and with
Robert Treat, of Newark. N. J., in 1664. This
Benjamin Crane m Phebe Meeker & moved
to Amsterdam, N. Y., early in the history of
the place, probably abt 1790. He was a black-
smith & was b near Craneville, Montgomery
Co., N. Y. He had 7 ch, David being the 5th
ch, b abt 1777. This David m Dec. 4, 1797,
Electa Riggs and settled at Crane Village abt
1791. His 1st ch, John S., b Oct. 20, 1790, m

Margaret of New York City, & had one

ch. Electa. Azariah Crane m a dau of Robert
Treat, of Charter Oak fame, these two with
Jasper Crane being among the first settlers of
Newark, N. J., but Treat went back to Conn.,
where he became Governor of the Colony. —
Mrs. Geo. A. Pearce, Abilene. Texas.

10139c. Fargeson.— William Pendleton, 1748-
1817, s of Capt. Nathaniel Pendleton, Sr., of the
Rev, m 1770 Elizabeth Fargeson, dau of Capt.
Samuel Fargeson, of the Culpepper Rev mil, &
granddaughter of Samuel Fargeson, Sr., who
d 1772. There was also a James Fargeson, the
name having been spelled several ways in the
old records, in this Culpepper fam, one branch
of which settled in Ky., & Samuel Fargeson,
3rd, d in Jefferson Co., Ky., in 1817, the same
year as his brother-in-law, William Pendleton. —
/. B. Nicklin, Jr., 516 Poplar St., Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.

10250. Salisbury. — One of the ch of Job
Salisbur>-, who lived in Newport. Herkimer
Co., was Stephen, who m Hannah Gage, b
Sept. 27, 1792, at Pittstown, & d June 3, 1843.
Their ch were Henry, Stephen, Hannah and
Joseph Moses. Hannah Gage was the dau of
Moses Gage, b Apr. 11, 1768, d Apr. 6, 1843, at
Norway, N. Y., and his w, Sarah Slauson, b
Dec. 5, 1772, d March 14, 1863, whom he m
at Salem, \\'estchester Co., N. Y. Sarah
Slauson Gage was the dau of Stephen Slauson,
a Rev sol from Westchester Co. George,
father of Moses Gage, was b July 9, 1740, m
Sarah Adams, of Mass. George Gage joined
the mil in Dutchess Co., N. Y., April 14, 1760, at
the age of 25, under Capt. Richard Rea. (Pro-
vincial Records.) He later removed to Dorset,
Vt., where he was one of the first settlers in
1768. He was constable & in 1776 enlisted in
the cause of Independence. He next removed
to Pittstown, N. Y., after 1785, & his name
appears on the list of officers elected at the first
meeting held in April, 1789, Renssalear Co.
Hist. He d May 4, 1806. His obituary
occurred in a paper called "The Northern

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Budget," published at Troy, May 13, 1806, an
extract of which is as follows : " At Pittstown,
in the 66th year of his age, Mr. George Gage.
In an early period of the Revolutionary strug-
gle, Mr. Gage was known as the friend of
Republicanism. He was a soldier of 76, and
as such his name deserves to be enrolled on the
living tablet of American Independence." The
ch of George and Sarah Adams Gage were :
Elizabeth, m 1st Cornelius Smith, 2nd Dr.
Randall; James b May 30, 1766, m Eunice
Watkins, & he d in Painesville, Ohio; Moses
b April 11, 1768, m Sarah Skuson ; Hannah
m John Purdy ; Rebecca m Boswell or Roswell
Burnham ; Lemuel b 1775, m Rosanna Sherman ;
Daniel David b Sept. 3, 1777, m Abigail Gates,
of Hoosick Falls, N. Y., he d in Detroit, Mich.,
Aug. 21, 1819; Eli; Charlotte Carr b Apr. 22,
1787, at Pittstown m June 15, 1806, Israel
Sloan, Jr., formerly of Rindge, N. H. In 1807
they removed to Pompey, N. Y. Charlotte d
Oct. 20, 1879, & Israel d Nov. 18, 1855. The
ch of Moses & Sarah Slauson Gage were:
Hannah, b Sept. 27, 1792, at Pittstown, m
Stephen Salisbury, of Waterville, N. Y. ; Lydia,
b August 15, 1796, in Norway, m Anson
Crosby; Charlotte, b April 8, 1799, m Roland
Ash; Stephen Judson, b June 9, 1802, m 1st
Eliza Lobdell, 2nd Caroline M. Gage; Nelson,
b May 3, 1806, d Dec. 24, 1818 ; Lorenzo Dow,
b Sept. 7, 1812, d March 25. 1890, unmarried.
Record found in Norway Tidings, Oct., 1887;
Gage Gen. ; Tombstones in Norway, Conn. ;
Wills and Papers in Troy Library; Z. Thomp-
son Gazeteer as to Dorset, Vt. — Mrs. Olive
H. H. Lash, Benton Harbor, Mich.

10121. Kevser. — In the Records of the
Huguenot and Dutch Church at New Paltz,
is found the following: "In 1755 Nicholas
Kcyscr and Anna Wieler were witnesses at the
baptism of Nicholas, ch of Joseph Griffen and
Alargarita Wider. Other ch of Joseph
Griffen and Margarita Wieler were Margrite,
b May 1, 1757, m Josia Terwillyir; Ben-
jamin, b Oct. 16, 1759, Catrin, b Feb. 14, 1762.
Rachel, b July 8, 1764. Maria, b Dec. 26, 1766
and John (Johannes), b Oct. 3, 1771. Decem-
ber 13, 1790, Anatje Kcyser was witness at
baptism of Anatje, ch of Evert Shirter and
Grictjy Keyser. This inay indicate that the
death of Nicholas had occurred. These records
are in Vol. 3, of Holland Society Collections.
There were Wheelers and Griffins over the
line around Redding. Conn.— Mrs. Burlon A
Crane. 517 West 10th St.. Eric. Pa.

10277. SiTTON.— Joseph Sitton was b in Vir-
ginia, Oct. 15, 1745 and m Diana Beck, b in Pa.
He d in Lincoln Co., Missouri Feb. 8, 1832
and is bur in Bryant's Creek Cemetery in Lin-
coln Co.. Missouri and a marker is lerectcd at
his grave. Diana Beck Sitton. b May 14, 1749

d in Lincoln Co., Mo. Feb. 8, 1842. Their ch
were John Sitton, b Oct. 9, 1767, m Rhoda
Smith; Jefifrey, b Dec. 1, 1769, m Mary Bestick;
Joseph, b Jan. 10, 1772, not m; Phillip, b Mar.
7, 1774. m Eleanor Gibson; Lydia, b April 16,
1776, m Joshua King; William, b April 26,
1778, m Annie Gray; Thomas, b Nov. 13, 1780,
m Nancy Boze; Jessie, b Mar. 11. 1783, m
Sallie Naney; Lawrence, b Dec. 12, 1785, m
1st Rachel Steele Gibson, 2nd, Patsy Thomp-
son, 3rd Nancy Martin & 4th Martha Ann
Moseley; Diana, b Jan. 1, 1788. m James Gib-
son; Jehu, b Sept. 4, 1790; Salome, b Oct. 5,
1793, m Guyen Ginson. Joseph Sitton was a
soldier in the Rev. The foregoing data
was originally received from Mrs. Zera Sitten
Teters, 2308 Hill Crest Drive, West Adams
Heights Los Angeles, Cal. & she has other in-
formation of the Sitton family. In the Sitton
Family Bible is the following ; John Sitton came
from Scotland, his s John, b in N. Y. His s
Joseph Sitton, b in Va. Joseph Sitton's mother
was Elizabeth Pindtell. b of English parents,
in America. From the foregoing it appears
that Thomas Sitton who m Nancy Boze, was
not a s but a bro of John Sitton. Dates agree
on birth of John but Thomas was b 1780 not
1786.— Mr.?. C. R. Hinkle, Lake Shore Drive,
Saint Joseph, Mich.

10293. Scott.— James Scott of Ulster Co.,
N. Y., m 1801 Hannah Ky.^er and had at least
one ch baptised in New Paltz Church. His
father's name might be obtained from same
source. This record is in Vol. 3, Holland His-
torical Collections. You might try the family
of Peter Scott who m Thankful Buck. Feb. 2,
1742, at Rhinebeck Dutchess Co., N. Y.—
Mrs. B. A. Crane, 517 West 10th St.. Erie. Pa.

10293a. Gage.— Polly Gage, b at Bradford,
Mass. Nov. 13, 1779 m at Bradford, April,
1797. Joshua Buswell, b April 5, 1774. She
d at Methuen, Mass., May 1, 1836. She was the
dau. of Peter and Molly Webster Gage; gr dau
of Major Benjamin and Priscilla Poor Gage;
gt. gr. dau. of Lieut. Benjamin and Rebecca
Mullicken Gage. Can give dates and Rev. ser
of this family, if desired.— il/;\T. 5". B. Carroxv,
5 Stevens St., Methuen, Mass.

10300.— Commodore Oliver Hazard Perrv, b
Narragansett. R. I. Aug. 23. 1785. d on U. S.
-ship Aug. 23, 1819. He m May 5. 1811 at
Newport, Elizabeth Champlin Mason, b at New-
port Feb. 12, 1791, d Feb. 11. 1858. Commo-
dore Perry was the s of Christopher Raymond
Perry m Sarah Wallace Alexander; gr. s of
Freeman Perry and Mercy Hazzard ; gt. gr. s
of Benjamin Perry and Su.sanna Barber; and
gt. gt. gr. s of Edward Perry who m Mary
Freeman dau of Edmund Freeman. Mercy
Hazzard Perry was the dau of Oliver Hazzard
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115

George Hazzard and Penelope Arnold, who was
the s of Robert Hazard and Mary Brownell.
Elizabeth Raymond Hazard was the dau of
Joshua Raymond and his w Elizabeth Christo-
phers, and Joshua was the s of Joshua Raymond
and Mercy Sands. Elizabeth Christophers was
the dau of John Christophers and Elizabeth Mul-
ford. Elizabeth Champlin Mason Perry was
the dau of Benjamin Mason and Margaret
Champlin; Benjamin (5) was the s of Ben-
jamin Mason (4) and Mary Ayrault; Benja-
min (4) was the s of Benjamin (3) Mason
and Elizabeth Scolley; Benjamin (3) Mason
was the s of John (2) Mason and Sarah Pep-
per; and John (2) Mason was the s of Robert
(1) Mason. Margaret Champlin Mason was
the dau of Christopher (4) Champlin and Mar-
garet Grant; Christopher (4) was the s of
Christopher (3) Champlin and Hannah Hill;
Christopher (3) was the s of Christopher (2)
Champlin and Elizabeth Dennison ; and Chris-
topher (a) was the s of Christopher Cham-
plin. Elizabeth Denison Christopher was the
dau of George Denison and Mercy Gorham
dau of Captain John Gorham and Desire How-
land. Desire Rowland was the dau of John
Rowland and Elizabeth Tillev who came in the
Mayflower.— D. Edith WaUbridge Carr, 919
Vine St., Scranton, Pa.

10300. Perry-Tucker. — For ancestors and
family connections of O. H. Perry of War of
1812. see "The Perrys of Rhode Island" by
Rev. C. B. Perry, D. D., also the "Hazard
Genealogy" by Mrs. Caroline E. Robinson. The
"Clark Family Genealogy" by A. W. Clark,
D. S. Can anyone give me the names of the
eight ch of Stephen Perry w^hose mother was
a Hazard? He m 1st Elizabeth Borden, dau
of Abraham and 2nd Sarah Whitfield. — Mrs.
J. S. Benjamin, East Marion, Suffolk Co., N. Y.

10303. Anderson. — Richard Anderson of
Amelia and Pittsylvania Counties, Va., m Jane
Foster of Amelia Co. Their s Frank or
Francis m Sallie Mottley of Pittsj'lvania Co.
They had a s Patrick who m Fannie Chandler
of Halifax Co. and moved to Lebanon, Tenn.,
and their s Joseph Mottley Anderson m Mary
Dixon Sypert of Lebanon. I have the names
of the ch of Richard and Jane Foster Ander-
son and of Frank and Sallie Alottley Ander-
son, and am trying to get their dates. — Mrs.
H. C. Anderson, Amity, Arkansas. This query

was also partly answered by Mrs. Sam Mad-
dux, 906 A. Ave., Lauton, Okla., who says
her great grandmother was Polly Eaton, b
February 25, 1778, m William Smith, Jan. 1,
1795 and d Sept. 2, 1851 in New Middleton,
Tenn. The Eatons were originally from Va.,
and tradition says they were political exiles
from Wales.

10313. Ford.— Jacob Ford, Jr., b Feb. 10,
1738 d Jan. 11, 1777. He m Jan. 27, 1762,
Theodosia Johnes. He was the s of Jacob
Ford, Sr., b April 13, 1704 at Woodridge, N. J.
and d Jan. 19, 1777. He m about 1732 Hannah
Balwin b Nov. 1701 and d July 31, 1777. Jacob
Ford. Jr., was Colonel of Eastern Battalion of
Morris County, New Jersey Militia. He was
also Commanding Colonel of a battalion of
New Jersey State Troops. He d of pneumonia
at Morristown, N. J., Jan. 10, 1777, brought
on by exposure while repelling the incursions
of the British the month previous, and was
bur with military honors, by order of General
Washington. His residence in Morristown, is
now the historic building known as Washing-
ton's Headquarters. He built a powder mill
for the use of the American army. (N. J. Arch.
2nd Series, vol. 1. p. 121). It is believed that
Jacob Ford, Sr., built in 1774 the house after-
wards occupied by his s. He was seventy-one
years old when the Rev. started and was there-
fore too old for service. Would like to have
any information of this family after 1775.
Mary Ford m William Douglas about 1848
and settled in Va.— Mrj. W. D. Topley, 134
Melwood Ave., Cherrydale, Va. This query
is also answered very fully by Mrs. P. J. Mc-
Hugh, Fort Collins, Colorado, who adds addi-
tional information as follows: Jacob Ford, Jr.,
m Theodicia dau of Rev. Timothy Johnes, and
their ch were Timothy, Gabriel H., Elizabeth,
Jacob and Phebe. She also gives the Rev. rec
of Jacob Ford, Sr., which rec has been accepted
by the N. S. D. A. R. Jacob Ford, Sr., b in
Woodbridge 1704 d in Morristown, 1777, was
"Judge of the County Court and Member of
the Committee of Grievances 1775." see Line-
age Book of the D. A. R. Vol. 29, p. 276. For
Jacob Ford Jr.'s rec see Lineage Book Vol. 22
p. 307. Father and s lie side by side in the
older portion of th'e cemetery of the First
Presbyterian Church of Morristown.

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tM

Special Meeting, December 20, 1921

SPECIAL meeting of the National
Board of Management for the
admission of members and authoriza-
tion and confirmation of chapters was
called to order by the President
General, Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, in the Board Room of Memo-
rial Continental Hall, Tuesday, December 20,
1921, at 10.05 A.M.

The members of the Board joined with the
President General in repeating the Lord's Prayer.
In the absence of Mrs. Yawger, the Corre-
sponding Secretary General, was requested to
act as Secretary pro tern.

The following members responded to the
roll call : National Officers : Mrs. Minor, Mrs.
Morris, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs.
Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs.
White; State Regents, Mrs. St. Clair, Mrs.
Denmead, Mrs. Young.

The President General reported the death of
Miss Sue M. Young who, up to the date of her
resignation January 12, 1920, had served the
National Society for twenty-five years, having
charge of the membership certificates. Mrs.
Morris moved that resolutions of sympathy be
sent to the relatives of Miss Young, and that
the Board express its appreciation of the long
and faithful services of Aliss Young. This was
seconded by Mrs. St. Clair and carried.
Miss Strider read her report as follows :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
I have the honor to report 1325 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submittel,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.
Miss Strider moved that the Secretary cast
ihe ballot for 1325 tnembers of the Society.
Seconded by Mrs. White and carried. The
Secretary pro tern announced the casting of the
ballot and the President General declared these
1325 applicants elected as members of the
National Society.

The Treasurer General reported applications
for reinstatement of 75 members and moved

that the 75 members be reinstated and that the
Secretary be instructed to cast the ballot for
these 75 members. This was seconded by Mrs.
Morris and carried. The Secretary announced
the casting of the ballot and the President
General declared these former members rein-
stated. Mrs. Hunter reported also 151 resig-
nations, and the loss to the Society through
death of 263 members. The Board stood in
silent memory of these departed members.
Mrs. Hanger then read her report.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report as follows :

Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents : Mrs.
Ona F. Drake, Mankato, Kans. ; Mrs. Grace L.
Snyder, Salina, Kans. : Mrs. Ina S. Walker,
Galesburg, Mich.; Mrs. Mary A. Keefe,
Braymer, Mo. ; Mrs. Mayme Stoetzel Cook,
Cozart, Nebr. ; Mrs. Annie Mae Myers McNeill,
Gushing, Okla. : Mrs. Jessie Almira Adams,
Wynnewood, Okla. ; Mrs. Frankie Williamson,
Duncan, Okla. ; Airs. Frances Shaw Goff, Aladi-
son, S. D.; Mrs, Renick F. Ansell, San Marcos,
Texas; Mrs. Edith Simpson Nevins Adams.
Anacortes, Wash. ; Mrs. Madge Rhodius,
Sedro-Wooley, Wash. ; Mrs. Fenton Morris
Brown, Pratt-on-Kanawha, W. Va.

Authorization is requested of the follow-
ing chapters :

Cairo. Carlyle, Hillsboro, Kankakee, Marion,
Monticello, Nashville, Odell, Pana, Petersburg
and Wilmette, Illinois, Pratt and Kansas,
Fredericksburg, Hollins and Rio, Virginia.

The resignation of Mrs. Maud Adams, as
Organizing Regent at Galesburg, Michigan, has
been reported by the State Regent of Michigan.

The following Organizing Regencies have
expired by time limitations :

Mrs. Addah K. Scarce, Orland, Cal. ; Mrs.
Annie AT Hicks, Amelia, Ohio.

The State Regent of Arkansas, requests
official disbandment of the "Robert Nelson"
Chapter of Lamar, Arkansas, on account of
the depletion in resident members.

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The State Regent of Pennsylvania requests
the location of the Chapter forming at
Towanda, Mrs. Jerome Neiley being the
Organizing Regent, be changed to Standing
Stone, Pa.

The following chapters have reported organ-
ization since the last Board meeting:

Chapter at Pacific Grove, Cal. ; " Sacra-
mento" at Sacramento, Cal. ; "Sylvester" at
Sylvester, Ga. ; Chapter at Warrenton, Ga. ;
" Hearthstone " at Fontanelle, lovi^a ; " Olathe "
at Olathe, Kans. ; "Jean Torrence " at Ithaca,
Mich.; "Genoa" at Genoa, Neb.; "Cornelius
Harnett " at Dunn, N. C. ; " Abraham Clark " at
Roselle, N. J. ; " Lawton," Lawton, Okla. ;
"Bedford" at Bedford, Penna. ; "Dr. Benja-
min Rush " at Narberth, Penna. ; " Lucy
Meriwether" at Larado, Texas; ."Black's
Fort" at Abingdon, Va. ; "Fort Loudoun" at
Winchester, Va.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Organising Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The Treasurer General called attention to the
fact that the representation of chapters to-
Congress was based upon the paid up member-
ship February 1st, and she therefore moved
that the President General call a special meeting
late in January to admit new members, reinstate
old members, and approve new chapters.
This was seconded by Mrs. Hanger and carried.

Mrs. Hunter reported that she had the name
of one more member who wished to be rein-
stated and moved that this member be rein-
stated and that the Secretary be instructed to
cast the ballot for this one member. Seconded
by Mrs. St. Clair and carried. The Secretary
announced the casting of the ballot and the
President General declared this former mem-
ber reinstated.

After the reading of the minutes, on motion,
the meeting adjourned at 10.50 a.m.

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Secretary, pro tern.

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Vice Presidents General
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1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. Highland Ave., Haddonfield, N. J.

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'Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

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2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

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"Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

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STATE REGENTS 'AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1921-1922

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON.

639 Walntt St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZOIfA

MRS. IIOVAL A. SMITH,

BiSDEE.

MRS. GEORGE W. VICKERS,
394 N. 3itD St., Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. CLARENCE S. WOODWARD,

2005 Scott St., Little Rock.
MRS. ALE.XANDER M. BARROW,

817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. OSWALD H. HARSHBARGER,

269 M.vriiEit St., Oakland.
MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,
1240 W. 29TI1 St., Los Angeles.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 SiMiucE St., Boulder.
MRS. WIT,LIAM HENRY KISTLER.
1145 Logan St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. .lOMN LAIDLAW BUEL,

lilTCIiriELD.

MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,

SoUTlIINCiTON.

DELAWARE

MRS. .lOIIN W. CLIFTON,
Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. KItANCIS A. ST. CLAIR,

1319 T. St., N. W., Washington.
MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5tii St., N. E., Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. EVEREST O. SEWELL,
14 3 S. E. 2ND St., Miami.

MRS. .). A. CRAIG,

233 W. DcvAL St., Jacksonville.

GEORGIA

MRS. MAX E. LAND,

305 14tii Ave., Cordele.

MRS. WM.LIAM C. VEREEN,
Moultrie.

HAWAII

MRS. N. L. SCOTT.

Tnu CoiuTLAND Hotel, Honolulo.

IDAHO

MRS ROHERT C. HUDELSON,

Box 324. (;..oi)iN.,.
MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,

4'21 '2nd Ave., E., Twin Falls.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EIKiENE CHUBBFCK.

(;insii View Ave., I'eoria.
MRS. FRANK O. LOWDEN,

SlIllNdKIKLD.

INDIANA

MR.S. SAMI;EL ELLIOTT PERKINS,
1011 N. Pknn St., INI)lA^Al•()Ll^.

MR.S. .lAMES B. CRANKSIIAW.
8128 FiiiiPiELD Ave., Fokt Watne.

IOWA

MR.S. FREDERICK ERNEST FRISHEK,

" Fairiiii.l," Sheldon.
MISS AMY E. (;ILHEUT,
State Centre.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,

" Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MR-S. J. M. ARNOLD,

539 Garrard St., Covington.
MRS. GEORGE BAKER,

Frankfort.

LOUISIANA

MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,

2331 Chestnut St., New Orleanb.

MRS. CHARLES FLOWER.
Alexandria.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,
282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 GoFF St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.

MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,
2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,

PiNEiiuKST, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MISS ALICE LOUISE McDUFFEE,

1012 W. Main St., Kalamazoo.
MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL.

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1900 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. .lEFFERSON,
1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

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VOL. LVI, No. 3

MARCH, 1922

WHOLE No. 355

THE CONFERENCE ON THE
LIMITATION OF ARMAMENT

■^ HE closing session of the Con-
ference on the Limitation of
Armament, Hke the first plenary
meeting, was held in beauti-
ful Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, on Monday, Feb-
ruary 6, 1922. It was both impressive
and simple. The final business session
had been held in the Hall on the Saturday
previous, and the delegations had assem-
bled for the ceremonies attending the
signing of the treaties and the closing
address by the President of the United
States. The auditorium of Memorial
Continental Hall was filled with high
officials of this and other governments and
the invited guests. In the boxes over-
looking the stage were ^Irs. Warren G.
Harding, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mrs.
Charles E. Hughes, Mrs. Frederick H.
Gillett, Madame Jusserand, Lady Geddes,
and Mrs. George Maynard Minor.
The atmosphere was one of gratifica-

tion following great achievement and higli
hope for the future.

The central figures in the ceremonies
were President Harding, who initiated the
conference through his call to the nations,
and the Secretary of State, Hon. Charles
E. Hughes, upon whose shoulders de-
volved the task of putting it through.

The Nine Powers assembled, through
their accredited representatives, signed the
treaties looking to the limitation of arma-
ment and to the eradication of war spots
in the Far East. There was generous
and appreciative applause for all the
participants in the conference.

Amid applause Secretary Hughes an-
nounced that the Shantung treaty between
Japan and China was signed Saturday.

"The treaties will now be signed", an-
nounced Secretary Hughes, and the
American delegation filed around to the
foot of the big green-topped table to the
secretariat general's desk inside the in-
closure and commenced signing.

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Secretary Hughes completed his signa-
ture at 10:12 o'clock.

The signing was in this order: The
United States, Belgium, Great Britain,
France, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands,
China and Portugal.

The signing of the last of the docu-
ments was completed by the American
delegation at 10:16 a.m.

To save time the red wax seals had
been affixed previously and conference
attaches standing at the elbows of the
delegates pointed where each was to write
his name.

Belgium was next, and Baron de
Cartier, the only Belgian delegate, took
his place as Elihu Root arose from the
table. He had two treaties to sign — the
general far eastern and the Chinese tarifif.

The seven British delegates headed by
Mr. Balfour signed next. They affixed
signatures to all five of the documents.
Mr. Balfour signed at 10:22 o'clock.
There was prolonged applause as the
British delegates marched around to the
signing place.

At 10 :32 o'clock the Chinese succeeded
the British at the table and began signing.
China is party only to the far eastern and
tariff treaties and her three delegates
finished signing them at 10 :35.

Albert Sarraut and Jules Jusserand, the
only two French delegates remaining in
Washington, followed the Chinese and
finished signing tlie treaties and the sup-
plements where hVance is cf)ncerned
at 10:38.

Senator Schanzer, .'Xmbassador l\icci
and Senator Albertini for Italy had four
treaties but np wipf)lements to sign. Tliey
completed a^ 10:42 a.m.

']"() the accompaniment of a roar of
applause the three Japanese delegates
filed around to the table. Baron Kato
signed first, finishing at 10:44, P)ar()n
Shidehara and Vice Foreign Minister

Hannihara followed, each signing his
name to all five documents.

President Harding arrived while the
Japanese were signing, but waited in
a cloak room for the ceremony to be
completed.

Minister De Beaufort and Jonkheer
\^an Blokland, the two delegates of the
Netherlands, finished signing at 10:49.
Their government was party only to the
two far eastern treaties.

Viscount d'Alte and Capt. Vasconcel-
loas, the Portuguese delegates, also had
but two treaties to sign, and they finished
at 10:52y2. That ended the signing.

President Harding then entered the
auditorium. Upon his appearance the
audience and delegates rose and applauded
for half a minute, while the President
bowed his appreciation. Without an in-
troduction the President began his ad-
dress. As he read slowly from his man-
uscript, he was frequently halted by
bursts of applause.

The text of the President's address
follows :

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Conference:

Nearly three months ago it was my privilege
to utter to you sincerest words of welcome to
the Capital of our republic, to suggest the
spirit in which you were invited and to intimate
the atmosphere in which you were asked to
confer. In a very general way, perhaps, I
ventured to express a hope for the things
toward which our aspirations led us.

Today it is my greater privilege and an
oven greater pleasure to come to make
acknowledgment. It is one of the supreme
compensations of life to ciintcni])late a worth-
while accomplishment.

It cannot be other than seemly for me, as
the only chief of government so circumstanced
as to be able to address the conference, to
speak congratulations, and to oft'er the thanks
of our nation, our people : perhai)s I dare
volunteer to utter them for the world. My own
gratification is beyond my capacity to express.

This conference lias wrought a truly great
achievement. It is hazardous sometimes to
speak in superlatives, and I will be restrained.
Hut I will say, with every confidence, that the
faith plighted here today, kept in national honor,

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will mark the beginning of a new and better
epoch in human progress.

Stripped to the simplest fact what is the
spectacle which has inspired a new hope for
the world? Gathered about this table nine
great nations of the earth — not all, to be sure,
but those most directly concerned with the
problems at hand — have met and have conferred
on questions of great import and com-
mon concern, on problems menacing their
peaceful relationship, on burdens threatening
a common peril. In the revealing light of the
public opinion of the world, without surrender
of sovereignty, without impaired nationality or
effronted national pride, a solution has been
found in unanimity, and today's adjournment
is marked by rejoicing in the things accom-
plished. If the world has hungered for new
assurance it may feast at the banquet which
the conference has spread.

I am sure the people of the United States
are supremely gratified, and yet there is scant
appreciation of how marvelously you have
wrought. When the days were dragging and
agreements were delayed, when there were
obstacles within and hindrances without, few
stopped to realize that here was a conference
of sovereign powers where only unanimous
agreement could be made the rule. Majorities
could not decide without impinging national
rights. There were no victors to command,
no vanquished to yield. All had voluntarily
to agree in translating the conscience of our
civilization and give concrete expression to
world opinion.

And you have agreed, in spite of all difficul-
ties, and the agreements are proclaimed to the
world. No new standards of national honor
have been sought, but the indictments of na-
tional dishonor have been drawn, and the world
is ready to proclaim the odiousness of perfidy
or infamy.

It is not pretended that the pursuit of peace
and the limitations of armament are new con-
ceits, or that the conference is a new conception
either in settlement of war or in writing the
conscience of international relationship. In-
deed, it is not new to have met in the realization
of war's supreme penalties. The Hague con-
ventions are examples of the one ; the con-
ference of Vienna, of Berlin, of Versailles
are outstanding instances of the other.

The Hague conventions were defeated by
the antagonism of one strong power whose
indisposition to cooperate and sustain led it
to one of the supreme tragedies which have
come to national eminence. Vienna and Berlin
sought peace founded on the injustices of war
and sowed the seed of future conflict, and
hatred was armed where confidence was stifled.

It is fair to say that human progress, the
grown intimacy of international relationship,
developed communication and transportation,
attended by a directing world opinion, have
set the stage more favorably here. You have
met in that calm deliberation and that deter-
mined resolution which have made a just peace,
m righteous relationship, its own best guaranty.

It has been the fortune of this conference
to sit in a day far enough removed from war's
bitterness, yet near enough to war's horrors, to
gain the benefit of both the hatred of war and
the yearning for peace. Too often, hereto-
fore, the decades following such gatherings
have been marked by the difficult undoing of
their decisions. But your achievement is su-
preme because no seed of conflict has been
sown, no reaction in regret or resentment ever
can justify resort to arms

It little matters what we appraise as the
outstanding accomplishment. Any one of them
alone would have justified the conference. But
the whole achievement has so cleared the
atmosphere that it will seem like breathing
the refreshing air of a new morn of promise.

You have written the first deliberate and
eflfective expression of great powers, in the
consciousness of peace, of war's utter futility,
and challenged the sanity of competitive prep-
aration for each other's destruction. You have
halted folly and lifted burdens, and revealed
to the world that the one sure way to recover
from the sorrow and ruin and staggering obli-
gations of a world war is to end the strife
in preparation for more of it, and turn human
energies to the constructiveness of peace.

Not all the world is yet tranquilized. But
here is the example, to imbue with new hope
all who dwell in apprehension. At this table
came understanding, and understanding brands
armed conflict as abominable in the eyes of
enlightened civilization.

I once believed in armed preparedness. I
advocated it. But I have come now to believe
that there is a better preparedness in a public
mind and a world opinion made ready to grant
justice precisely as it exacts it. And justice
is better served in conferences of peace than
in conflicts at arms.

How simple it all has been. When you met
here twelve weeks ago there was not a
commitment, not an obl'gation except that which
each delegation owes to the government com-
missioning it. But human service was calling,
world conscience was impelling, and world
opinion directing.

No intrigue, no offensive or defensive alli-
ances, no involvements have wrought your
agreements, but reasoning with each other to
common understanding has made new relation-

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ship among governments and peoples, new se-
curities for peace, and new opportunities for
achievement and attending happiness.

Here have been established the contacts of
reason, here have come the inevitable under-
standings of face-to-face exchanges when pas-
sion does not inflame. The verj- atmosphere
shamed national selfishness into retreat. View-
points were exchanged, differences composed,
and you came to understand how common, after
all, are human aspirations : how alike, indeed,
and how easily reconcilable are our national
aspirations ; how sane and simple and satisfying
to seek the relationships of peace and security.

When you first met I told you of our
America's thought to seek less of armament
and none of war ; that we sought nothing which
is another's, and we were unafraid, but that
we wished to join you in doing that finer and
nobler thing which no nation can do alone.
We rejoice in the accomplishment.

It may be that the naval holiday here con-
tracted will expire with the treaties, but I do
not believe it. Those of us who live another
decade are more likely to witness a growth of
public opinion, strengthened by the new ex-
perience, which will make nations more con-
cerned with living to the fulfillment of God's
high intent than with agencies of warfare and
destruction Since this conference of nations
has pointed with unanimity to the way of
peace today, like conferences in the future,
under appropriate conditions and with aims
both well conceived and definite, may illumine
the highways and byways of human activity.
The torches of understanding have been lighted,
and they ought to glow and encircle the globe.

Again, gentlemen of the conference, congrat-
ulations and the gratitude of the United States !
To Belgium, to the British Empire, to China, to
France, to Italy, to Japan, to the Netherlands,
and to Portugal — I can wish no more than tlie
same feeling, which we experience, of honor-
able and honored contribution to happy human
advancement, and a new sense of security in
the righteous pursuits of peace and all attend-
ing good fortune.

From our own delegates I have known from
time tf) time of your activities, and of the spirit
of conciliation and adjustment, and the cheer-
ing readiness of all of you to strive for that
unanimity .so essential to accomplishment.
Without it there would have been failure ; with
it you have heartened the world.

And T know our guests will pardon me while
T make grateful acknowledgment to the .Amer-
ican delegation — to you. Mr. Secretary Ihiglies:
to you. Senator Lodge: to you. Senator
Underwood: to you. Mr. Root: to all of you
for your able and si)lendid and highly purposed

and untiring endeavors in behalf of our gov-
ernment and our people ; and to our excellent
advisory committee which gave to you so de-
pendable a reflex of that American public
opinion which charts the course of this republic.
It is all so fine, so gratifying, so reassuring.
so full of promise, that above the murmurings
of a world of sorrow not yet silenced, above
the groans which come of excessive burdens
not yet lifted but now to be lightened, above
the discouragements of a world yet struggling
to find itself after surpassing upheaval, there
is the note of rejoicing which is not alone ours
or yours, or of all of us, but comes from the
hearts of men of all the world.

The conference covered a period of
twelve weeks, opening on November 12,
1921, and bringing its work to a close on
February 6, 1922. The negotiations
brought about the following notable
achievements : six completed treaties, two
others agreed to in substance, fourteen
resolutions, and ten separate or joint dec-
larations of national policy.

The treaties, briefly outlined, are as
follows :

1. The naval limitation treaty, by which
the United States, Great Britain, Japan, France
and Italy agree to scrap or convert sixty-eight
capital ships, and so limit future construction
that, after a ten-year building holiday, their
first-line naval strength will remain at 525,000
tons, 525.000 tons, 315,000 tons, 175,000 tons
and 175,000 tons, respectively. The respective
tonnage of airplane carriers is limited to 135,000
tons each for the United States and Great
P.ritain, 81,000 tons for Japan and 60,0(X) tons
each for France and Italy. Individual capital
ships are to be no larger than 35,000 tons
and carry no guns in excess of sixteen inches.
-Aircraft carriers are limited similarly to 27,000
tons and auxiliary craft to 10.000 tons, and
neither can carry a gun larger than eight inches.
A fortifications "status quo" is set up in the
Pacific, under which the United States agrees
not to further fortify the Philippines and
(iuam and Japan agrees to observe the .same
restriction in I'ormosa. the Ronins and the
Pescadores.

2. The submarine and i)oison gas treaty, to
which the same five imwers are signatories.
Py its 'ems the powers agree as among them-
selves not to use submarines "as commerce
destroyers," in all cases to observe the rules
of visit and search, and to regard as a pirate

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any submarine commander who violates exist-
ing law. As among themselves, they outlaw
use of poison gas altogether.

3. The four-power Pacific treaty, by which
the United States, Great Britain, Japan and
France agree to respect one another's rights
in relation to their insular possessions in the
Pacific, and to meet in consultation whenever
those rights are threatened. The Anglo-Jap-
anese alliance is automatically abrogated when
the new treaty finally is ratified.

4. The general far eastern treaty, between
the United States, Great Britain Japan, France,
Italy, China, Belgium, Portugal and the Neth-
erlands, binding each of them to respect
China's integrity; the open door policy is to
be applied in detail, and every opportunity is
to be given the Chinese people to develop a
stable government. It is agreed that no treaty
infringing these principles is to be concluded,
that no contracts violating them are to be
upheld, that discriminatory practices in the
Chinese railways are to end, and that China's
rights as a neutral are to be respected in fu-
ture wars.

5. The Chinese tariff treaty, adhered to by
the same nine nations, providing international
machinery for an immediate revision of Chinese
customs duties on a basis of 5 per cent., effec-
tive, and periodical revisions thereafter, together
with changes which will permit imposition
of surtaxes.

6. The Shantung treaty between Japan and
China, by which Shantung is restored to
Chinese control.

By one of the uncompleted treaties agreed
to in substance during the conference Japan
gives the United States the long-sought cable
and wireless privileges of the Island of Yap,
and by the other the five principal powers and
the Netherlands allocate the former German-
owned cables in the Pacific, so that one goes
to the United States, one to Japan and one
to the Netherlands.

Briefly, the fourteen resolutions given
conference approval embody the follow-
ing decisions:

Agreement for withdrawal of foreign post
offices from China on January 1, 1923, provided
China maintains an efficient postal service and
continues in office the present f<ireign codircc-
tor general.

Establishment (jf an intcrnatit)nal connnission
to investigate the Chinese judicial system with
a view to abolition of extraterritorial rights.

Authorization for a consultation between
foreign dii)l<imats and Chinese officials at
Peking with a view to withdrawal of foreign
troops from China.

Relinquishment to China of unauthorized

foreign radio stations on Chinese soil, with the
stipulation that all plants are to be used for
official messages only except in emergency.

Agreement to exchange full information
among the nations regarding all international
commitments that affect China.

Creation of a board of reference, to consider
cases arising under the open door and railway
provisions of the general far eastern treaty.

Convening of a special commission of the
five powers to meet in the near future and
consider rules to govern the use of new agen-
cies of warfare. By a second resolution on the
same subject it is declared that the commission
shall not "review or report upon" the subma-
rine and poison gas rules laid down in the treaty
on that subject.

Recommendation that "better protection" be
given the Chinese eastern railway. Another
resolution attached, but not subscribed to by
China, declared the Chinese government_must
be held responsible for its obligations regarding
the road. Expression of hope that the Chinese
railways may be developed toward a unified
system under Chinese control.

Request on the part of the other powers that
China reduce her military forces.

Supplementary agreement to the naval limit-
ation treaty, declaring the nations "in honor
bound" not to dispose of ships which are listed
for scrapping, before the treaty is ratified.

Supplementary agreement to the four-power
Pacific treaty, excluding the islands of the
Japanese homeland from the treaty provisions.
Of the "declarations" made by the various
delegations and formally spread on the records
of the conference, chief interest attached to
those relating to Siberia and the "twenty-one
demands." Regarding Siberia, Japan disavowed
any territorial designs in Russia, and pledged
herself to withdraw her troops from Siberia
as soon as stable conditions warrant, while the
United States reasserted its hope that the with-
drawal would not be long delayed. The fa-
mous "group five" of the "twenty-one de-
mands" was abandoned by Japan, along with
other concessions relating to economic and poli-
tical conditions in Manchuria and Mongolia
China filed a protest against the remaining
portions of the "demands," and the United
States reiterated its intention not to recognize
any of them which might abridge Amer-
ican rights.

The British declaration of readiness to with-
draw from the leased territory of Wei-Hai-
Wei was not elaborated, but will be taken uji
in diplomatic exchanges between London and
Peking. As a supplement to the far eastern
treaty, China declared her intention not t<i
alienate any additional portion of her territory

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THE FLAGSTAFF PENHOLDER, GAVEL AND INKSTAND USED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE,
HON. CHARLES E. HUGHES

THE PENHOLDER WITH WHICH SECRETARY HUGHES SIG^^ED THE TREATY WAS PRESENTED BY HIM TO THE NATIONAL
SOCIETY, DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION AND WILL BE PRESERVED IN THE MUSEUM OF MEMORIAL CON-
TINENTAL HALL. THE PENHOLDER, MADE OF NATIVE WOOD FROM 28 STATES AND TERRITORIES WAS DECORATED
WITH MINIATURE FLAGS OF 28 NATIONS, INCLUDING THE NINE REPRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE AND SEVERAL OF
THE ALLIED POWERS IN THE WORLD WAR. THE WOOD WAS COLLECTED AND FASHIONED INTO A PENHOLDER ABOUT
14 INCHES LONG BY DAVID FAIRBANKS, OF CHICAGO, ILL.

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and as a supplement to the tariff treaty she
agreed to retain the present maritime customs
system. In two supplements to the radio reso-
lution, China declared she recognized no right
to install foreign radio plants without her
express consent, and the powers other than
China declared that in future wireless disputes
the open door policy must be applied.

After the fourth open session of the
conference, held in Memorial Continental
Hall on December 10, 1921, no plenary
meetings occurred until February 2, 1922.
The latter was followed by another held
two days later, February 4th, at which
an amazing amount of business was
transacted, including the approval of two
treaties relating to China. The business
session was concluded by farewell ad-
dresses by the heads of each of the nine
delegations participating.

In the opinion of the delegates the
conference has brought about a new era
in international negotiations. This idea
was expressed by Senator Schanzer, head
of the Italian delegation, when he said :

"No one would be justified in saying
that this conference has not found the
point of departure of a new era in inter-
national policy; that there has not been
laid down tlie foundation of a new and
more solid e(|uilibritim of the world."

Reference was made by Senator
Schanzer to the fact that the conference
was imable to bring about any agreement
for the limitation of land armies. He in-
sisted that a limitation of land arma-
ment was of fundamental imjjortance to
the future prosperity of tlie world, and
that there is urgent need of finding a sat-
isfactory solution of this ])rol)k'm with
the shortest possible delay.

Without using the name of tlie ])ro-
jected Genoa conference on the economic
problems of Furo])c. the Italian chief
expressed a ho])e that the I'nitcd States

might yet participate in that conference.

M. Surraut, head of the French delega-
tion, remarked.

"\Miat is great and noble here is the
example which has been set by the great
countries here represented to other coun-
tries ; and when these treaties are signed
they will be an example to other countries
to settle their differences and disputes
amicably. We are entitled to hope that
other nations will imitate what has been
done here and that, on parallel lines to
that followed by the League of Nations,
Washington has here struck upon a path
on which all nations will be able
to enter for the greater happiness of the
whole world."

Minister Sze, head of the Chinese
delegation, addressing the conference,
said significantly :

"The Chinese delegation has implicit
confidence in the principles adopted by this
conference, which China will not fail to
invoke to guard against any renewed
claim to special interests in China on the
part of any nation."

The powers in approving the Chinese
treaty have pledged themselves to give
China a square deal, and China i^lans to
avail herself of the pledge. Mr. Balfour,
head of the British delegation, addressing
the conference declaring that after the
Washington conference there could l)e no
niisunderstanding regarding the principles
adopted with regard to China.

"If any nation," he said, "hereafter
deliberately se])arates itself from the col-
lective action that we have taken in Wash-
ington in this yi'ar of grace, that nation
will not be able to ])lea(l ignorance, it will
not be able to discuss ])rivatc arrange-
ments which it niv'iy have made with this
or tliat Chinese government."

Speaking for Jai)an, P)aron Shidehara.
the Japanese ambassador, declared that

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Japan believed it had made to China every
possible concession "compatible with a
sense of reason, fairness and honor" at
the Washington conference.

"Japan does not regret it," he added.
"She rejoices in the thought that the
sacrifice which she has made, will not be
in vain in the greater cause of interna-
tional friendship and good will."

Baron Shidehara insisted that Japan
has special interests in China, interests
due to the fact that Japan must depend
upon China for her raw materials and for
a market in which to sell her products.
He said, however, that Japan had no claim
or pretension of any kind prejudicial to
China or to any other foreign nation.

In summing up the work of the con-
ference before adjournment, Secretary
Hughes said that the measure of success
was due to two things :

"In the first place," he said, "we had
a definite and limited aim. We have
not occupied ourselves in endeavoring to
elucidate the obvious, but rather we have
set ourselves determinedly to the removal
of causes of controversy and to the re-
duction of armament so far as that was
possiljle of attainment. We ha\-e l)een
successful because we have not contented
ourselves with the expression of pious
hopes, but rather have devoted ourselves
to the realization of the hopes which for
a generation have been entertained."

In conclusion Secretary Hughes voiced
his gratification at the work ])erformed
by the^ secretariat general of the confer-
ence, Mf. [iilin (iarrcti, and the advisorv

committee to the American delegation,
headed by former Senator Sutherland
of Utah.

"And now our grateful thanks to the
Daughters of the American Revolution,"
continued Secretary Hughes, "particularly
to Mrs. Minor, the President General,
and Mrs. Hanger, the Organizing Secre-
tary General, for permitting us to meet
in this commodious building where
we are the guests of this important
patriotic organization.

"This building has many memories, but
I trust in the opinion of the Daughters
of the American Revolution it is now in-
vested with a special sanctity and with a
most precious memory, because here the
spirit of democracy which they desire to
see supreme has been evidenced in our
collaboration together as representatives
of great peoples, in order that we may
have, in place of a worse than fruitless
competition a generous cooperation ex-
pressive not of the sinister ambitions of
despotic governments but of the true
spirit of the peoples represented in these
democratic governments, and it is in that
spirit which we, as representatives, have
sought here to evince, because whatever
governments want, the peoples of the
earth want — justice, peace, and security."

Note — A full accuiint of the first four plenary
sessions of the Conference on the Limitation
of Armament, with many illustrations appeared
in the January. 1922. Daughtkrs ok thi-:
.•\merican Revolution AIag.azine. Copies can
be purchased by sending orders with remittance
to the Treasurer CnMieral, ^^emorial Continen-
tal iiall. Washin-ton. 1). C— Imiitok.

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
GENERAL

|S we are nearing the time for another
Continental Congress my thoughts
naturally turn to matters connected
with it, which I want to stress once
more. Among these are our Society's
reports of its work. March first is
the date set for the closing of the
year covered by the reports of State and Chap-
ter work which are rendered by State Regents
to our Congress and by the National Society
to the Smithsonian Institution.

It is also the approximate date of closing of
the year covered by the reports of our National
Chairmen. Material for these reports comes
necessarily from the Chapters. I cannot em-
phasize too strongly the importance of these
reports as the sole official record of our Soci-
ety's splendid work. Their completeness de-
pends entirely upon a faithful response from
the Chapters to the calls for a full report to
their State Regents and State Chairmen.

Let us have a wonderful record this year to
present to our own Congress, to the United
States Congress, and to the public at large.

The duty of coming to the Congress and
faithfully attending every session is another
point that I wish to stress again at th's time.
Chapter Regents and delegates should not come
to Congress as if it were a personal pleasure
trip, involving no responsibility. They are sent
to attend to their Chapter's interests.

This Society is a "democracy in a republic;"
it is a system of self-government through
representation "in Congress assembled." Every
member has a voice in its afifairs through the
representatives chosen by them at their Chap-
ter meetings. These representatives or their
duly elected alternates have the solemn dutv
of representing their Chapters : if they are off
sightseeing or attending social functions instead
of sitting in their seats in Congress, they are
not being faithful to the trust reposed in them.
"Public office is a public trust," yet too often
the vacant seats in our Congress testify to th?
stronger appeal of the sights of Washington,
and under such circumstances Chapters cannot
complain if they do not like the measures wh'ch
are passed in the absence of their delegates.
Nor can they complain if thev do not send
representatives to speak for them. Let Chap-
ters remem.hcr that they are the National So-
ciety: they are responsible for the laws tha'
govern them, for the measures that alYect them.

and for the national work undertaken by the
Society. Yet some Chapters imagine that the
National Society is some great arbitrary power
separate and far-distant, imposing rules and
regulations upon them. Nothing could be fur-
ther from the truth. The voice of the Chapters
assembled in Congress is the governing voice
of the Society. Likewise, it is the voice of
the Chapters at their State Conferences, which
governs the State organization. Many State
Conferences are held in March. I want to
urge upon Chapters the necessity of attending
them for their own sakes. If they do not
do so, they lose all the inspiration to be derived
from working together for a common cause,
and that cause, our country. Yet there are
Chapters, I regret to say, which rarely, if ever,
attend their State Conferences. Just as in-
dividual members remain uninformed and un-
interested if they do not attend Chapter meet-
ings, so Chapters remain uninformed and
uninterested in the wider scope of our patriotic
work if they do not attend their State
Conferences. And they lose the biggest
inspiration of all if they do not attend the
Continental Congresses.

Here'n is a double loss : the Chapters miss
the incentive to patriotic work that results
from big and inspiring gatherings ; and
the Society as a whole loses the influence and
valuable cooperation of the Chapters.

The high aims of our Society are winning an
ever-increasing recognition, not only from our
own Government and public but from the
Governments and public of other countries. The
meeting of the Conference on Limitation of
Armament in Memorial Continental Hall; the
selection of our Society by the Society of
French Women in New York as the most
representative Society of American Women to
accept from the women of France the gift of
the Statue of Jeanne d'Arc recently unveiled
in Washington ; the request from the Treasury
Department for the privilege of holding a
bjsiness meeting of the officials of the Gov-
ernment Departments in our Hall ; all this, and
much more indicates the growing prestige of
our Society in public estimation. It is indica-
tive of the power and influence that we wield.
Anne Rogers Minor,

President General.
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ARCHITECTURAL PLANS OF D.A.R.
ADMINISTRATION BUILDING

RTICLES previously published
in the Daughters of the
American Revolution Maga-
zine have referred to the initial
steps taken by the National
Society, leading to the acquisi-
tion of land and the beginning of the
Administration Building now in course
of erection, and the December issue gave
an account of the ceremonies at the laying
of the corner-stone. Since that date
further progress has been made in
the construction work and the building
is under roof and about sixty per
cent, completed.

The exterior view of the new building,
with other illustrations, have appeared
in ihe Maca/.i xp: and tlie floor jjlans are
now ])resented, shf>wing the relative
arrangement of the new building and
Memorial C ontinental Hall.

The in'w building is ])laced about 75
feet west of the llall. has a frontage of
110 feet, with a depth f)f 100, and was
planned as a business l)uilding to serve
the s])ecial working needs of tlie Society,
witli no attem])t to make a show building,
the exterior being reserved and dignihed
in design, well executed in white lime-
stone, in harmony with but ])roperly
subordinated to Memorial COntim-ntal
Hall. There are no elaborate entrance
features on the street fronts to invite
sight-seeing visitors, Init main I'ntrances
110

are provided on the east side, facing the
Hall, accessible from the two streets and
from the Hall by the covered corridors,
and there are also four outside entrances
to the basement story.

The space enclosed by the walls of the
two buildings and the covered corridors
will be arranged as a garden, with foot-
paths, grass-plots and flowers, and
perhaps with a memorial fountain in
the centre.

The corridor on the north side extends
down into a deep cellar, well lighted and
ventilated through windows in the base
of the corridor, providing space for the
heating apparatus and mechanical plant,
as well as an enlargement of the coal
storage space, increasing the capacity of
the coal bunkers from 60 to 300 tons.

The feature of the first floor is the
central rotunda for the membership files
and card catalogues, surrounded by wide
corridors, readily accessible to the sev-
eral office rooms, and well lighted by the
skylight in the central light court of the
second story.

The working departments of the
Society, the clerical force, the executive
manager, and the business offices of the
National Officers, with the exception of
the Curator General and the Librarian
(ieneral, are located on the first floor as
noted on the ])lans. all in outside rooms,
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by corridors from the membership file
and catalogue room, which is equally
accessible to all departments.

The ofifices and living quarters of the
President General are located in the
southeast corner of the second floor, and
immediately adjoining on the east side
will be an assembly room, having
decorated walls and a paneled segment
ceiling, the seating capacity being
about 150.

The second floor will also provide
several committee rooms, offices of the
Magazine, and at the northwest corner
a large meeting room for the Children
of the American Revolution. On the

west side are located the living rooms of
the superintendent of the buildings, with
private staircase and outside entrance
from the west side.

The central portion of the basement
is to be divided by metal partitions for
the storage of supplies and duplicate files,
and at the northeast corner is the general
receiving room, superintendent's office,
printing shop and store room. The rest
room is placed in the quiet space at the
southeast corner of the basement, and
on the south side is located the lunch room
with kitchen and pantry adjoining. A
locker room for the clerical force is placed
on the east side, convenient to staircases
and to two outside entrances to the street.

FORM OF BEQUEST

Where one desires to leave both real and
personal property to the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution any one
of the following forms can be used :

"I hereby give, devise and bequeath, absol-
utely and in fee simple, to the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
having its headquarters at Washington, in the
District of Columbia, (here describe the nature
of the property to be given), to be used and
expended for the objects and purposes for
which said National Society was incorporated."

In case a cash legacy only is desired to
be given.

"I give and bequeath, absolutely, to the
National Society of the Daughters of the

American Revolution, having its headquarters
at Washington, in the District of Columbia, the
sum of

($ ), to be used and expended for the

objects and purposes for which said National
Society was incorporated."

In case a devise of real estate only is desired
to be given to the National Society.

"I give and devise, absolutely and in fee
simple, to the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, having its head-
quarters at Washington, in the District of
Columbia, (here describe the real estate in-
tended to be devised), to be used and ex-
pended for the objects and purposes for which
the said National Society was incorporated.

AMERICAN ILLITERACY: A NATIONAL MENACE

By Paul V. Collins

Jl WO years ago, General Pershing
testified before a Congressional
Committee that one-fourth of
the men drafted for the World
War were found to be unable
to read and write English.
Drafted men were between the ages of
eighteen and thirty-one years. The
United States Census of 1920, whose
analytical reports have begun to appear,
declares that, of our entire population,
over ten years of age, only six per cent.
are illiterate.

The question arises : If only six per
cent, of all over ten years of age could not
read and write English, how was it pos-
sible to find in the army twenty-five per
cent, of the men, over eighteen years old,
to be illiterate? There must be con-
fused figures either in the army records
or in those of the census ; or else there
must be a fearful death rate of educated
children between the ages of ten and
eighteen, leaving not a survival of the
fittest, but rather of the most ignorant.

The Census Bureau fortifies its
findings of six per cent, in 1920 by com-
parison with the previous decennial
censuses : For 1910, 1 !? ; for 1900, 10.7 ;
for 1890, 13.3, and for 1880, 17 per cent.
Education, it will be seen, has made some
progress in the last forty years, yet there
stands the army with its charge that
25 per cent.- of American full-grown men
are illiterate — and what ;i])plifs to men,
144

unquestionably is true of women.

There is nothing drier than statistics —
nor more likely to overturn misconcep-
tions. In this instance, not only do the
figures become interesting in their dis-
crepancy, but startling in showing that, in
either case, the balance of power lies
with the illiterate. In states where there
exists a literacy test for the right of
franchise, the danger is reduced, but not
eliminated, for the menace lies less in
the power of the ballot than in that of
distorted public sentiment, with its
prejudices, class jealousies and suscepti-
bility to demagogic misleadership and
mobocracy. The fear of the franchise is
the excuse in some regions for open
opposition to educating the colored
population, yet gross ignorance is far
more dangerous in a republic than under
an autocracy.

The army's declaration that one-fourth
of America's population is illiterate —
unable to read and write English — is not
only a blow to our national pride, but a
warning of national danger, especially
acute in these times when the very foun-
dations of civilization are being rocked.
The optimist and incredulous turn to the
soothing figures of the census and
ignore the disclosures of the army. Hut
which figures are dependable ?

In the census there were 80,000
enumerators gathering data ; they made
no examinations of the actual ability of

AMERICAN ILLITERACY: A NATIONAL MENACE

145

citizens to read and write English, but,
in the compHcated questionnaire, accepted
whatever answers were given to the
question : " Can you read and write
Enghsh ? " Naturally, the pride of the
citizen impelled him to give the mot
self-complimentary answer possible, and,
aside from actual falsification, the ten-
dency to claim literacy extended to all
who could merely write their own names
and read some set phrase or sentence,
even though, for practical purposes,
general reading was impossible.

The army figures, on the contrary, were
based on actual, practical test, devised
by psychologists of the United States
Research Council. Every company of
recruits was reviewed by the examiners.
All men who claimed that they could read
and write were ordered to step three
paces forward. These were given the
" Alpha Test," all others were given the
" Beta Test." " Alpha " and " Beta "
are the Greek letters, " A " and " B " ;
and, to a layman, there appears no reason
why the names of the examinations
should be " all Greek " to anybody.

The " Alpha Test " consisted in a list of
printed questions which were to be
answered within fifty minutes by simply
checking the correct printed answers.
Also the candidate was required to write
a short letter to a relative or friend, as a
test of his writing. Those who failed in
this simple printed and written exam-
ination were added to those who had
acknowledged that they could not take
the printed test, and the total number that
thus were unable to prove their literacy
amounted to 24.9 per cent.

The " Beta Test " was made by pic-
tures and pantomime, without printing,
and those who were not alert enough to
take the " Beta Test " were given indi-
vidual examination intended to locate
their degree of mental capacity, upon

a scale of " years of mental age,"
equivalent to the ages of children.
Without entering into a discussion of the
value of the psychological " mental age "
test, let me state that all below the mental
development of " twelve-year-old chil-
dren " are feeble-minded, and that the
average mental age of the drafted soldier
was fourteen and of officers eighteen
years. The story is told by a learned
doctor connected with the Bureau of
Standards, that a world-famous scientist
took the psychological test anonymously,
and was rated " feeble-minded." How-
ever, this is a digression, and must not be
confused with the very- practical and
common-sense examinations of literacy
made in the army.

The army and census agree in
comparison of various states. Those
reported by the census as having a high
proportion of illiterates are generally
found also by the army with a high per-
centage of illiteracy ; but in all cases,
the army percentage is enormously
beyond that of the census.

The most illiterate communities are
where negroes and foreign-born are
numerous. The negroes bring up the
percentage in the South, and the foreign-
born in some Northern localities. Yet
that is not invariably the case as to the
foreign-born, as, for example, Minnesota,
whose population is one-third either
Scandinavian foreign-born or children of
foreign-born parentage, shows the best
record, under the army test — only 14.2
per cent, unable to pass the Alpha test.

By the census, Louisiana shows the
greatest illiteracy, but the army grades
South Carolina with more illiterates than
Louisiana — 49.5 per cent. This high
percentage led to a check test of a South
Carolina company of white soldiers,
encamped in New York, which proved
that not 49.5 per cent, but 6L6 per cent.

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

of white South Carohnians could not
read and write, hence the original figures
for the whole state were conservative.
While South Carolina boasts that it has
been improving conditions, in recent
years, a school superintendent informs
the present writer that in his district they
are appropriating support for the white
and colored schools at the time-honored
ratio of $16 for the whites to one dollar
for the colored schools, though the
colored population is the most numerous.
It is the policy to limit the franchise of
the colored voter, by restraining his
educational advantages, for " this is a
white man's country."

The censuses of the last four or five
decades show a general and marked
improvement as to literacy throughout the
country, but in view of the fact that the
total annual expenditures of the United
States, in support of educational institu-
tions of all grades, from the elementary
to the university, amounts to less than one
billion dollars, and that in half a century
our entire educational efforts have cost
only a sum equal to our loans to Europe
for the World War, the fact stands
glaringly that America is not a nation
appreciative of education, as it has vainly
imagined itself to be. We boast of our
free public schools as setting the laudable
example to a benighted world !

We spend for joy rides, pleasure resorts
and races, annually, three times as much as
for all educational facilities. Our face
powder and ice cream cost as much as the
maintenance of all our schools and col-
leges ; tobacco is more costly than our
education, and chewing gum is a bigger
financial problem than the training of
teachers in our normal schools.

To give a child a full course through
the grades and high school costs only
$360, yet the average child, even of the
literates, goes no farther than the fifth

grade, at a public cost for his schooling
ranging from $7.89 a year if in Missis-
sippi, to $47.89 a year in California, or
$59.61 in Montana — an average cost per
year throughout the country of $36.62.

In pioneer days, illiteracy was no dis-
grace, the ability to read and write was
rather an exception for those reared in
the wilds, far from schools, and it is
found that the productive efficiency, in
those days, was quite in correspondence
with the general literacy. During the
period from the discovery of America
to 1860, the average annual productivity
per man, measured in dollars, was $514,
while since 1860, with the public schools
and compulsory education laws, even
though imperfectly enforced, the produc-
tion, per capita, has averaged $1318 per
annum. While this may be a sordid
measure of the value of education, it is
easily grasped by the " practical man."

Compare to-day's earning power of
individuals, uneducated and educated:
The uneducated laborer (in normal
times) earns about $500 a year, in forty
years of his natural expectancy of activ-
ity, that amounts to $20,000 gross
earnings. The educated man averages
at least $1000 a year, or in forty years.
$40,000— an excess of $20,000 over the
earnings of the unlearned. That $20,000
excess represents the value of his school-
ing, and to produce it required twelve
years, of 180 days — a total of 2160 days.
Dividing the $20,000 by the number of
days' schooling that it cost, we find that
each day in school earned for the pupil
a value of $9.02. When the boy leaves
school to go to work, he must count his
loss at $9.02 per day, less what he earns
as an apprentice or common laborer.

The illiterate or partially educated,
have evaded the benefit of the $360 total
public cost of literacy — the twelve or

AMERICAN ILLITERACY: A NATIONAL MENACE

thirteen years of schooling — and have
paid the penalty of at least $20,000 loss of
earning capacity in their generation.
With thirty million prodncers, one-fourth
of whom are illiterate, and half the rest
only half-schooled, the national loss of
efficiency in production is astounding.
The 7,500,000 of totally illiterate alone
losing $20,000 each, in their lifetime,
amounts to a national loss of production
of one hundred and fifty billion dollars
for each generation of forty years'
activity— $3,750,000,000 a year. Ample
educational facilities, with rigidly en-
forced compulsory education laws, would
save all that.

A careful analysis of the 8000 names in
JVho's Who — the book of successful
men — ^discloses that the child with no
schooling has only one chance in 150,000
of ever performing distinguished service.
Out of 33,000,000 workers, with a com-
mon school education, 808 won a place
in Who's Who, while out of 2,000,000
with high school training, 1245 are
included, and out of 1,000,000 col-
lege graduates, 5768 won that degree
of success.

" Knowledge is power " ; Ignorance is
the greatest national disease and menace
— and a quarter of our population is
stricken with the epidemic.

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BURKHALTER FAMILY OF GEORGIA
PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS

By Dolores Boisfeuillet Colquitt

:HE name of Burkhalter is
prolific in the State of Georgia
where the family has been
established since the earliest
clays of the Colonial era. They
came with a group of German
Protestants of whom Smith's, "Georgia
and Her People" says: "No people
have been more noted for industry,
probity, and intelligence," and that while
the Pilgrim Fathers, smaller in numbers
than these Salzburghurs, have a high
place in American history, this colony of
refugees has been neglected by historians.

The family of " - —
Burkhalter was es-
tablished in Georgia
by five brothers — •
Michel, Peter,
Joshua, Abraham,
and John — all of
whom are said to
have come from
A 1 s a c e-Lorraine,
where their family
had sought refuge
from religious per-
secution in Austria
and German y.
Members of their
sect were scattered
as refugees in the
Swiss and French
Alps, Holland and
England, and to al-
leviate their suffer-
ings, General Ogle-
thorpe offered them
asylum in the
Colony of Georgia.
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MISSES RUTH AND ESTHER SHORT. GREAT-GREAT-GRANl)

DAUGHTERS 'OF JOHN BURKHALTER, UNVEHJNG THE

MARKER OVER HIS (;RAVE WHICH WAS ERECTED BY

THE LANAHASSIE CHAPTER OF GEORfMA

Negotiations were entered into and
resulted in forty-two families, numbering
in all seventy-eight souls, setting out for
Rotterdam, w^here they embarked Decem-
ber 2, 1773, on a ship chartered for the
purpose of transporting them to Dover,
where they were to be received by the
Trustees and forwarded to Georgia. On
the eighth of January, 1734, having taken
the oath of loyalty to the British Crown,
they set sail on the ship Purisburg for
Savannah where, after a tempestuous
voyage, they arrived in March and were
welcomed by General Oglethorpe. The
Burkhalters must
have come on this
ship as these histor-
ical facts coincide
with the tradition
that they came by
way of Holland and
on the second ship
of colonists brought
to Savannah. The
Salzburghurs
("famed for their
solid worth") made
their first settle-
ment four miles be-
low the present
town of Spring-
field, in Effingham
County, and called
it Ebenezer. Their
number was soon
increased by the ar-
rival of more of
their co-religionists
with whom they
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BURKHALTER FAMILY OF GEORGIA PIONEERS AND PATRIOTS

U9

settlements, particularly
of

to form new
at Frederica.

Michel Burkhalter, one of the hve
brothers already mentioned, was born in
the year 1725, and the record of his death
in an old family Bible, yet in existence,
shows that he died in 1828 at the pafri-
archal age of
one hundred
and three
years. He
was a land-
holder, having
r e ce i ved a
grant of five
hundred acres
and made a
purchase of a
thousand;
c u 1 tivating
these p 1 a n-
tations with
his slaves. At
one time he
was settled in
Frederica and
was. one of the
malcontents
signing a dec-
laration, ad-
dressed to the
Trustees, re-
garding the
unprosperous
condition of

the colony and i^^

asking for

relief to combat the unsatisfactorv
cultural conditions. He also
South Carolina thinking it a good centre
for trading with the Indians, and it was
while living there that his son John was
born. John will be spoken of further on
in this sketch.

Michel Burkhalter was a man of conse-

quence in his community
Minutes of the Journal of
of Georgia, at thei

and in the

the Trustees

meetin<r held at

. ag
located

Queen's Square, \\'estminster, August 17,
1745, " Mr. Burkhalter is named with the
Rev. Mr. Bolzius, who came with the
Salzburghurs and played an important
role in estab-
lishing them
i n Georgia.
The Minutes
s h o w that
these two
g e n 1 1 e ni en
were selected
b y t h e
Trustees t o
be the ones
consulted re-
garding t h e
disposition in
settling seven-
ty-three Ger-
mans— -"about
to be sent to
the Colony."
The minister
was to have
charge of
those to locate
at Ebenezer ;
a n d AI r .
Burkhalter of
those for the
Township of
X'ernonburg
and adjacent
cinity of \'ernon-
that there exists
a settlement called Burkhalter and a road
by the same name, derived from this
member of the family.

In 1760 Michel appears as one of those
possessing Headrights in Christ Church
Parish. When the American Revolution

\WSOS BURKHALTKR.

villages. It is in the vi
burg (near Savannah)

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came on, he gave his services and was at

the Siege of Augusta, and wounded in the

Battle of Kettle Creek.

He married in 1750, Martha Newsome,

whose father was also a patriot in the

Revolution and belonged to the Newsome

family from Yorkshire, England. Martha

was a women

of ability and

a proper help-
meet for her

husband. She,

too, held

Headrights in

Christ Church

Parish under

date of

1752, and re-
ceived a grant

of land i n

W a r r e n

County in

1762. Being

a woman of

m e a n s, she

c o n t ributed

her time an!

money to tlie

cause of inde-
]) (• n d (■ n r c ;
()])i'nii]g li (■ r
iiome, whicli
was near Ket-
tle Creek, to
wounded sol-
diers \vh o m
she n u r ^ e d
bark to health.

It ai)pears that Michel liurkhall(
was twice married, as indicated in his wil
but which, nnl'ortunalely, does not men
tion the name of his other wit'e. This wi
is dated jamiary 7, 17c>2. and is now i
the State Archives at the Ca])it(,l in .i
Atlanta. It is written in the ( ierman Ian- (

guage and he expresses himself in the
quaint manner of a by-gone day in
disposing of his household goods, lands
and negroes.

Michel Burkhalter and his wife ]\Iartha
Newsome had several children, among
whom was John, born at Edgefield, South
Carolina, i n
1763. He was
a versatile
man, of great
deter m i n-
ation. and of
whom it is

tor the wounded, he was able to slip away
I'roni home unobserved on his father's
liorsi' and reached the American forces
in time to particii)ate in tin- same I'.attlc.
Ne was i-aptnred by \\\v r.riiisji. Imt being
onl\- ;i ehild.

was not closi-ly guarded.

■^I'rvmg where

th

kept

BURKHALTER FAMILY OF GEORGIA PIONEERvS AXD PATRIOTS

horse, he bided his time, in the night
crawled on his stomach until reaching
the animal, he flung himself upon its
back, and galloping off with the speed
of Paul Revere. He never stopped
until he reached his father's home and
amazed the household with the story
of his thrilling adventure. Down to the
present day his descendants never ride
their father's knee to " Banberry
Cross " but always ride to and from
" Kettle Creek" to the story of little
John Burkhalter.

Following that experience, John
Burkhalter served continuously in the
militia until the close of the war, and
afterwards received Revolutionary land
grants in Washington County.

He settled in what is now Marion
County, and having the idea that the
county-seat should be located in the
centre of the county, he determined to
move the town of Tasewell to Buena
Vista. This he accomplished in one night,
" moving it between sundown and sun-
rise before an injunction could be
served ! " He laid the new town, reserv-
ing sites for a church and schoolhouse.
He was literally the community guardian,
and when a school teacher was lacking, he
taught ; when the preacher was absent, he
preached; if the weather was cold, he
hauled wood for use in the school and
church. He was also Post-master and
Judge of the City Court in addition to
which he was proprietor of a store and
saw mill, and owned a large plantation
and many slaves. He was a member of
the \Miig party and a personal friend of
Henry Clay. A Georgia historian says
that he was one of the first settlers of
Marion County, having bought most of
the County from the Indians, and from
his " loins have sprung a host of descend-
ants, including the Chief Magistrate of
Texas, Governor O. B. Colquitt."

John Burkhalter died in 1845, aged
ninety-eight years. His grave is located
on a plantation some few miles from
Buena Vista and has been marked by the
Lanahassee Chapter of the Georgia
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution, and was unveiled by his great-
great-granddaughters, Misses Ruth and
Esther Short.

In 1792 he married in South Carolina,
Sarah Harden, widow Loyless, daughter
of Martin Hardin, II, who was in charge
of supplies in Virginia during the
Revolution, and Captain of the 3rd
Virginia Militia in Colonial times.

John Burkhalter and Sarah Harden
had a son, David Newsome Burkhalter,
born 1803, who like his father was a
dominant figure. He was among the first
settlers of Pea Ridge, moving there in
1845. " He was a Methodist preacher,
a large property owner, and a man of
wide influence in public affairs. He was
the first to represent the County of
Marion in the State Legislature. It was
long before any railroad penetrated this
section and he usually made the trip to
Milledgeville (then the Capital) behind
two fine mules. While a resident of
Tasewell, he built a church for the Metho-
dists, and a courthouse, but changing his
residence to Pea Ridge (Buena Vista), he
moved the church, too."

He married Ann Eliza Short, grand-
daughter of Colonel Thomas Short, who
served in the Revolution, and whose wife
was Dorothy Jones, daughter of Peter
Jones, of Petersburg, Virginia. This last
named was a grandson of Abraham
\\'ood, one of the four major generals
commanding the military establishments
in Virginia in 1646. Major Peter Jones
was the son of Abraham Jones, who soon
after 1680 was in command of Elizabeth

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City and James City, Virginia. His father
was Reverend Richard Jones, of Welsh
extraction, who married Lady Jeffries, of
the Manor of Ley, and settled in Devon-
shire, England.

The other Burkhalter brothers, who
came from Alsace-Lorraine, also served
in the Revolution. Peter (born 1731,
died 1803) was captain commanding a
company of Whitehall militia in 1775.
He married Marie Steckle. Abraham was
a captain in the South Carolina militia
in the Revolution. John was born 1713
and died aged ninety-nine years and six
months in 1812. He received large grants
of land in Wilkes County, Georgia, in
1784, for his Revolutionary services, and
was one of the Grand Jurors empanelled
for the first Superior Court held in
Bulloch County in 1797.

I'his John Burkhalter married Sarah
M., and in his will, dated 1773, recorded
at \\'ashington, Georgia, is named his
sons: Michel, John. Joshua, Jacob,
Jeremiah, Isaac, and his daughters, Mary
and Barborough. To them he bequeathed
all his movable estate, consisting of
negroes, cows, horses, hogs, and house-
hold effects."

Jacob Burkhalter, his son, also served
in the Revolution under General Clarke.
He was the student of the family and a
man of literary tastes. He made his home
in W'arrenton, Warren County, (Jeorgia,
where he built tlic first Colonial house in
that Count), the columns of the porch
being the scjuare type used in that day.
It was here that (Jeneral Lafayette on his
last visit to America, spent two weeks
being ntu'sed back to liealth from a severe
cold. The l')urklialter> treasure ;ui heir-
loom, a glass mug which was ( ieni'ral
Lafayette's gift to Jacob P.urkhalter.

His son wjis Jobn I, aw son P)urkhalter
(born 1805), whose portrait is shown

here, reproduced from an old daguerreo-
type. He was a man of six feet one and
a half inches in height and weighed three
hundred pounds. He was conspicuous
for the elegance of his dress, and " always
wore a broadcloth suit, white vest, and
carried a gold-headed cane." He owned
many slaves and acres of land. He
married Evelyn Catherine Scott, grand-
daughter of Hugh Reese, of Vir-
ginia, a Revolutionary soldier, who
received a grant of land in Columbia
County, Georgia.

The Burkhalter men are characterized
by their great height and strong and
sturdy build, and have given their ser-
vices in every war of this country ; seven
of them serving in the Revolution. Their
Spartan wives and mothers gave this
country, for the recent war against
Germany, seventeen male descendants of
the original Michel and John Burkhalter.
The women have come forward with
enthusiasm also in the work of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
One of them, Mrs. John Franklin Little,
of Washington, D. C. ( descended from
both Michel and John above), was re-
cently instrumental in organizing a
Chapter at Warrenton, Georgia, and
through her successful efforts at researcii
has enabled many of the Burkhalter
descendants to become members of
this organization.

Among the Ihirkhalter heirlooms which
are to be ])resente(l to tic Mu>euni
at Memorial Continental Mall in Wash-
ington, I). C., are; a miniature framed
in ])earls; a pocketbook clasp brought
from Alsace-Lorraine, made of gol<l
exciuisitely chased in a design of fruits;
a brown lustre \ase; a tiny vinagrctte ; a
ladies' quaint caj) of real lace; an em-
broidered wallet and its contents of old
papers; a Bible; and a set of china.

Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

Vn. The Woman Movement
L General. — An idea of the woman move-
ment in its earlier stages may be gained from
the citations from Calhomi's Social History of
the American Family given in the last Program,
especially vol. ii. ch. 5 ; for its later stages
see vol. iii, ch. 5 and 6. Some facts may be
gleaned from the articles on women in Bliss'
Cyclopedia of Social Reform and the Encyclo-
pedm Britannica, but these emphasize the indus-
trial and legal sides. Belle Squire, Woman
movement in America, ch. iv, gives a brief
sketch, as does H. T. Peck, Twenty ]'ears of
the Republic, 744-749, for the later period.

2. Communistic Movements. — The woman
movement begins at a period when the young
Republic was stirred by a desire for social
equality which embodied itself in various
undertakings of' a communistic nature.
McMaster's History of the People of the
United States, vol. v, ch. 43, gives an idea of
the feeling of this period. A more extended
account, if desired, may be found in Charles
Nordhofif's Communistic Societies in the
United States, and a picture of a typical
attempt in Louisa AL Alcott's story Transcen-
dental Wild Oats.

3. T\\o Pioneers. — The efforts of Frances
Wright D'Arusment (generally known as
"Fanny Wright") are discussed in Mc-
Master, vol. v, pp. 97-108. A sketch of her life
is given in the International Encyclopedia and a
much fuller one in the Dictionary of National
Biography. Mrs. Trollope's Domestic Man-
ners of the Americans, ch. vii and xxiv, gives
the impressions of a rather conservative woman.
The part taken by Margaret Fuller (Ossoli)
may be learned from the articles in the Inter-
national and Britannica, and in more detail
from her life by T. W. Higginson in the
American Men of Letters series. Other
biographies are by Julia Ward Howe and (the
latest) by Katharine S. Anthony.

4. AIarried Women.— An early feature of
the movement was the attempt to place the
property relations of husband and wife on a
fairer basis. Some idea of the legal position

of the wife may be gained from the article
Husliand and Wife in Bouvier's Lazv Diction-
ary. The arguments advanced in the Xew York
constitutional convention, a typical case, are
given by McMaster, vol. vii, p. 185. Judge
Robert Grant's Law and the Family presents
readably some phases of the problem.

5. Education of Women. — The steady in-
crease of the educational opportunities open
to women is described in E. G. Dexter's History
of Education in the United States, ch. xxi, and
in the article Women, Higher Education of,
in Paul Monroe's Cvdopcdia of Education, vol.
V, pp. 803-810. The Reports of the United
States Commissioner of Education (especially
that for 1903, vol. i, pp. 1047-1078) give
current statistics and some history. Its conse-
quences, actual and possible, are suggested in
Aliss AlcCracken's IVomen of .linerica. ch. vi
and X, and Earl Barnes' Woman in. Modern
Society, ch. iii and iv.

6. Women's Clubs. — For the growth and
effects of women's clubs see the article in the
International Encyclopedia and McCracken,
JJ\i)nen of America, ch. v. The most detailed
work on the subject is that by Mrs. J. C. Croly
(Jennie June), History of the Women's Club
Movement in America; see especially pp. 1-35.
The General Federation of Women's Clubs has
published its own History (see pp. 3-34). The
Chatauquan for June, 1910, has a popular
account of the subject, and in the A)inals of
the American Association of Political and
Social Science, vol. xxviii, No. 2 (1906), is a
more scientific discussion.

7. Characteriz.\tions. — For recent esti-
mates of woman's position see H. Addington
Bruce, Wotnan i)i the Making of America,
ch. vii, or Ida Tarbell's Business of Being a
JJ'oman. T. W. Higginson's Common Sense
About Women was published in 1881 and " Max
O'Rell's " Jonathan and His Continent (ch. xi,
xii) nearly a decade later. The latter work
gives a Frenchman's impression ; other foreign
views are to be found in Lord Bryce's Ameri-
can Commomvealth (ch. cxii) and Munster-
berg's The Americans (ch. xxii), while Scott
Xearing's Woman and Social Progress is most
interesting for its predictions of the future.

15.^>

a ^aoe in
lleralbrp

Conducted by
Edith Roberts Ramsburgh

Drawings by
Zoe Lee H. Anderson

xum^

NAYLOR

Among the famous " Robin Hood's merry
men" of Sherwood Forest, Nottinghamshire, is
"Little John" (so called for his stature) John
Nailer. This was between 1185-1200 at the time
of the Norman sovereigns. The Naylor home
was in Yorkshire.

James Naylor, 1617-1660, joined the Parlia-
mentary Army 1642 and was Quartermaster in
Lambert's Horse. In 1651 he became a Quaker
and preached in the North. For his utterances
he was imprisoned for a short time but was re-
leased and went to London in 1655. There he
was again arrested and accused of blasphemy,
sentenced to be pilloried in the New Palace
Yard, London, his tongue to be pierced with
hot iron and his forehead branded with " B "
and himself to be whipped through the City
of Bristol.

He was released for a short time, when he
published pamphlets, distinguished for depth of
thought and beauty of expression.

On the morning named for the carrying out
of his punishment, Robert Rich, an influential
friend, stood at the door of Parliament and
besought each member to grant him relief from
the sentence. This was refused. But the people,
by one consent, stood bareheaded during the
execution of his sentence, which he bore with
much patience. He died from the effects before
he could reach his home in Wakefield, Yorkshire.
The American branch of this family settled
in Middlctown, Bucks County, Pa., one son
moving to Kentucky, and another, John, moving
to Baltimore, Maryland, in 1758, where he be-
came a member of the " Gunpowder Meeting."
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EWING

Domesday census shows Ewen in Suffolk Co.,
Euings in Wiltshire, near the Welsh Co.,
Euens in Suffolkshire and Ewens in Herford-
shire, which seems to prove that they were
Anglo-Saxon, but the name existed among the
Celts before the coming of the Angles
or Saxons.

Several of the Ancient " Kings of Scots "
bore the name of Ewen and one of them was a
distinguished leader of his race, in the wars
against the Romans.

In the sixteenth century, the Ewings acquired
land in County Dumbarton, an ancient posses-
sion of the Earls of Lennox, they also possessed
estates in County Argyll.

The Ewings are of Scottish extraction and
were long settled in the West of Scotland, but
the branches which came to America were of
Scotch-Irish descent. They were Presby-
terians and left their seat, which was on the
River Forth, near Stirling Castle, in the vicinity
of Loch Lomond, on account of religious per-
secution. They finally settled at or near Cole-
raine. County Londonderry of Ulster, North
of Ireland.

In the Battle of Boyne, 1690, Fenlay Ewing
espoused the cause of William of Orange, and
was rewarded for his valor in battle by beinp
presented with a silver-handled sword.

During the reign of George I, some of the
Ewings embarked for America in the ship
Eagle IViiig and their descendants have spread
through Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina.
Kentucky and Tennessee, intermarrying with
the Breckenridgc, Cabell, Blaine, Field, Green,
Mills and other prominent families whose mem-
bers have held high civil and military offices.

TABLET PRESENTED TO
U. S. BATTLESHIP "MARYLAND"

By Carrie B. Gault
State Chairman, Magazine Committee

The

HE Daughters of the American
Revohition of Maryland on
October 10, 1921, presented a
bronze tablet inscribed with the
American's Creed to the United
States Battleship Maryland.
trip down Chesapeake Bay on

board the Porpoise to the battleship,
anchored about eight miles from Annapo-
lis, Md., was thoroughly enjoyed by
several hundred members of the National
Society. They were welcomed on the
Maryland by Captain Preston, U. S.
Navy, and his staff, and conducted to the
starboard side of the battleship near the
stern where the speaker's stand had been
erected close to the tablet.

As part of the elaborate ceremonies a
Maryland State flag was presented to the
battleship by Mrs. J. Charles Lincthicum,
State Chaplain of Maryland, who spoke
as follows :

It is with a great deal of pleasure I accept
the honor of presenting to the battleship the
flag of our noble State of Maryland. The
Maryland flag is unique in design, and well
known in history. Though not adopted officially
until 1904, it was the flag of the proprietary
government before American Independence was
dreamed of. It represents the escutcheon of
the paternal Coat-of-Arms of Lord Baltimore.

The Resolution of Adoption stated that the
flag should be one which from the earliest
settlement of the Province to the present time,
has been known and distinguished as the Flag
of Maryland.

The Resolution then provided that the first
and fourth quarters consist of six vertical
bars, alternately gold and black, with a diagonal
band on which the colors are reversed. The

second and third quarters consist of a quartered
field of red and white charged with a Greek
Cross, its arms terminating in the trefoils,
with the colors transposed, red being in the
white ground and white on the red, as on
the escutcheon of the present great seal
of Maryland.

The flag should always fly from the staff
with the black stripes on the diagonal band of
the first quarter at the top.

It was this flag which was thrown to the
breeze in 1634 when the Pilgrims landed at
St. Mary's and founded their city. It flew
at the mastheads of the two armed vessels,
under command of Captain Cornwallis, sent by
Governor Calvert to defend the rights of his
Colony against Claiborne.

The flag stands, as it has stood from the
landing of the Colony at St. Mary's, for relig-
ious toleration and freedom. The Toleration
Act of 1649 introduced no new principle nor
policy into the Government of the Colony.
Maryland took the lead in religious freedom,
and was the first community in modern times in
which the civil was effectually separated from
the ecclesiastical. Not only does this do high
honor to the founders of Maryland, but it is of
deep importance in the history of the world.

The flag was flung to the breeze in the cause
of Independence, when the gallant sons of
Maryland marched and fought with the mighty
men from the Colonies. To the troops under
this flag was given great applause as they with
others checked the British at North Point and
Fort McHenry.

In every war from the inception of the
Nation, the troops of our State have won
glory and success under the folds of this flag,
which has stood for justice and right for more
than three hundred years.

In accepting the Maryland flag Captain
Preston declared it would always be a
source of pride to the men of the battle-
ship and would encourage patriotism and
acts of bravery. He then spoke of the

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meaning of the " bits of bunting " and man of the committee in charge

how each Nation cherishes its flag. The of arrangements.

Maryland flag was unfurled by Miss \\'hile the sailors and marines stood

Mary Addison Page, daughter of \\'illiam at attention, Mr. Page recited the

lAliirr I'RKSENTKD TO THE U. S. BATILESHIP MARYLylSl),
MARVI.ANI) I)AU(;HTERS OF THE AMERKAN REVOLUTION

Tyler Page, auilmr nf tlu- " Amei-ican's
Creed"; after wliicii the bronze tablet
was unveiled by little Miss Hildegarde
Denmead, granddaughter of the State
Regent, and Woodwaivl Leakin Welsh,
son of Mrs. Robert A. Welsb, chair-

Ameiican's (."reed. In i)resenting the
tablet to tbe battle>hip, Mrs. Denmead,
.^-^tati' Regent of Maryland, stated:

.Staiuiiii.n luTt.' (Ill tlu- deck of this battleship,
tlic hitcst and l)cst (if its kind in modern per-
fi'Ctiim and etliciciicv. niv heart, as a native

TABLET PRESENTED TO U. S. BATTLESHIP "ALARYLAXD"

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Marylander. swells witli pride and pleasure
that she bears the name of our beautiful
and beloved State, Maryland, the "land
of sanctuary."'

I may say our beloved State is, in a 2cay,
the mother of the navy of the United States.
One year before the United States, by virtue of
the Declaration of Independence, became a
constellation in the galaxy of nations and while
the people of the Colonies were preparing
for the great struggle for Independence,
Maryland fitted out and embarked two ships
of what afterwards became the nucleus of
the navy of the United States of America.

service of their Country, waxed valiant in
fight and carried the Star Spangled Banner
on to victory.

To-day I am presenting to you, in the name
of the Alaryland Daughters of the American
Revolution, a bronze Tablet inscribed with the
American's Creed, the creed of liberty, love
and unity. As this great ship plows through
the blue waters of the Atlantic and Pacific, may
the sentiment hereon inscribed be the means
from which both officers and men draw inspira-
tion to always man this magnificent leviathan
with the true spirit of American love for
independence, liberty and the protection of

UNVEILING TAIJLET ON U. S. BATTLESHIP MARYLAND

In the war with England in 1812 our navy
gained unperishable glory in battling with the
greatest sea power the world has ever known,
and Maryland men were in the forefront of the
officers of the Navy and Marine Corps who
fought in that good fight, according to Mr.
Theodore Roosevelt's history (240 in number).
Maryland furnished more than any other State;
more than all New England combined ; more
than New York and New Jersey combined ;
more than Pennsylvania ; more than Virginia
and nearly double as many as all the States
south of Virginia, and what shall I say more?
For time would fail me to tell of the long line
of Maryland naval heroes reared by Maryland
women, who did their full share in the glorious

right. In the name of " Maryland, My
Alaryland." I present this Tablet to our name-
sake the Battleship Maryland.

Alay she never dip her colors except to
victory and honor.

Captain Preston's short speech of
acceptance was followed by the playing
of the National Anthem by the band of
the battleship, and then the visitors were
taken on a tour of inspection. Tea was
served later, after which the visitors
embarked on the Porpoise and then
the return trip was made to Baltimore.

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General Richardson Chapter (Pontiac,
Mich.) On Memorial Day, 1921, unveiled a
beautiful tablet in honor of the men of Oakland
county, who laid down their lives during the
Great War, and of Captain David Lewis
Kimball, who died while he was in command of
the old National Guard, on duty at the
Mexican border.

The unveiling took place in connection with
the Memorial Day services, the parade halting
at the Court House during the exercises. Mrs.
Grace Stowell Smith made the presentation
speech in behalf of the General Richardson
Chapter, and while she was speaking, two
American flags were drawn
apart disclosing the beauti-
ful tablet.

The tablet is an attractive
piece of bronze containing
the names of the 103 men
who died during the War.
This in turn is surrounded
by a handsome bronze frame.

This was not the first
bronze gift which this
Chapter has given Oakland
county. In 1916, during our
centennial celebration, this
Chapter placed a bronze tab-
let, marking the spot where
the first house in Pontiac
stood and also giving the
names of the three families
who occupied it jointly
during the first four months
of its existence.

General Richardson Chap-
ter has also been one of the
foremost in Michigan, to
mark the graves of Revolu-
tionary Sf)l(licrs, having
already marked over
twenty graves with the
bronze marker of the Na-
tional Society.
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to the Eleanor Wilson Chapter of Washington,
D. C, and to the various patriotic organiza-
tions of Nashville, Tenn., was the unveiling of
a Revolutionary marker in the historic cemetery
at Gallatin, honoring the memory of the Meck-
lenburg Declaration of Independence, and rela-
tive of Mrs. James C. Courts, Regent of our
Chapter, and great grandfather of Mrs. Enna
Wilson Noel.

Cumberland Chapter had the distinction of
being requested by the donors to arrange the
placing of the marker and to conduct the cere-
monies incident to the unveiling, which was held

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on July 6, 1921, in the presence of a representa-
tive gathering.

Dr. George Stoves, Pastor of the West End
Methodist Church of Nashville made a few
very appropriate remarks on the life of this
wonderful man, his inspiring patriotism and
loyalty. Mrs. L. L. Gamble, rendered several
verses of America, the audience joining in the
chorus. As Auld Lang Syne was sung, the flag
covering the marker was drawn aside by Mrs.

deliberate on the Federal Constitution, he refused
to give his approval, feeling that it lacked proper
protection for rights of the people. He was one
of the best surveyors of his day though he had
pursued the study with little or no instruction.
In 1792, he was chosen surveyor of Cabarras
County. N. C.

Zaccheus Wilson was reared near Newville,
Pennsylvania, but removed to the Steele Creek
Church neighborhood, Alecklenburg County,

OLD (;(n i:rn()K mj.sox hcjuse on which hi: train

SPARK IT. rHK CANNON l!\l.l,s MAY SI

L. W. Edwards, lineal desfcndant of RoIrtI
Wilson, Sr., who was a hrotlier of Zaccheus
Wilson. The following inscription was oi tlie
marker: "Erected by the Eleanor Wilson
Chapter and Enna Wilson Noel."

Zaccheus Wilson was not only one of the
signers of the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Indepenflence at the convention of May 20,
1775. but was in every way a man of broad
patriotism and public spirit. As Captain he led
his Regiment at the Battle of King's Mountain.
He was a member of the Provincial Congress
of November 1776. .As a member of the Con-
vention held at llillsl.oro, N. C, in 1788, to

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N. C., before the RevolutioiL He later moved
to (iallatin in Summer County, Tenn.. where he
lies buried.

Me married Mrs. I'.lizabeth Conger Ross.
Of this union there were born two sons, Stephen
and Jonathan Wilson. The former was the
grandfatiier of Mrs. Noel.

Cumberland Chapter was represented at the
unveiling by Mrs. H. W. Ivvans and Miss Louise
Lindeley, former Regents. Mrs. T. R\ron
.M.n-tiii'and .Mrs. J. ().' Ilendley.

(Mrs. J. O.) Cl.are Henhlev,

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Wyoming Valley Chapter (Wilkes Barre,
Pa.) The season's first meeting, October 19,
1920, "Yorktown day," was held at the home of
Mrs. F. J. Weckhesser. There was a short busi-
ness session, after which a lecture and musical
program was rendered. I\Ir. W. E. Woodruff
talked of Yorktown one hundred and thirty-nine
years ago, giving many interesting facts con-
cerning that memorable date. On December
14th. the "Tercentenary of the landing of the
Pilgrims" was celebrated, the Colonial Dames
uniting with the Chapter. On February 22nd,
there was a full and enthusiastic attendance,
a member of the Chapter read Washington's
Prayer, a paper written twenty-five years ago
by a Chapter member, subject: "True Patriot-
ism", was read by the daughter of the writer.
On April 19th, "Lexington Day." a vivid account
of the Battle of Lexington was read by one of
the members, and an account of Paul Revere's
ride by another.

The Chapter has met all National and State
requirements. Quota for the "Immigrants'
Manual" was over-subscribed. The Mothers'
Memorial Fountain to be erected at Plymouth,
and the Painting for the War Museum in
France, have been fully met. Thirty-five
members have subscribed for the D.\ughters
OF THE American Revolution AIagazine, and
the Regent, Miss Maffet gave a subscription to
the Public Library. The Chapter has contri-
buted 366 cards containing the "Creed" to the
Boy Scouts, and has placed six large size copies
of the "Constitution" in public places. Prizes
have been offered to the students, one from
each school, for the best examination in
American History.

The Berry school in Georgia continues one
of the Chapter's obligations, having received
$25. for a number of years. Tlie Colonial
Dames unite with the Chapter in supplying a
teacher for Americanization work. Four mem-
bers represented the Chapter at the State
Conference held in Williamsport last October.
There are one hundred and three names now
on the Chapter roll, and several others are
pending. One member has been transferred
to another Chapter.

The Washington Memorial at Valley Forge,
for which an appeal was made, received $10. ;
the Chinese famine fund, $25. ; the kindergarten
federation, $25. ; one war orphan, $36.50 ; Amer-
icanization teacher. $82.50; Berry school, $25.
Complying with the State Regent's request,
the Annual Electing of the Chapter was held
May 17, 1921, at which time the Board and
Officers were reelected.

Annette C. Line Well.s,

Recording Secretary.

Omaha Chapter (Omaha, Xebr.). At the
Alay, 1919, meeting Airs. Charles H. Aull
reported that Nebraska stood at the head of
the country in the distribution of flags and
flag posters. Airs. Allen reported many small
flags had been bought to be used during the
parade on Americanization Day. It was decided
to set aside $100 for the Nebraska Alemorial
Monument to be erected in Lincoln in honor
of all Nebraska soldiers. A spoon was sent to
Aliss Alary Wood in memory of her mother, a
Charter member listed as No. 1. The amount
of $100 was made up for the Old Trails Fund.
Our State Chairman on Historic Relics, Airs.
Stubbs, reported that a cup and saucer used
at a banquet given to La Fayette, be taken to
Washington by Airs. Aull. A Christmas box,
and also an American Flag, was sent to our
French Orphan, for which we received a
letter of thanks.

Airs. George E. Alickel has been active as
organizing secretary of the Children of the
American Revolution, and the Chapter in
Omaha with nearly 100 members, is among the
very first to be organized in the state. Aliss
Katherine Hilliard gave an account of the
Calhoun Celebration on September 19, 1919,
where the D.A.R. participated in the 100th
Anniversary of the founding of Fort Calhoun,
Nebraska, originally Fort Atkinson.

Our Airs. C. H. Aull, \'ice President from
Nebraska, with her sister. Airs. George Thacher
Guernsey, then President General of the
National' D.A.R., went in August, 1919, to help
plan the restoration of the French Village
Tilloloy, giving us most interesting information
in regard to the $52,000 donated by the D.A.R.
to the village.

The two solid silver sandwich plates pre-
sented by Omaha Chapter to Alemorial Conti-
nental Hall at a cost of $60, were marked with
the Chapter name.

The State Conference was held in Hastings.
It was reported the program was excellent and
hospitality gratifying in the extreme.

June 14. 1919. Flag Day. was celebrated with
a luncheon at the Prettiest Alile Club. The
retiring Regent, Airs. Allen, gave a farewell
talk, summing up the results of her two years'
work of unusual demands during the recent
Great War, followed by Airs. Larmon's excel-
lent report of the Continental Congress presided
over by Airs. Guernsey.

The October, 1920, meeting at the home of
Airs. Aletcalf with our new Regent, Airs.
Robert A. Finley, in the chair, was the occasion
of a delightful musicale under the direction of
Airs. I. C. Wood, Chairman Program Com-
mittee. Airs. Finley has been untiring in Near
East Relief Work, and lias brought several
prominent workers to the city in relief cam-

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paigns. The talk given by Miss Katherine
McCormick, National Speaker for Red Cross
and Near East Relief, was so convincing that
she touched our hearts deeply and a large
subscription was made to this worthy cause.
The Chapter also rendered splendid service in
the local Red Cross membership drive.

Mrs. Harriet MacMurphy has contributed an
interesting article to the Nebraska State His-
torical Society and presented a necklace owned
for seventy-five years by Mrs. Henry
Fontenelle, pioneer Indian woman, at the 44th
annual meeting of the organization in Lincoln.

The Chapter responded gladly to the call
from Mrs. Minor, our President General, for a
per capita tax to defray the expense of pub-
lishing an Immigrants' Manual ; also a gift of
a Memorial Fountain at Plymouth Rock, in
honor of the Pilgrim Alothers; and third, the
gift to the French Government of a painting of
a Convoy of Transports carrying American
troops. The sum was met by a 60-cent per
capita tax, and taken to Washington by our
Vice President General, Mrs. Aull, to the
Continental Congress in April. We were one
of eight Government organizations asked to
participate in this Memorial which is to be
placed in the War Museum of Paris in enduring
remembrance of the sacrifice of the Allies.

At the Annual State Conference in Columbus
a motion, recommended by Mrs. Larmon,
Chapter Registrar, that the Nebraska Daughters
furnish a room in the new D A.R. Administra-
tion Building being erected in the rear of
Memorial Continental Hall at Washington, at
a cost of approximately $1000, was adopted.

Omaha Chapter has done much to inspire
patriotic education. Prizes have been offered
for Historical Essays and $40 was appropriated
by Omaha Chapter to sponsor a float in the
patriotic parade in connection with the Tercen-
tenary Celebration of the landing of the
Pilgrims. Scholarships of $50 were given as
usual to the Martha Berry school.

Five dollars of the State Fund was given
for the American International College. We
are continuing to support our French Orphan,
and the usual yearly allowance is being sent.

Liberal contributions were also made to
relieve the condition of the starving Chinese.
It was suggested by Mrs. R. C. Hoyt and
adopted, that the amount usually paid for
refreshments at Cliaptcr meetings, be turned
over to the above puri)ose, for the remainder
of the year, which, with personal contributions,
totalled about $75 for Chinese Relief Fund.

Mrs. Allen gave her report of the animal
meeting Continental Congress, held in April. The
year closes with a Chapter membership of 200.

During the past two years each member of
this Chapter has made it a point of honor to
use her best efforts to promote its patriotic
purposes. More members have attended the
regular meetings, showing an increased interest
in patriotic work and many enjoyable social
occasions have been held.

Josephine W. Shipman,

Historian pro. tern.

Genesee Chapter (Flint, Mich.). The
annual meeting of Genesee Chapter is held in
December. At the meeting in December, 1920,
the following officers were elected : Regent,
Mrs. F. W. Swan ; First Vice Regent, Mrs.
G. E. Pomeroy; Second Vice Regent, Mrs.
Harry Demorest ; Secretary, Mrs. H. G.
Trembly; Treasurer, Mrs. M. E. Smith;
Registrar, Mrs. W. V. Smith; Historian, Mrs.
E. C. Smith, Jr.; Counselor, Mrs. M. S.
Keeney; Chaplain, Mrs. Mary McConnelly.
These officers have worked faithfully during
the past year and there has been displayed
a friendly spirit of cooperation between ofticers
and members, all working together with but
one aim, the good of the Chapter. Fourteen
new members have joined us during the
past year, sixty-six Daughters now being
enrolled. An excellent program has been
prepared for each meeting.

In May we entertained at luncheon our State
Regent, Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, who gave
us an interesting report of the meeting of
Continental Congress in April. We had the
great pleasure of entertaining our Vice Presi-
dent General, Mrs. W. H. Wait, at the
September meeting. Mrs. Wait inspired all
those present with her earnest and enthusiastic
talk regarding the future work of the
Daughters along the lines of patriotic education.

Flag Day, Constitution Day, and the Birth-
days of Washington and Lincoln were all
observed fittingly. The Chapter has secured
a room in our Central high school, for the
placing of records, genealogical books, maga-
zines, etc., which may be used by the general
public for research work, as well as by the
Daughters. Our welfare work has consisted
in donations of sweaters, caps, mittens, etc.,
to the Child Welfare Home, besides liberal
individual contriliutions.

.\s Flint is a manufacturing city with many
foreign born in its midst, we have a wonderful
n])portmiity for work along Americanization
lines. The Chapter pays $5 a month towards
the organized Americanization work of the city.

Our work consisted in helping to make
Christmas last year a little brighter for the
kindergarten children of the I'airview school,
which is the Americanization educational centre
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Chapter and individually, contributed hundreds
of books and magazines. For our gifts, we
purchased an outfit of colored electric bulbs, to
be used yearly on the tree, made and filled 100
fancy paper bags with popcorn, also gave a
bushel of apples, 70 candy canes and 70 books.

There were twelve Daughters present at the
State Conference held in Detroit in October.
Our Chapter was highly honored by having one
of its most loyal Daughters, Mrs. G. E.
Pomeroy, elected as State Chairman. We
pledged at the Conference as part of our
Americanization work during the coming year
a scholarship of $275 to the American Inter-
national College at Springfield, Mass. We
have been 100 per cent, in our state budget and
the three national causes. Money has been
earned by means of sales and teas. Our receipts
for the past year has been $461 35. We have
also a savings account of $200 and $650 in
Liberty Loan Bonds.

We cannot say enough in praise of our
Regent, who with untiring zeal and devotion
has so efficiently guided the Chapter through
a prosperous and happy year.

M.^BEL Thorpe Smith,
Historian.

Chemeketa Chapter (Salem, Oregon). At
the annual election of officers in January, 1919,
I an interesting installation ceremony was in-
j augurated to become a permanent feature of
j the Chapter. At this time the Chapter was five
years old and numbered thirty-five members.
I During the year eight new members were taken
in, and during the following five were added,
I and in a short time the necessary two to give

us our desired fifty members.
i Chemeketa Chapter was 100 per cent, on

I Liberty Bonds. Tilloloy. subscription to the
I Woman's Building at University of Ohio, and
also our contribution of five cents per capita
for the Guernsey scholarship.
j Along the lines of Americanization during

' the two years, the Birthday of George
I Washington was celebrated in 1919 with
j a successful afternoon's program at the
j Armory, consisting of an address and music
! bv the pupils of the public schools ; and in
1920 a public celebration, also at the Armory,
at which time the French War Medals were
distributed to the parents of our fallen heroes.
In 1921 the members of the Chapter in groups
/ visited the public schools and gave sliort talks.
The Chapter has attended naturalization cere-
monies, presented a silk flag to the high school ;
caused to be distributed in the schools and
memorized, the American's Creed : offered
prizes for the best essays on Americanization;
held a profitable and instructive open meeting
on Constitution with appropriate address ; and

aided in a material way the success of
Americanization Day at the State Fair during
both years. We have contributed to the
National Library one book. Letters from an
Oregon Ranch, and issues of an Historical
Oregon Paper for several years.

Chemeketa Chapter has contributed her quota
to the social obligations of the chapters by
entertaining the members of the State Board
during one of their sessions, with a luncheon
followed by a public reception, which stands
out as a pleasant memory of comradeship.
Also the State Conference of March, 1921, was
held in Salem, with Chemeketa Chapter and
Sarah Childress Polk Chapter as joint host-
esses. The sessions were held in the State
House. One unusual and appropriate feature
of the Conference was the dinner donated and
served to the members by the Patriotic
Women's organizations of Salem. A reception
was held on Friday evening of the Conference,
to which the public was invited.

Mrs. Seymour Jones,

Retiring Regent.

Westfield Chapter (Westfield, N. J.,) was
organized March 3, 1920, with thirteen members
as a nucleus. Under the able leadership of the
Regent, Mrs. Walter H. Allen, we have grown
rapidly, having now a membership of seventy-
six. In appreciation of her untiring service,
the Chapter gave Mrs. Allen a regent's bar.
The Chapter was also the recipient of a hand-
some American flag with standard, the gift of
the charter members. We have held regular
monthly meetings and have observed all
patriotic days.

Westfield celebrated its two hundredth anni-
versary by an historical pageant, staged within
the grounds of the old Revolutionary church,
the historical data being compiled by the Vice
Regent, Mrs. Edward F. Low. The Chapter
was asked to mark, by placards, historic spots
in the vicinity.

One pleasant occasion was the reception ten-
dered by Nova Csesarea Chapter, the oldest in
the State of New Jersey, to the Westfield
Chapter, the youngest. An event of the
afternoon was the presentation of the charter
to the Westfield Chapter by the State Regent,
Mrs. Henry D. Fitts Mrs. Fitts complimented
the Chapter upon its rapid progress and a
fitting response was made by our Regent,
Mrs. Allen.

We have given to Washington Headquarters,
Plainfield; to the State scholarship for the
International College, at Springfield, Mass. ;
to the Memorial Fountain for Pilgrim Mothers ;
the Sarah Guernsey scholarship ; the War
Painting and Manual for Immigrants ; the
Roosevelt Memorial Fund ; the Hoover Fund

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and tlie Xear East Relief ; to St. Pauls
Episcopal Guild ; the Girls' Scout Camp ; the
Children's Country Home and to numer-
ous charities.

A prize was given for the best essay by a
high school pupil on the subject. "Reasons for
success of the American Revolution." A prize
has also been ofifered in the eighth grade to
the pupil having the best history record for the
year. Each year an American flag is to be
presented to the high school, this flag to fly
each day at the mast and it is to be given,

ary soldiers were found and decorated with
Betsy Ross flags. A hand-lettered copy con-
taining the names of the Revolutionary
soldiers, also a beautiful wreath of galax
leaves bearing the dates 1776-1921. were placed
on the entrance gates of the cemetery.
Proba])ly the last survivor of the Revolution,
on the Colonial side, lies buried in this sacred
spot The war records prove him to be
William Clark, of Xew Jersey, who died
in 1853.

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upon graduation, to the honor pupil of the class.
The history department of the high school
received a gift of seventy-five catechisms of the
United States Constitution and also seventy-five
copies of the ]\Iayflower Compact. A shelf
of books on History and Biography was given
to the public school library. Two subscriptions
to the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine were donated; one to the high
school, the other to the Public Library.

A Salvage Bureau has been formed liy the
Conservation and Thrift Committee and a very
successful Salvage Bazaar was held A part of
the money made at that time has been devoted
to Americanization work.

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suggest names for certain streets
recommended that names of soldier?
made the supreme .sacrifice be givci
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suggestion was favorably rcicivcd
ordinance was adojited.

The Grand .Army ol tlu' i\()iuMic invited us
and the Sons of the Anurican Kevulutiim to
take charge of the old Revolutionary burial
ground. The graves of thirty-three Rcvolution-

non-military service of members of the
Chapter. This record is to be kept as a
chapter file.

An attractive tea house has been opened —
the color scheme of the furnishings being
Colonial buff and blue. Also in connection
wi'.li this enterprise we liave a Woman's
E.xchange and (iift Shop.
(Mrs. R. (). ) Im.okexck Ukaim-ud Pu-.kso.n,

Historiiin.

Saratoga Chapter (Saratoga Si)rings,
X. v.). is the only Ciiajjter of Saratoga Springs
— taking its name from the Battle of Saratoga,
which determined the fate of the Revolufion,
and which is named in history as one of the
fifteen decisive battles of the world.

At the present time a bill is before Congress,
asking for a "survey of the Battlefield and the
coini)ilation and preservation of data resi)ecting
that historic engagement." .A number of times
this matter has been brought before the State
Legislature, and always Saratoga Chai)ter has
worked for the passage of the bill. .\t the
Xovember. 1921. meeting the secretary of the
Chai)fer was instructed to write to our
Congressman and Senators at Washington,
interceding for the iwssage of the present bill.

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presented by Senator \Vm. ^[. Calder, of Xew
York. The Regent also wrote and asked that
all members of the Chapter do likewise. This-
matter is not of interest to Saratoga Chapter
alone, but to D A.R. Chapters everywhere.
Plistoric events that affect the entire country
are never local.

Saratoga Chapter has during the past year
continued its customary activities. For many
years Saratoga Chapter has been interested in
the erection of a new fence around Putnam
Cemetery. This burial ground is in the oldest
part of the city, surrounded by the homes of
the foreign-born, and in a sad state of dilapi-
dation. The Regent, ^Nlrs. Eleanor Day
Davenport, and the First Vice Regent, Airs.
Louise Bailey Kelley, interviewed the city coun-
<:il, and showed a copy of the State Law which
■ provides that any cemetery, not having had a
burial within a certain number of years must
be cared for by the city. The former asked
that a substantial fence be placed around the
cemetery, in which she had discovered the
grave of a Revolutionary soldier. Captain
Arnold Bliven. Her request was granted and
she was able to announce at the Alarch. 1921,
meeting that the fence, costing over $1300 was
in place.

At the July 4th meeting, the present Regent
brought to the notice of the Chapter that the
early pioneers of Saratoga were also interred
in this cemetery. She asked the Chapter if it
would consider the placing of a bronze tablet
upon the gates and have the unveiling a public
ceremony. Favorable action was taken and the
date for the event set for October 17th, the
anniversary of the Battle of Saratoga. The cere-
monies took place, however, on October 15th.
Now that Saratoga Chapter stands sponser
for the care of this historic spot it will keep
an eye upon it, making yearly pilgrimages, and
continue the study of its history. A type-
written list of the burials recorded by
Cornelius E. Durkee in 1876. was made by
Miss Martha Edna Bosworth, Second Vice
Regent of Saratoga Chapter. It was found
that the inscription on about ninety stones are
legible, fourteen were removed to Greenridge
Cemetery and the remainder are destroyed.
A search of those standing, reveals the dates
of proper age for service at the time of the
Revolution. The Regent has faithfully endeav-
ored to prove these and not been able to,
although some of these names appear on the
' Revolutionary Roll.

j Twenty Revolutionary Graves have been

[ located by the Regent and a list of fourteen sent

• in to Airs. De Laporte. Chairman of the Xew

York State Committee of Historic Research
J and Preservation of Records. It is expected

that Saratoga Chapter will place a Revolution-
ary marker on these graves of Saratoga County,
thus helping to preserve the record of those
who aided in obtaining American independence.
(Miss) Fraxcks M. Ixg.\lls,

Regent.

The New Castle Chapter (Webster City,
Iowa), Airs. Robert E. Junes, Regent, has
recently realized a long-cherished dream that
some day we might collect the articles of
historical and antique interest owned in this
community and display them. Xo one imag-
ined, however, that such a wealth of cherished
heirlooms could be gathered in our little city.

Three of the large club and assembly rooms
in our beautiful Library building were soon
filled to overflowing and still the resources
were quite unexhausted. To cjuote from the
Daily Xcz^s:

" X'ever was such a quantity of interesting
curios been assembled in the histor}' of the
town; there are olijects for which many a
collector would gladly pay an enormous sum."

The walls were covered with ancient tapes-
tries, rare coverlets and quilts, one of these
being made by a daughter of Betsy Ross in
1840 of white with appliqued flowers of chintz
brought from France. Antique jewels and
goldsmith's work were displayed in show cases.
Space forbids even a passing mention of these
treasures dating back to Colonial or Revolution-
ary days. Rare china, ancient silhouettes ;
weapons that once blazed death at Indians or
enemy : crests and insignia worn by men who
died on the plains of Waterloo.

On shelves and tables were displayed quaint
and valuable volumes yellow with age, and
autographs of men who have helped make our
national history, Thomas Jefferson, James
Aladison, Lincoln and others.

One can scarcely estimate the educational
value of such an exhibit, and it is a matter for
congratulation that hundreds of school children
had the opportunity of seeing it. The begin-
nings, the causes of the Revolutionary War
must seem less like dry history, more real and
vivid, when one can examine a stamp such as
was the immediate cause of the outbreak known
as the Boston Tea Party.

And perhaps after one had exclaimed over
the jewels and old silver, the autographs, the
historic uniforms and swords, after all, it is
not strange that there was always a group
who lingered by the pair of baby shoes, known
to be over 200 years old — such stout little shoes
for such tiny, tiny feet.

Alany gained a fresh realization of what life
must have meant to those who blazed the
trails when they saw the household implements,
the home-made devices for making life com-
fortable for the children who grew up in those
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This remarkable exhibit was maintained for
a week, during which time thousands from this
and surrounding counties had an opportunity
to share in the enjoyment and education which

it afiforded.

C. C. W.

Deborah Wheelock Chapter (Uxbridge,
Mass.), during 1921, under its new Regent,
Mrs. Jane Wheelock Root, has had a most
successful year, engaging in many and diverse
activities. In this report the work only of the
Patriotic Education Committee, which has been
of unusual interest, is covered.

The grounds surrounding the Chapter House
have recently been laid out as a garden. Here
in this beautiful setting one afternoon of last
August a pageant was held in honor of the
woman for whom the Chapter was named,
Deborah Wheelock; her direct descendants
taking the principal parts. The pageant was
arranged by the Chairman of the Patriotic
Education Committee, and was written to tell
local history and planned to utilize the old
house, the home of Deborah and her husband,
Simeon, as a centre from which generations
of families came upon the garden stage. An
orchestra played for the entrances, dances,
interludes and exits, binding the separate units
into a harmonious whole.

It opened with an episode in an English
garden, where the wife of the first Wheelock
who came to America, with her little son,
Gershom, was working among the flowers ;
while a group of children gave an English
folk dance. The father, Ralph, a Puritan
minister, came upon the scene, the neigh-
borhood children ran away, and a dialogue
followed that told of a letter that had
just been received by the father from his
Bishop. In it a warning was given that he
neither " preach, read, marry, bury or exercise
any ministerial function in any part on my
Diocese, for if you do, and I hear
of it, I'll be on your back and fol-
low you wherever you go in any
part of the kingdom and so ever-
lastingly disenable you." This
communication, which was copied
from an actual letter of an English
Bishop of the period, caused con-
sternation. Husband and wife
talked of the new land that might
be their refuge, where though they
exposed themselves to hardships and
the wiles of the redmen, yet they
might worship God after the dic-
tates of their own conscience. Sor-
rowfully the family went into the
house, thinking of the future that lay
before them; while a boy .soprano ci.osf o

sang " America the Beautiful."

The second episode was in Mendon, Mass.,
and showed a scene outside the home of the
• first Wheelock to settle there and William
Blackstone, the pioneer of the valley, came
to call upon his neighbor. The dialogue was
taken from " Historical Plays for Colonial
Days," and centred around the apples which
Blackstone had brought as a present from his
orchard near Lonsdale, R. I. The little girls
in quaint Puritan dress had never seen any
before ; and, as they looked like tomatoes,
thought that they might be the pomegranates of
their fairy tales. Benjamin Wheelock hoped
to have them growing in Mendon before
another year.

The third episode was closely connected
with the house. Simeon Wheelock, who built
it, was a Revolutionary soldier ; being in the
militia, answering the Lexington alarm, and
others during that troublesome time. After
the close of actual hostilities he continued his
membership, and so in December, 1786. was
called to go to Worcester to help in quelling
Shays' Rebellion. It was at this time when
he was absent that the scene in the pageant
was staged. He had seven children who were
left at home with their mother, and one son,
the oldest, whom he took with him. The chil-
dren's ages ranged in years from a daughter
twenty-two to a baby boy of two ; and they
were all in the scene. As the episode opened
the Wheelock girls came out of the house, one
of them the present-day Deborah helping a
sister carry the family cradle in which all of
Simeon's and Deborah's children had been
rocked. It was placed in the garden and the
oldest daughter brought the baby, Jerry
Wheelock, and sat him in it. This Jerry
Wheelock with his partners was the first
woolen manufacturer in Uxbridge. The baby
who represented him was Arthur Wheelock. a
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father are now the Wheelock manufacturers
of the town. The girls romped across the
lawn, joining some neighborhood friends in a
Virginia Reel. As the dance drew to a close
the mother, Deborah, came from a trip to the
village store, and the children crowded about
her and told her their news of the day. The
seventeen-year-old boy came in from work on
the farm asking news of his father. Deborah
reported that the troops had moved on towards
Springfield, and voiced her fears for the absent
ones. A galloping horse was seen to enter the
driveway ; a child cried, " Look ! Here is
Royal," and the oldest son came rushing on
the scene bearing his father's musket and tell-
ing the sad news that his father had been taken
sick from exposure and died. The family went
weeping into the house, giving place to a group
of present-day children who entertained with
modern and interpretative dances. The pageant
closed with a Processional in which all the
performers marched.

Fifty dollars of the fund raised has been
sent to the International College at Springfield ;
two hundred American's Creed Cards have been
purchased ; a contribution has been given
towards a local historical pamphlet that the
American Legion is publishing; and some
money is still on hand to purchase copies of
the Immigrants' Manual.

On the Friday previous to Memorial Day
the Chairman, accompanying the representa-
tives of the Grand Army and the American
Legion, gave patriotic talks before the pupils
in six school buildings. This visitation has
been a custom for many years, but this is the
first time that the Daughters of the American
Revolution have been represented.

Beatrice P. Sprague,
Chairman of the Patriotic Education
Committee.

Independence Pioneers' Chapter (Inde-
pendence, Mo.). The program of the Missouri
Centennial celebration at Independence, which
took place on the 7th and 8th of October,
1921, was carried out by the D.A.R. committee
appointed by Mrs. Overton Gentry, Regent, and
members of the D.A.R.

The chairman of this committee was Mrs.
H. P. Wherritt, who worked with untiring zeal
in this patriotic movement. Members of the
committee were, vi::.: Mrs. W. L. Webb (ex-
State Historian D.A.R), Mrs. M. H.
Dickinson, Mrs. Rowland Procter and Mrs.
E. L. Brown. It was decided to ask the
assistance of the different organizations and the
business departments of the town. Outside the
D.A R. the organizations taking part were the
U.D.C., the Legion, the Eastern Star and the
Chamber of Commerce.

On the afternoon of the 7th a parade was
given in which the surrounding towns took
part, and the adjoining country known as "Six
Mile." The parade was divided into historical
periods. The first epoch, or early period, was
represented by Indians in two floats. Then
came Daniel Boone. A prairie schooner drawn
by oxen was early in the procession ; also an
old stage-coach drawn by four horses. Occu-
pants of this coach were Missouri pioneers.
The first trading post in Jackson County was
represented by Blue Springs. Notable was the
landing of Major George C. Sibley and his
wife, Mary Easton Sibley, in a keel boat. This
float containing George C. Sibley, the Indian
agent, and Airs. Sibley, the " Bride of the Wil-
derness," was a prominent feature of the
parade. Conspicuous was the float bearing
Father De Smet teaching the Indians, ptit on
by the Catholic citizens. The first log church
built in Jackson County was erected in the
district known as " Six Mile." That district
was represented in parade by a miniature
church of logs as featuring that event.

Paramount for excellence of design and
striking pageantry was the D.A.R. float, bear-
ing Mrs. M. H. Dickinson as the Goddess of
Liberty. Revolutionary regimental colors
entwined the emblematic spinning wheel.

In a float bearing the dates 1860-1865
appeared women in costume dancing the
minuet. The float from " Sugar Creek " dis-
played " All nationalities."

Of historic interest was the U.D.C. feature
with its three flags under whose folds stood
General Sterling Price. One was the old
Missouri State flag, another the Confederate
flag, and the United States flag— Old
Glory — under all of which Price fought
as a commander.

The high school of Independence put on an
historic float. After the parade the crowd
assembled around the great flagpole in the
Court House yard to hear speeches by promi-
nent citizens, chief of whom was Dr. N. P.
Wood, who delivered an eloquent address on
" Missouri," closing his discourse by reading
the poem, " The Birthday of Missouri," by Mrs.
W. L. Webb, Poet Laureate Missouri D.A.R.
and of the State Division U.D.C. Here beneath
the flag that floated eighty feet above the vast
concourse of people, the unique ceremony was
performed of cutting " Missouri's Birthday
Cake " — a cake composed of one hundred eggs,
and lighted with an hundred candles.

On the evening of October 7th a pageant
of historical import was effectively carried out,
as a part of the same movement, at the high
school, and repeated on the evening of the 8th.
The pageant of the evenings of the 7th and 8th
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proloyuc: Father Time weaving tapestry across
the stage ; two rivers, the Missouri and
Alississippi, in dialogue; miners, trappers,
Indian children: the Spirit of Gold; Monks
and Priests. Episode 1 — Founding of Ste.
Genevieve. Episode 2 — Coming of Daniel
Boone — blazing the way, etc. Episode 3 — The
Missouri Compromise — by Legion men. Epi-
sode 4 — Doniphan's Expedition. Episode 5 —
Scenes from the Civil War (Order Xo. 11).
Episode 6— The spirit of 1917-1918. Episode
7 — Keep the home fires burning. A thirty-piece
orchestra rendered appropriate music for
each episode.

(Mrs. \V. L.) AI.^kklle Browx Wkbb,

Historian.

Mary Clap Wooster Chapter (New Haven,
Conn.). When asked abnut the Americanization
work carried on through the public schools,
we glibly reiily, " Oh, it is wonderful."
How much do we know of it from
personal observation?

Members of our Chapter can answer intelli-
gently for, at their December meeting, they
and their friends met at Prince street school,
in the very heart of the foreign section of the
city. For an hour previous to the time for
beginning the regular program, those present
went from room to room, getting a clear idea
of what the school is accomplishing. There are
fifteen nationalities in attendance and, in the
room for immigrants, all ages come together
to learn English. At the top of the building
is an open-air room for children of tubercular
tendencies. In the basement are appliances for
manual training classes. There is a school
orchestra which furnished the music for the
afternoon. In each grade visitors remarked on
the excellent spirit shown and on the happy,
intelligent faces of the pupils.

After the business part of the regular pro-
gram, the audience was addressed by Miss
Webster, the efficient Principal of the school.
She gave a detailed account of the various
activities of the i)ui)ils. There are basket ball
teams and r)ther athletic organizations ; debat-
ing societies ; a Loyalty League (a good citizcn-
shi]) club). Meetings are held which bring
the parents in touch with the helpful influences
of the school. The building is in almost
constant use, except on Saturday and Sunday.
There is a large assembly hall where entertain-
ments may be given or forums and lectures
on current tf)i)ics bring together old and young.
The defniite i)urp()se underlying every activity
is education in the broadest sense of the word,
not just the brains of the scholars, but their
physical, moral and spiritual natures as well.

Later in the afternoon. Mrs. Charles M.
r.isscll. State \'iie Kegent. better known ;is

National }ilagazine Chairman, gave a most
delightful account of the recent D.A.R. trip
abroad, when she was one of the President
General's party.

Readers need only turn to the December
number of the Magazine for a detailed account
of what was seen and done last summer by our
leaders. An interesting side trip was that made
to the home of Rosa Bonheur, the artist.
Though it is now the residence of an American
family, the studio is just as the painter left it,
even to a half finished picture on the wall.
Part of the house served as a hospital during
the late war.

After the conclusion of the program, refresh-
ments were served in the cheerful kindergarten
of the school, members of the Chapter acting
as hostesses. All who attended this novel and
entertaining near view of public school
Americanization work voted it one of the most
delightful and instructive meetings ever held
h\ Mary Clap Wooster Chapter. We commend
this departure from the ordinary program to
all chapters situated in centres of our
foreign population.

Harriette p. Marsh.

Historian.

Louis Joliet Chapter (Toliet, III.) has
reason to rejoice over the work accomplished
in the past year or two. Its war work was a
credit to any organization and its labors since
have been in keeping with reconstruction.

Our Americanization Committee led by the
Chairman, Mrs. Emma Gaskill, has been active
along various lines and has endeavored to
cot'ipcrate with the work being done by the
classes at the high school. Flags were pre-
sented to each child of those taking out their
final papers, also a copy of the American's
Creed and the Salute to the Flag.

Much help has been given the workers in
the Child Welfare movement in garments, time
and money. We also had a representative on
the Public Health Council and assisted actively
in the work being done by that body, al>o
giving them financial support. The Chairman
of the Flag Committee distributed Flag Code-
in the schools, also copies of the " Flag of the
United States " to the .\mericanization clas^e-

.An outstanding event was the planting of :.
beautiful Mountain .\sh in the Court Hou.-c
yard in honor of Dr. William Harwood. one
of our ablest physicians who gave his life in
I'rancc for the cause of humanity. The cere-
monies were both lilting and imposing.

We celebrated in the winter our tenth birth-
day aiuiiver.sary with our honored Regent, Mr>
Chubbuck. as our guest. It was a nio-t
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celebrated " everybody's birthda\ " at a George
Washington Tea. Alany and beantiful were
the costumes, the tableaux timely, and the
collection generous. Each was supposed to i;ut
in a penny for every year. The bag that
received them being roomy and dark it never
told whether the pennies dropped in represented
more than the years numbered nor. be it whis-
pered, considerably less. Suffice it to say the
sum of $50 was received, which has bsen put
away in a fund with the hope of some time
entertaining the State Conference. At this time
we were apprised of the donation of $1000
left by our beloved Mrs. Luella Westphal, to
be used toward a permanent home. This was
received not only with a sense of gratitude,
but of reverence for the gracious soul whose
loving loyal heart prompted so beautiful a gift.

That we might prove the truth of the words,
" It is more blessed to give than to receive,"
the Chapter has given $50 to the Child Welfare
Station; $5 to the Martha Berry school; $2
Christmas cheer for the Students' American
International College ; 65 cents per capita for
work in the National Society ; $5 to the Tribune
Memorial Fund ; $5 to Associated Charities of
Joliet; $10 to the Y.W.C.A. Fund.

We presented Rogers Group, Weighing the
Baby, to the Child Welfare Station, also the
book Valley Forge to the Joliet Township high
school, and sponsored the celebration of
Lincoln's Birthday at the latter place.

Silk flags were purchased to be used in the
Americanization ceremonies conducted by the
city schools for the children of men in the
naturalization classes. A silent pledge was
made by which $123.75 was received, also an
attic to cellar sale which netted us $65. Our
Ancestor's Luncheon in March was a delight-
ful affair, at which each one told something of
importance regarding the ancestor or ancestors
through whom they are eligible to the Society.

We have reason to congratulate ourselves
upon the corps of very efficient officers who
have served so faithfully in their respective
plaws. Our most able secretary, Mrs. Alice
Corlett, has been chosen to be our Regent for
the coming year. Our membership numbers
116, with several papers pending in Washington.

The year's work closed with our Flag Day
celebration held as for a number of years, as
guests of Mrs. Antoinette McGowan, a descend-
ant of John Alden, who is matron of the
Soldiers' Widows' Home at Wilmington. A
fitting program and a picnic luncheon made it
an occasion long to be remembered.

SOPHROXIA McCrOSKEV,

Historian.

Marietta Chapter (Marietta, Ohio). The
unveiling of a bronze tablet on Campus Martins

House by the Ohio Daughters for the Alarietta
Chapter, took place on September 28, 1921, at
Marietta, Ohio.

Marietta, settled in 1788 and named for Marie
Antoinette, is situated at the confluence of the
^luskingum and Ohio rivers. On the occasion
of the unveiling we had as visitors Edwin
Earle Sparks, President Emeritus of Penn.
State College ; C. B. Galbraith, Chairman of
the State Archological Society ; Mrs. William
Wilson Magee, State Regent; Mrs. Eugene
Kennedy, State Chairman of Historic Spots,
and other representatives of the original states
of the Northwest territory.

The ceremony took place in the presence of
a crowd which filled the street about Campus
Martins House, which has stood for one hun-
dred and thirty-one years on the present site.

The presentation of the tablet was made by
Mrs. Kennedy, who spoke of the work of the
D.A.R. towards restoration of the old house
and congratulating the city on having the his-
toric building within its doors. Mr. Galbraith
formally accepted the tablet for the Society —
" I accept this beautiful and historic tablet
which so appropriately marks the spot, the most
historic within the bounds of the Buckeye
state." Mrs. Wilson, Regent, then officially
removed the veil, disclosing the tablet on which
is inscribed these words :

" This house was one of the dwellings in
Campus Martins, the fortification erected by the
Ohio Company when the first settlement in the
Northwest Territory was made at Marietta
in 1788 ; it stood next to the southeast block-
house and was built by General Rufus Putnam,
who made it his home until his death in 1824 ;
it then became the property of Judge Arius Nye
from whose daughter, Minerva Tupper Nye, it
was purchased in 1919, by the State of Ohio."

Erected by the Daughters of the American
Revolution in 1921.

Annie Lorell,
Historian.

Sycamore Shoals Chapter (Bristol, \"a.)
has had a pleasant and profitable year. May
1922 hold as much good for us.

We have followed the work as outlined by the
National Society. We have celebrated Syca-
more Shoals Day, September 26th. and the other
Flag days most pleasantly, and have held nine
monthly meetings, taking a recess in the sum-
mer. Our Chapter is very active and each
member is vitally interested. We have been
singly honored this year in having visits from
our laeloved State Regent, Doctor Barrett, in
Tune. In August we were honored by a visit
from the ex-State Regent of North Carolina.
Mrs. Lindsey Patterson ; in September we were
visited by the State Regent of Tennessee with
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one of our guests was the occasion of pleasant
social afifairs. These visitors from neighboring
states gave our Chapter a wider view of the
work and aroused interest along many different
lines. Daughters of the American Revolution
have ever stood for the highest ideals of our
nation and we appreciate the honor of mem-
bership in the National Organization. We are
grateful that we could tend the Government
the use of beautiful Memorial Continental
Hall for the Conference on the Limitation
of Armament.

Mrs. Hknrv Fitzhugh Lewis,

Honorary Regent.

San Diego Chapter (San Diego, California),
consisting of one hundred and sixty members,
is enjoying a prosperous year under the Re-
gency of Mrs. Jesse H. Shreve. Recently the
Chapter unveiled and presented to the city a
bronze tablet, commemorating the discovery
of California by Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, when
he landed on the shores of San Diego Bay,
September 28, 1542.

The marker was placed in Balboa Park on
the west side of the California Quadrangle or
Plaza, which is situated at the east approach of

the Cabrillo Bridge spanning a deep canyon of
the same name. Halfway up on the facade of
the California Building is a statue of Cabrillo,
while the weather-vane is a fac simile of one
of Cabrillo's ships, but the marker is in such
an advantageous position that small children
can easily read it.

The Chapter was assisted by the Naval Band
of the U. S. S. CJiarleston, with escort. The
ceremonies were opened with the singing of
America by the audience. As Cabrillo was
born in Portugal and sailed under the flag of
Spain, appropriate hymns of each country were
played by the band, which is composed entirely
of Filipinos. So many countries were repre-
sented that the exercises resembled an
Americanization program. Mrs. Lyman D.
Stookey, State Vice Regent, came from Los
Angeles to attend the unveiling, and was one
of the principal speakers.

On the afternoon following, a delightful
informal reception and tea was held in honor
of the distinguished guests at the home of the
Regent, Mrs. Jesse H. Shreve.

Maud Thayer Frarv,

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QUERIES

10350. Wilson.— Wanted par of Robt. Wil-
son, who d 1801, & maiden name & par of his
\v Eleanor, d 1810, who went from Pa., to Meck-
lenburg Co., N. C, 1760.

(a) Graham. — Wanted par of Alsie Graham,
who m Zaccheus Wilson abt 1798, s of Robt. &
Eleanor Wilson. Would like to correspond with
any descendants.

(b) McCall. — Would like to correspond with
desc of John McCall, who m Martha Hext 1739,
in Charleston, S. C. — J. C. C.

10351. Fletcher. — Wanted Rev ances of
Stillman Fletcher, a farmer nr Pratt's Hollow,
Madison Co., N. Y., who fought in War
of 1812, m Betsey Radford. He had a bro Wm.
— W. K. B.

10352. BoHAXNOx. — Ambrose, Henry, Joseph
and John Bohannon served in Rev from Va.
Wanted par and name of w of each and names
of John's ch. — B. G.

10353. Kexyox-Kixyox. — Wanted gen of
Phineas Kenyon, b Oct. 30, 1781, who m Alary
f Polly) Fuller Aug. 28, 1808, supposedly in
Bolten Twp, Warren, then Washington Co., N.
Y. All their ch were b there. Was his father a
Rev sol? — E. E. S.

10354. Babcock.— Wanted Rev rec of Andrew
Babcock who was b in Devonshire, Eng., 1731
& came to N. Y. a few yrs before the Rev. He
moved to Noble's Forge, N. J. He was an an-
chor maker & blacksmith. Wanted any infor-
mation concerning him. — L. DuB. B.

10355. Fenxer. — Wanted ances with Rev rec
of Robert Fenner b in Providence R. I. Sept.
18, 1766 m Abigail Thayer, (adopted dau) or
Miller of Providence or Woonsocket, R. I.
They had 12 ch removed to Mohawk Valley Co.
Did Robert Fenner's father come from Eng?
— H. J. M.

10356. WiLSOX. — Wanted par & name of w of
Robt. Wilson whose s John m Betsy Potter
Park in Bennington, Vt. Did Robt. give Rev
ser?— G. S.

10357. Clark. — Is Pamela Clark who m
Othneil Looker at Westfield Essex Co., N. J.
in 1779, a desc of Abram Clark, of N. J. one
of the Signers of the Declaration of Independ-
ence?— M. H. J.

10358. Bell. — Wanted par & ances of Alartha
Bell b Aug. 1746, m Apr. 15, 1766 Isaac Hanna
b 1743. They lived in the Valley of the Sus-
quehanna, Dauphin & Northumberland Cos.
Martha Bell's father was killed by Indians 1759
while he was acting sentry for the family while
they were at supper. He left sons Thomas and
Walter.— F. R. G.

10359. CoiXER. — Wanted par of Catharine
Coiner, who m George Slagle at New Carlisle,
Pa., 1783. They moved to Weyer's Cave, Va.
After her husband's d Catharine went to live
with her dau Susanna Slagle Clement, at
Jamestown, O. Wanted also his Rev rec—
M. G. P.

10360. McKxiGHT.— Wanted par of Alexander
McKnight. sol in Capt. John Duncan's Co., 6th

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Bat Lancaster Co. Pa., Mil commanded by Lt.
James Taylor June 21, 1781.

(a) White.— Wanted par of Joseph White,
b in Balto., Md., d Aug. 2, 1858, m Mary Heaton
Nov. 14, 1799 in Warren Co., O. Their ch were
Nancy, Hannah, ]Maria. Mary Heaton White
d Aug. 18, 1858, in Fayette Co., Ind.

(b) AiKEX - Ekens - Ekins - Eakixs.—
Wanted par or any information of James
Aiken, supposed to have been an immigrant
from Scotland. He resided several yrs in
Brookfield, ]Mass., where he m Mercy Gibbs
Oct., 15, 1718. Their ch were Mercy, John
Solomon, James & Margaret.— O. E. H.

10361. Morrill.— Wanted the gen of David
Morrill, of Maine. Would like to correspond
with members of this family. — E. V. A.

10362. TuTTLE.— Wanted ances of Chauncey
Tuttle, b Jan. 8, 1800, d in New Marlboro, Mass.,
Nov. 10, 1879. M Phebe Dulth in Lee, Mass. Is
believed to have come from N. Y. State. Had
bro Chester. His mother m 2ndly — Battle.-
W. H. AI.

10363. Worthy. — Wanted any information of
the Worthy fam. In Goochland Co., Va., in
1777 Sarah Worthy m Wyatt Hewell, a sol in
Rev. John Worthy m Margaret Spotswood
Hewell & Thomas Worthy m Welthy Worthy
Hewell, both sisters of Wyatt Hewell. Would
like to get in touch with some of the fam. —
M. S. B.

10364. Wright. — Wanted date & place of m
& maiden name of 1st w of Job Wright, b in
Conn. Aug. 16. 1759. He enlisted 1st in Rev
War as a private from Saybrook, Conn., but in
the War of 1812 he enlisted from N. Y. State
under Capt. Levi Trowbridge & Col. Henry
Bloom. According to fam recs his 1st w was
Mary Olive, whom he m in 1785? The fam
niovcfl to Ohio, where Ivlary Olive d, & in 1820
Jol) Wright m Pcninah Trask. — M. G. W.

10365. TiNxuE. — John Tinguc, of Berne,
Albany Co., N. Y. Will recorded Apr. 15, 1813,
served in Rev in Albany Co. Mil Col. Philip
Schuyler, & in the Levies, Col. Lewis Dubois.
His w was Maria — . Wanted her maiden name
& date & place of m. 'IMnir s lohn Tingue h
June 15, 1773, d l-eb. 14, 1W5, m 1st Delia
Houce. Wanted her jiar. Did lur father serve
in Rev.

(a) Ke.wox. — I'.enjaniin Keiiyon (Janus) b
Mar. 24, 1720, prob in Duchess Co.. N. V., d
July 31, 1814. in Duchess Co. Did he ni Sept.
23. 1742, O. S., Lydia Chappell? They had s
Comfort. In will of Comfort Chappell. of
Conn, he mentions dau Lydia Kenyon. Was
this Lydia the w of Renj. Kenyon? I'amily recs
give him v; T>ydia, who d May 6. 1756. Their s
Bcnj. b Nov. 13, 1746. d Oct. .^0. 18,^, m Mav
20, 1768, Lydia Hawkins, b Iniu- '), 1747. d \nr.

27, 1815. Wanted her par & Rev rec of her
father.— C. E. T.

10366. McKee-Rvax. — Wanted Rev ances of
Clara McKee. who m July 4. 1859, at Dandridge,
Jefferson Co., Tenn., James Ryan, who was b [
Dec. 23, 1818. Wanted also his gen. Their s j
Wilev James Rvan was living at Fox Creek, St.
Louis Co., Mo., 1878.— H. M. S. '

10367. Bell.— Wanted gen of Robert Hall j
Bell, b in Shenandoah Co.. \'a., 1783, m Dec. 5.
1827, Susan Mourning Cain.— P. L. M. !

10368. McDoxALD.— Wanted par & bros & |
sis of John McDonald, of Old Sumter Co., S. C. I
He m twice, 1st to Sara Edwards & 2nd Eliza- I
beth English. Served as sol 1777-1783 & re-
ceived a pension for services. — A. L. N.

10369. Pool.— Wanted, par & dates of Mary
Pool, published Jan. 7, 1759, Cambridge, Mass.
Jebez Kendall, res Woburn, Groton and Cam-
bridge, Alass. Was she dau of Lieut. Jonathan
and Mary Leaman Pool, of Reading, Alass.?

(a) Sxow. — Wanted par and dates of Lucy
Snow, who m Samuel Kellogg, b Feb. 1, 1739,
res New Salem, Mass. It has been stated that
she was the dau of Jacob & Abigail Wyman
Snow of Woburn, but this cannot be correct
as that Lucy m John Pierce, w-ho d 1828.

(b) White-Foster. — David Foster, b 1758.
s of Nathaniel & Phoebe (Wing) Foster, of
South East, N. Y., m. according to the Foster
Genealogy, Lydia White, and two ch were b to
them, nr Danbury. \t. The fam moved to
Williamstown. Alass.. and vital records of that
town give the wife's name as Siisaiiuali White.
Would appreciate any data that would clear up
the difference in the wife's name. Could he
have been m twice? Nathaniel Foster rendered
Rev ser in Dutchess Co.. N. Y.. as did several
of his sons, but as there are several David
Fosters on the N. Y. rolls would be grateful to
anyone who could tell which ser belonged to
David Foster, the s of Nathaniel. — L. L. F.

10370. Ellis. — Wanted names and dates of
w and ch of Afaj. Wm. Ellis, of New Jersey,
also of James Ellis.

(a) RorxD.s-EDW.'>Ri)s, — Wanted par of
Sarah Rounds, also ])ar of Benjamin I'.dwards, M
who m Afargaret Bealle. m

(b) EwEX. — Wanted par, with tluir gen, of
P.arbara Ewen. — C. K. S. Af.

I(),i71. Lamh.— Wanted, n;inic of s of Capt.
i.ainl), wiiose d;ui L\(!ia ni ."^teiilien Aliiler.

(a) Kadiu.— Wauled Kev rec of (uHirge
i\ader. wlm ser witii (Jeii. (ie^irue Washington.
— AL AL C.

10372. Craig.- William Craig, b in Ireland.
1731. .settled in \'a. & .ser in Rev. 1781-1783
under Capt. L'riah Springer, was liur in Afont-
g()nier\- C"o.. K\ .. uvav Mt. Sterling. His sons
were Wm. \- K<.bert. whn ser in War of 1812.

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Wanted name & par of w of William Craig.—
L C. Van M.

10373. Hall.— Would like to correspond
with the desc of Joshua Hall, 1703-1789, Fair-
field, Conn. His Rev rec has been accepted by
the N. S. D. A. R., and his w given as Sarah
Burgess, whom he m in 1738. I cannot find any
other Joshua Hall in Redding at that time, but
find the following ch on the Cong'l Church
records of Redding, as belonging to " Joshua
Hall" baptisms, Elizabeth, July 7, 1733; Milli-
son, Nov. 24, 1734, and Alabel, June 13, 1736.
In the " deaths " Deborah, dau of Joshua Hall,
d Sept. 3, 1736, aged 5 yrs. It seems evident
that he was m before 1738, although the death
of his 1st (?) w is not recorded. What was
her name? Where is his m to Sarah Burgess
recorded? In Conn. Gen. the birth of Joshua
Hall is given as 1708 instead of 1703, as his bro
Jesse was b Nov., 1703. Where did Joshua d? —

10374. BusHNELL.— Daniel Bushnell, b 1740,
d Dec. 12. 1818, in Litchfield, N. Y., m Hannah
— , b 1735, d Aug. 13, 1820. Their ch were
Amasa, m Prudence Holcomb ; Esther, m 1st
Joseph Alexander, 2d • — Giddings, 3rd —
Williams ; Daniel, Norman, Freeman, Hannah,
Charity, m Nicholas Frank ; Johanna, m Len-
nean Kilbourn ; Wm. Clement. The fam immi-
grated from Granby of Hartland, Conn., to
Litchfield, N. Y., abt 1794. There is reason to
believe Daniel Bushnell ser in Rev. Wanted
proof. — E. L. H.

10375. NoRRis. — Wanted Rev rec of Patrick
Norris, also his par & that of his 1st w, who was
a Aliss Hurst. His 2nd w was Martha Wilson,
dau of Squire John Wilson, Fairfield, S. C.

(a) White. — Wanted the rec of Capt. White,
who served under Gen. Washington. Was he
among 25 Americans killed at Moncks Corner,
of the 30 killed after crossing the Santee river
Mar., 1780? Wanted also the par of Susannah
White, b Aug. 8, 1780. Her father was killed
before she was b, and her mother afterwards m
— Whitmore, of S. C.

(b) Bell.— Wanted dates of b & d of Capt.
Benj. Bell. Was he a s of John Bell, of Cum-
berland Co., Va., one of the organizers of Big
Spring Congregation, 1787? Wanted any infor-
mation of Capt. Benj. Bell, who raised a com-
pany of Whigs & Loyalists in 1779, & joined
Gen. Williamson against the Cherokees. — E. O.

10376. Borden. — Wanted gen & Rev rec of
Joseph Borden, b in Va. abt 1739. m Jane
Warren & moved to N. C. Did he serve as cap-
tain of a company of N. C. mounted riflemen?

(a) Tasnett. — Wanted gen & Rev rec of
Richard Tasnett, b in Edgecomb Co., N. C, abt
1755. After the War he m Rebecca Borden,
youngest dau of Joseph Borden, & moved to
Georgia abt 1800-7, set in Hancock Co.

(b) Green. — Wanted gen of Wm. Green, b
in Warren Co., N. C, 1739, d nr Warrenton,
N. C, 1799, m Mary Christmas.— J. C. P.

10377. Noble. — Elizabeth Crane Noble was
the dau of Abram Crane & his w Margaret
Eamy, b abt 1772, dau of — Eamy or Emeigh,.
b in Pennsylvania. Wanted the Rev rec of —
Eamy. Was he in the " Ranging Forces of
Westmoreland Co." ? George Washington Noble
was the s of John Noble, b 1796. d 1871, and his
w Elizabeth Crane, b 1797, d 1871. John Noble
was the s of Samuel. — L. M. L.

10378. Brockway-Champion. — Wanted gen
of Elias Brockway, who was b in Lyme, Conn.,
and m at Lyme abt 1786 Lovisa Champion. They
had 10 ch. After her d Elias moved to Ohio.
His father's name was Wolston. Did he or his
father give Rev ser ? Or did Lovisa Champion's
father have Rev rec ?

(a) Herriott-Ch ambers. — Nathaniel Her-
riott's father came from Scotland sometime
before the Rev & settled in New Jersey.
Nathaniel was b 1770 & m Mary Chambers, of
Essex Co., N. J., abt. 1790. Did either of their
fathers give Rev ser?

(b) Thompson. — W^anted ances of Thomas
Thompson & of his sis Martha Thompson
Herriott who were b abt 1780-90 & lived & d
nr Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa. — C. C. R.

10379. BoYERS. — Wm. Green or Gray Boyers,
b July 15, 1810, was the s of Jacob Boyers, b at
Front Royal, Fred. Co., Va., Dec. 27, 1782, who
was the s of Leonard Boyers, who had come to
Stephensburg, Fred. Co., Va., early in 1782. Was
this Leonard Boyers the same as the Leonard
Boyer who served at Fort Pitt from York Co.,
Pa., Oct. 24, 1779? Wanted any information of
this fam.— W. J. A.

10380. Carpenter. — Wanted par & dates of
Samuel Carpenter, who was living in Phila. in
1787, his w was Catherine Linensheet, b 1769,.
d 1852.

(a) Linensheet. — Wanted dates of b, m & d
of Charles (Carl) Linensheet (name spelled
various ways) & of his w Margaret — . Wanted
also Margaret's maiden name.

(b) SHORT-BuRNS.^Wanted par of William
Short & of his w Charlotte Burns, who lived in
Page Co., Va. William Short ser in War of
1812, did his father give Rev ser?— M. J. W.

10381. Richards.— Jedediah (1) b, at Hart-
ford, Conn., July 8, 1700, d at Norfolk, Oct. 1,
1784, his w Anna Thrall b at Windsor, Jan. 10,
1706, d at Norfolk Oct. 9, 1784. Wanted gen of
Jedediah Richards & Rev rec, in Pardee's Gen p
34, states that he served in Rev, also gen of Amy
Thrall, dau Anna m Ebenezer Pardee, Jr., who
ser in Rev.

(a) Carpenter. — Eliza (probably Elizabeth)
m 1788 James Wisner, b New York, James.

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Wisner s of Capt. John Wisner, Jr. Wanted,
gen of Eliza Carpenter and father's Rev rec if
he ser.

(b) Thompson. — John Wisner, Jr., b 1741 in
N. Y., m Mary Thompson. Wanted gen of
Mary Thompson, date of m, etc., also father's
Rev rec.

(c) Minor.— Anna, b 1771, m May 15, 1781,
Ebenezer Pardee, b Conn., 1765 s of Ebenezer
Pardee, Jr., who ser in Rev. Wanted gen of
Anna IMinor and father's Rev rec.

(d) Ferris.— Amy F., b March 1, 1781-2, at
Nine Partners nr Briton, Dutchess Co., N. Y., m
Aug. 13, 1809, Willard Ames, b Oct. 17, 1781.
Willard Ames, s of Lieut. Elijah Ames, who ser
in Rev. Wanted gen of Amy Ferris and
father's Rev rec.

(e) BuRGE. — Josiah, father of Ruth Burge
Pollard, b Sept. 9, 1739. Wanted gen of Josiah
Burge and Rev rec. Wanted gen of Susanna
Jaquith Burge & father's Rev rec; was w of
Josiah Burge.

10382. Rich.— Wanted gen of Elijah Rich of
Williamstown, Mass., & maiden name & gen of
his w Elijah & Hannah — Rich had at least
three ch b at Williamstown, via. : Hannah, b
Mar. 19, 1784, m Feb. 13, 1803, William
Standish; Abigail, b June 4, 1789; Elijah, Jr., b
June 10, 1795.

(a) Pe.\rson. — Wanted information of the
Pearson fam of Raymond Neck, Delaware,
especially the name & gen of the 1st w of
Benjamin Van Winkle, who m Oct. 6, 1813.
Dorcas Pearson for his second w. She was a
sis of his 1st w, whose baptismal name is un-
known. Wanted also the dates of her b, m & d. —
H. M. C.

10383. Fi.euxili.ing.- Wanted record of deed
of land given by John Fleunilling for the bur
of sols killed at the skirmish between British &
colored troops at Croton river just below
Pines Bridge.

(a) Sh.\w. — Wanted gen Rev rec and given
name of — Shaw who m Caroline Alarkle in
Kingston, Ulster Co., N. Y.

(b) Chatterton. — Wanted rec of Rev ser of
Alicliacl Chatterton whose dan Mary m Amos
Tompkins of Westchester Co., N. Y.

Cc) Lamore.mix.— Wanted rec of Rev .ser of
father of Mary Lamoreau.x b Aug. 17, 1769, d
March 1. 1841 & m Joseph Tomiikins of Croton
Lake.— G. A. M.

10384. SpAru)iNG. — Wanted par of Mary
Spaulding of Plainsfield, Conn., or Chelmsford,
Mass., who m Leonard Litchfield of Canterbury,
Conn., & moved to eastern New York bef 1800
— G. W. C.

10385. Cunningham.— Wanted \>:\v witli Rev
rec of David Cunningham who ni LTnitv Kvan,

1790. David Cunningham was in the 3rd Penna.
Regt, disc 1783.

(a) Greene. — Wanted par and Rev rec of
father of Polly Greene, who m David Tate, who
fought with the sols of the Continental Line in
Va., & received back pav on June 4, 1874. —
H. B. C.

10386. Gruendike-Groendike. — S a m u e 1
Gruendike served as private in Capt. Aaron
Longstreet's Co., Col. Jacob Hyer's 3rd Regt.
from Middlesex Co., N. J. Wanted dates of his
b, m & d and wife's name. — M. E. G.

10387 Hawkins.— David Lewis, b abt 1760,
prob in Balto., Md., m Mary Hawkins, sis of
Rebecca Hawkins Crockett, the mother of David
Crockett. David & Mary Lewis had eleven ch,
among whom was John Lewis, b in Sullivan Co.,
Tenn., Oct. 17, 1793. He m Susanna, dau of
Eliphalet Barber. Did Eliphalet Barber or his
father serve in the Rev? Did the father of
Mary Hawkins have Rev rec? Would like to
correspond with anyone having Lewis data. —
L. L. S.

10388. Daniels.— Wanted par of Alartha
Daniels, who m Abner Rice Mar. 7, 1752, & had
s Pelatiah, b 1753 at Westboro, Mass. Abner
was the s of Charles Rice, who m Rachel
Wheeler Apr. 26, 1711.— B. S. E.

10389. MoTT. — Wanted information of Adam
Mott, who m Rachel Ryder in 1770. She came
from Eng. to Pa. They were Quakers, but did
they have Rev rec of any kind?

(a) Baker. — Wanted gen of Afoscs Baker.
Quaker School Master in Maine, b abt 1778 and
m Rhoda Mott, dau of Adam & Rachel Rvdcr
Mott.— H. F. P.

10390. CoDDiNGTON. — Wanted par Sc date of b
of Joseph Coddington, b in Woodbridge, N. J., &
m Catrina, dau of Jacob Van dc Mark and w
Christina Van Garden of Marbletown, Lester
Co.. N. Y.. Feb. 18, 1753.— J. A. V.

10391. Bradley.- Wanted Rev rec of Daniel
Bradley, b Oct. 15, 1710, d Aug. 16, 1793, bur at
Bethlehem, Conn., m Abigail Howard.

(a) Norton.— Wanted Rev rec of Daniel
Norton, b Jan. 17, 1707, d Dec. 4, 1789, m 1730
1st Sarah Bradley, b Feb. 11. 1712, d Nov.
5, 1756.

(b) WoLVERTAN.— Wanted par of Rachel
Wolvcrtan, b 1755 d 1820, m 1774 Wm. Furman,
a Rev .sol. who came to Pa. from N. J.— E. S. C.

10392. Sharretts.— Wanted gen & Rev rec of
lather of iM-ederick Sharretts, who was 3rd
l.ient., 5th Regt. Penna. Volunteers, War of
1812 (Co. James I'enton), from Feb. 25th to
Sept. 4th, 1814, and was in command of a de-
tachment during that period. Was also in the
battles of I.undy Lane &- Fort George.— J. A. W.

10.?93. Faslkv.— Wanted names of ch & their
dates of Miliiii.nton Ivnsley. Son Wm. b 1767,

GENEALOGICAL DEPARTMENT

lived in N. C. prior to 1783-4 when he moved
to Greenville Dist., S. C. His military service
was in S. C, m Eliz. — .

(a) Smith. — Would like to correspond with
desc of John Smith, s of Samuel, of Franklin &
Montgomery Cos., Va.

(b) Chilton. — Wanted gen dates & Rev rec
of James Chilton of Fauquier or Loudon Co.,
Va. He m Catherine Burns and their s Pelatiah,
m 1809 Elizabeth, dau of Asahel & Margaret
Rawlins. Would be glad of any information of
this fam.— A. L. N.

10394. Hannah. — Wanted par, names of
bros & sis & place of d of par of Robt. C.
Hannah, b April, 1773, in S. C., who m Mary
Davis, b 1776. Their ch were John, b 1795 ;
George, b 1797; Wm., Robt. C, & others.

(a) Hardin. — Wanted gen of Benj. Hardin,
who m his cousin Mary, dau of Martin & Lydia
Waters Hardin. Wanted her b & d dates.
After the d of Benj. she moved to Ga. & set in
Columbia Co. Their s Benj., Jr.. m Mary M.
Smith in Warren Co., Ga., June 6, 1795.

(b) Halsev-Tuttle. — W anted gen of
Jerushia Halsey, who m Jonathan Wood abt
1753 in Morristown, N. J. Joanna Tuttle, b in
Morristown 1762, m Joseph Wood April 1, 1780.
The ceremony was performed by Rev. M. Hunt,
Chaplain of the American Army. Wanted par
of Joanna Tuttle or Tuthill, of N. J. &
Long Island.

(c) Wood. — Wanted gen of Jonathan Wood,
who m Jerusha Halsey in 1735. Their ch were
Samuel, b 1754; Joanna, Jerusha, Joseph, Ruth,
Johnathan, Baldwin, Abraham & Sarah. Johna-
than Wood was a signer of the General Asso-
ciation of the State of N. J. He d in Morris-
town, N. J., 1804.

(d) Darden. — Wanted names of w & ch of
Elijah Darden, Rev sol of Va. In what Co. of
Georgia did he reside? — S. B. D.

10395. Klixe-Klein. — Wanted information
concerning John Kline, who is supposed to have
ser in Capt. Fisher's Co. of Reading, Pa., from
Bern Township, Berks Co., & was wounded at
Kingston. Wanted his dates.

(a) Peck. — Wanted Rev ser of Richard
Peck, who m 1st Sarah Tennant, 2nd Elizabeth
Chamberlain. Moved from Conn, to N. Y. in
1788. Settled in Lexington, N. Y., & d in Dur-
ham, N. Y., 1837.— M. B.

10396. Hutchason-Rogers. — Wanted par of
Mathew Hutchason, also of his w Nancy Ann
Rogers, b in Albemarle Co.. Va., 1791. They
lived in Greensburg, Green Co., Ky., & their ch
were Martha Byrd, Mary, George, Joseph
Underwood & Benjamin Marshall, twins, Lucy
Ann, Frances, Eliz. Is there Rev rec in either
line?— L. H. W.

10397. Aldrich. — Wanted par and Rev rec of

Abel Aldrich, who m Hannah Illson abt 1765 &
lived at Cumberland, R. I., and Mendon, Mass.

(a) Sheldon.— Wanted par & Rev rec of
Wm. Sheldon, who m Mary Spear abt 1780, &
prob lived in Cumberland, R. I.

(b) Marlow. — Wanted par & Rev rec of
Edward Marlow, of Lovetsville, Loudon Co.,
Va., who m 2nd Mary Fenlay or Finley, & d
in 1825 in Loudon Co.— R. S.

10398. Townsend. — Would like to correspond
with anyone who is a desc of the Townsend
family of Pennsylvania. — Mrs. E. U\ Maquivey,
126 W. Washington Lane, Germantown, Phila-
delphia, Pa.

10399. Green. — James Green, b in Providence.
R. I., April, 1771, reported lost at sea with his
ship & cargo abt 1800, had one bro, much
younger. Wanted knowledge of a desc of said
bro also father's name. — E. S. A.

10400. Lucas. — W^anted par of Catherine
Lucas, who m Jeremiah Hogle, a sol of the War
of 1812 from Washington Co., N. Y. Wanted
also the names of the ch of Ezra Lucas, who
was in the Rev from Conn.

(a) Mosher. — John Mosher m Elizabeth
Earl in 1788. Were they the par of Rebecca,
Sabrina Olive who m Chester Wright; Sebra,
who m Catherine Hogle; John, who m Charity
Cross ; James who m Salome Sweet, and Earl,
who m Lucretia Clark? — K. O. B.

10401. Wilson. — Wanted information of
James Porter Wilson, Signer of the Declaration
of Independence, and his desc.

(a) Jones. — Wanted information of Col.
Jackie Jones and his desc. Contrary to his title,
he is supposed to have been in the Navv. —
R. S. E.

10402. Smith.— Wanted names & Rev hist of
grandparents of Bert Ada Adams Smith, b
Berkshire Co., Mass., June 11, 1830, d in Olin,
la., 1889. Her mother Didama Adams whose
fam was connected with the textile mills in K.
Mass., d 1839, of the Baintree branch of Adams
Her father, James (?) Smith later moved to
Erie, Pa., & still later to Parkersburg, W. Va., &
remarried. She had bros James & Spencer & a
half bro Leander.

(a) Reed-Stowe. — Wanted names & Rev hist
of the grandparents of Irene Reed Smith, b
Ravenna, Portage Co., O., 1834, & m Bert
Adams Smith, 1851, d in Olin, Iowa, 1906. Her
mother, Kathryn Stowe, b 1792, m James,
Reed 1812, d in Iowa 1874. James Reed b in
N. J., 1787, ser in War of 1812, d 1863 in Iowa.
John Andrew Reed, father of James, was from
Pa. & ser with Gen. Washington in N. J.

(b) Giddings. — Wanted Rev rec & data of
ances of Rev. Uriel Joshua Giddings, b in
White Mts., N. H., abt 1813, Coos Co., d in
Normal, 111., 1885. His par d when he was young

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& he was raised by his bro Moses. Later Moses,
John, Silas and Uriel moved to Erie Co., Pa., &
Uriel removed to 111., was licensed to preach &
became a Circuit Rider serving the Methodist
charges of Kewanee, Carthage, Port Byron &
others in Mercer Co. He m 1st Amanda Spaf-
ford, of Mich., had ch Moses, Mary, Phrone,
Lucy Wm., John Frank & three others. Later
Uriel m Martha Rose & had ch Fred J. & Joie.
Uriel Giddings & Joshua Reed Giddings were
double cousins. — P. G. C.

10403. Coiner.- — Catherine Coiner m George
Slafle at Carlisle, Pa., & moved to Weirs Cave,
Va. Wanted name, dates of b & d, name of w &
list of ch of her father, who resided in Pa. &
ser in Rev. from there. — M. G. P.

10464. Hey WOOD. — Wanted information of
Zimri Heywood & his desc. He came from
Maine & his father was in the Rev. — I. M. E.

10405. Dellexoy. — Wanted name of w &
dates & places of b, m & d of Abraham Dellenoy.
Wanted also name of his dau, with dates, who m
John Pottenger. Tradition says Bellenoy was a
prisoner in the Old Dutch Church, N. Y., &
lived three days after being released. His son-
in-law John Pottinger was a prisoner on the
prison ship Jersey. Wanted proof of this.

(a) Groot. — The five sons of Symon Symonse
Groot, viz : Abraham, Philip, Dirck, Cornelius
& Class, who came to Amer 1645, were taken
captive by the French & Indians Feb. 8, 1690,
carried to Canada & redeemed the following-
year. This fam set in New Amsterdam, but
later moved to Beverwyck, Albany. Is there
Col or Rev ser in this line ? — G. G. M.

10406. Chapman-Howard. — Wanted gen of
Jerusha Chapman, who m Ebenezer Tyler in
Pierpont, N. H., 1768. Wanted also gen of
Alartha Howard, of Lynn, ]\Iass., who m in
1735 David Tyler, & d in Pierpont abt 1810,
aged 95.

(a) HovEV.— Wanted gen of Daniel Randall
Hovey, whose s Marshall Leander Randall
Hovey m Eliza Fox prob of Conn, or Mass.
They lived in Ohio about seventy years ago.
Wanted also the gen of Eliza Fox. — B. K. T.

10407. Clark.— Wanted places of b & d of
Daniel Clark, b Oct. 29, 1760, d Nov. 10. 1882.
He ser in Capt. Joshua Hazcn's Co., Col. Wood's
3rd Regt. of Yt. Mil during Rev.— G. F.

10408. Adam.s-Bkeks-Gannaway. — Wanted
any data concerning the connection of l^li
Adams, b in Snow Hill, Md., 1785; of Jacob
Adams, who d in Snow Hill, Md., 1795; of
James or Christopher Beeks, who lived in
Augusta Co., Va., & at Harper's Ferry; & of
John Gannaway, who m Betsy Williams in Ky.,
the fam having moved to Kv. from Va. —
K. K. A.

10409. Grove-Li\i:barger-St()\er. — Wanted

par & Rev ser of John Grove, b 1762, m at Front
Royal, Va. Barbara Linebarger, b in Page Co.,
Va., abt 1771, dau of John & Barbara Stover
Linebarger. Wanted also their par & Rev rec of
father. Children of John & Barbara Linebarger
Grove were Nancy, Barbara, Susan, Catherine,
Emma, John, David, Samuel, Joseph, Elizabeth
& Rebecca. They removed to Newark O., abt
1815 & are buried there.— C. C. G.
10410. Hill-Lewis.— Levi Hill, s of Samuel,
was b in Groton, Conn., & m there bef. Dec. 15,
1794 Deborah, dau of Joseph Lewis. They
moved to Scipio, N. Y. Their dau Hannah
Hill m 1st — Brown, & 2nd — La Soeur. Her
ch were Samuel Newell Brown, b in Scipio,
Dec. 4, 1817; Lucinda La Soeur, & Almedaj
La Soeur. Wanted dates of b & m of Hannah!
Hill & dates of b, m & d of Levi Hill
Deborah Lewis. Any other information would
be appreciated. — A. F. C.

10411. Nelson. — Wanted par & dates of b, m
& d of Daniel Nelson, a sol in Rev from Rock-
ingham, Va., who enlisted under Gen. Houston
Nov. 23, 177l9. Wanted par also of his w
Rebecca Boggs, whom he m in Rockingham or
Roanoke Co., Va., & moved to Scott Co., Va.
he d there. Rebecca Boggs Nelson afterwards
m William Phillips & moved to Floyd Co., Ky.
Her Nelson ch were Johnson, who m Myra
Cox, Scott Co., Va. ; Reggie, who m Martha
Carter, Scott Co., Va. ; Ellen, who m Ambush
Jones, Scott Co., Va., & Charles, who m Mary
Gibson, Scott Co., Va., in 1811 & moved to
Arkansas. Wanted par of Mary Gibson.
L. T. G.

10412. Cvlpepper-Mariner. — Wanted par &
Rev rec of Wm. Culpepper, who fought in the
Battle of AUamance, N. C, & d in Ga. abt 1806.
His s Daniel Culpepper m Sarah Mariner &
went to Ga., where he d 1813. Tradition says
that the Mariner fam lived on the Eastern Shore
of Md. during the Rev. Wanted gen of
Sarah Mariner.

(a) McCrary. — W^anted gen of Col. Robert
McCrary, of Laurens, S. C, who was an officer
in the Fort " 96 " during the Rev.

(b) Davis. — Wanted par & Rev ances of
James, Benj., Thos., Christian & Betsy Davis,
James Davis, b N. C. April, 1804, d in Louis-
iana Dec, 1873. His w Hannah Kincy, b N. C.
1803, d in N. C. 1831. she had a sis Kitty, who
m — Humphrey S: lived nr Kinston, N. C. —
C. C.

10413. Moore. — Wanted names & dates of w
& ch of Col. Chas. Moore, of Carolina, b in
Scotland 1727. In what part of Carolina did
he settle & when? Did he have Rev rec? He
had a s Capt. Thos. Moore, who was at the Battle
of Cowpcns. Wanted name of dau who m
Robt. Hanna, who was on the staff of Gen.

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Sumter at the Battle of Blackstock. A. S.
Salley, Jr., of Hist. Com. of S. C, says there
were two Rev patriots by the name of Robt.
Hannah, father & s. Wanted names of w & ch,
with dates of b, m & d, & services of both men.

(a) Parker. — ^^'anted par of Moses Parker,
of Cheraw, S. C, & Rev rec of his father. He
m 1st Ann Parker, wanted her gen with
all dates.

(b) Cook. — Wanted names & dates of ch
of James Cook, of Carolina, who ser in Rev &
was a member of Thomson's Regt of Rangers.

(c) Orr. — Wanted name of 1st w of Wm.
Orr, Frontier Ranger of Pa. Wanted also par
of James Orr, whose Rev rec is given in
Hunter's Hist, of Western N. C— D. O. N. B.

10414. Anderson. — Wanted par of Isabella
Anderson, who m Isaac Davisson, of Harrison
Co., Va., 1779.

(a) Curl. — Wanted par of Wm. Curl, b Va.
1753, m Sarah Brown of Hardy Co., Va. Was
his father Wm. Roscoe Wilson Curl, of Eliza-
beth City, Va... who was a member of the Con-
vention of 1776 for Norfolk Borough & in 1779
was appointed Judge of the Court of Admiralty?
— F. L. T.

10415. Dayton-Judd. — Hiram Dayton, b
1791, m 1818 Betsey (Elizabeth) Bennett, b
1798, d 1837 in Valparaiso, Ind. Her father
was a Rev sol of whom information is greatly
desired. Children of Hiram & Betsey Dayton
were Eunice, b 1819; Olean, b 1820; Arabella
Abaline, b 1823; Hezekiah Cornwell, b Sept. 12,
1825; Mary Jane & Lafayete, twins, b 1827;
Louise Crawford, b 1828; Phebe Hollace, b
1830; Hiram, Jr., b 1832, & Jobe, b 1836. Hiram
Dayton, Jr., b in South Bend, Ind., June 3, 1832,
d in Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Dec. 31, 1907, a
Civil War pensioner. He m May 1, 1857,
Martha Alarie Judd, b 1840, d 1911, said to have
been of a Mass. fam. Wanted Davton & Tudd
gens.— F. C. B. S.

ANSWER

Q. 10224. In Ellis & Evans' History of Lan-
caster County, Pa., it is stated that Ulrich
Reigart, a native of Germany, came to this
country and settled in Lancaster in 1742. In
that year he purchased two lots on South Queen
street, and in 1747 others adjoining. He had
two sons, Adam and Christopher. A house was
built on these lots, and a few years later the
Fountain Inn was built and opened by
Christopher (often written Stophel). In 1758
Adam and Stophel both had stalls in the market
which were kept up for many years. About the
same time Christopher opened the Fountain Inn
Adam Reigart purchased the tavern stand for
many years known as the Grape Hotel. He was
active in the Revolutionary War and was lieu-
tenant colonel of a regiment under command of
Col. George Ross, and went with his regiment to
Amboy, N. J. He was a member of the
Assembly irt 1780. In 1785 he established the
wine store on East King street, which is still
well known (1883). His later life was com-
paratively quiet. He died in 1813. His son
Emanuel Reigart was a tanner, and carried on
ai-i extensive business on South Queen street, on
part of the original property. He was in the
Legislature from 1813 to 1817, and in 1821 was
sheriff of the county. Emanuel C. Reigart, son
of Emanuel, was born in 1797, read law with
Amos Ellmaker, and became prominent in all
general movements. The descendants of these
families are numerous in Lancaster. Adam
Reigart, Jr., was a son of Adam Reigart, Sr.,
and brother of Emanuel Reigart. Christopher
Reigart, the brother of Adam, died in 1783,
leaving a widow and a son, Henry. He was a
coppersmith. A daughter of Ulrich Reigart
married Peter Gonter, who kept a tavern in the
borough for several yrs. — Mrs. A. Y. Casanova,
1506 Caroline St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

JANUARY D. A. R. MAGAZINES RECER'ED

The Recording Secretary General
wishes to express her thanks to the
numerous Daughters who heeded her
request and sent their copies of January,
1921, magazine to complete the file in
the office of the Recording Secretary

General. If any member has robbed
her own file to send this copy, and will
send her name and address to the Re-
cording Secretary General the magazine
will be remailed to her from the large
number now on hand in that office.

HONOR ROLL OF THE

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

MAGAZINE

In this Honor Roll the list of membership in each State is shown in the
outer rim, and the list of subscribers according to States is in the inner circle

IN THE HUB OF THE WHEEL IS GIVEN THE TOTAL
ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

The Magazine also has subscribers in

JAPAN, KOREA, CHILI, FRANCE, WEST INDIES,
PANAMA, PORTO RICO AND CHINA

Pennsylvania at this date of publication
leads all States with 1215 subscribers

Special Meeting, January 31, lO^-^

SPECIAL meeting- of the National
Board of Management for the admis-
sion of members and authorization
and confirmation of chapters was
called to order by the President Gen-
eral, Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

in the
Continental Hall,
at 2.05 P.M.

The Chaplain
Spencer, in her

Board Room of Memorial
Tuesday, January 31, 1922,

General, Mrs. Selden P.
opening prayer referred to
the anxiety and sorrow that had come to so
many because of the theatre disaster that had
occurred during the great snowstorm and asked
God's comfort and healing for them. The
members of the Board joined with her at the
close in repeating the Lord's Prayer.

In the absence of Mrs. Yawger, the Corres-
ponding Secretary General was requested to
act as Recording Secretary General pro teiii.

The following members responded to the roll
Call: National Officers. Mrs. Minor, Mrs.
Morris, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs.
Elliott, Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs.
Hunter, Mrs. Ellison, Mrs. White; State Re-
gents, Mrs. St. Clair, Mrs. Young, Miss Temple.

Miss Strider read her report as follows :
Report of Registrar General
Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report 1420 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submitted,
(Miss) Emma T. Strider,

Registrar General.

Miss Strider moved that the Secretary cast
the ballot for the admission of 1420 applicants.
Seconded by Mrs. Hanger and carried. The
Secretary pro tcni announced the casting of the
ballot and the President General declared these
1420 applicants elected as members of the
National Society.

The Treasurer General reported applications
for reinstatement of 97 former members and
moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast
the ballot for the reinstatenKnt of 97 members.
This was seconded by Mrs. Morris and carried.
The Secretary announced the casting of the

ballot and the President General declared these
former members reinstated. Mrs. Hunter
reported also 230 resignations, and the loss to
the Society through death of 150 members.
The Board rose in silent memory of these de-
parted members.

Mrs. Hanger then read her report :

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Aladam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report as follows :

Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents : Mrs.
Beatrice Birdsall Crawford, Anna, 111. ; Mrs.
Alice Bixby Bond, Adams, Mass.; Mrs.
Albertine C. Reppy, Hillsboro, Mo. ; Mrs. Lou
Harris Rust, Marshall, Mo. ; Mrs. Elizabeth
Tyler Guichard, East Rockaway Park, N. Y. ;
]\Irs. Sadie Kate Hunter McMillan, Mullins,
S. C. ; Mrs. Hope Harrison Turner, Marlin,
Texas ; Miss Minnie Keas, Bremerton, Wash. ;
Mrs. Mary Strong Newman, Pasco, Wash. ;
Mrs. Anne Lee Burson Sizer, Raymond, Wash. ;
Mrs. -Clara W. Bond, Buffalo, Wyo.

The following appointments expire in
February before the date of the February Board
meeting, therefore the re-appointment of the
following have been requested by their respec-
tive State Regents : Mrs. Annie Brooks Dobbin
Gowens, Del Rio, Texas ; Mrs. Edith Moore
Coleman, Toppenish, Wash. The authoriza-
tion of the following Chapters is requested :
Cobden, Illinois, Algona, Battle Creek, Creston,
Grundy Center and Paullina, Iowa.

The official disbandment of the "Rich" Chap-
ter at Anna, Illinois, has been requested by
the State Regent of Illinois on account of con-
flicting local conditions.

The official disbandment of the Dr. Samuel
Crosby Chapter of Centerville, Iowa, has been
requested by the State Regent of Iowa, on
account of there not being enough members to
carry on the work of the Chapter. The official
disbandment of the Katharine Adair Chapter
of Louisville, Miss., has been requested by the
State Regent of Mississippi, on account of

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the lack of resident members to carry on
the work.

The State Regent of Washington requests the
location of the Chapter at Hillyard. be changed
from Hillyard to Spokane. Washington.

The following Chapters have reported or-
ganization since the December Board meeting :
Elizabeth Marlow at Monticello, Ga. ; Chapter
at Austin (Chicago) and Chapter at Alt.
Carmel, 111.; Ee-dah-how at Nampa, Idaho;
Cape May Patriots at Beesley's Point, N. J. ;
Stamp Defiance at Wilmington, N. C. : Fort
Greenville at Greenville, Ohio ; Adam Holliday
at Hollidaysburg, Pa.

I wish to express my regret that all appoint-
ments of Organizing Regents, requested by
State Regents, could not be presented for
confirmation at this meeting, owing to the
fact that they were either not members at
large, dues not paid, or not members of the
National Society to date.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,

Orciauizing Secretary General.

There being no olijection. the report was
accepted.

Miss Strider moved that a letter of symt^athy
be sent to Mrs. Brumbaugh, former Registrar
General, on account of the injury of her son
in the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster. Sec-
onded by Mrs. St. Clair and carried.

Moved by Mrs. Young, seconded by Miss
Temple and Mrs. White, that the President Gen-
eral appoint a committee to draft resolutions
expressing the sympatliy of the National Board
of Management of the Daughters of the

American Revolution for the afflicted and be-
reazrd in the recent disaster. Carried.

Moved by Mrs. St. Clair, seconded by Mrs.
Hodgkins and carried, that members of the
Daughters of the American Revolution who
had members of their families killed or in-
jured in the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster
be sent a letter of sympatliy from the members
of the Board.

The President General appointed Mrs.
Young, Airs. White and Airs. Spencer the
committee to draft resolutions. The resolu-
tions follow :

Whereas, the Knickerbocker Theatre disaster
has brought great sorrow, suffering, and loss
of life to the community, be it therefore

Resolved, That the National Board of Alan-
agement of the National Society, Daughters of
the American Revolution, hereby extend to the
liereaved families heartfelt sympathy in this
sore trial, and trust God in his infinite mercy
will speedily restore the injured to health and
sustain those who in their anxiety are suffer-
ing, and be it further

Resolved, that these resolutions be spread
upon the minutes of this special Board Aleeting
of the National Society and that a copy be sent
to the newspapers for publication.

Airs. George M. Young, Airs. George
W. White, Mrs. Selden P. Spencer, Commit-
tee on Resolutions.

The motions were approved as read, and
at 2.55 P.M. the meeting adjourned.

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Secretary, pro tern.

PRIZl^ 1^SSAY TO BK PUBLISHED IX APRIL MAGAZINE

Mr.s. i-Ldward L. Harri,>^, National
Chairman, Patriotic Education Commit-
tee, will announce in the .\])ril, l'^22,
DAT'(;Hri:KS oi' iiii-. Ami;ki»ax l\i:\()i.r-
TION Ma(;a/.i.\k, the winner ni the fifty-
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the Xorth American Indian in the World
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The winning- es>a\- will also he puh-
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THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS

OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS

MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

SEVENTEENTH AND D STREETS, N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1921-1922

President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1922)
Mrs. William H. Wait, Mrs. William D. Sherrerd,

1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. Highland Ave., Haddonfield, N. J.

Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, Mrs. James Lovvry Smith,

Eola Road, Salem, Ore. Amarillo, Tex.

.'Miss Alethea Serpell, Mrs. Frank W. Bahnsen,

902 Westover Ave., Norfolk, Ya. 1720 22d St., Rock Island, 111.

Miss Louise H. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me.

(Term of office expires 1923)
Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

2272 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N. Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N. C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. I.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1830 T St., Washington, D. C.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,
Memorial Continental Hall.
Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1921-1922

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBIXSOX,

639 Walnut St.. Gatsdex.
MRS. STANLEY FIXCH,

110 X. Co.nleptio.v St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

BiSBEE.

MRS. GEORGE W. TICKERS,
394 X. 3rd St.^ Phoexii.

ARKANSAS

MRS. CLARENCE S. WOODWARD,

■I'MJo Scott St., Little Rock.

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,

slT W. oTH Ave., Plse Blcpf.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. OSWALD H. HARSHBARGER,

269 Mather St., Oaklaxd.
MRS. LYMAX B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Axgeles.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

s03 Spi:ctE St.. BorLDER.
MR.S. WILLIAM HENRY KISTLER.
1145 LoGAS St., Desver.

CONNECTICUT

MR>. .JUHX LAIDLAW BUEL.

LiTcnriELP.
MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,

SOrTIIIXOTO-V.

DELAWARE

MRS. JOHX W. CLIFTOX
SsivnxA.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. FRANCIS A. ST. CXAIR,

1319 T. St., X. W.. Washixgtos.
MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 aTH St., X. E., Washixctos.

FLORIDA

MK<. EVEREST O. SEWFXL.
143 S. E. 2SD St., Muul
MR>«. .). A. CRAIG.

233 W. DcvAL St., J.»cksonvii,le.

GEORGIA

Mn-i. MA.\ E. LAND,

30.J 14TII Avr... CORDELK.

MRS. WILLIAM C. VEREEX,

MolLTniE.

HAWAII

MR.S. X. L. SCOTT.
The CotRTL.KXD Hotel, HoxoLrtn.

IDAHO

MRS. ROBERT C. HLDELSOX,

Box 324, GooDi.vo.
MRS. KEXXEDY PACKARD,

421 2.VD Avf:., E., Twijf Falls.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EIGEXE CHUBBLCK,

<;(:»ND ViKW Ave., pRoriiA.
MRS. FRANK O. LOWDEX,

Spni.NOFIELD.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMIKI, ELLIOTT PERKINS,

1011 .\. I'KSN St.. IsrHANAI'OLI.'i.

MRS. .JAMES U. CRANKSHAW.
3128 Fairfield Ave., Foiit Watnb.

IOWA

MR.S. FREDERICK ERNEST FRISBEE,

" F*IRIIILL." SlIRLDOS.

MIS.S AMY E. GILBERT.
State Cestrk.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GLERXSEY,

IXDEPEXDEXCE.

MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,
•' Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. J. M. ARNOLD,

539 Garraiu) St.. Covlxgtox.
MRS. GEORGE BAKER,
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VOL. LVI, No. 4

APRIL, 1922

WHOLE No. 356

LAST DAYS AT MOUNT VERNON

Passages from Letters of Nelly Custis to
Mrs. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney

By Charles Moore
Chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts

^N Thursday, December 12, 1799,
General Washington, as was his
custom, rode out to his farms
about ten in the morning and
returned at three in the after-
noon. Soon after he went out
the weather became very bad, rain, hail
and snow falling alternately, driven by
a cold wind.

On coming in he franked some letters,
but said the weather was too bad to send
a servant to the post-office. He told his
anxious secretary, Tobias Lear, that his
greatcoat had kept him dry; but Lear
saw with concern that his neck was wet
and snow hung on his hair. He went to
the dinner table without changing his
clothes and in the evening he appeared
as well as usual. The next day a heavy
fall of snow kept him indoors, save for
a brief sally into the grounds to mark
some trees for cutting, to improve
the view.

In the evening he sat in the parlor with
Mrs. Washington and Mr. Lear. He
was very cheerful, and read aloud from
the papers items that interested or
amused him. Being quite hoarse, he
asked Mr. Lear to read to him while
Mrs. Washington went up to Mrs.
Lewis' room. A fortnight before,
Frances Lewis had been born, and the
mother was still in a very weak state.

The General declined to take anything
for his cold, saying : " You know I never
take anything for a cold. Let it go as it
came." Between three and four in the
morning of the 14th, the General awoke
Mrs. Washington. He said he felt very
ill and had an ague. He spoke and
breathed with difficulty; but forbade his
wife to call a servant, lest she should take
cold. At daylight, Caroline appeared to
make the fire, and Mr. Lear was sum-
moned.^ Doctor Craik, at Alexandria, was

^ Tobias Lear left two accounts of the last
days of General Washington.

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sent for ; then Rawlins, one of the over-
seers, was called to bleed the General.
When Airs. Washington remonstrated at
the loss of so much blood, the General
firmly called " more." Doctor Craik came
at nine and applied the usual remedies.
At eleven. Doctor Brown came from Port
Tobacco, and at three Doctor Dick
appeared. For the fourth time the
General was bled — a remedy now super-
seded, but then the most efficacious
method known. Even with modern
science, it is doubtful if Washington's
life could have been saved.-

About four o'clock the General asked
Mrs. Washington to bring two wills from
his desk. He selected one and asked her
to burn it. She did so. He told her to
put the remaining one in her closet.
When this was done, he gave other direc-
tions, for he felt that his end was near.
To his old friend and companion, Doctor
Craik, he said : " Doctor, I die hard ; but
I am not afraid to go." He asked when
Lawrence Lewis and George Washington
Parke Custis would return from New
Kent, whither they had gone for a visit.

About ten o'clock Saturday night, the
14th of December, the General died
without a sigh or a struggle. Mrs.
Washington, from her place at the foot
of the bed, asked: "Is he gone?" Mr.
Lear lifted his hand in acquiescence.
" 'Tis well," she said ; " all is over now.
I have no more trials to pass through.
Soon I shall follow him."

Congress, on hearing of the death of
General Washington, immediately sent to
his widow the request that she allow his
body to be placed in a crypt in the Capitol,
then building; and she "taught by the

' IVashiugton's Death: Transactions of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Philadel-
phia, Vol. 25; 1903. Also U'ashimjton's Death
and Doctors. I)y Dr. I. Solis Cohen; LippincoH's
Ma gad lie; 1889.

greatest example I had so long before me,
never to oppose my private wishes to the
public will," consented to the request,
" and in doing this, I need not — I cannot
— say what a sacrifice of individual feel-
ing I make to a sense of public duty."
Clearly, firmly, and in writing that bears
the marks of high breeding, she wrote
the words that, as she thought, separated
her in death from the husband whose life
she had shared to the fullest extent in
camp and public office and home. Fortu-
nately the separation was never made in
fact. It is not possible, in view of the
modern examples in Europe and this
country, to conceive the crypt of the
Capitol converted into a shrine compar-
able in any particular to Mount Vernon.

When General Washington's will was
presented at a court held for the County
of Fairfax, on January 20, 1800, it was
found that he had conferred immortality
on a multitude of friends and relatives
by naming them in a document written
in his own clear and finely formed hand-
writing. Also, that he had divided his
estate according to a fine sense of justice
tempered by both mercy and kindly
affection. " It has always been my inten-
tion, since my expectation of having issue
has ceased," he wrote, " to consider the
grandchildren of my wife in the same
light as I do my own relations, and to act
a friendly part by them ; more especially
by the two whom we have reared from
their earliest infancy — namely — Eleanor
Parke Custis and George Washington
Parke Custis."

So to Bushrod Washington, whose
father had superintended the Mount
Vernon estate while Washington was in
the French and Indian War, he gave the
four thousand acres that had come down
to him from his father and his half-
])rother. To George Steptoe and

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Lawrence Augustine Washington, sons including in the distribution his wife's
of his five-times-married brother Samuel,
" who from his youth had attached him-
self to my person and followed my for-
tunes through the "vicissitudes of the late
Revolution," and afterwards had cared
for Mount Vernon, he gave some two
thousand acres, adjoining the Mount
Vernon prop-
erty. Since the
death of their
father he had
educated the
boys at an ex-
pense of $5000,
and this debt he
cancelled, just
as he cancelled
the debts of
other relatives,
both his own
and his wife's.
To the children
of his heart,
Lawrence
Lewis and
Eleanor Parke
Lewis, whose
marriage had
gladdened h i s
last birthday,
he gave two
thousand acres,
together with
his mill, distil-
lery and other
buildings, in-
cluding what he considered the finest site
for a house in all this land. Twelve
hundred acres and Square No. 21 (west
of the Naval Hospital) in Washington,
he gave to George Washington Parke
Custis. The residue of his estate he
divided into twenty-three parts, for dis-
tribution among his nephews and nieces,

granddaughters, Elizabeth Parke Law
and Martha Parke Peter. The value of
each of these shares, according to his
computation, was over $23,000.

The two years and five months that
Mrs. Washington lived as a widow
marked a period of adjustments for the
household a t
Mount Vernon.
The Lawrence
Lewis family
began to build
Woodlawn, and
George Wash-
ington Parke
Custis m e d i -
tated his repro-
d u c t i o n at
Arlington o f
the temple of
P a e s t u m . "
Meantime, the
daily routine
was to be ob-
served. Letters
of condolence
came by every
post, and the
task of answer-
ing the more
intimate ones
fell to Mrs.
Lewis. Writ-
ing to Mrs.
Pinckney,* less

^Arlington House, located on the estate of
1000 acres left to George Washington Parke
Custis by his father, was begun in 1802 and
completed the following year. In 1804 he mar-
ried Mary Fitzhugh Lee, aged 16. The house
was furnished largely from Mount Vernon
Mr. Custis died in 1857. His wife died in 1853.
Both are buried at Arlington.

'Alice Rutledge Felder MS. collection, Lib-
rary of Congress.

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than a month after General Washington's
death, she says : " The shock was so sud-
den and unexpected that I very much
fear'd my Revered Parent could not sup-
port it; but that pious resignation to the
dispensations of Providence, however
afflicting, which has through life distin-
guished her, the most devout submission
to his Divine Will, has enabled her to
support this severe trial with uncommon
fortitude. Her health has sufifer'd Init
she is now pretty well, & I trust in
Heaven that she will be preserved many
years to bless her children and friends.

'* At the awful moment which depriv'd
me of a Friend and Belov'd Father, I
was prevented paying the last sad duties
by confinement, my Child was a fortnight
old and I in a very weak state."

On November 9, 1800, Mrs. Lewis
writes to Mrs. Pinckney, acknowledging
for herself and her sisters (Mrs. Law
and Mrs. Peter) a gift of plumes sent by
General Pinckney, " We are very vain
of them. I assure you," she says, " and
whenever I wish to look particularly
smart, I become a Major General." She
and her child had spent five weeks with
her mother, Mrs. Stuart, " but ague and
fever still pursued us." Mrs. Washington
" was very sick for a short time with a
bilious attack, she is now recovered &
looks better than w.hen you were here."
She continues : " We have had races in
Alexandria, balls, plays, &c. I was one
morning there, but could not leave
my daughter for the evening parties.
She is more amusing to me than
any entertainment."

Six months later, May 9, 1801, Mrs.
Lewis again writes to Mrs. Pinckney.
lioth the writer and her grandmother had
been suffering from violetil couglis. and
her brother "was for a long time ill
with a bilious fever and something of

a Pleurisy." She " had serious appre-
hensions of a decline in which my friends
and Physician concurred, but the timely
and constant use of milk punch and a
conserve of roses, with air and exercise,
have removed those fears and I now
begin to fatten a little."

The joy of the household was the baby,
Frances Lewis. " My darling child,"
writes the fond mother to Mrs. Pinckney,
" has been remarkably healthy the last
six months. She is very short but as
fat as a little partridge, chatters, runs
about, and is in every kind of mischief ;
her hair curls very prettily and I often
wish you could witness her improvements.
I am sure it will please my dear Mrs.
Pinckney to know that my little Frances
is the darling of her good Grandmother
and seems to afford her comfort and
amusement. My Beloved Parent is de-
lighted when my child is fond of her,
calls her Grandmama and gives her
sweet Kisses ; my only fear is my
daughter will be spoilt, she is indulged
in everything, stays with her grand-
mama the most part of every day and
is never denied anything she takes a
fancy to. I cannot describe to you how
perfectly delightful my sensations are
when I see my venerable Parent, to whom
my utmost gratitude and devoted attach-
ment are due, fondling my darling
cherub, who is more necessary to my
happiness than I can express. I feel
more grateful if possible for the renewed
love of my Grandmama to my child than
for all the benefits and affections she
has bestowed upon me ; can I possibly
fail my respected Friend in any of the
duties and affections of a Mother when
I have such an example constantly before
me? When I remember the care, the
anxiety, the unremitted attention and
affection of mv revered Parent to me?

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" My Frances runs about everywhere,
sings, dances, and is much deb'ghted with
a doll I bought for her in Alexandria,
she is extremely fond of her Father and
myself — he is as much attached to her as
I am, and as soon as he returns from his
Farm he plays on the violin for her to
dance and attends a great deal to her."

With the defeat of General Pinckney,
the Federalist candidate for Vice Presi-
dent, by Aaron Burr, and the election of
Thomas Jefferson as President, the
family at Mount Vernon began to ex-
perience the change in the temper of the
times — a change which they regarded as
but temporary. The successive defeats
of General Pinckney for the Presidency
in 1804 and 1808 marked the downfall
of the Federalist party, and the beginning,
also, of a new social order. How little
relished at Mount Vernon was the change
is made evident in the letter above
adverted to. Mrs. Lewis writes:

" The regard of Genl. Pinckney and
yourself is allways remember 'd and
mention'd with pride and pleasure, & I
assure you with sincerity, that you have
not more zealous admirers in the world
than are to be met with at this time at
Mount Vernon. Sincerely have we de-
plored the infatuation of our Country-
men and the triumph of democracy, we
are completely degraded in my opinion,
my only consolation is that it is probably
for the best. Americans have hitherto
been so happy they did not properly
appreciate the blessings they enjoyed, not
experiencing calamity they were unmind-
ful of felicity, and ungratefully repined
without having a grievance to complain
of. Now the scene is changed adversity
will teach them repentance and submis-
sion. They will regret the blessings they
have lost by their own folly — their eyes
will Ije opened, reformation will be

effected and we may then hope for the
inillenimn so long predicted — what think
you of my prophecy? For Genl.
Pinckney's ozvn comfort I should never
wish him to be a President, happiness is
not an attendant on that situation. I am
persuaded he is far happier in his present
employment, but for his Country I think
the loss is irreparable for the present four
years — after that expires I trust America
will retrieve her character by electing
him unanimously and for life.

" The much valued plume was worn
to an Assembly the 3rd of March. I
was very much indisposed, but as it was
the only Assembly during my stay in the
City I went for the pleasure of wearing
my badge of Federalism, my sisters wore
theirs during the winter, it was a very
dull party and I was glad to return to
my Frances with a resolution of not
attending another dance for three years
at least."

On January 3, 1802, Mrs. Lewis,
answering Mrs. Pinckney's letter of the
previous September (so dilatory was the
correspondence), writes that " my revered
Parent, with other friends here, are quite
well. I am myself in better health &
fatter than I have been for two years last
past, my children are fat & rosy. My
precious Frances is her Grandmama's
darling and my little smiling Martha is
one of the most quiet children I ever saw.
I love them equally. I do not feel the
least difference in my affection for them.
My dear Mother [Mrs. David Stuart]
has just recovered from her confinement
with her twentieth child, it is a very fine
girl, large and healthy. * * *

" On Thursday I dined, in company
with my sister & Mr. Lewis, at Wood-
lawn our new House, it was so novel to
me to preside in a House, that I spent a
very happy day and my little Frances,

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195

who was with me, was dehghted with
everything. It is nearly ready for us,
and I hope next summer we shall be
favored with the company of yourself
and Genl. Pinckney there."

The last letter of the series, written
on January 19, 1803, is full of pathos.
Mrs. Washington had died on the 22d
of the previous May;^ Mrs. Lewis had
been ill physically and mentally. She
was on the road to recovery physically,
but the whole aspect of life had changed
with the departure from Mount Vernon.

" We live at Woodlawn in a small part
of our intended House, it is rather incon-
venient, but we are all ways pleased with
our house and our poor little Frances is
a constant comfort, had my Martha and
my little son lived, we should have been
as fortunate Parents as any in the world,
but they are much more fortunate in
being spared the trials which attend
every one in this life.

" The last summer I passed in
Frederick County. I went to Harper's
Ferry, to the house where General
Pinckney and yourself resided, and
viewed it with regret. I wished to have
gone to Shepherds Town to see your
residence there. * * * Next season
we propose passing entirely in the upper
country. I shall then certainly visit
Shepherds Town. * * * I am charmed

with that Country and should like very
much to reside there entirely, or to leave
Virginia [blot] the Eastern States.

" I live now in sight of Mount Vernon,
and it is a continued source of uneasiness
to reflect on times past which can never
be recalled."

In 1839, Lawrence Lewis died at
Arlington and was buried in the tomb of
the Washingtons at Mount Vernon.
Thereupon his wife removed to Audley,
an estate of her husband's near Berry-
ville, Clarke County, Virginia; and
Woodlawn was deserted. Thus, after a
quarter of a century, Nelly Custis, as she
is best known, achieved the wish ex-
pressed to Mrs. Pinckney — to get away
from scenes associated with such sad
memories. At Audley she lived until
1852. On July 19th of that year, she
was buried at Mount Vernon, out-
side the vault, separated from her
husband. A modest monument marks
the grave of the daughter of George
Washington's heart.

° Died — at Mount Vernon, on Saturday even-
ing last, Mrs. Martha Washington, widow of
the late illustrious General George Washington.

To those amiable and christian virtues which
adorn the female character she added dignity
of manners, superiority of understanding, a
mind intelligent and elevated. — The silence of
respectful grief is her best eulogy. — Washington
National Intelligencer, Wednesday, May 26, 1802.

A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

HE time is rapidly approaching when
I shall again welcome the members
of our Continental Congress. I am
looking forward to this reunion with
the utmost pleasure. It will be good
indeed to welcome them, gathering
once more in their own Hall to
transact the business of our Society.

As I go about among the states I find there are
quite a few in our Society who cling to the idea
that we are a social organization ; with a back-
ground, perhaps, of historical purposes and
reminiscent tendencies, but mainly devoted to
social pleasures, tea table chit-chat, and a
superficial kind of flag waving. In some chap-
ters there is a restive protest against "too
much business " on the programs. Members
are "bored" when officers and chairmen read
their reports, or when state and national
circular letters and appeals are read. There
are some who do not see why they need take
any interest or part in work outside their own
communities. "If we must work," say they,
" let us work at home." Some accept official
positions and never even answer the official
communications addressed to them. Others
protest against being called upon to pay their
quotas toward state or national patriotic work,
claiming that the National Society "has no right"
to put upon them the burden of such tasks. One
visit to a Continental Congress would change
this point of view. It would be seen that work
and service, not social pleasures or prestige,
are the fundamental principles of our Society.
Work first, then play, is our slogan ! To those
who are coming to our Congress this month —
and to those who stay at home — I want to re-
peat that the work of our Society is their first
duty and the individual responsibility of each
one. The " business " which " bores " whether
in Chapter, State Conference or Congress, is
an opportunity for service to home and country.
No organized work of any value to the world
was ever accomplished without " business " and
"business meetings." Wc are about to assem-
ble in the biggest business meeting of the
Society. Let us bring to it the highest spirit
of service. Let us come with ideals and put
them into practice— ideals for the betterment
of our dear land and the safety of its institu-
tions, built up by the blood and sacrifice of
our ancestors. Wc are living in a time when
these institutions are being put to the severest
test in all their history. In the welter and
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chaos left by the War, it would be a thing to
marvel at if the firmest foundations did not
shake. But in that welter there are many
stabalizing influences at work.

Our Society is one of those influences. It
is a powerful one, growing more and more
powerful with our increasing members, but
mere members will not count if the spirit of
service is lacking. We come to our Congress
to put this spirit into action; to give and
receive ideas for useful patriotic work in town
and state; to legislate for the best interests of
all our Chapters and members ; to educate
ourselves in order that we may educate others
in the ideals of the forefathers ; to catch the
spirit of true Americanism and carry it home
and spread it abroad throughout all the land.
This, and not social pleasures or elections of
candidates is the high mission of our Congress.
It is a stabalizing influence in our country, pow-
erfully offsetting the radical influences that are
working to destroy us. Come to it with a faith
that puts the faint-hearted pessimist to shame —
faith in America and her institutions, faith in
the justice and righteousness upon which they
are built, faith in God over all — and then go
back home and work for America ; work in
the schools, to make them better and guard
them against all that is not loyally American;
work in the churches and homes for a revival
of that religious faith of our fathers which es-
tablished this country ; work everywhere for
a return to normal, orderly living, free from
the excesses and extravagances that have run
riot amongst us for so long.

It is our sacred duty as American women
to stand on the bed rock of the American tra-
ditions in which we were brought up, and build
them up as sure foundations in the rocking,
agitated world about us. For these traditions
have grown up through centuries of develop-
ment because right and truth, justice, liberty,
and faith lie at the base of them. Therefore
they cannot perish from the earth, if wc but
do our duty. " Let us have faith that right
makes might and in that faith let us to the end
dare to do our duty, as we imdcrstand it."
Lincoln spoke these words in a great national
crisis. We are now passing through a world
crisis. In Congress assembled may the National
Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
sec clearly, think calmly and dare to do its full
duty in the service of America.

Anne Rodgers Minor,
President General.

STATUE OF JEANNE D'ARC
UNVEILED IN WASHINGTON

HE statue of Jeanne d'Arc, a
gift from the v/omen of France
to the women of America and
presented hy " Le Lyceum,"
Societe des Femmes de France
a New York, was unveiled in
Meridian Hill Park, Washington, D. C,
on January 6, 1922, in the presence of
the President of the United States, high
Government officials and an assemhlage
of distinguished guests. The statue is a
replica of that of Jeanne d'Arc by the
sculptor, Paul Dubois, which stands in
front of the Rheims Cathedral, France.

The services attending the unveiling
were extremely simple. They comprised
introductory remarks by Col. C. O.
Sherrill, U. S. Army, military aide to
President Harding and presiding officer
at the ceremonies ; invocation by Rev.
Pere Wucher ; presentation and donation
of the statue by Madame Carlo Polifeme,
presidente fondatrice " Le Lyceum " ;
unveiling of statue by Mrs. Warren G.
Harding and Madame Jules Jusserand,
with salute of seventeen guns by U. S.
Artillery; the playing of the national
anthems of France and America by the
U. S. Marine Band ; acceptance of the
statue by the Secretary of War, Hon.
John W. Weeks; the acceptance of the
dedication for the women of America
by Mrs. George Maynard Minor, Presi-
dent General of the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution;
and an address by the French Ambassa-

dor, ]\L Jusserand, after which the
benediction was pronounced by the Rev.
Charles Wood. The singing of The
Battle Hymn of the Republic, by Mrs.
Nathaniel Brandon and the audience,
completed the program.

In presenting the statue, Madame
Polifeme said :

It is with the greatest emotion that I appear
before you to-day to play a part, perhaps, in
the destinies of our great nations. To all of
us who have been brought consciously or
unconsciously to travel the path of great aims
with impeccable and staunch faith, with perse-
verence and patience that wavers not, comes a
day so majestic in its aspects that it radiates
like a divine inspiration.

Assembled as we are here under the power
of our Governments, represented by their
faithful sons, Ambassador lusserand and
President Harding, I praise the Almighty that
granted us the time of this memorable Con-
vention to manifest our sincere expression of
love and loyalty.

I shall not attempt to discourse on the char-
acter of the " Maid of Domremy." I leave
this to our historians and orators ; we are
toilers, we express ourselves with our efforts.

When " Le Lyceum " organized for the pur-
pose of giving French and American women a
field of culture amenable to friendship and
understanding, we resolved as an expression of
love toward our new Country to erect to our
Patron, Jeanne d'Arc, a monument, to be dedi-
cated to the Women of America and offered
to Washington.

Little did we think then of the terrible years
just past, which impeded our work by other
work more pressing, paralyzing at times our
energies and resources by anxiety, worry
and sorrow.

While in France under Verdun, our soldiers
cried : " On ne passe pas." The American
boys rejoined, " Hold on," and we did hold on,
on all sides, and proceeded forward. These

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terrible years brought us nearer together, the
blood of America has sprinkled the field of
France. Together we have suffered, together
we must pray and pray and pray for Peace!
Jeanne d'Arc is our living prayer.

For Liberty and Peace Lafayette brought you
his sword ; for Peace and Justice Jeanne d'Arc
brings you her Faith (the Cross).

Jeanne d'Arc, la bonne Lorraine, la grande
Frangaise will keep alive the burning flame
of our love and from her new basilica bring
blessing over her
new Country.

Nothing more
sacred could be
dedicated to the
Women of Amer-
ica, nothing more
beautiful offered
to the beautiful
City of Washing-
ton than this work
of art by Paul
Dubois, an exact
replica of that
which stood im-
mune in front of
the ruined Cath-
edral of Rheims
during the four
years of the
greatest carnage
of the world.

Jeanne d'Arc is
a living prayer,
our living and
eternal prayer.
Mr. President, in
the name of " Le
Lyceum," Societe
des Femmes de
France a New
York, I have the
honor to present
to you the sym-
bolic figure of
Jeanne d'Arc, the
heroine of France. ^"■'rl'l'l^^'lT."'.*.''.:''"""!^.

" I feel greatly
honored," said
Secretary Weeks in his speech of acceptance,
" to be the medium through which the people
of the District of Columbia and the entire
United States gratefully accept this beautiful
statue of Jeanne d'Arc. It is another evidence
of the lasting friendship between the peoples
of two great republics.

" I do not think a more appropriate site
could have been selected, for from this com-
manding position the statue of this heroic maid

STATUE OF JEANNE D'ARC UNVEILED IN MERIDIAN HI
WASHINGTON. D. C, ON JANUARY 6. 1922

overlooks one of the great capitals of the
world and stands as a monument to the highest
attainments in human life — faith in God,
devotion to country and a character with-
out blemish.

"Many individuals have had their day in the
life of a nation and have acquired national
reputation. A few have rendered such service
to mankind that they have attained inter-
national reputation and permanent place in
history. Such men and women do not belong
to the country of
their nativity, but
to the whole
world.

" America has
given the world
two such men —
Washington,
whose leadership
brought victory to
our struggle for
independence and
made possible this
great republic,
and Lincoln, who
saved the repub-
lic from destruc-
t i o n and gave
freedom to an
enslaved race.
France has given
mankind Jeanne
d'Arc, one of the
most striking and
unusual figures
in the world's
history.

" It is my pri-
vilege to express
to the members of
the Societe des
V e m m e s d e
France a New
York the deep
souse of gratitude
of the people of
Washington for
this generous gift,
and it is my great
honor and personal pleasure to accept on behalf
of the District of Columbia this Statue of
Jeanne d'Arc."

Mrs. George Maynard Minor, as the
representative of American women, in her
address stated :

" The privilege of speaking to-day for the
women of America to the women of France
touches me very deeply; it inspires thoughts
and emotions which are difficult to express in

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the cold medium of words. Spirit speaks to
spirit in a moment like this, the spirit of
America to the spirit of France. To seek to
imprison this spirit in a formal address is a
task that defies adequate fulfillment. Neverthe-
less, there are two or three thoughts that may
be emphasized in the brief time available on
such an occasion as this, and I feel it an honor
to be given this opportunity to express them.

It is peculiarly fitting that the National
Society Daughters of the American Revolution
should be chosen as the representative to-day
of the women of America — should be given the
honor of accepting in their behalf this monu-
ment erected to Joan of Arc, that great em-
blem of patriot womanhood, and dedicated by
the women of France to the women of
America. This Society, which I have the
honor of representing, is national in scope and
patriotic in purpose, being dedicated to the
service of Home and Country; it represents
every State in the Union and is composed of
the descendants of the patriot founders of this
country ; therefore it may well speak for the
womanhood of America. It represents America
itself, American ideals, American institutions,
American homes, American women of patriot
lineage whose forefathers fought and died for
liberty. It speaks for the women of the past
who gave their husbands and sons for liberty,
who welcomed as their comrades in arms the
renowned Lafayette and Rochambeau of
France. It speaks for all the women of the
present, the women of American birth and
the women of foreign birth who likewise gave
husbands and sons to die for that same liberty
on the battlefields of France. Truly our
Society is well fitted to express — and we do
express — to the women of France in New York
the deep appreciation of the women of America
for the gift of this monument to Joan, immortal
Liberator of France, whose high and sacred
patriotism impelled her, too, to give her life
as a supreme sacrifice for her country ; we
express our deep sense of friendship between
our two great Republics to which this monu-
ment is also an enduring and eloquent witness.

Furthermore, for the women of America we
express our undying admiration for France —
France the martyr, France the defender of
the world's liberty. France, liberated by Joan
of Arc five centuries ago, is to-day the mar-
tyred saviour of the world's civilization and
liberty; she is Joan incarnate, the world's Joan
of Arc who led the Allied flags to victory
under the immortal Foch, who gathered the
hosts of freedom under her banners at the
Marne and at Verdun; who said to the invad-
ing hordes, " They shall not pass " ; and who
to-day is rising again from her ruins, uncon-
quered, undaunted, immortal. Truly the spirit

of France and of Joan of Arc are one, and
both are immortal, even as human liberty and
divine truth and justice are immortal.

And finally, one other thought should be
expressed to-day. As the spirit of Joan of
Arc is the emblem of patriotism, of self-
sacrifice for liberty, of the immortality of
liberty, truth and justice, so is it also the
emblem of faith, faith in the divine guidance
of God. Here Joan of Arc and the Pilgrim
founders of this nation clasp hands across the
centuries. Here the simple French peasant girl
and the English seekers after religious and civil
liberty meet on the common ground of faith;
in this simple faith in God France, England
and America may be said to be one, and so
long as each nation has held firmly to this
faith, it has prospered and advanced. While
Joan heard the voices, saw the vision, opened
her spirit to the divine guidance, she led the
white banner of France to victory; when her
task was done and she no longer was conscious
of the divine, she Vv-as led captive to her
martyr's death ; she lost her hold on men's
minds and hearts. Just so, France; when in
the madness of communism during the Reign
of Terror, the French Revolutionists renounced
God and set up human reason in His place,
France lost her grip upon herself and for one
mad. brief interval played the game of spiritual
death. But faith returned; religion was re-
stored; like Joan who again heard the voices
at the stake guiding her spirit to victory and
clearing her vision in death so France rose
from that death of the spirit into the immortal
life of a free and regenerated people.

Thus may it ever be with the nations that
love liberty and spurn license and tyranny
and oppression. Let us hold fast to the faith
that spoke to Joan in voice and vision, the
faith that brought the Mayflon'cr across the
raging seas, the faith that worked miracles
at the Marne. Let us hold to the vision or
we perish.

At this time we need this lesson in faith —
we need to study it well and keep it in mind,
for we are all too prone to crowd it out of
our lives.

In this epoch-making hour, when the nations
are meeting together in Conference to maintain
the world's peace and promote good-will among
men, do we not especially need to learn again
this simple, trusting faith of the peasant girl
of France, who saw God's hand leading her
and heard God's voice calling her to the service
of her country?

That faith was not superstition or hallucina-
tion; it was real; it filled her life; it animated
her every act and word. It will guide us to-day
if we will but listen to it; and listen we must
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and righteousness won over the evil forces let
loose by German lust for power.

In Memorial Continental Hall the Allies are
again assembled around the council table, but
this time the council table is not one of war but
one of peace ; let us have faith in their sincerity
and earnestness of purpose ; have faith that
peace and good-will are their ruling motives ;
have faith above all that God is guiding their
counsels to the advancement of His Kingdom ;
thus good- will and justice and mercy will

flourish upon earth and the faith that led
Joan of Arc to victory will lead mankind
to peace.

Again, in behalf of the women of America,
I accept with profound appreciation this beauti-
ful monument erected by the women of France
to the glory of all womanhood and dedicated to
the women of America, in whose hearts the
love of France and of her heroic martyr and
patriot, Joan of Arc, will remain for-
ever enshrined.

MANUAL OF UNITED STATES

FOR THE INFORMATION

OF IMMIGRANTS

The Italian Manual for Immigrants has just
been issued. The Manual may now be obtained
in the English, Italian and Spanish languages.
The Yiddish, Polish and Hungarian are in
process of translation.

The book is already winning high praise from
educators wherever it goes. Inasmuch as it has
not yet been found practicable to distribute it at
the ports of entry, a new ruling of the National
Society allows chapters to have it free of charge
upon application through their State Regents, if
it is ivantcd for direct distribution to the immi-
grants. In this way spirit and purpose of our
work will be accomplished quite as well,
perhaps, as at the ports of entry.

For text-book use, or for purposes other, than
the above, a charge will be made as here-
tofore, viz :

Single copies 20 cents each

In lots of 25 or more 15 cents each

In lots of 100 or more.... 12 cents each
In lots of 1000 or more.... 10 cents each
This to apply to all languages.
Orders with money should be sent to the
Treasurer General, Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C.

Orders for free books should be addressed to
the State Regent, stating the purpose to give
it directly to the immigrant. The State Regent
will forward the order to the Corresponding
Secretary General.

State Regents are asked to keep a record of
all orders thus received and forwarded, and
to report same to Airs. John L. Buel. \^ice
Chairman in Charge of Immigrants' Manual,
Litchfield, Connecticut.

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THE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL,
WASHINGTON

By Elisabeth E. Poe

N the Sunday preceding the
sessions of the Continental
Congress of the Daughters of
the American Revohition, a
special service, with a patriotic
sermon, is always held at the
Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Mount
St. Alban, in the District of Columbia.

The history of this national cathedral
is both romantic and interesting, and is
linked with General George Washington's
plans for the Capital City of the
United States.

General Washington, in his outline of
the city to Major Pierre L'Enfant — the
French engineer whose plans were used —
included a church for national purposes.
The builders of the Cathedral of SS.
Peter and Paul have kept this ideal of
Washington ever in mind, and have tried
to realize his vision of a " great national
House of Prayer for all People."

Major L'Enfant, in laying out the city,
planned a State church, to be built on the
site of the present Patent Office, an
" American " Westminster Abbey in
effect, yet to belong to no denomination.
It is interesting to note the words of
L'Enfant on the topic. He thus
describes it :

" A Church (to be erected) for national
purposes, such as public prayer, thanks-
giving, funeral orations, etc. ; and be
assigned to the special use of no particu-

lar denomination or sect; but to be
equally open to all. It will likewise be
a shelter for such monuments as were
voted by the last Continental Congress
for the heroes who fell in the cause
of liberty."

The State church was never built; yet
there was the germ of the idea of a
National Cathedral, which was strength-
ened through the patriotic and religious
action of one churchman of that period.

Joseph Xourse, first Registrar of the
Treasury, was Washington's intimate
friend, and a man of deeply religious
sentiment. He lived on what is now
Mount St. Alban, the Cathedral Close.
Near his Colonial mansion, and overlook-
ing the infant Capital, was a grove of
beautiful oak trees. Here he would
often go and pray that some day a
church might be built on that spot. The
years passed and Joseph Nourse went to
his grave with his dream unfulfilled, his
prayer unanswered — or so it seemed.

Some years later when his grand-
daughter. Miss Phcebe Nourse, died,
among her effects was found a small
box containing fifty gold dollars, with
instructions that it be used to erect a
" free church on Alban Hill." Touched
l)y her desire to bring her grandfather's
prayer to fruition, friends and the boys
of a neighboring school dug the foun-
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and named St. Albans. The present
parish church of St. Albans is within
the Close and dates back over one
hundred years.

The Cathedral project slumbered
through the years, until in 1893 a charter
was granted by Congress for a Protestant
Episcopal Cathedral Foundation. In 1895

work to establish the Cathedral. A ten-
tative site had been secured in Chevy
Chase. After a time it was seen that this
site would not do and then by a curious
coincidence the trustees of the Cathedral
were enabled to secure the very site
upon which Joseph Nourse had prayed
nearly a century before that a Church

AIRI'LANE VIEW OK THE CATHEnRAI, SHOWlNc; I II

the General Convention of the E])iscopal
Church authorized the formation of a
new diocese to include the City of
Washington as well as certain counties
in southern Maryland. The Rev. 1 lenry
Yates Satterlee, of New York, was
elected its first Bishoj).

From the beginning of his episcopate
Bishop Satterlee was indefatigable in his

of Christ might l)e l)uilt. The wisdom
of this selection has been well vindicated,
not only from a sentimental standpoint,
but from a practical one as well.

On the crest of the hill, overlooking
the entire city, is a park of forty acres.
This i^ark is the Cathedral Close. It
has the same area as had the Temple at
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the same elevation above Washington
that the Temple w^as above Jerusalem is
the site of the National Cathedral of
SS. Peter and Paul.

In 1898, in the presence of the Bishops,
the Clergy and the lay delegates of the
General Convention of the Episcopal
Church, the President of the United
States, and thousands of people, there
w^as raised the Peace Cross, to mark the
consecration of the Cathedral site.

At the service of the unveiling of this
Cross, President McKinley said : " I
appreciate the very great privilege given
me to participate with the ancient church
here represented, its Bishops and its lay-
men, in this new sowing for the Master
and for men. Every undertaking like
this for the promotion of religion and
morality and education is a positive gain
to citizenship, to country and to civiliza-
tion, and in this single word I wish for
the sacred enterprise the highest influence
and the widest usefulness."

Around the Peace Cross on summer
evenings are held open air services.
Among the preachers have been the
Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop
of London, and many other distin-
guished prelates.

The plans for the National Cathedral
were drawn by Sir George Bodley, the
English master of Gothic architecture.
He was assisted by his American pupil,
Henry Vaughan. Sir George had planned
many notable buildings in Great Britain,
including the Liverpool Cathedral, the
largest in the world. But the Washington
Cathedral was his masterpiece and it
ushered in a revival of Gothic architec-
ture. The general architectural features
will be along the hues of the famous
Cologne Cathedral. The nave will be
five aisles across and at the choir three
aisles wide. Three altars will make pos-

siUe three simultaneous services. The
length of the Cathedral edifice is to be
500 feet, the span of the nave, 39 feet,
the height 93 feet, and the area 63,500
square feet. Allowing seven square feet
for each person seated, the Washington
Cathedral will seat over 5000 persons.

A great tower, to be named the Gloria
in Excelsis Tower, will spring from the
centre 220 feet from the ground. Two
smaller towers at the west entrance will
emphasize the splendid beauty of the
design. The spacious nave will be lighted
by stained glass windows through which
the Hght is to be thrown in alternating
mist and brightness down the nave, giv-
ing a beautiful efifect. High on the rood
screen will shine the Rood or Cross,
rising out of the gloom, the most promi-
nent object in the entire Cathedral, so
lighted by the great stained glass windows
of the Sanctuary Altar back of it, that
it will catch the eye of the worshipper
immediately upon entering.

The treatment of the porches at the
west entrances are to resemble those of
the magnificent Cathedral at Amiens,
France. The two front doorways are
seventy feet across, while the inner por-
ticoes measure nearly fifty feet. Arcad-
ing and statues of personages celebrated
in Old Testament history will further
enrich these porticoes.

Before the fabric of the National
Cathedral was begun, even before the
design was selected, there were brought
to this country the stones around which
this great fane will shape itself. From
the Quarries of Solomon and from the
ledge of rock in which the sepulchre of
our Lord was hewn, were quarried the
rocks which have now been fashioned
into the high altar of the Cathedral.
This altar is the joint gift of American
dioceses and congregations and is tem-

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porarily placed in the Little Sanctuary, a
memorial to Mrs. Percy R. Pyne, given
by her children and now used as a chapel
for the Boys' School. In the Little
Sanctuary are, in addition to the Altar,
the Bishop's chair or Cathedra, made of
stones of Glastonbury Abbey, where,
according to ancient writers, Joseph of
Arimathea established his mission and
founded his church among the ancient
Britons. Here is also the Canterbury
Ambon, made of stone taken from Can-
terbury Cathedral and fashioned into a
pulpit, which illustrates in stone the his-
tory of the English Bible. These will ulti-
mately be placed in the great Cathedral.

Through the generosity of Mrs. Julian
James the final payment of $50,000 was
made on the site in 1906. This act is
commemorated by the Cathedral land-
mark set up in the form of a sun-dial
which marks not only the hours of the
day, but also the seasons of the
Christian year and on which are in-
scribed the names of those whom the
gift commemorates.

Not long after the preliminary designs
were drawn. Doctor Bodley died and
Mr. Vaughan continued the work alone,
completing the plans, including models of
the exterior and interior. He supervised
the building of the Bethlehem Chapel and
the Sanctuary or Apse until his death on
June 30th. He is buried in the crypt of
the great Cathedral he had helped
to design.

Education in the past found an early
home in the ancient Cathedrals, and in
1900 a National Cathedral School for
Girls, the gift of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst,
was erected. Later a Cathedral Choir
School for Boys was started. This was
the gift of Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston,
niece of President James Buchanan.

The first building on the Cathedral

grounds used for worship was the beau-
tiful Little Sanctuary, through whose i
wide gateway a view of the entire city |
of Washington can be obtained. To ]
date one- fourteenth of the entire Cathe-
dral has been built. It is expected to
resume building operations this Spring.
The building fund in hand amounts to
$700,000, of which $150,000 is available
for the foundations. These will cost
$300,000, and as soon as the foundations
of the entire fabric are laid, work will
start on the remainder of the Cathedral.

The Apse, or Sanctuary of the Cathe-
dral, received a generous donation from
Mrs. Archibald D. Russell, in memory of
her mother, Mrs. Percy R. Pyne. In the
Apse, in a richly carved niche, is to be
placed the Book of Remembrance,
wherein are inscribed the names of the
donors to the Cathedral.

Embedded in the foundations of the
Sanctuary and under the High Altar is
the Bethlehem Chapel of the Nativity,
which is a memorial to Bishop Satterlee.
Daily services are held there, interces-
sions for the mission of the Church,
the work of the State, and speedy com-
pletion of the Cathedral.

The Cathedral Chapter comprises:
The Rt. Rev. Alfred Harding, Bishop
of Washington; Dean, The Very Rev.
G. C. F. Bratenahl ; Canons, Rt. Rev.
James De Wolf Perry. Rev. William L.
De Vries, Rt. Rev. Philip M. Rhinelander,
and the Rev. James E. Freeman ; Mr.
Charles C. GloVer, Mr. Charles J. Bell,
Dr. William C. Rives, Hon. Henry
White, Mr. Corcoran Thorn, Mr. James
Parmalee, and Dr. William H. Wilmer.

In the contributions of $2,500,000
made thus far toward the Cathedral, the
whole Nation is, geographically at least,
represented in the offering of this great
temple to God. This new world " West-

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minster Abbey," will stand, too, as a
thank offering for the safe return of mil-
lions of Americans from the World War,
and also as a memorial for the thousands
who have not returned, having laid down
their lives for their country.

And it is just as truly a memorial to
the far-sighted vision of the great Wash-

ington who saw that a nation must be
built on the enduring rock of spiritual
power and belief in order to survive.

The National Cathedral will redeem the
City of Washington from being the only
capital in the civilized world which has
no great temple of worship standing
forth in the sight of all men.

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THE HANOVER (VIRGINIA) PETITION.
JUNE 6. 1783

Copied From The Records By Alice V. D. Pierrepont

O the Hon-^^"' the Speaker and
other Members of the House of
Delegates of Virginia :

The remonstrance of Sun-
dry, the Freeholders and other
Freemen of the County of
Hanover Humbly sheweth that From the
vicinity of our Situation to the seat of
Government we have had an opportunity
of hearing that there now lies before your
hon-'''^ House a Bill to exclude particular
classes of British Subjects from the
rights of citizenship within this Com-
monwealth. The propriety of this meas-
ure appears so obvious to us that we
should not have offered to your Hon-'''"
Body our sentiments upon the subject
had we not been to our great surprise
informed that the Bill was like to meet
with warm opposition in the passage.

We have even been informed, luit
know not how to believe, that some
Gent-'" of Great Influence in the Legis-
lature mean to exclude those only who,
having taken the Oaths of Allegiance
to our Government, have afterwards
adhered to the British Interest. Men
whose lives are already forfeited as
Traitors t(j their Country, and against
whom we conceive no prohibiting laws
are now necessary. But we, as a part of
that great Community over which voii
Preside, beg Leave to present to you our
opinion on this very important point,
208

Submitting it to your determination with
the firmest reliance on the wisdom and
Patriotism of your Hon-'''^ House.

As Freemen, sensible of and putting a
proper value upon those blessings we
have just obtained, and for which we
have risked everything that is dear to us,
we cannot hear without the utmost con-
cern that there exists the most distant
probability of admitting to an equal
participation of those blessings with our-
selves, men who have hazarded nothing
in the attainment of them ; men who have
ever been zealous in opposition to our
cause; and who have in many instances
exerted their whole Powers to reduce us
to the most servile subjection to
British Tyranny.

We conceive that those persons who
are most ol)noxious and who cannot with
safety be suffered to return among us,
may be classed under three heads :

1st — All natives of America who have
taken part with Britain in the Late con-
test or who have resided in the british
Dominions without giving some assurance
of attachment to our Interests.

2nd — Those who have previous to the
war resided in this Country and enjoyed
with us all the ])les^ings al tranquility
and who in the day of danger left us
alone to combat british oppression.

3rd — The Third Class we wish to dis-
tinguish are a Sett of men who having

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209

received the most benevolent Indulgences
from a Convention of our Representatives
so abused those unmerited favors as to
render it necessary for a subsequent
Assembly to take of¥ those indulgences
and by Enforcing the Statute Staple of
Edward III, compelled them to leave
the Country which they proved them-
selves inimical to.

These different distinctions of men are
so extremely obnoxious that we never
can again live in harmony with them, and
we so much dread the great and fatal
influence that they may have over the
inhabitants of this country that we con-
sider it as our duty to entreat you in the
most supplicating terms that you will not
suffer those dangerous people ever to be
reestablished amongst us.

Signed on June 5, 1783.

The Signers of the Hanover (Virginia)
Petition were :

James Hayes.
George Anderson.
Wm. Anderson jun.r.
Chris, t Thompkins.
James Turner.
Isaac Dabney. Kg. Wm
Thos. Trevilian.
D. Truehart.
Edw. Garland.
R. Brooke.
Thomas Hitt.
Parke Goodall.
Geo. Clough.
David Hall.
John Lawrence.
John Norvell.
George Wiley.
Holman Rice.
Wm. Woody
Jno Starke Sen.r.
Littlebury Wade.
John Pasley.
Charles Talley.
Joseph Talley.
Richard Mathys

(difficult to decipher)
William Talley.
Chillion White.
Nicholas Mills jun.r.
Jno. Alex, r Still.
Jos. Cross jr.

Edward Bass.

T. T. Hawes.

James Hill.

David Gentry.

Francis Mills.
. The. Dickenson.

Wm. Armstrong.

John White.

Chas. Turner.

Robert White.

George Meredith.

John Winn.

J. Svme.

H. Watkins.

Thos. Austin.

John Cockburne.

Henry H. Mallory.

Thos. Richardson.

Wm. Radford.

David Meredith.

John meredith.

Patrick Longan.

Joseph Goodman.

Rich d Anderson.

Henry Timberlake.
. Reuben Turner.

Will Thomson Jun.r.

Wm. Hickman.

Tho. Foster (difficult).

Owen Dabney.

Ambrose Lipscomb.

Wm. O. Winston.
Turner Richardson.
Bowler Cocke.
John Hicks.
John Hill.
Burnet Timberlake.
O. Harris.
Nathaniel Thomson.
Smith Blakey.
Christopher Cawthorn.
Charles West.
David Rowland,
hasehra? Bowles

(difficult).
Nathan Talley.
John Winn.
Wm. Ellis.
Billey Talley.
William Cocke.
W^illiam Street.
Sam Earnest.
Wm. Henderson.
Bartlett Talley.
David Clarke.
Thos. Bowles.
John Ross.
Solomon Passley.
John Hendrix.
Wm. Norvell.
Jeremiah Glinn.
Jas. Richardson.
Wm. Tinsley jun.r.
Shadrack Watts.
John Christian.
John Crenshaw.
Thos. Green.
Peter Christian.
Robert Kimbrough

(difficult).
Wm. Tompkins.
Morris Abraham.
Wm. Semay.
Peter Foster.
Fortunatus Crutchfield.
Thos. Tinsley.
Richard Sq Taylor.
Benja. Temple.
Pettus Ragland.
Geo. Dabney.
Math. 1 Anderson.
John Thomson.
Tho. Garland.
L. Anderson.
Gran. Smith.
Geddes Winston.
Jn W^inston.
Wm. Castten

(difficult).
Armistead Carter.
Rich.d Timberlake.
Jno. Clarke.

Jno. Jones.
N. or M. D. Clough

(his signature was

a monogram).
John Cobbs.
John Austin.
Wm. Harris.
Wm. Nelson.
Fra.s Taylor.
Isaac Butler.
Benja. Thomson.
John Starke Jr.
Nelson Barkley.
Chas. Mason.
Wm. Truett.
Ballard Smith.
John Passley.
John Garland.
John Anderson.
Rich.d Timberlake.
Wm. Brame.
Wm. Jones.
John Roberts.
Samuel Butler.
Major Winfree.
Wm. Peatrop.
Zach Stephens.
Wm. Thomson.
Wm. Sims.
Arch, d Dick.
Jno. Hickman.
Nelson Anderson jun.r.
Thomas Smith.
S. n. M. Lear

(difficult).
Claudiner Veal.
Zack Clarke.
Wm. Spiller.
Bds Webb.
Philip Tinsley.
James Blackrodi

(difficuh).
Wm. Jones.
Jn. u Catlett.
Wm. Littlepage.
Andrew Caslin.
Benj. Toler.
Edw. Cook.
James Nelson.
John B. Anderson.
Thomas Mallory.
Walter Austin.
Littlebury Via

(difficult).
Richard Austine.
Joseph Valentine.
John Wingfield.
Benj. Mills.
Wm. Barrett.
John Priddy.
Edmund Anderson.

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Peter Vial (difficult).
John Wingfield.
T. Rootes.
William Lumpkin.
Wm. Lawrence.
Sam.l Cruchfield.
D. Taylor.
Jno. Grimes.
George Crawford.
Chap. Hustin.
Ben Johnson.
Chas. Hundly.
Elisha Archer.
John Timberlake.
Charles Knight.
John Cocke.
Wm. Provel.
John Boules.
John Foster.
John Overton jr.
Geo. Holland.
Peter Grantland.
Jno. Thomson.
Wm. Gilliam.
John Crenshaw.
Nathaniel Talley.
William Duval.
Jas. Tate.
James Turner.
Steph. Davis.
G. Johnston

Thomas Harden.
Thomas Hanes.
Jermiah Pate.
Hugh Nix (difficuh).
John A. Richardson.
A. N. Morris.
Robert Sharpe.
William Hanes.
Joseph Pease.
Isaac Burnett.
Walter Davies.
Wm. Hooper.
John England.
Benjamin Haynes.
John hite (difficult).
Henry Hicks.
Stephen Pettus.
Byrd Hendrick.
Wm. Alexander.
Peter Mallory.
Wm. Harris.
John Wingfield.
Mathias Abbott.
William King.
John Carter.
Mathew Whitlock.
Jno. Harris.
Foster James.
John Ellis.
Jno. Davis.
John Priddy.

Wm. Bon.
Christopher Butler.
Thomas Coleman.
Thomas Wingfield

(difficult).
Joseph Hicks.
Sam.l Winston.
John Ragland.
Wm. M. c Quarles.
Obediah Hooper.
William Oglesby.
Sam.l Sandys.
Dabney Turner.
Thos. Bacheler.
Demack Hay.
William Barlow.
William Claybrooke.
Sam.l McFaul.
Reuben Davenport.
John King.
Pettus Ragland jun.r.
Paul Wool fork.
Jacob Williams.
G. M. Davenport.
Wm. Bacon.
Parker Bailey.

John Tinsley.
Henry Cross.
Finch Ragland.
Jno. Walker (difficult)
Isaac Perrin.
Jno. Miller.
Stephen Hanke.
David Hanes.
James Laurence.
John Bow (difficult)
Roger Gregory jr.
John Beal.
W. Johnson.
John Wyatt.
Henry Hicks.
Wm. Hughes.
Nathaniel Pope jr.
John Roberts.
Joseph Abrams.
Joseph Valentine.
John Priddy.
Shelton Ragland.
Thomas Ulland

(difficult).
Thomas Wingfield.

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of a petition in the Virginia State Library.
H. R. Mcllwain, Librarian, Virginia State
Library, Richmond, Va., September 28, 1921."

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THE TWENTIETH CENTURY INDIAN-
AN AMERICAN

By Mabel W. Randall

RS. MABEL W. RANDALL has been adjudged the zvinncr of the fifty-dollar
prise offered by Mrs. Walter C. Roe. of Colony. Oklahoma, for the best essay in
appreciation of the services of the North American Indian in the World War
and his worth as an American.

Her essay, " The Tiventieth Century Indian — An A^merican," received the highest
number of votes of the judges.

Mrs. Randall is Regent of the Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter, of
Watertown, Connecticut.

The zvinning essay is printed in full herewith , and the prize zvill be aivarded to Mrs.
Randall during the Thirty-first Continental Congress.

(Mrs. Edward L.) Eva Gould Harris,
National Chairman, Patriotic Education Committee.

Our introduction to the American Indian
dates back to the discovery of America. Tra-
dition tells us that they were the successors
of the Mound Builders, and were their inferiors
in civilization. Recently it has been claimed
that all the aboriginal inhabitants of this con-
tinent were of one race ; and that the arts,
sciences and architecture of the Mound Builders,
as well as of the Indians, came from the
superior civilization and development of Cen-
tral America and Mexico, demonstrating what
is termed " the northern drift of civilization."
Previously, it was believed that the Indians
had been driven south by savage tribes from
the north.

The Indian had no organized church ; no
priest heard his confession or assumed responsi-
bility for his soul. His belief in the Great
Mystery had been handed down to him from
his forefathers for many generations. Who
knows how many? Who knows from what
sage or savant came these teachings? They
were firmly established as a quality in the
life of every tribe.

The worship of the Great Spirit was " word-
less, silent, solitary and free from all self-
seeking." He met his Maker heart to heart
in the great forests; saw His handiwork in
their shadowy depths, in the vaulted skies, and
flying clouds. The voices of nature, the thun-
der, and music of the winds, to him, were
echoes of that voice divine.

His attitude toward peace and war, life and
death were logical. Customs of long standing
marked his observance of these elements of

existence. A perfect self-control gave the
Indian a great advantage over the exigencies
of his time. War made him a cruel antagon-
ist, but in that he was only human. Like the
old Romans, he loved his native land ! He
loved, in a literal sense, the " rocks and rills,
the woods and templed hills," as well as his
liberty and freedom. His symbol of " Peace
on earth and good will toward man," was the
smoking of thfe peace-pipe, and on a parallel
with our drinking of wine and breaking of
bread, as a ceremony. He believed that the
prayer for peace arose in the smoke, as incense,
to the Spirit Father.

There were many religious festivals, among
them the rites of baptism and communion. In
the long-ago days when the Indian found his
life in danger, he reverently offered a prayer
to his Father, the Sun, asking that his life might
be saved. If this prayer proved effectual, he
acknowledged the blessing by performing the
Sun Dance. This dance was not altogether
free from bodily suffering, and was meant as
a thank-offering or confession of faith. When
death came to this man of unknown ancestry,
he acknowledged the Great Presence again.
His wish was to die in the open, that his spirit
might pass from his body, under the open sky.
At this supreme moment his attitude showed a
belief in his spiritual relationship between man
and his maker.

Thus do we picture the early Indian. Then
occurred the great transition. The white men
came and took possession of the land and
slowly, but surely, the Indian was subdued.

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He ceased to be nomadic, and became a ward
of the white conquerors. He and his tribes-
men no longer reigned supreme. Cruelty and
barbarity, like dark shadows, crept into the
picture. Year by year the power of civilization
bore down upon him, until at the end of a
century, a race, degenerated and degraded,
struggled to sustain life.

We have no authentic history of this era.
We know that greed and whiskey proved dis-
astrous. Reservation life did not inspire his
once lordly spirit. Gone were his lands !
Misunderstood and down-trodden he was near
the end of the trail, and there was nothing left
but remembrance.

But, as his own maize comes to its fruition,
so the Indian has come into his heritage.
Through education and help from the very
source which seems to have most deflected the
current of his life, he appears about to rise to
even higher heights than before the decline of
his power and character.

The Indian as a race, it would seem, was
not made to die. Though fewer in number,
he is growing greater in individual strength.
Schools have done, and are doing much for
him at the present time, but perhaps nothing
has opened our eyes to the value of the Indian
as a citizen, so much as the declaration of war
between the United States and Germany.
Did the Indian respond when the call came?
Yes ! To the number of 13,000 and more.
From its long lethargy came forth the battle-
lore of his fathers. The latent dignity and
endurance of an almost forgotten generation
suddenly leaped from the past to defend a
land, long his by right of inheritance, and a
flag, his by adoption.

Bright with war paint came fourteen chiefs
of fourteen Indian tribes. They hastened to
Washington. From West Point, from Carlisle
and Haskell Institute, and from many smaller
schools came the Red-man in response to the
call to arms. Out of 33,000 eligibles, nearly
9000 entered the army; 2000 entered the navy;
500 more performed other necessary war work,
and eighty-five per cent, of these were volun-
tary enlistments. An official report from
Washington by Cato Sells, the Indian Com-
missioner, says: "I regard their representation
of 9000 in the United States camps, and in
actual warfare, as furnishing a ratio to the
population, unsurpassed, if equalled, by any
other race or nation. As scouts and small
group fighters they won greatest fame."

In referring to a review of a brigade of
American troops, upon their return from
France, Mr. Sells is said to have made the fol-
lowing statement : " In that triumphal scene
were descendants of men who were Americans

before ' Attila's fierce Huns ' were beaten at
Chalons, perhaps before the Siege of Troy."

It seems only right and fitting that the names
of some of these descendants should be made
known, and that an account of their bravery
should hold a place in the history of their
people. What story could be more thrilling
than the record of Private Joseph Oklahombi,
a Choctaw of Company D, 141st Infantry? He
received the Croix de Guerre for service de-
scribed in Marshal Petain's citation as follows :
" Under a violent barrage, dashed to the attack
of an enemy position, covering about 210 yards
through barbed-wire entanglements. He rushed
on machine gun position, capturing 171 pris-
oners. He stormed a strongly held position,
containing more than fifty machine guns and a
number of trench mortars. Turned the cap-
tured guns on the enemy, and held the position
for four days in spite of a constant barrage of
large projectiles and gas shells. Crossed No-
Man's Land many times to get infor-
mation concerning the enemy and to assist his
wounded comrades."

Alfred Q. Bailey, a Cherokee of Oklahoma,
made the supreme sacrifice. He had been with
General Pershing in Mexico, but was a sergeant
when killed in action in France. He was
awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for
entering the lines of the enemy, alone, in
advance of his regiment, where he killed two
German machine gunners, and captured
the third.

Wisconsin may well be proud to record the
name of Walter G. Sevalia, of Brule, a cor-
poral in Company F, 7th Engineers. He was
cited for " extraordinary heroism " in action
in France in November, 1918. He swam the
Meuse, under terrific fire, with a cable for a
pontoon bridge, and later carried another cable
over the Est Canal and across an open field,
covered by enemy machine guns. He was
wounded, but returned, bearing a message of
great imjjortance.

The first American soldier to cross the Marne
in the great battle that threw the Germans
back for the last time was an Indian.

Sergeant O. W. Leader, a Choctaw, must
have been imbued with the quality of endurance
so typical of his race. He was cited for bravery
in battle. He fought at Cantigny, May 28,
1918, fought at Soissons, Chateau Thierry,
July 18. 1918; fought at St. Mihiel Salient,
September 12, 1918; fought at Argonne
Forest, October 1, 1918. He was wounded
twice and gassed twice. Besides having this
fine military record. Sergeant Leader was
selected by the French Government as the
model original American soldier of whom a
portrait should be painted, to hang upon the
walls of the French Federal Building, where

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213

types of all the Allied races will be exhibited.

The Keshena Indian School in Wisconsin
claims John Peters, a young Menominee, who
served with the First Engineers. He, too,
paid the great tribute, but how gloriously for
his people, for of him it is said, " He was among
the first to enlist, the first to embark and the
first to die."

Colonel Henry Smither, a man of prestige
and ability in the art of military tactics, is an
Indian. He is a graduate of West Point, and
served with the General StafiF in France
throughout the World War.

Lieutenant Cameron Brant was the first
Indian killed with the Canadian forces. He
was a direct descendant of Joseph Brant, the
Indian, whose military ingenuity so greatly
aided the British during the War of
the Revolution.

Pershing's gallant Indian Scouts taught the
world what real camouflage meant.

The United States Marine Corps, that most
ancient and honorable branch of the service
which existed even before the Navy Depart-
ment was organized, saw some of the most
desperate fighting of the war. In this branch
were Joseph E. Oldfield, a grandson of the
Sioux Chief. Red Cloud, and Private Pete
Garlow, Carlisle's gridiron hero. Joseph Cloud,
a Sioux, was a machine gunner of the 121st
Machine Gun Battalion. He fought with the
Mad Marines in saving Paris, and went " over
the top " twice. After one of the hottest and
bloodiest battles, he is said to have remarked,
" I did all I could for my country ; I am proud
that I did, and I would do it all over again,
too. My nation gave liberally to the Army.
The men wanted to go ; the women ordered us
to go. No good Indian would run away from a
fight. We knew the life of America depended
on its men, and we are Americans."

The La Fayette Escadrille counted Floberth
W. Richester as its first Indian aviator. Others
joined the air service, among them Two Guns
White Calf, whose father presented Glacier
National Park to the United States.

The Hog Island Ship Yards employed over
half a hundred Indians. Munition plants,
motor plants and factories found them skillful
workers, and capable, respectable citizens.
^ One might go on and on with true records
of adveijiture and sacrifice, scattered here and
there through every branch of the service. The
absence of Indian regiments like those com-
posed of Filipinos and negroes often draws an
exclamation of wonder, but no word of com-
plaint comes from the Indian, because of unoffi-
cial recognition. When he enters the United
States service, he does so on exactly the same
basis as any white citizen of the country, and
except that he is usually the most popular man

in his company, becomes indistinguishable from
his comrades. Pershing's Scouts, and one
company of the 142nd Infantry were com-
posed entirely of Indians, but without
official designation.

The business and domestic life of the Indian
as a people has its optimistic side. Many
hereditary traits of character crop out, indi-
cating an ability to carry on profitable and
useful occupations. The Indian girl is an ideal
nurse, with her soft voice, precise obedience
to orders, quiet movements, and unemotional
exterior. Her steadiness in the presence of
pain and death win courage and admiration.

It is remarkable that the Indian has accom-
plished so much in the world of business,
considering the meagre education and commer-
cial training which he has had. One of our
former Indian Commissioners gives the follow-
ing facts : " I know of a full-blooded Indian on
the edge of the Rocky Mountains who culti-
vated his farm with his own hands, lived in
a house as well built and as sensibly furnished
as any of his neighbors ; sent his children to
school and taught them to work afterward;
kept a bank account and scrawled his name on
his own checks. Yet he could not write any-
thing except that name, or read anything
except figures, or speak a word of English.
His white acquaintances respected him. I
know of another on the Pacific Slope who
began life as a bound boy, does not know one
letter from another, yet counts his fortune in
five figures, and made it all as a cattle dealer
and freight contractor."

In so far as education and other great
advantages are concerned, the Indian is far
behind his white brother, but economically he
is nearly his equal. As a people they hold
some 60,000,000 acres of land, which if brought
together would make a tract of land more
than twice as large as the State of New York.
It is safe to say that the land is worth
$363,000,000. This land has a timber growth
worth at least $71,000,000, and the annual in-
come from the forests is nearly $2,000,000.
The Indians are rated altogether at about
$7,000,000,000. They raise about $11,000,000
worth of crops, and sell about $5,000,000 worth
of live stock annually. As landlords they raise
about $5,000,000 a year.

Some of the Indians, both as tribes and
individuals, are much better ofi; than others,
many are among the most favored of fortune,
while others, probably the majority, are poor
and uneducated.

From various reports we find that 56,000
are self-supporting, out of a population of over
350,000, and that thousands have broken away
from all tribal relations and are living among
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ing to that standard. As sheep men, lumber-
men, trappers, hunters and farmers, the Indian
is successful. Many are becoming good
mechanics and engineers, the more progressive
are taking up the arts and sciences ; where the
ancestor shaped the spear and ground the
arrow, the scion carves furniture or engraves
our jewelry.

There are over 61,000 Indian children in the
schools, out of 84,000 eligibles ; 120,000 Indians
speak English, and 113,000 are religious church-
going people; 79,000 are citizens; 119,000 wear
citizens' clothing, and over 28,000 are voters.

So prosperous and so patriotic were these few
of the great Indian population, that they in-
vested over $25,000,000 in Liberty Loan bonds,
or about $75.00 per capita, and about $1,000,000
in War Saving Stamps.

The great war has made us co-discoverers
with Columbus; it has helped us to rediscover
the Indian— his individuality, his bravery, his
worth as a citizen. Let us put forth the right
hand of fellowship and welcome him as he
deserves, as a citizen of the twentieth century —
a real American.

SKETCH OF A REAL DAUGHTER

By Jennie McCarty Kirk
Historian of Tioga Point Chapter, D.A.R.

With the death November 24, 1921, of Mrs.
Anna Hyatt Stewart, formerly of Waverly,
N. Y., Tioga Point Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, lost a Real Daughter.

Mrs. Stewart was born in the town of
Barton, Tioga County, N. Y. She was the
oldest child of John and Rachel Ralph Hyatt.
Nearly her whole life was spent in Tioga
County. Mrs. Stewart's grandfather, John
Hyatt, took part in the beginning of the
Revolutionary War. His wife died soon after,
leaving two children, a boy — John, a girl —
Deborah, who went to live with her grand-

father. He took the boy, a lad of thirteen,
with him into the army. This lad was Mrs.
Stewart's father. He served at the Battle of
Bunker Hill as a drummer boy. As soon as
he was old enough to fight, he enlisted as a
private and did not leave the service until the
close of the War. He served under Colonel
Spaulding, who was one of the three men that
captured Major Andre, and whose names will
never be forgotten. Mrs. Stewart is survived
by a son, John Stewart, of Barker PI., Waverly,
N. Y., and a daughter, Mrs. Belle Hannes, of
Rochester, N. Y., at whose home she died.

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CONTINENTAL HALL

MONG the recent acquisitions to the
^luseum of Alemorial Continental
Hall is the gift from the Dolly :Mad-
ison Chapter, Washington, D. C, of
five pieces of silver, comprising a
tea-pot, sugar bowl, tray, tongs, and
tea-strainer. The tea-pot and tray
were presented to Margaret Alarshall as a wed-
ding gift by Dolly Payne, afterward the wife of
James Madison, president of the United States.
Miss Marshall, daughter of the Revolutionary
hero, Benjamin IMarshall, married Hugh
Morrison and Dolly Payne was one of her brides-
maids. The tea-pot and tray are said to have
been made from silver shoe buckles, sword
trappings and buttons
taken from the British
officers captured during
the Revolution.

Mrs. W. F. Simes,
great granddaughter of
Margaret ^Marshall ]Mor-
rison, directed her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Jennie L.
Wyndham, to send these
heirlooms to the Dolly
Madison Chapter from
whom the museum re-
ceived them.

The development of
the Museum in Memorial
Continental Hall has pro-
g r e s s e d steadily and
today numbers 1167 his-
torical relics on exhibi-
tion in its cases. The

history of the museum dates from the second
Board meeting on October 18. 1890. when the
following resolution by Mrs. Mary S. Lock-
wood was passed :

" That * * * the next efifort shall be to provide
a place for the collection of historical relics * * *
which may come to the Society. * * * This may
first be in rooms, and later in the erection of a
fire-proof building."

A " Revolutionary Relics' Committee " was
appointed to take charge of all gifts and
donations. This committee continued its cap-
able work until April. 1914, when the 23rd
Continental Congress created the office of Cura-
tor General. The first to hold this office was
Miss Catherine B. Barlow who, elected in April,

1915, served two consecutive terms. Her suc-
cessor in office was ]\Irs. George W. White, the
present Curator General.

Among the thousand and more valuable his-
torical articles in the museum, which corresponds
in size to the Library in Memorial Continental
Hall, are Houdon's bust of Washington and two
Sevres vases, the gift of the French Republic
to the National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution in grateful recognition of
its war work; the pen used by Hon. Charles E.
Hughes, Secretary of the State, in signing the
treaties at the close of the Conference on the
Limitation of Armament ; a silver cup which
belonged to General George Washington and

SILVER TEA-POT, SUGAR BOWL, TONGS, TEA-STRAINER AND TRAY GIVEN BY
DOLLY PAYNE MADISON, TO MARGARET MARSHALL MORRISON

which the general gave to Andrew Ellicott in
recognition of his work as civil engineer in lay-
ing out the City of Washington; a tea set of
Queen Anne silver lustre; an original certificate
of the Society of the Cincinnati, dated 1784 and
signed by General Henry Knox, secretary ; and
a collection of American coins.

The rules of the Museum do not permit loans
of historic articles. They must be gifts out-
right to the National Society and cover the
Revolutionary period only, from 1770 to 1800.
Heirlooms of that date which are accepted can
be manuscripts, miniatures, silk, bead bags, fans,
laces, jewelry, silver, pewter, china, bronze, sil-
ver lustre, glass, mantel ornaments, samplers, fire-
place furnishings, knee buckles, and snuff boxes.

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NEW MEXICO

The third State Conference of the New
Mexico Daughters of the American Revolution
met on Friday, October 28, 1921, in the M. E.
Church, south of Roswell, with the Roswell
Chapter as hostess.

Mrs. H. H. Jackman, of Roswell, opened
the morning program with a pipe organ selec-
tion, during which the pages escorted the State
Officers to the platform. The State Regent,
Mrs. J. F. Hinkle, called the Conference to
order, and the Rev. S. E. Allison gave an
appropriate Scripture reading and the Invo-
cation. The singing of the " Star Spangled
Banner," " America," and more especially the
" Salute to the Flag," led by Mrs. Mary
Cooney, of Roswell, the State Chairman on the
Correct Use of the Flag, contributed much to
the D. A. R. spirit that was evidenced during
the transaction of the business which followed.

The address of welcome from the Roswell
Chapter was given by Mrs. Violet Stevens and
the response was made by Mrs. F. C. Wilson,
Regent of the Stephen Watts Kearney Chapter
of Santc Fe.

Mrs. J. F. Hinkle gave an inspiring address
followed by the announcement of her commit-
tees. A message from our President General,
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, was read by
the Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Helen Keith,
of Roswell. A report of the tender of Ft.
Marcy to the New Mexico Historical Society
in Sante Fe, by the Hon. and Mrs. L. Bradford
Prince, was read by the Secretary. It will be
remembered by many that Mrs. Prince organ-
ized the first Chapter in the Southwest and
that the establishment of many of the western
chapters is due to her interest in and loyalty
to the Daughters of the American Revolution.
At 12.30 a luncheon was served in the basement
of the Church.

The afternoon session opened by all repeating
the American's Creed, after which the reports of
the State Officers were received. Our Historian,
Mrs. Ella C. Welltmcr. of Sante Fe, presented
twenty-four Military War Service Records, all
properly compiled for filing, with the Historian
General. Mrs. Earl P. Denburgh, of Roswell,
gave two delightful vocal numbers. The reports
of the State Chairmen and the Chapter Regents
were heard with great interest ; the three chap-
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ters represented reported one hundred per cent,
support to the three big objects of the
National Society.

Mrs. S. M. Ashenfelter, of Silver City,
Past State Regent, was endorsed as a candidate
for Vice President General.

The following officers were elected : Mrs.
R. P. Barnes, of Albuquerque, State Regent;
Mrs. F. C. Wilson, of Sante Fe, Vice Regent;
Mrs. Theodore Sutherland, of Roswell, Record-
ing Secretary; Mrs. B. H. Porter, of Albu-
querque, Corresponding Secretary; Mrs. J. C.
Weaver, of Roswell, Treasurer; Mrs. Reed
Holloman, of Santa Fe, Registrar ; Mrs. L. B.
Morrell, of Silver City, Historian; Mrs. Alvin
White, of Silver City, Librarian.
(Mrs. Reed) M. A. Bassett Holloman, -

Recording Secretary. I

NEW YORK

The New York State Conference, Daughters
of the American Revolution, was for the fifth
time the guests of the Irondequoit Chapter in
Rochester on October 19-21, 1921. Several
changes were introduced in the order of proce-
dure. Wednesday morning a Council of Chap-
ter Regents was held in the Irondequoit
Chapter House at 9 o'clock with Mrs. Charles
White Nash, State Regent, presiding, the
object being to secure expressions from the
various Regents on programs of work and
other matters. The suggestions made were
later laid before the State Board of Manage-
ment which met at 11 o'clock. The Chairman
of State Committees held their meeting in the
ball room of Powers' Hotel at 10 o'clock.
Following the morning conferences an informal
luncheon was served at the hotel.

The bugle call, given by Mrs. Wheeler,
announced the opening of the Conference at
3 o'clock, when the State and National Officers,
with distinguished guests, entered, escorted by
thirty pages. The personal page of the State
Regent was Mrs. Prescott Lunt, one of the
young matrons of Rochester Chapter. When
Mrs. Charles White Nash, State Regent, with
the fall of the gavel, declared the Twenty-
sixth New York State Conference open, the
first quarter century of state achievement had
passed into history.

The invocation by Mrs. Silas W. Sherwood,
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Star Spangled Banner; salute to the Flag, and
the American's Creed; the opening exercises
concluded with Miss Sanford's Apostrophe to
the Flag, recited by Mrs. H. F. Burton.

Mrs. William B. Hale, Regent of Ironde-
quoit Chapter, gave a cordial address of
welcome. On behalf of Mayor Edgerton, Mr.
Edward R. Foreman, city historian, welcomed
the delegates to Rochester. Mrs. Nash
responded, her fine address being an earnest
appeal for thoughtful consideration of present-
day problems. At its close, the distinguished
guests were introduced, Mrs. Charles S.
Whitman, of New York, Vice President
General, representing the National Society, Mrs.
William Gumming Story, of New York,
Honorary President General, and Mrs. Joseph
S. Wood, of Mount Vernon, a former Vice
President General. Mrs. Nash read the greet-
ings ; Mrs. John H. Stewart, State Regent of
Vermont; Mrs. Franklin C. Cain, State Regent
of South Carolina ; Mrs. Henry D. Fitts, State
Regent of New Jersey; Mrs. Franklin P.
Shumway, State Regent of Massachusetts ;
Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, State Regent of
Florida; Mrs. Edwin Earl Sparks, State
Regent of Pennsylvania ; Miss Alice Louise
McDuffee, State Regent of Michigan; Mrs.
John Laidlaw Buel, State Regent of Connecti-
cut, and the President General, Mrs. George
Maynard Minor.

At the Wednesday evening meeting which
was given to the celebration of the twenty-
fifth anniversary, the State and National officers
and these former State Regents as honor
guests, Mesdames Story, Wood, Benjamin F.
Spraker, and Miss Stella F. Broadhead
entered, escorted by the pages, and the audience
sang the " Song to the Empire State." Mrs.
Nash presided. An interesting feature of the
opening session was the readint? of " An Ameri-
can Hymn," by Mrs. Edith Willis Linn Forbes,
with an original musical interpretation by Mrs.
Leon D. Lewis. The hymn was written in
1904 by our second N. Y. State Regent. Miss
Mary Isabella Forsyth. The former State
Regents present gave greetings and reminis-
cences of their terms of office. The State
Regent then read greetings from Mrs. Albert
Nelson Lewis, Mrs. Samuel Verplanck, Mrs.
Henry R. Roberts, and Mrs. William Little,
former State Regents; Mrs. Mary E. Lock-
wood, Honorary Chaplain General, organizing
founder; Miss Grace Pierce, former State and
National officer, and Miss Mary V. B.
Vanderpool, founder and twenty-five years
Regent of Mary Washington Colonial Chapter.

The paper of the evening was a history of
the twenty-five State Conferences, prepared by
Mrs. Nellie Lohnas Hayden, Past Regent of
Saratoga Chapter, of which the State Historian

is a member. Mrs. F. H. Calhoun, former
State Regent, and Vice President General from
South Carolina, spoke of the Tomassee D.A.R.
School in South Carolina, and the N. Y. State
building to be erected there as the twenty-fifth
anniversary endeavor of N. Y. State Con-
ference. Mrs. Calhoun's address was so
eloquent and appealing that at its close over
three hundred dollars was subscribed to place
water in its buildings.

Thursday morning, meeting opened by Mrs.
Nash, when reports of state officers were given.
Mrs. Nash's annual report was of special inter-
est, showing the growth and activities of over
one hundred and forty-three chapters, from
each one of which fine reports had come. The
total membership in the state being 14,157,
which represents one-eighth of the National
Society, having made decided gains during the
year. Thursday afternoon reports of the many
state committees were given by their chairman,
not only indicating the scope and breadth of
their different endeavors, but offering plans
for future work. Mrs. J. P. Mosher, State
Director of the C.A.R., called attention to the
importance of establishing branches of the
junior societies throughout the State.

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Recording
Secretary General, arrived during the day,
and at this time gave an interesting description
of the laying of the cornerstone of the D.A.R.
Administration Building on October 19, 1921.
Mrs. Yawger spoke of the increasing interest
shown in the Society since the World War.
Thursday evening the reception to the State
and National officers, distinguished guests,
and members of the S.A.R. was a most
pleasing occasion.

Friday morning, Mrs. Nash called the meet-
ing to order at 9.30. The election of three
State Directors was announced — Mrs. Daniel
Wilber, of Poughkeepsie ; Mrs. Radcliffe B.
Lockwood. of Binghamton, and Mrs. James E.
Pope, of New York. Mrs. William B. Hale,
Regent of Rochester Chapter, was appointed
a member of the N. Y. State building commit-
tee at Tomassee, of which Mrs. R. H. Gibbs,
of Schenectady, is chairman, and Mrs. C. C.
Court, Mrs. Silas W. Sherwood, and Mrs.
Joseph S. Wood are members. By invitation
of Mrs. Wilber, Regent of Mahwenawasigh
Chapter, the 1922 Conference will meet in
Poughkeepsie. The singing of " God Be with
You Till We Meet Again " closed one of the
most interesting, enthusiastic and largest State
meetings ever held.

The social features were not forgotten. On
Tuesday the Iroquois Society, C.A.R., gave a
luncheon at the Irondequoit Chapter House, to
State officer and Presidents of the Society,
preceding their convention which opened in the

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Powers' Hotel, Tuesday afternoon, continuing
through the evening. The Iroquois Society
entertained the Convention in the evening.
Wednesday the State luncheon of the Daughters
at the hotel. Thursday, Mrs. Nash entertained
the State Board of Management at luncheon in
the Chapter House. Friday, Mrs. C. S. Lunt
entertained at luncheon at the New Century
Club in honor of her guest. Mrs. Nash. A tea
at the Chapter House Friday afternoon, given
by the Irondequoit Chapter, brought to a close
the social program.
(Mrs. Frederick) Florence S. B. Menges,

State Historian.

SOUTH CAROLINA

The twenty-fifth annual State Conference
of the South Carolina Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution was held in Charleston on
November 16 and 17, 1921. The sessions, with
the exception of that of the first evening, were
held in the famous " Old E.xchange Building,"
now the property of Rebecca Motte Chapter,
the Conference hostess chapter.

This historic old edifice was erected before
the Revolution, of material brought over from
England, and first used as an Exchange and
Custom House. In 1774 the famous cargo of
taxed tea was stored there and taken therefrom
to be emptied in the Cooper River. In 1774
assembled also the first Provincial Congress
and set up the first independent Government
in the United States. During the Revolution
many prominent citizens were imprisoned in
the cellar and from thence the martyr, Isaac
Hayne, was led forth to execution. In 1791
George Washington was entertained there, and
for many years the building belonged to the
Federal Government, being used as a custom
hou.se, postoffice and light house office. In
1913, by Act of Congress, it became the prop-
erty of Rebecca Motte Chapter, was loaned by
them to the government duri-ng the World
War, and is now used as a Chapter House.

Here, on the morning of November 16th, the
State Conference was most auspiciously
opened. Hearty addresses of welcome were
delivered by Mrs. Marie Gary Eason, Regent, in
bi-lialf of Rebecca Motte Chapter, and by IMiss
Lc)uisa Poppeiilu'im, in behalf of the city of
Charleston. A liai)py response was given by
Mrs. von Tresckow, of Camden. Greetings
from the New York D.A.R. w^erc brought by
Mrs. Charles White Nash, tlieir charming State
Regent, who was an honored guest at the Con-
ference. The Presidents of the South Carolina
United Daughters of the Confederacy, of the
Slate Federation of Women's Clubs, of the
Colonial Dames and of the Daughters of 1812
were also present and brought greetings from
their respective organizations.

The report of the State Regent, Mrs.
Franklin C. Cain, was enthusiastically received
The South Carolina Daughters are progressing
in all lines of work carried on by the National
Society but proudest of all is South Carolina
of her " child," the Tomassee school for
mountain girls, situated in the heart of the
hills and founded and supported by the South
Carolina chapters.

A year ago the first fifty thou&and-dollar
endowment fund was subscribed and when
these pledges are paid, another endowment will
1 e launched. Other states are now taking an
interest and helping the school, and it was
a most happy occasion when Mrs. Nash, in
behalf of the New York Daughters, presented
Tomassee with the New York State Building.

On Wednesday evening, also, Mrs. F. H. H.
Calhoun, who has been Tomassee's most ardent
promoter from its infancy, delivered an illus-
trated lecture on the place, the people and the
school. Early in the fall Mrs. Calhoun deliv-
ered this same lecture at the New York State
Conference. On seeing a picture of the school
girls carrying buckets of water from a
mountain spring to the school half a mile up
the hill, the New York Daughters immediately
raised a fund to supply other means of getting
the water to the buildings than " toting "' it.

Besides this mountain school, there is, in the
" Piney Woods " Section of the South Carolina
Coast country, a little school, conducted under
the management of the Georgetown Chapter.
This school was offered to the State Con-
ference and the taking over of it is now
under consideration.

New officers elected were Third \'ice Regent,
Mrs. Paul Earle, of Anderson ; Recording
Secretary, Miss Minnie Clyburn. of Camden ;
Assistant Historian, Mrs. F. A. Des Portes, of
Winnsboro ; and Auditor, Mrs. Hayne Rice,
of Aiken.

With the exception of a tea given by the
wide-awake City Federation of Women's Clubs
and a visit to the fleet of destroyers then in
Ciiarleston harbor, the social affairs were
associated with Charleston's glorious past.

An interesting relic shown to the Visiting
Daughters was the crimson flag carried by
Col. William Washington at the Battle of
F.utaw, and now the cherished property of the
" Washington Light Infantry.'' The famous
old " Pringle House," owned during the
Revolution by Alilcs Brewton, was hospitably
opened to visitors by its present owners and
many took advantage of the opportunity to visit
this magnificent old mansion, rich in historic
furnishings and relics. The tea given liy the
Colonial Dames was held in the Old Powder
Ma,gazine, which as far back as 1715 was known
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esting relics here shown was a handsome dress
which once belonged to Eliza Lucas, who intro-
duced the culture of indigo into the colony of
South Carolina.

An afternoon reception was tendered by the
Charleston Chapter, U.D.C., at their chapter
rooms, and here too are displayed relics, those
of the South's " Lost Cause." The final recep-
tion was given by the Hostess Chapter and
was the first social affair held within the
" Old Exchange " since President George
Washington's ball in 1791. And no doubt there
were present many descendants of the ladies
and gentlemen, who more than a century and
a quarter ago, gathered to dance the stately
minuet and honor the Father of His Country.
Marion Lalley,

Historian.

WISCONSIN

The twenty-fifth annual State conference of
the Daughters of the American Revolution of
Wisconsin, which convened at the invitation of
Oshkosh Chapter, in the Twentieth Century
Club, in Oshkosh, October 1 to 12, 1921, was
made memorable not only as the Silver Anni-
versary of the Wisconsin Society, but also by
the presence of our distinguished President
General. Mrs. George Maynard Minor. The
bugle call was sounded by Howard Hall of the
Boy Scouts and the State officers led by Mrs.
R. B. Hartman, State Regent, and Mrs. Minor
took their places on the platform and the State
Regent called the meeting to order. The cor-
dial welcome by Mrs. E. M. Crane, Regent of
Oshkosh Chapter, was responded to by Mrs.
C. F. Eckels, of Port Washington.

Greetings were read from State Regents of
Illinois, North Carolina, Florida, Connecticut,
Pennsylvania, and Mrs. James Morris, Vice
President General of Minnesota. Mrs. E. H.
Van Ostrand, Honorary State Regent, gave a
short greeting. A touching memorial to our
dearly loved and deeply mourned Vice Presi-
dent General, Mrs. Julia C. Hume, was read by
Mrs. Edward Ferguson.

The President General gave an inspiring talk
and read an interesting account of her visit
to the battlefields of France, and the presenta-
tion of the waterworks to the village of Tilloloy.

The State Regent reported 2378 members, an
increase of 162 during the year. The reports
of Chapter Regents showed large contributions
to mountain schools, beside two scholarships
of $100 each to Tomassee School ; medals for
study in American History, and much active
work in marking historic spots and investigating
old trails. Inspired by the President General's
account of the helpful work of the " Manual for
Immigrants," a silver offering of over $100 was
made toward the Alanual fund.

The Conference voted to furnish a committee
room in the new Administration Building, to be
known as Wisconsin Room, and also to con-
tribute money toward the purchase of the
prehistoric village of Aztlan, Wis.

The following State officers were elected:
Regent, Mrs. George Parker ; Vice Regent,
Mrs. Isaac P. Witter ; Recording Secretary,
Mrs. Chas. D. Weeks ; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. John M. Whitehead ; Treasurer, Mrs.
Norman T. Gill ; Historian, Mrs. Geo.
Dexheimer ; Consulting Registrar, Mrs. Frank
C. Buckley; Librarian, Mrs. H. C. Lawton.

Greetings were sent to our Real Daughters,
Mrs. Louisa K. Thiers and Mrs. Elizabeth
Butler, and to Mrs. Ada F. Kimberly, Honorary
State Regent. The Credentials Committee re-
ported 156 in attendance.

The social features included the luncheons
and dinners, which the Conference enjoyed as
guests of Oshkosh Chapter, a lecture on the
" Village of Aztalan," by Dr. S. A. Barrett,
an auto ride about the city, a concert in the
First Congregational Church, and a reception
at the home of Mrs. E. M. Crane, Regent of
Oshkosh Chapter, at which, the guest of honor
was the President General, whose cordiality
and winning personality won her the loyal sup-
port and lasting friendship of every Daughter.
(Mrs. a. C.) Helex Stanton Umbreit,

State Corresponding Secretary.

Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

VIIL Women in Industry

1. General. — A general idea of woman's
position in industry may be gained from the
articles in the standard encyclopedias, especially
the International (Woman's work and Women
in industry) and Americana (Women in the
industries and professions). Bliss' New Cyclo-
pedia »f Social Reform has an article on
Woman's Economic Position in the United
States. Carrol D. Wright's Industrial Evolution
of the United States devotes a chapter (xvi) to
this topic, as does Adams and Sumner's Labor
Problems (ch. ii), and a more general discussion
may be found in the earlier edition of J. A.
Hobson's Evolution of Modern Capitalism, ch.
xii. Two general works are Helen Campbell's
Women Wage Earners (chapters ii, iii, iv are
historical) and Edith Abbott's Women in In-
dustry. From a somewhat different standpoint
is Earl Barnes' Woman in Modern Society, ch.
vi. Edna D. Bullock's Employment of Women
in the Debater's Handbook series reprint artic-
les from many sources with a good bibliography.

2. Household Industry and the Transition.
— The position of women in colonial indus-
try has been indicated by references in previous
numbers. Abbott's Women in Industry, ch.ii and
iii, covers this period, and so do the general
works already mentioned. It should be noted
that the transition came naturally, as lines of
work formerly done in the home were taken
over by the factories; and in many quarters
was looked on with favor.

3. The First Factories.— For the first fac-
tory conditions, as shown at their best in the
Lowell mills, see Abbott's Women in Industry,
ch. vii, Harriet H. Robinson's Loo7n and Spindle
gives a more detailed account, with extracts
from the Lozvell Offering, the publication of the
Lowell mill girls, which Dickens said (American
Notes) would " compare advantageously with
a great many English Annuals."

4. Occupations.— The list generally assigned
to Miss Martincau of the seven occupations
which alone were open to women in the early
nineteenth century— teaching, needlework, keep-
ing boarders, the cottonmills, bookbinding,
typesetting, and domestic service- is not quite
correct (Abbott, Women in Industry, p. 65)

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but serves to illustrate the early restrictions upon
women's work. Compare with this the list of
295 trades in which women are engaged quoted
by Miss Abbott (Appendix E) from the United
States Census of 1900. As to how far women
really replaced men, compare the statements in
Wright's Industrial Evolution with Bliss' Cy-
clopedia, p. 1291, and the article on Occupations ;
the point seems somewhat uncertain. Many
popular works written from the side of voca-
tional guidance, of which E. W. Weaver's
Profitable Vocations for Girls, and Mary A.
Laselle's Vocations for Girls are types, discuss
the advantages and disadvantages of individ-
ual occupations.

5. Wages. — The general works already cited
touch this topic incidentally. Abbott's JJ'omen
in Industry has a chapter (xii) and Bliss' Cy-
clopedia an article on Women's Wages. Other
facts may be obtained from Hearing's Jl'ages
in the United States, by using the Index. The
discussions on the minimum wage — foreshadowed
by Mathew Carey as far back as 1828 — deal
largely with woman labor. See the Interna-
tional Encyclopedia article Minmium Wage and
vol. 23, p. 691-693 (in article Woman's Work).
Several States {e. g., Massachusetts) have min-
imum wage commissions whose publications may
be used.

6. Trade Unions. — On the status of women
in trade unions there is an article by Florence
Kelly in the Outlook, v. 84, p. 926-931 (1906)
and the article in Bliss' Cyclopedia may be used.
For discussion from the trade union side see
John Mitchell's Organized Labor, ch. xvi, and
F. J. Carlton's History and Problems ef Or-
ganized Labor, ch. xiv. A special work on the
subject is Alice Henry's The Trade
Union Woman.

7. Domestic Service. — On this subject Lucy
M. Salmon's Domestic Service, ch. iv, discusses
American conditions; and Lillian Pcttingill's
Toilers of the Home gives .some interest
ing pictures.

8. Women in Business. — Many individual
i)iographies of business women are given in Mrs.
Logan's Part taken by JP'omen in American
History, p. 893-907, and Farmer's What Amer-
ica oives to Wotiu^n, p. 381-453.

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MONNET

The house of Monnet took its name from a
town situated in Bailiwick of Poligny, near
the River Ain.

The family of Ancient Poitou, France, had
its origin in the Maison de Monet de la Marck,
which had its beginning as the " Seigneurs and
Barons of Saint-Martin, of Sombrun, of Pon-
tiac, etc. This family has always occupied a
distinguished place in the order of nobility of
the Province of Beam (France) and possessed
a number of Fiefs and Seigheuries, which
placed it among the Barons of the Province.

In 1572, Pierre Monnet, a member of the
family being a partisan of the King of Navarre,
was massacred in Paris on St. Bartholomew's
Day, August 24, 1572, and he was the ancestor
of all the Protestant Monnets of the Huguenot
Province. It was to either him or his son,
that the Coat-of-Arms was granted in 1570.

His great-great-grandson Pierre Monnet,
Huguenot refugee, born 1640 died in London
1715, married Catharine Pillot, a granddaugh-
ter of Nicholas Pillot of ancient Poitou. These
Monnets left the town of Poitou and took re-
fuge in the fortress at La Rochelle, soon after
the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685,
from whence they embarked, with their sons,
for London, where they were naturalized
in 1688.

These sons later came to America, Isaac,
settling in Calvert County Maryland about
1700, married Elizabeth, daughter of William
and Sarah Williams.

Robert, another son settled in Cecil County,
Maryland and married Margaret Darrell.

Pierre, still another son, settled on Staten
Island, joining the Huguenot Colony there sev-
eral years before 1712, as he died about that time.

HASTINGS

Hastings is a name older than the Norman
Conquest, 1066, for the Castle of Hastings was
held by that family when William the Con-
queror landed, and the land in the region on
which the Battle of Hastings was fought, was
in the possession of the family before 871.

The first of the family to be elevated to the
peerage, was Lord Henry Hastings, son of
William de Hastings, Steward of Henry 2nd
1154-1189. This office of Steward being he-
reditary in the family.

The Hastings, through marriage, became allied
with the Royal families of England, Scotland
and France, tracing, in direct lines to Charles
Martel, Duke of Antrim, A. D. 732, the grand-
father of Charlemagne. They also trace directly
to Alfred the Great, William the Conqueror,
St. David, King of Scotland, Henry 1st, King
of France and his wife Anne of Russia.

George, the 3rd Lord Hastings, was created
Earl of Huntly, 1529 and married the daughter
of David, King of Scotland.

The American Hastings family trace their
lineage back through the English branches to
the Danish origin. Sir Henry & George Hast-
ings grandsons of the first Earl of Huntington,
became Puritans and fled to New England. In
1634 Thomas Hastings and his wife came to
this country and in 1638 John followed with his
family. They were probably cousins. Joshua,
the head of this branch of the family, came
from Swerford Co.. England a member of that
distinguished family at whose head was the
Marquis of Hastings.

One of Joshua's descendants married into
the old Stackhouse family which traces its
origin further back than the Doomsday Book.

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ANSWERS

6073. Smith-Layne.- — Lydia Lane was the
dau of James & Lydia Hardage Lane who were
m abt 1734. James Lane made a will dated
1790, Loudoun Co., Va. He was the s of Wm.
Lane of Westmoreland Co., Va. who m Mar-
tha, dau of Wm. Carr. James & Lydia
Hardage Lane had 7 or 8 ch. Lydia b 1751 m
Temple Smith b April 6, 1745, s of Nathaniel
& Elizabeth Smith. Temple Smith had twin
brothers, Withers & George Smith b 1740.
W^ould like to correspond with you. The above
data is taken from " Scldens of Virginia &
Allied Families." — Mrs. Chas. S. Passmore, 717
W. Granite St., Butte, Montana.

6603. RoxEY. — James Roney Sr. m Rachel
Muller and settled in Chester Co., Pa. He was
a farmer & owned property three or four miles
from New London Cross Road, Chester Co.
He had five sons & four daus. His s James
Roney b Oct. 27, 1797 m June 8, 1819, Rachel
Larevv. They had 8 ch. Their youngest, Rachel
Maria was only a few months old when they
moved to Ohio. She m Darius Buxton & lived
in Union Co., O. Would be glad to correspond
with en(|uircr.— .1/r.?. C. E. Vallicr, 1310 Norton
.'\ve., Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

W)l. Hinckley.— Samuel Hinckley. Co. Kent,
England, came to New England in the ship
"Hercules" which .sailed about March. 1().^. lie
was accompanied by his w Sarah &• ch. He
first settled in Scituate &. by the early records
it appears that hi> w joined the chureli there
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Aug. 16, 1635. He removed to Barnstable in
1639. His 1st w Sarah d Aug. 18. 1656 & he
m Bridget Bodfish. He d at Barnstable, Oct.
31, 1662. In Freeman's History of Cape Cod,
he is described as having been a very promi-ient
man in public afifairs. His will was dated Oct.
8, 1662. In it he mentions his w Bridget, sons
Thomas, Samuel & John and daus Susannah,
Alary, Sarah & Elizabeth. — Mrs. J]')ii. L.
Mcrri)iiaii, 15 Terry Road, Shanghai, China.

7714. If the party, signed M. A. L., will write
to me I may be able to help them with Cathey-
Carruth-Allison data — .V;-.f. /. M. Aldrich,
Michigan City, Mississippi.

7715. Martin. — Three sons of General Joseph
Alartin, the Soldier, Statesman. Planter, Mason,
Indian Agent in Ky. & Tenn. under Gov. Pat-
rick Henry of Va., the father of 17 ch, lived
in Ky. at the time that General Jackson fought
the Battle of New Orleans. Tbev wore C'^1.
Wm. Martin, Brice and Patrick Henry Martin.
If it is of desc of these pioneers you wish in-
formation, & will write to me giving all the
informaticin you can, as to their history in the
State of Ky. & the names so far as you can, I
will be glad to give you their line back to Eng.
& on the maternal side, back to abt 1500. Gen.
Joseph Martin was a bro of my gr grandmother,
Olive Martin lulwards.— /?nV<- Rdnwds, 212
6th St. S. E., Washington, D. C.

8830. Waters-Hariiin. — By writing to Mrs.
W. H. Crowder, 1430 South Boston Ave.,
Tulsa. Okla. you can secure data regarding
these families.

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8843. Gage.— Lucy Gage b Feb. 6, 1798 was
5th ch of James Adams Gage b May 30, 1766
& his w Eunice Watkins. James Adams Gage
was the s of George Gage b July 9, 1740 at
Yarmouth. Mass., d May 4, 1806 at Pittstown
N. Y. m Sarah Adams of Mass. Sept. 7, 1763.
His name spelled George Guage, in record of
his joining the mil in Dutchess Co. N. Y. 1760
at the age of 20, Capt. Richard Rea's Co. He
later removed to Dorset, Vt. where he was con-
stable 1768. Served in Rev. 1776-1781. see
Vermont Rolls. He removed from Dorset to
Pittstown where he kept a tavern. Was elected
Postmaster at first election April 1, 1789 & be-
came Postmaster 1792. He is bur in Pittstown
a few rods from the Post Oflfice. James Adams
Gage and his bro Moses, bought 100 acres
of land in Norway Herkimer Co., N. Y. &
walked one hundred miles to their property in
1793 the first settlers there, & built their log
cabin with axes only as tools. They cut the
trees into logs & rolled them into place with
hand spikes, covered the roof with bark. The
chimney served as window & to let the smoke
out. They returned to Pittstown for their
wives & in Feb. 1794 moved their houshold
goods on a sled drawn by an old team of horses.
James sold his land in 1810 & removed to Syr-
acuse, N. Y. & later set in Painesville, O.
Children of George & Sarah Adams Gage who
were m Sept. 7, 1763, were Elizabeth b 1764 m
1st Cornelius Smith, 2nd Dr. Randall ; James
Adams b Alay 30, 1766 m Eunice Watkins ;
Moses b April 11, 1768 m Sarah Slauson ;
Hannah m John Purdy ; Rebecca m Roswell
Burnham; Lemuel b 1775 m Rosanna Sherman;
Daniel David b Sept. 3, 1777 m Abigail Gates ;
Eli lived in De Ruyter, N. Y. ; Charlotte Carr
b Apr. 22, 1787 m Isreal Sloan, Jr. The father
of George Gage was Thomas, b in Yarmouth,
Mass. m Rebecca Rider Oct. 13, 1726 & removed
to Dutchess Co.. N. Y. aft. 1740, and his father
was Benjamin who took the " oath of fideletie "
at Yarmouth, with 22 others in 1657. He m
Joanna dau of Wm. & Elizabeth Knight of
Yarmouth. The above facts were found in
" Gage Genealogy " by Rev. Wm. M. Gage ;
"Norway Tidings" Oct. 1887; " Gazeteer of
Vermont " 1824 by Zadock Thompson ; Vermont
Historical Society ; " Gage Genealogy " by Ar-
thur Gage ; " History of Pittstown in Renssalear
Co., N. Y. ; Provincial Records, Albany, N. Y. :
Cemetery. Norway, N. Y. & at Pittstown, N. Y. ;
" Postmaster of Pittstown, N. Y. by Geo. H.
Francisco ; Revolutionary Soldiers in N. Y. —
Mrs. Olive H. Harzvood Lash. 349 Brunson Ave.,
Benton Harbor, Michigan.

9979. Armstrong. — Joseph Armstrong, Sr.
native of the North of Ireland came to Amer
abt 1731 & settled in Hamilton Twp, now

Franklin Co., Pa. Was capt in Provincial
forces 1755-58. He was with his relative Col.
John Armstrong at Kittaning ; was Provincial
agent in building the great road from Fort
Loudon to Fort Pitt ; represented Cumberland
County in the Assembly 1756-58; d Jan., 1761,
w Jennett. Their ch were John ; Thomas, Jos-
eph, James, William, Catharine " otherwise
Catherine Courey " & Margaret. Joseph
Armstrong, Jr. b in Hamilton Twp, 1739 d 1811
& is bur in Rocky Spring Graveyard, Letterkenny
Twp. July 1776 he was placed in command of
5th Battalion of Cumberland Co. & was in the
Jersey campaign of that yr. Ref : Egle's Notes
and Queries. Franklin Co., Pa. History 1887,
gives as taxables in 1786 in Hamilton Twp., Wm.,
Samuel, John, George, Wm., Robert Thompson.
Also Thos. & Joseph Armstrong. In Letter-
kenny Twp, Alex Thompson. For wills &
records previous to 1784 write to Court House
at Carlisle, Pa. After 1784 write to Court
House at Chambersburg, Pa. For McCono-
hay data write to Court House, Gettysburg,
Pa. or York, Pa. — Mrs. Virginia S. Fcn-
drick, Mercersburg.

10011. Strother. — "William Strother, of
Virginia and his Descendants " by Thomas
McAdory Owen, gives the following about
French Strother. French Strother (4) (James
(3), Jeremiah (2), William (1) was b 173-
in King George Co. He lived on an estate of
1500 acres, lying on Mountain Run, on the
Fredericksburg road between Culpeper & Ste-
vensburg. He was a vestryman & warden of St.
Marks Parish. Represented Culpeper Co. for
more than a quarter of a century in the General
Assembly, before, during & after the Rev, was
a member of the Virginia Conventions of 1776
& 1788, opposing in the latter, with Patrick
Henry, George Mason & others, the adoption of
the Constitution of the United States. He was
Co. Lieutenant & also Presiding Justice of the
Co. Court of Culpeper. For his boldness & ag-
gressiveness during the Rev struggle he
has been denominated by Grigsby as " the
Fearless." The General Assembly, at various
times imposed upon him public duties, ■:'/.:■ :
Trustee of the Town of Stevensburg, Trustee
of an Academy to be established in the old gun-
factory at Fredericksburg, Commissioner to set-
tle certain Trustees' accounts, Commissioner of
a road from Chester's Gap in Culpeper to Rich-
mond, etc. He d intestate Aug., 1811 & is bur
at Fredericksburg. His w was Lucy, dau of
Robert Coleman (d 1793) formerly of Caroline
Co. She was connected with the Claytons, Fos-
ters & Stevens. See Hening 11, 2,6. 204; 12,
219, 375. He had many distinguished desc. Gilley
who m Col. Evans & Elizabeth who m Nimrod

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Evans are mentioned among his ch, but dates
are not given. — A. P. Str other, Searcy, Ark.

10070. Baker.— George Peter Baker lived at
Strassburg near the River Rhine in Germany.
He had four sons & one dau who came to this
country about 1753. One s d soon after arriving
here. The surviving bros were surgeons and
performed much government work. They pos-
sessed large estates in many parts of the United
States. Prior to 1800 they were officers in the
army. One, Colonel Henry Baker, became a
merchant and had ships at sea, also owned much
land in Philadelphia where he d in 1801. Before
his d his land was leased for 99 yrs and the
business portion of the city to-day is located
on this tract. By will his estates fell to his bros
Jacob & Peter & his sis Elizabeth. They resided
in Lancaster Co., Pa. & later moved to Somerset
Co. where Jacob was killed by the Indians about
1816. Peter immigrated to Ohio. Col. Henry
Baker d single. "History of Bedford & Somer-
set Co., Pa. Vol. 3, p. 172." Jacob m Mary Breck
& their first ch Catherine was b 1759. — Miss
Douglas Hilts, Gooding, Idaho.

10082. PoND-FisHER. — I have the following
from the Pension Bureau at Washington
" Luther Pond volunteered at Phelpstown, On-
tario Co., N. Y. & ser as a private in Capt. Elias
Hull's Company of New York Mil from May
9, 1812 to May 16, 1813. He m at Farmington,
Ontario Co. N. Y. March 20, 1814, Sarah White
& he d Nov. 3, 1843 in Wayne Cass Co.,
Michigan, where his widow was living in 1854
aged fifty-nine years, when she was allowed
bounty land in full satisfaction for the services
rendered." The names of their ch were Almon,
Freeman, Marvin, Dennis, George, Mary Ann,
Emily & Dydama.— Mrs. Cltas. Holdcn, 621
Madison Ave., S. E., Grand Rapids, Mich.

10087. FcsTER.— Olive Foster b at West Tis-
bury, Mass. Feb. 15, 1761 d at Ashfield, Mass.
May 1796, m about 1780 Cornelius Luce. She
was the eldest ch of Wm. Foster b at Tisbury,
Nov. 7, 1733 d at Ashfield, May 22, 1801, on
Jan. 3. 1760, Deborah Lewis who d at Ash-
field May 14, 1830. Their ch were Olive
b 1761 m Cornelius Luce; Michael b Feb.
5. 1763 d May 10, 1764; Lewis b Nov. 27,
1764 d at Springfield. Mass. Apr. 5, 1849;
Wm. b Apr. 8, 1767 d Oct. 27, 1793; Milton b
Jan. 4. 1772 d at Marietta O., Feb. 14. 1852;
Susanna b Apr. 26, 1776 d at Pittsfield, Mass.
1794: Hannah b Aug. 9, 1782 d at Ashfield July
30, 1855. Wm. Foster. 1733-1801, was the s of
Jo.scph I'ostcr b 1698 d 1785 who m Elizabeth
Milton b 1702 d 1792. and ho was the s of Joseph
Foster b 1674 fl 1750 m Rachel Bassett b 1679
d 1744. Joseph. 1674-1750 was the s of John
I'oster b 1642 d 1732. of Weymouth who was
the s of Thomas Foster of Boston who came

from Devonshire Eng. 1634. Ref : Pierce's
Foster Genealogy. Deborah Lewis Foster was
a descendant of Wm. White who came in the
Mayflozi'cr.—Dr. Walter H. Chapin, 27 Pleasant
St., Springfield, Mass.

10090. Longfellow. — Wm. Longfellow b in
Eng. 1651 came to Newbury, Mass. 1676 m Nov.
10, 1678 Anne Sewall, dau of Henry & Jane
Dummer Sewall. Their s Nathan b Feb. 5,
1690, in Newbury, Mass. m Aug. 28, 1713 Mary
Greene & removed to Hampton, N. H. and their
s Jonathan b 1714 at Hampton Falls, N. H., m
1731 Marcy (Mercy) Clark removed to Corn-
wallis, N. S. thence to Machias, Maine in 1765.
Have no record of Rev ser, but if there is such
it will be in the Massachusetts Records. — l\Iiss
Bertha Longfelloiv, Machias, Alaine.

10104. MoxLEY. — Joseph Moxley was b in
Glasgo & came to Groton, Conn, when 8 months
old. He m Elizabeth Horsford & had ch, Jos-
eph, Jonathan, Samuel, Deborah, Elizabeth &
Esther. Joseph Moxley was a carpenter & on
the day of the battle he was building a house
for Jonathan Latham near the fort. He & his
s Joseph Jr., then about 19 years old entered the
fort & Joseph Sr. was killed but Joseph Jr. es-
caped. Jonathan Moxley. the 2nd s m Sally
Woodmansee & probably they were the parents
of Sally Moxley b 1788 d 1863 who m 1815
Gurden Darrow.

(a) Perkins. — The name of Luke Perkins
appears twice among the names of those killed at
Fort Griswold Sept. 6, 1781. Luke Perkins &
Corporal Luke Perkins Jr. From grave stone in
Starr Cemetery, I copied the following "Luke
Perkins Killed Sept. 6, 1781 at Fort Griswold.
age 29 yrs" also his bro "Asa Perkins Killed, age
Z2> yrs." Allyn's History says "Elnathan Perkins
went to the fort with four sons Obadiah, Elisha,
Asa & Luke Jr. the last three were killed & Asa
& Luke were bur in Starr Cemetery. Elisha, who
was a m man was bur beside his two infant ch,
his widow, Sarah, later m Wm. Wood. — Mrs.
Charles M. Adams, 8 Monument St., Gro-
ton, Conn.

10104. Moxley.— Joseph Moxley b 1736 d 1781
m 1757 Eliz. Horsford. Jonathan Moxlev b
1763 d 1826 m 1787 Sally Woodman.sce b 1759 d
1827, these, no doubt, were the parents of Sally
Moxley who m Gurden Darrow. Jonathan Mox-
ley also ser in the Rev at the Battle of Groton
Heights.— ./I/;-.?. Lena Mo.vley McCloskey. 420
Ontario Ave., Renovo, Pa.

10104. Perkins.— I find in my family Bible
the name of Amy Moxley & the date of her d,
Sept. 18. 1809.— .1/r.y. Oscar Samuels, 221 8th
Ave., San Francisco. Cal.

10110. DooLiTTLE. — The parents of Thankful
Doolittle who m Capt. John Trowbridge in 1777,
were Isaac Doolittle b Aug. 13, 1721 d at New

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Haven Feb. 13, 1800 & his w Sarah b Jan. 30,
1726, dau of Josiah & Abigail Frederick Todd,
whom he m Nov. 10, 1743. Ch. of Ambrose
Doolittle, who ser in Rev, were Ambrose b Dec.
27, 1751 ; Amos b May 8, 1754; Martha b Aug.
30 1756; Eunice b June 21, 1758 m Joseph
Morgan ; Abner b July 27, 1760 ; Samuel & Silas,
twins b Mar. 28, 1763; Reuben b May 1, 1766 m
Thankful Bunnell Jan. 31. 1788; Loly b June
9, 1769; Mary Ann b Feb. 23. 1771; Eliakim
b Aug. 29, 1772; Lois, & Thankful m Capt.
Solomon Doolittle. Ref :-p. 137, "Hisory of Doo-
little Family in America." — Mrs. L. L. Gillogly,
Almeda, California.

QUERIES

10416. McClelland-Huligan. — Was Huligan
who was drowned in the Susquehanna River in
1816, a s of Thos. Huligan of Dauphin Co., Pa.?
His w was Abigail or Nancy McClelland. They
had three ch Margaret, Abigail & James. Mrs.
Huligan lived with her dau Abigail Huligan
Ross & may have d in Clearfield Co., Pa. Would
like to correspond with anyone having informa-
tion of this fam.

(a) BiRNAM. — Levi Elwell, in his introduc-
tion to "Gravestone Records of Shaftsbury, Vt."
states that in Nov., 1766, John Burnam & George
Pengree were residents of Shaftsbury. Rec-
ords show that in Nov., 1767, Geo. Pengree
m Hannah Burnam, & aft his d in 1776,
Hannah m a Mr. Bronson. Was Hannah
Burnam a dau of John Burnam, pioneer of
Shaftsbury?— E. C. M.

10417. KiLGORE. — Matthew Kilgore & w Mary,
came from the British Isles & set in York Co.,
Pa. bef the Rev. Did he have Rev rec ?

(a) Armstrong. — Wanted par & Rev rec of
father of Eliz. Armstrong b in Augusta Co.,
Va. 1781 & m Matthew Kilgore of York Co.,
Pa. Oct. 3, 1799.

(b) Sprague. — Wanted par of Eliza Sprague
b Jan. 8, 1815, m Nov. 10, 1836, in Dayton, Ind.
James A. Kilgore.

10418. Hall.— Capt. Nathaniel Hall m Nov.
7, 1745 in Mansfield Conn. Martha dau of
Capt. Samuel & Mary Warner Storrs. Their
ch were Nathaniel b 1746, Deborah b 1747/8,
Ruth b 1751, Olive b 1753, ]\Iartha b 1755, An-
drew b 1758, Azariah b 1760, Richard b 1762,
Aaron b 1764, Asahel b 1766 & Mary b 1769.
Whom did Deborah b 1747 & Olive b 1753 m?
Wanted names of ch of Timothy & Deborah
Hall of Durham, Conn. Timothy was the s
of Ebenczer Hall of Guilford.

(a) Beebe. — Wanted ances of Thomas Beebe
of Red Hook, Fairfield Co., Conn., who m
Olive Hall & set on Black Creek, Guilderland,
N. Y

(b) Hall. — James & Hannah Cook Hall of
Wallingford, Conn, had ch James b 1743 & Olive
b Alay 20, 1745. Whom did Olive m?— M. K C.

10419. Tucker. — Wanted par of James Tucker
b 1762, in Preston, Conn. & also of his w Sarah
Angel b 1768, in New London, Conn. Did
the father's of either give Rev ser? James
Tucker had sisters, Esther b 1759, Sarah b 1761
& Hannah b 1764.— L. M. McC.

10420. Dorsey. — Wanted ances of John Dor-
sey & also of his w Eliz Dorsey. They were
of the Baltimore Dorseys & lived nr Charles
Town, Va. in 1830. John Dorsey d bet 1820 &
1830. His widow moved to Rappahannock Co.,
Va. They had ch George, Sarah W., Wm. &
John Samuel Dorsey.

(a) Terrel. — Wanted par of Abigail Terrel
b 1760 m 1775 Wm. Rush of Montgomery Co.,
N. C. Her bros were Halcot & Timothy.

(b) Harris. — Wanted par of Priscilla Harris
b in Edgecomb Co., N. C. nr Tarboro 1797.
She m Grigsby Rush in 1813. They lived for a
time in Montgomery Co., N. C. later moving
to Ky. Many of the Harris fam went to Georgia
& Miss. It is the same fam from which Joel
Chandler Harris is desc.

(c) Stubblefield-Brown. — Wanted ances of
Hezekiah Brown of Culpeper Co., Va. who m
abt 1766 Ann Stubblefield. Wanted her ances
also Elizabeth Brown of Prince William Co.,
Va. m John Priest in 1766. Were Hezekiah
and Eliz. of the same fam? — N. A.

10421. Adams. — Wanted date & place of b
& d of Sarah Adams who m George Gage of
Yarmouth, Mass. Sept. 7, 1763. George Gage
d May 4, 1806 at Pittstown, N. Y. & in his
will mentions, w Sarah & nine ch. Wanted
dates of b of these ch.

(a) Lee. — Wanted dates of b, m & d of
Margaret Jane Lee of Va., said to belong to
the fam of Henry (Light Horse Harry) Lee,
who m Matthew McClintock. — O. H. L.

10422. Wythe. — Wanted the ances & place
of b of Kezia Wythe b abt 1775 d Nov. 4, 1827
in Phila, Pa. m Hezekiah Welch.

(a) FRE^'CH-JoRE. — Abigail French m

Jobe & one of their sons was b while they lived
in Muhlenburg Co., Ky., 1800. She is supposed
to be a desc of Daniel Boone. Their dau Eliz.

m Alexander. Wanted any information of

either fam.

(b) Broocks-Miller. — Wanted names of
father & bros of Bibulous (Bibby) Broocks
who m Isabella Miller. They had dau Lucindia
b in Va. 1804. The Broocks were of Dutch
desc & Isabella Miller was b in Eng. Wanted
her par. — C. P. McG.

10423. Harris. — Wanted information concern-
ing Patience Harris, 97 years old in 1850,
living in Beaufort Co., S. Car. with R. W.

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Simmons aged 46, & his w Kizia, shown on
Census for 1830, Beaufort Co., S. Car. hving
with her s John Harris.

10424. WooDiXG.— Wanted par, dates & Rev
rec of Robert Wooding. Fairfax & Pr. Edward
Co., Va. Wanted also the name of his w & ch.

(a) Strong. — Wanted par & dates of John
Strong from Hanover or Goochland Co. Va.
Wanted also the names of his w & ch. — W. C. C.

10425. Aikex-]\IcFarl.\nd — Deacon James
Aiken b June 1, 1731 d July 27, 1817 m Mollie
McFarland b 1736 d Dec. 4, 1814. Would like
to correspond with any one who can give in-
formation of these people.

(a) Hopkixs-Reed. — John Hopkins b Mar. 10,
1739, m Isabella Reed who d June 7, 1823 dau
of Matthew and Mary Ann Holmes Reed.
Wanted any information of these fam.
— M. M. H.

10426. Hardy.— Wanted par & place & date
of b of Thomas Hardy who was a resident of
Brookfield, Alass. bet 1750 & 1782. His w was
Hephzibah Rice.— J. B. H.

10427. Hawley.— Sarah Hawley b New Mfl-
ford. Conn., Nov. 3, 1768, moved with her
father Nathan to Pittsford, Vt. abt 1780.
Wanted names of her mother & grandparents
on each side. — I. B. H.

10428. Craxe-Craix.— Wanted any informa-
tion concerning Archibald Crane-Crain of
Lynchburg, Va. who fought in the Rev. War.
— M. J. M.

10429. Pool.— Wanted par of Alary Pool
whose m intentions to Jabez Kendall (d Cam-
bridge Oct. 20, 1803) published Jan. 7, 1769.
Was she the dau of Lieut. Jonathan & Mary
Leamun Pool of Reading, Mass.

(a) Foster-White-Wixg. — David, b 1758, s
of Nathan & Phoebe Wing Foster of Dutchess
Co. N. Y. m & moved from region of Danbury,
Conn, to Williamstown Mass. A Foster gen
says his wife's name was Lydia White. Records
2 ch David & Nathaniel Jr. Williamstown Vital
Records gives his w name as Susannah White,
& b of several ch until Lydia in 1800. Married
Jabish York Lewis. 1819. Would appreciate any
information establishing the name of w of David
Foster or if he had 2 w possibly sisters
Nathaniel Foster rendered Rev scr for S. E.
Precinct in Dutchess Co. N. Y. now Putnam
Co. in Gen. Precinct on War Committees also
& as Corp in the Conn. Mil. There are several
David Fosters on the rolls of N. Y. two being
in Dutchess Co. Mil. Would be glad <if infor-
mation to prove war rec of David, s of Nathan-
iel Foster. Wanted also par of I.ydia or
Susannah White.— L. L. F.

10430. Fowler.— Wanted ances of Flias Fow-
ler b Feb. 16, 1776 at Halifa.x. Windham Co..
Vt. m Jerusha SumniT b Oct. 21, 1779. II, •

d Dec. 2Z. 1844 had 13 ch. Wanted also gen
of Jerusha Sumner.

(a) Shepherd. — Wanted ances of Nancy
Shepherd who m Tarrant Putnam b Apr. 1,
1780, d Feb. 21, 1832. Her mother's name was
Allen.— O. P. M.

10431. Capell. — Wanted names of ch of
Benjamine Capell who d 1711 Ann Arundel
Co. Md.

(a) Holland. — Wanted maiden name of w
of Jacob Holland b Jan. 20, 1690, s of Anthony
Holland of Herring Creek, Ann Arundel Co.
Md. & list of ch.

(b) W^anted name of w of Capell Holland
b June 10, 1692, s of Anthony Holland of Ann
Arundel Co. Md. & list of his ch.— A. B. C.

10432. Bacox. — Wanted ances Rev rec &
any information of Edmond Parks Bacon, whose
s Edmond Parks Bacon was Lieut in the War
of 1812.— L. B. D.

10433. Ferre-Parsoxs-Herrick. — Wanted
names of ch dates of b & par of both Stephen
Herrick, b 1764 & w Nancy Ferre Parsons. See
Springfield, Mass. records. — E. M. C.

10434. Taffee-Taaffe-Tafe. — Wanted any
information & ances of Capt. Tafife who gave
ser in French-Irish Reg Savannah, Ga. 1778
— D. P. T.

10435. Potts.— Wanted date & place of b &
d, maiden name of w & names of ch of Joseph
Potts, Capt., Penna. line.

(a) Weber (Weaber). — Wanted place &
date of b & d maiden name of w Catherine
with her date of m to Frederick Weber who d
in Lower Saucon Twp. Northampton Co Pa.
abt 1772. Their s George d in 1770 leaving
widow Ann Barbara who afterwards m Anthony
Stock. Wanted maiden name of Ann Babara.

(b) Nowlaxe. — John Nowlanc d in Beth-
lehem Twp. Northampton Co. Pa. 1777 leaving
a w Gertrude. 4 dau & a stepson. Nicholas
Alichacl. Wanted place & date of b of John
Nowlanc & his w Gertrude & maiden name
of latter.

10436. Rukfxer. — Emanuel Ruffner. b 1757 d
1848. His w Elizabeth Grove b 1779 d 1842
Shanendoah Co. Va. Emanuel Ruffner scr as
teamster in Rev. Wanted proof of this ser.
Wanted also par of Elizabeth Grove.

(a) Strawx. — Wanted par of Thomas Strawn

b 1770 d 1854 m Hannah b 1775 d 1814.

Did his father give Rev. ser.

(b) Bexxett. — Wanted par .S: Rev rec of
father of Abraham Bennett, b 1780 d 1862 m
Martha .—A. C. H.

10437. Cole.— Wanted par & any Kev rec in
the fam of Svlvanus Cole who went from Vt.
to Maine abt 1810.— I. C. F.

10438. Worrall.— Wanted par & place of b of
Kachcl Worrall who m 1795 Benjamin Griffith

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& resided on their plantation called "Griffith's
Mt." abt 12 miles out of Baltimore, Md. Both
Rachel & Benjamin Griffith are bur on this
plantation. Any help to establish Rev rec on
Worral line will be greatly appreciated. Would
like to correspond with some one of the Pa. or
Md. branch.— W. C. B.

10439. Lesly.— Wanted par & Rev rec of Wm.
Lesly b in Abbeyville, S. C. Nov. 10, 1754 d
Dec. 30, 1821 or 1822 m Apr. 29, 1778 Anna
Caldwell b Sept. Zl, 1759 d July 28, 1800.
— L E. L.

10440. Neely. — Wanted name of w & dates
of b m & d of both of John Neely, Sr. He & his
s John were enlisted men in the 2nd Reg. of
Ulster Co. Mil. Col. James McClaghry in com-
mand. (N. Y. in Rev p. 193) John Neely Sr.
& bros Robert & Wm. lived in Neely Town,
Ulster Co, N. Y. during the first part of the
18th Century.

(a) Woodford. — Wanted date & place of b
of Gen. Wm. Woodford who m a dau of Lord
Howe & was one of the first in the U. S. to
take up arms against the British. For his ser
he was given a large tract of land in Ky. He
had s Wm. who moved from Rockingham Co.,
Va. to what is now Randolph Co., W. Va.
Married Hannah Moss & has many desc in
Central W. Va.— D. N. K.

10441. Pierce. — Jonathan Pierce's name ap-
pears on a monument at Goshen, N. Y. as one
who was killed by the Indians at the Battle of
Minisink July 12, 1779. He probably belonged
to Col. Tusten Reg of Mil. Wanted his place
of b & his Rev rec. Should like to correspond
with any of his desc. — M. L M.

10442. Rhodes.— Wanted par of Mary or
Martha Rhodes who m Frederick Davis Wim-
berly, 1780 Bertie Co. N. C.

(a) Harris. — Priscilla Harris m Henry
Thorpe abt 1796 in Greenville Co., Va. moved to
Nash Co., N. C. Wanted par of both Pris-
cilla Harris & Henry Thorpe.

(b) Lawson. — Davenport, s of John Daven-
port Lawson b abt 1770, moved from N. C. to
Ga. owned farm where city of Macon, Ga., is
located. Moved from there to Crowell's Indian
Agency on Chattahoochee River abt 1825. Chil-
dren Wm., Margaret, Sabra, Thomas, & others.
Some moved to Alabama, Miss. & Texas.
Wanted name of w & par of Davenport Lawson.
He d abt 1840.— C. T. J.

10443. Graw.— Edward Graw m Mary Chil-
don's dau Mary. They had a s John. Wanted
name of w & ch of this John. Wanted ances
of Thomas Graw who ser as Capt in the 15th
R. I. Reg Rev War.— M. B. M.

10444. Hayes.— Wanted par with dates & res
of Seth Hayes & his w Elizabeth whose dau
Hannah Hayes b Granville, Mass. 1761 m Tim-

othy Stelman at Hartland, Mass. Oct. 13, 1779.
Said Hannah d Granville, Ohio Mar. 22, 1807.
Timothy was b at East Granville, Mass. Jan.
15, 1756. Served in the Rev & d at Granville,
Ohio. Apr. 21, 1828.— L. E. G.

10445. Clark.— Wanted dates & Rev rec of
the father of Hannah Clark who m Samuel
Howard, a Rev sol who d in Mercer Co.,
Pa. 1842.

(a) Mitchell.— Wanted Rev rec of Nicholas
Mitchell b 1755. Had s Archibald, Joshua &
James & he lived at one time near Murfrees-
boro, Tenn. — A. J. S.

10446. Quarles.— Wanted Rev rec date of m
& d & last name of w Frances of Richard
Quarles. Their s David m Olive Morgan 1795
& he d in Edgefield, S. C. in 1807.

(a) Morgan.— Wanted Rev rec of Evan
Morgan date of his m & name of his w Olive
& her gen.

(b) IMiMs.— Wanted Rev rec of Drury Mims
& name of his w & date of m. He was
b in Goochland Co., Va. 1744, d Edgefield Co.,
S. C. 1819 & was m in N. C.

(c) Lucas.— Wanted first name of Rufus

who m Ailsey Henry of Va. Wanted also his
dates & Rev rec. Supposed to have ser through-
out the War.— E. L. B.

10447. CooN.— Walter Scott Coon b July, 1828
d 1861. His father David b 1806, d 1862, both
of Plainsfield N. J. What relationship did they
bear to Aaron, Abijah, Daniel & Ebenezer Coon
who were soldiers from Somerset Co. in the
Rev? Were they related to Felty Levi, Peter
or Runy Coon from Somerset Co. who ser in
the Rev? Wanted ances of David Coon b 1806.
— N. L. C.

10448. Templeton. — Wm. Jasper Templeton,
b in 111. July 27, 1857. His mother Emily Col-
lins lived in St. Charles, 111. Wanted dates
of her b & d & name of her husband. Wm,
Jasper Templeton's father was Benjamin & his
father Nathaniel Templeton was killed in 1782
in the Battle of Sandusky Plains, Crawfords
Defeat. He was from Washington Co., Pa.
Wanted ances of Nathaniel and any other in-
formation of fam. — R. E. S.

10449. Marsh. — Wanted par of Hosea Marsh
b Guilford, Conn. 1776, & also of his w Lydia
Beal. Did their ances have Rev rec— W. F. G.

10450. Deal. — Wanted ances of Catherine
Deal who m John Simons or Seaman in Am-
sterdam, Montgomery Co., N. Y. in 1826 &
went to Mich. Wanted also names of her ch.
Was she a desc of Peter Deal of Phila
— M. A. S.

10451. Randolph. — Wanted ances of John
Randolph b Feb. 26, 1790. d 1861 whose s Wm.
H. Randolph, Capt Co D 5, Va. Inf. was killed
at Cold Harbor.— L. S. H.

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General Hugh Mercer Chapter (Grove
City, Pa.), organized in 1919, closed its second
year in June, 1921, with 73 members. It was
an interesting and profitable year's work, with
Americanization as the keynote. Five hundred
copies of the American's Creed were distributed
in the public schools, and prizes offered for the
best essays on the subject, "Why I am loyal
to America." A fine paper on immigration was
prepared and read at one of our meetings by
a member who is active in Americanization
work, and the Chapter contributed $10 for
this work.

Our quota was paid in full for the Immi-
grant's Manual, Memorial Fountain, and the
Painting, and contributions were also sent to
the Tomassee and Berry schools.

Our receipts for the year amounted to
$715.41. We paid $460 to the European Relief
Fund, and $62.67 was used for the planting of
twenty-three Norway maple trees on the
Mercer-Grove City highway in honor of the
twenty-three soldiers from this community
who gave their lives in the World War. Three
trees were also planted in honor of those who
died in service on the Mexican border. A
beautiful memorial service, in which the soldiers
of the community participated, was held on
April 9th, when the trees were planted.

Tiiere were ten regular meetings held during
the year, and also a musical tea. A patriotic
meeting was held in February, celebrating the
birthdays of Washington and Lincoln. The
Cliapter took part in the Memorial services on
May 30th, and also assisted in the sale of
French poppies. There were 27 subscriptions
to the D.\U(;hters of the American Revoi.u-
Tiox Maciazine, and one copy is kept on file
in the pu!)lic library. A letter of protest was
sent to Rev. Taylor, of Derry, Pa., against the
tearing down of the old stone wall bnilt in
1775, surrounding the graveyard of tin- old
Scotch-I risli settlement.

An aut«)mol)ile ride of ten miles to the home

of one of our members was enjoyed by 42

members, and a very interesting meeting was

held. I-'xcelient reports were given liy our

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Regent, Mrs. M. A. Young, and Mrs. E. J.
Fithian, who were delegates to the Conti-
nental Congress.

Mrs. M. C. Zahniser,

Historian.

Gan-e-o-di-ya Chapter (Caledonia. N. Y.).
The past fourteen years since this Chapter
was organized have been filled with considerable
activity for one of less than fifty members.
The past twelve months the meetings were
interesting and profitable. Addresses on the
following topics were given : " Inaugurals." by
Prof. F. C. Shaw, of Caledonia ; " Joan of
Arc," by Rev. R. G. Higinbotham ; " My Recent
Trip to Europe," by Mrs. H. F. Remington, of
Rochester, N. Y. Our townspeople have given
very kindly of their poetic and musical talents.
One especially interesting occasion was the
presentation of a beautiful American flag to
the Chapter by two non-resident members,
Mrs. W. J. Boyd, of New York City, and her
sister. Honorary Regent Mrs. T. C. Brown, of
Shortsville, N. Y.. in honor of their father,
the late Robert M. Place, a G.A.R. veteran.
The customary contributions to Martha Berry
School, Rome. Ga., have been sent, and a con-
tribution also to Tomassee school, a $50 Liberty
Loan appropriated to N.S.D.A.R. in raising
$100,000. Ten dollars was contributed to
Veteran's Mountain Camp, New York State.
The history of the Chapter was compiled and
sent to the State Historian. One Revolution-
ary War soldier's grave was located in a rural
graveyard of York, Livingston County, N. Y..
namely Riverius Russell (and wife Charity
Hotchkiss), who served in Connecticut line.
Charity was the daughter of Jesse Hotchkiss,
also a Revolutionary soldier, and son of Capt.
Gideon Hotchkiss, of Waterbury, Conn.

In June the State Regent. Mrs. Nash, made
an oflicial visit accompanied by Mrs. Hale.
Regent of Irondequoit Chapter. In 1920
Gan-e-o-di-ya Chapter presented a large
flag to Matthew Cleary Post American
Legion, Caledonia.

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Inscriptions from four Revolutionary soldiers'
graves, located in U. P. Cemetery, have been
copied, namely: Enoch M. Place, David Fuller,
Isaac Butterfield, John Gibson.

The Registrar, Mrs. Deichman, has complied
with the request to give names, residences,
husbands' full name, names of Revolutionary
War ancestors and their places of residence,
enlistments. National numbers of the members,
etc., sent to Memorial Hall, Washington, as a
ready reference.

There are now 49 members enrolled in
Gan-e-o-di-ya Chapter.

Mrs. a. B. Johnson,

Historian.

Betty Bonney Chapter (Arkansas City,

Kan.), oruaiiizc'd in l'K)7, has a limited mem-

Twin Falls Chapter (Twin Falls, Idaho).
In observance of the three hundredth anniver-
sary of the landing of the Pilgrims in New
England, a community pageant was presented
in this city on November 30th, and December
1st, in the Lavering Theatre. Our Chapter
presented two of the scenes in the Revolution-
ary period.

The pageant which was entitled " Pilgrims of
the Mayflozvcr " was written by Mrs. Arthur
K. Seaver, a charter member of our Chapter.
It consisted of four episodes and some fifteen
scenes illustrating the onward sweep of Ameri-
can progress from the landing of the Pilgrims
to the present, which included an allegorical
scene representing the reclamation of the desert
on which this city is now located, and Idaho's
consc(|nrnt i;ilt to ('dlninbia of the Twin Falls

MARTHA WASHINGTON'S LEVEE-

^CENE IN THE PILGRIM PAGEANT PRESENTED BY THE MEMBERS OF THE TWIN
FALLS CHAPTER, TWIN FALLS. IDAHO

bership of fifty. Some very interesting
programs have been given, while our luncheons,
Christmas party and musicals have been very
pleasant affairs.

For several years the Chapter has contributed
to worthy schools needing support. Our
Americanization work consisted of obtaining
and furnishing funds for a teacher and conduct-
ing a night school for the Mexicans in the city,
teaching them the American language. Many
helpful things were done for them.

Recently a charity ball was given and a nice
sum raised which was used to help the worthy
poor of our own city. Other money-making
events are planned throughout the year, the
proceeds to go to help some worthy cause.
(Mrs. C. W.) Bessie M. Bryant,

Historian.

Tract. Columbia's acceptance of the gift being
signalized by settlement from every part of
the United States.

The first episode depicted the life of the
Pilgrims in three typical scenes, including the
Settlement, Treaty with Massasoit, and the first
New England Thanksgiving. The second epi-
sode presented the Revolutionary period in five
scenes : the first, Washington Taking Command
at Cambridge, presented to view the General on
horseback with the Continental troops drawn
up in review, entered Daniel Morgan with his
Virginia riflemen who wore their hunting
shirts bearing Patrick Henry's famous words,
" Liberty or Death."

The second scene depicted the " Signing of
the Declaration of Independence." The third
scene, " The Birth of the Flag," won round

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after round of applause. Four of our members
were disclosed working on the flag. The flag
used was the Chapter's own. having been
awarded by the State Regent for the greatest
increase in membership. Mrs. D. F. Sweet,
the Registrar, made a charming Betsey Ross.

The fourth scene presented the " Surrender at
Yorktown," showing the Continental soldiers
massed under General Washington, the French
soldiers under Count de Rochambeau. March-
ing to the old British tune, " The World
Turned Upside Down," came the British in their
brilliant red uniforms.

The final scene of this episode was " Martha
Washington's Levee," and members of our
Chapter appeared in beautiful costumes as
Colonial dames. Mrs. P. W. McRoberts took
the part of Martha Washington. Our Regent,
Mrs. John E. White, is seen standing near a
mahogany table (an heirloom) chatting with
" Gen. Nathaniel Greene." At the extreme left
stands Mrs. Mary Y. Norton, a Past Regent,
and who now holds the office of State Treas-
urer. Our Chaplain, Mrs. J. W. Epler, stands
at extreme right talking with " Alarquis de
La Fayette." As the curtain rises, the man in
waiting, announces the arrival of General and
Airs. Hamilton, who advance and courtesy to
President and Mrs. Washington. The part of
General Hamilton was taken by the Rev. Mr.
Baird of the Episcopal Church and the lady is
the writer of the pageant.

Among our members are descendants of noted
characters in history. Miss Alberta Simonds
being descended from Daniel Morgan ; Pauline
Ware, the young daughter of a member, taking
the part of Constance Hopkins ; in the first
episode is a descendant of that character.
Many of our members arc Mayfloivcr descend-
ants and took an active interest in the entire
pageant, which employed over two hundred
costumed actors in its presentation.

The succeeding episode dealt with the strug-
gle for the preservation of the union, while
incidents in the development of the Great West
were portrayed in the fourth and last episode ;
notably, the Lewis and Clark Exi)edition, intro-
ducing the famous Indian woman Sacajawea,
who was born in Idaho, and guided the party
to the coast and back, over the Oregon Trail,
Settlement of Idaho, and the Reclamation of
the Desert.

Our programs for the year deal with the
history of cmr dwn State, Idalin, fn.in its
earliest inception tiircu.iiii tlir (kcacKs to
the prcsmt.

Twin Falls will be hostess chapter to the
State Conference of the Daughters of the
Avmerican Revolution tljis year, at which time
we hope to have as our honored guest the
President General, Mrs. George M. Minor.
(Mrs. Wilbur S.) Mabel M. Hill.

Historian.

Elizabeth Carey Chapter (Nevada. Mo.).
The ter-centenary of the sailing of the May-
floivcr and the first landing of the Pilgrims at
Provincetown, and final settlement at Ply-
mouth, was celebrated on December 2, 1919,
by the Elizabeth Carey Chapter with a large
and beautiful tea at the home of Mrs. C. E.
Gilbert. Several members of this organization
are direct descendants of these first Pilgrims
to America's shores.

The spacious interior of the Gilbert home
presented a beautiful scene, spinning wheels,
treasured relics of many generations, priceless
china whose beauty carried with it a lost art
and rare pieces of pewter and brass, held
honored places and were the objects of much
attention, while the large fireplace harkencd
back to the early days with its garland of tiny
red peppers and dried apples. Over all was
shed light from many candles set in old and
curiously wrought candlesticks and electric
lights softened by gray shades.

A delightful program, consisting of songs
bv Mrs. N. B. Macon, Mrs. W. C. Moore,
Mrs. S. A. Cubbin, Mrs. W. F. Sterett. Miss
Anna May Samuels, and charming numbers
rendered by the Misses Farnham, Ferrol,
Fitchen, Semple, Camb, Turpin, Alitchell
and Jolly.

Parched corn was served with tlie tea and
cakes. Tea was poured by Mmes. C. A. Logan,
C. M. Moss, Emmet Sullivan and Mark Daily,
and their assistants were the following young
girls — Misses Madeline Ewing, Ernestine and
Helen Mar Frieday, Alary Virginia Bean.
Celeste Roberts and Alarjorie Dail. Favors
were the tiniest pods of red peppers tied with
gray yarn.

In the receiving line which was headed by
tile Regent, Mrs. Joe Cousley, were the officers
of the Chapter and other membi-rs of the
organizations assisted in welcoming and looking
after the comfort of the guests.

The members of the Chapter all wore the
tr.iditional Pilgrim costume of gray with snowy
liiun lurtlia and cai)s to match.

M.w D.wis Gi.ovKK.

NATIONAL'BQARD^OF
MANAGEMENT

Regular Meeting, February 8, IQ'i^Z

REGULAR meeting of the National

Board of Management was called to

order by the President General, Mrs.

George Maynard Minor, in the

Board Room of Memorial Continental

Hall, on Wednesday, February 8,

1922, at 10.10 A.M.

In the absence of the Chaplain General, the

President General repeated her favorite prayer,

the members of the Board then joining with

her in the Lord's prayer.

The President General spoke of the illness of
Mrs. Ellison, the Librarian General, who was
quite ill at the Willard. The President General
spoke also of the long illness of Mrs. Aull,
ex-Vice President General, and invited a
motion to send an expression of sympathy to
both of these members. The members of the
Board rose in evidence of their sj^mpathy and
their desire to have such expression sent Mrs.
Ellison and Mrs. Aull.

Mrs. Yawger not being present, the Corre-
sponding Secretary General, Mrs. Elliott, was
requested to act in the place of the Recording
Secretary General.

The roll was called by the Recording Secre-
tary General pro tcm, the following members
being recorded present: National Officers: Mrs.
Minor, Miss Serpell, Mrs. Bahnsen, Mrs.
Harris, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Whitman, Mrs.
Cook, Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs.
Elliott. Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs.
Hunter, Miss Coltrane, Mrs. White; State
Regents: Mrs. Buel, Mrs. St. Clair,
Mrs. Chubbuck, Mrs. Perkins, Mrs. Frisbee,
Mrs. Guernsey, Mrs. Denmead, Mrs. Shumway,
Miss McDuffee, Mrs. Kitt, Mrs. Fitts, Mrs.
Nash, Mrs. W. O. Spencer, Mrs. Young, Mrs.
Wilson, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs. Davis, Miss Temple,
Mrs. Barrett.

The President General read her report.

Report of President General

Members of the National Board of Manage-
ment :

Since your President General's last report,
presented at the October meeting of the
National Board of Management, some very
notable events have taken place in the history
of our Society.

First among these was the laying of the

cornerstone of our own Administration Build-
ing, on October 19th, with simple ceremonies,
a full account of which has been published in
the magazine for December, 1921.

The presence of many members of the
National Board, practically all of whom had
remained after the regular meeting on the
previous day, and also of many Daughters of
the District of Columbia and the different
states, made a notable and impressive gathering.

The program consisted of the singing of the
" Star Spangled Banner " ; invocation by Mrs.
Spencer, the Chaplain General ; address by Mrs.
Guernsey, Honorary President General and
Chairman of the Building Committee ; address
by the President General, Mrs. Minor ; reading
by Mrs. Yawger, the Recording Secretary
General, of the list of articles placed in the
sealed box in the cornerstone ; the laying of the
cornerstone by Mrs. Minor and Mrs. Guernsey,
and a dedicatory prayer by our former Chaplain
General, Miss Elisabeth Pierce. The cere-
monies closed with the singing of " America,"
accompanied by cornetist, Mr. Walter F. Smith.

It was a satisfaction to all that our Honorary
Chaplain General, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood,
was able to be present and witness this signifi-
cant event in the history of the Society which
she helped to found. The addresses and list
of articles are given in full in the magazine.

From this ceremony your President General
and many members of your National Board of
Management motored to the home of our
Corresponding Secretary General, Mrs. Elliott,
in Ellicott City, Maryland, where they enjoyed
her cordial hospitality at luncheon, followed by
a reception and musical entertainment. From
there your President General drove to Lancas-
ter, Pennsylvania, to attend a dinner and
luncheon in her honor and a meeting of
Donegal Chapter on October 20th, and went
thence to a luncheon and meeting of Essex
Chapter in Orange, New Jersey, the Regent
of which is Mrs. Thomas A. Edison. After
the meeting she was privileged to pay a visit
to Mr. Edison in his laboratories, where a
memorable half hour was spent with this far-
famed scientist.

On October 24th your President General had
the pleasure of attending the Pennsylvania
State Conference at Reading, but a severe cold

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obliged her to return home from there, can-
celHng most regretfully her engagements to be
present at the State Conferences of Massachu-
setts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas
and Tennessee, which followed in quick suc-
cession, and which she had planned to attend.

A second event of historic note in which our
Society took part officially was the burial of
America's Unknown Soldier at Arlington on
Armistice Day, November 11th. On the day
preceding this ceremony your President General,
accompanied by other National Officers, placed
a wreath, in the name of the National Society,
on the bier of the Unknown Soldier in the
Capitol where he lay in state, saying as she did
so, " With deep reverence I place this wreath
in the name of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, in grateful remembrance of
America's glorious dead — to you our unknown
soldier, to you, and to all who made the
supreme sacrifice, we pay reverent and ever-
lasting tribute. We as a Society are determined
that your sacrifice shall not be in vain. We
here consecrate ourselvi s to carry on the cause
for which you so nobly gave your life."

It was with deep and reverent satisfaction
that your President General paid our Society's
tribute of gratitude to America's Unknown
Dead, as she had done for the Unknown
Soldiers of Great Britain and France. The
inscription on the wreath placed on the coffin
was as follows : " In grateful remembrance
of America's sacred dead, who made the
supreme sacrifice for liberty.

We pay reverent and everlasting tribute to
their memory.

National Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution."

The next day a large delegation from our
Society, consisting mostly of District of Colum-
bia Daughters, marched in the parade escorting
the hero's body to Arlington. Five seats in the
amphitheatre at Arlington were allotted to our
Society by the Government for the ceremonies
there. These were distributed to National Offi-
cers. Owing to a blockade at the bridge we
were forced to wait two hours before we could
cross, and when we reached the cemetery the
crowd was so great we were unable to get
to our seats.

On the 12th, the day following the Arlington
ceremonies, occurred that great event which
will carry our Society down into history as long
as history endures — the opening session of the
Conference on Limitation of Armament and
Far Eastern questions in Memorial Continental
Hall. Those who were at the October Board
meeting will remember that your President
General made announcement at that time that
the United States Government would make use
of the Auditorium of Memorial Continental

Hall for all the public meetings of the Limita-
tion of Armament Conference, and requested
that this information be held in strictest confi-
dence until the fact was made public by the
Secretary of State. Your President General
desires to compliment you upon the faithfulness
with which you kept the secret of an announce-
ment which filled us all with so much pride
and pleasure. Soon after that, the Department
of State began preparing the interior of the
Auditorium for the Confrence, taking out the
central seats, building the false flooring and
making minor alterations, all which need not
be entered upon here. It is sufficient to report
that the Department bears all the expenses of
alteration and of course agrees to restore the
Auditorium as it was before and leave every-
thing there and about the building in perfect
condition. A few days before the opening of
the Conference, Secretary of State Hughes tele-
phoned that he desired to meet your President
General and Mrs. Hanger when he came here
to inspect the place where the Conference would
be held. He came, together with Mr. Lodge,
Mr. Root and Mr. Underwood, and they all
expressed to your President General the warm-
est appreciation of your act of courtesy in
loaning the building and highly praised the
building itself and its perfect adaptation to the
uses of the Conference.

It is due the Chairman of your Building and
Grounds Committee, Mrs. Hanger, to say here,
that she has carried on all the negotiations with
the Government officials relative to the turning
over of our building to the State Department
in a most satisfactory and efficient way. It
has been no small task to adjust our own offices
in order to turn our building over to the Gov-
ernment, and I want to express my personal
gratitude to her here and now. All credit
should be given to Mrs. Hanger for this im-
portant service. I want also to express my
warm appreciation to all the National Officers
for their splendid cooperation in connection with
this loaning of our building to the Government ;
it has inconvenienced many of you, but you have
borne this inconvenience and our business,
through your splendid cooperation, has
gone on as before. Then, too. my apprecia-
tion is expressed to the clerks, who have
worked so cheerfully and well under most
trying surroundings.

On February 3rd a notable meeting held in
Memorial Continental Hall was that known as
the " Business Meeting of the Government
Departments " for which the Government re-
quested the use of the auditorium. At this
meeting addresses were made by President
Harding and General Dawes, on the subject of
Government Economy and Thrift. To this
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Officers who were in the city were invited.
The heads of about 1000 Government depart-
ments were present.

Your President General has been honored
with a place in the box of the wife of the
Secretary of State, Mrs. Hughes, at all the
plenary sessions and has been given a limited
number of tickets for each session, which she
has tried to distribute to as many members of
the Board as she could reach, so that every one
who could come might have the opportunity
to attend at least one session. Your President
General has been present at all but one. She
feels it is fitting to refer here to the two final
sessions, the one on February 4th, at which all
business was concluded, and the treaties finally
agreed to, and the other on February 6th, at
which these momentous treaties were signed.

On February 4th, Secretary of State Hughes
brought the proceedings to a close in a
memorable speech, the concluding words
of which follow:

" And now our grateful thanks to the
Daughters of the American Revolution (ap-
plause), particularly to Mrs. Minor, the Presi-
dent General, and Mrs. Hanger, the Secretary
General, for permitting us to meet in this
commodious building where we are the guests
of this important patriotic organization.

" This building has many memories, but I
trust in the opinion of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, it is now invested with
a special sanctity and with a most precious
memory, because here the spirit of democracy
which they desire to see supreme has been
evidenced in our collaboration together as
representatives of great peoples, in order that
we may have in place of a worse than fruitless
competition a generous cooperation expressive
not of the sinister ambitions of despotic gov-
ernments, but of the true spirit of the peoples
represented in these democratic governments,
and it is that spirit which we, as representa-
tives, have sought here to evince, because
whatever governments want, the peoples of the
earth want, justice, peace and security."
(Applause.) This building will indeed be
invested with a special sanctity and with a
most precious memory.

" This gracious acknowledgment of your
courtesies to the Government deserves our
deepest appreciation."

It was pointedly addressed to your President
General, to whom the Secretary turned where
she was sitting in the box behind him. Then,
turning back to the audience, he spoke the
words quoted above, and these words ended the
final business session of the great Conference
on the Limitation of Armament.

On Monday, the 6th, the signing of the
treaties in this Hall and the President's farewell

speech, have placed our building among the
famous buildings of history where epoch-
making treaties have been signed. As I have
said on other occasions, the distinction that is
ours because of these events and the fact that
we have been of service to the Government
should be cause for sincere satisfaction.

Three special Board meetings for admission
of members and authorization of chapters have
been held, and also two meetings of your
Executive Committee at all of which your
President General has presided.

On November 28th, your President General
attended the dedication at Plymouth and Boston
of the new canopy erected by the National
Society of the Colonial Dames of America
over Plymouth Rock. It was a three days'
celebration of much dignity and distinction.
At this time she took ihe opportunity to meet
Mr. Lord and Mr. Kendall on business con-
nected with our Pilgrim memorial fountain.
Nothing definite transpired then, nor has since
in regard to the choice of site on which the
beginning of our work of erection depends.
The delay of those in authority to take action
on this matter is all that prevents our beginning
the construction of it at once. This is to be
regretted, but it is hoped that a decision will
soon be forthcoming. Your President General
has visited the Adtninistration Building from
time to time and watched all stages of its con-
struction. She urges you to visit it also at this
time and see its good progress for yourselves.
A detailed report will be furnished later by the
Chairman of your building committee, Mrs.
Guernsey, hence it is not necessary to say more
at this time other than to express satisfaction
with the progress and quality of the work.

On December 1st your President General
visited Connecticut to attend a meeting of the
State Council of the Connecticut D.A.R. called
to consider business relating to this Board Room
in Memorial Continental Hall, and again on
January 13th to attend the regular meeting of
Connecticut Chapter Regents and Treasurers
which took final action in this matter. A full
statement of this case will be made to this
Board, when the recommendation relating to it
is presented in the report of your Execu-
tive Committee.

Your President General had the pleasure of
attending two balls given by chapters in the
District of Columbia ; also a few Chapter meet-
ings and social functions, including the reception
at the British Embassy in honor of the delegates
to the Limitation of Armament Conference, and
the reception at the White House in honor of
the judiciary.

She also attended a meeting in the interests ©f
conservation and thrift held under the auspices
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Willard on January 20th. on which occasion it
was her privilege to speak.

A very notable occasion in which your Presi-
dent General took part as the official representa-
tive of our Society was the unveiling of the
equestrian statue of Joan of Arc on Meridian
Hill in this city by " Le Lyceum Societe des
Femmes de France a New York." This statue
is a gift to the women of America from the
Women of France. It was a signal honor that
our Society should have been selected to accept
this gift for all the women of America as the
most representative of American women's socie-
ties, and your President General was accord-
ingly invited to make the speech of acceptance.
Hon. John W. Weeks, Secretary of War,
accepted it for the United States Government.
The presentation was made by Mme. Polifeme.
president and founder of " Le Lyceum " and
the unveiling was by Mrs. Warren G. Harding
and Mme. Jusserand. An address was like-
wise made by M. Jusserand. It was a very
noteworthy and brilliant occasion, and was
preceded by a very enjoyable luncheon at the
French Embassy, to which your President
General was also invited.

On January 12th your President General, in
company with Mrs. Morris, Vice President
General from Minnesota, and Chairman of the
Historic Spots Committee, called on Secretary
of War Weeks, in the interests of our York-
town Bill, and was very cordially received.
The Secretary expressed sympathy with the
hill, and said he would speak a good word for
it to the Committee before which it is to come
for hearing.

On January 17th, Benjamin Franklin's
f)irthday was quite universally celebrated, and
this Society was invited by the New York
Printers' Association to participate in a cele-
bration to be held at the Franklin Statue in
Park Row and tf) place a wreath, together with
many other patriotic organizations and different
societies. Accepting the invitation, your Presi-
dent General requested the Regent of the New
York City Chapter, Mrs. Alfred W. Cochran,
to ol)tain for and place in the name of the
National Society a suitable wreatli, which she
did: placing one also in the name of her Chap-
ter, to honor this great American patriot.

In ^pite of the raising of the initiation fee
from .fl to $5. members are joining in ever-
increasing numbers. This is most gratifying
and gives us an even greater and wider power
for service.

Respectfully suhmilted.

Annk I^oi.kks MiNdu,

/'rcsidriil (Iriirrul.

'i'lu' President General stated that just after
the Una! meeting of tlic Limitation oi Arma-

ment Conference on Monday one of the
secretaries of Secretary of State Hughes
brought to her the box containing the pen with
which Mr. Hughes had signed the treaties,
stating that the Secretary of State w-ished to
present it to the Daughters of the American
Revolution. The pen was taken out of the box
and shown, and the President General read the
description of the pen which had been furnished
by the government. The President General
also stated that having ascertained that if a
gavel were furnished it would be used during
the Conference, she had purchased one for the
use of Secretary Hughes, it had been used at
every session, and it gave her great pleasure
to prevent it to the National Society to be
preserved in the Museum. The following let-
ter was then read by the President General :

Conference on the Limitation of Arm.vmext
Office of the Secretary General.

February 7, 1922.
Mv DEAR AIrs. Minor:

I am sending you herewith copy of the
minutes of the sixth Plenary Session of the
Conference, containing amongst other things
that portion of Mr. Hughes' address where he
thanked the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution for the use of ^Memorial Continental
Hall. You will find the remarks on pages Nos.
407 and 408.

I hope you will permit me to add one word
from the standpoint of the Secretariat General.
We have met with such courtesy from you,
from the ladies of the National Board of
Management, and from all the personnel of the
Memorial Continental Hall that the privilege
of using your beautiful hall will remain always
a very happy memor\' with all of us.
\'ery sincerely yours.

John W. G.\ruf.tt,
Srcrclary (Iriirral.
Mrs. (ieorge Maynard Minor,

President General,
National Society, Daughters of the .Xnierican

Revolution. Washington, I). C.

There being no objection, the PresidiiU
General's report was accepted. Moved by
Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Nash, Miss Temple
and Mrs. W. ( ). Spencer, and carried, tliiit this
Board cxt^rcss its )uost aflrccialk'C thanks to
Srcrrlary of Stale Hughes for the gift of this
7<'rv historic /'<•;/. Mrs. l^enmead moved that a
vote of thanks be gircii to ihr rrrsidriil Criirral
for Ihr (larrl shr frrsi)ilr(i to Ihr Xalioiial
Sarin y. Seconded by Mrs. 1-itts and Mrs.
l'.ahnsen and carried.

The President ( lineral stated that word had
just come to lur that the Parliamentarian of
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the building— she had come down to Washington
to be at the service of the Board in the matter
of proposing such amendments to the By-laws
as might come up. Mrs. Guernsey moved
that the courtesy of the Board be extended to
Mrs. William Anderson, our Parliamentarian
to be present at the meeting of the Board.
Seconded by Mrs. Hanger and carried.

Mrs. Elliott then read Mrs. Yawge'r's
report as follows :

Report of Recording Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

Since the meeting on October 18th last the
routine work of the office has gone forward as
usual, despite the inconvenience which this office
suffered with others in moving all our working
equipment to another part of the building to
make room for the Limitation of Arma-
ment Conference.

The minutes of the regular meeting of
October 18th and of the special meetings of
November 18th, December 20th, and January
31st, were duly prepared for the magazine.
Copies of the rulings of the regular meetings
were sent to all offices, and the notification
cards signed by your Recording Secretary
General were promptly mailed to the 5122 new
members admitted at the meetings prior to that
of January 31st.

The official notices, letters of sympathy,
regret, and condolence in connection with the
meetings were duly sent out.

The notices to members of the various
Board meetings were sent out, as well as notices
for the meetings of the Executive Committee
held Noveml)er 15th and January 23rd.

Two hundred and fourteen orders for Block
Certificates have been filled.

Certificates of membership numbering 1505
have been prepared for mailing since the last
regular meeting.

Rita A. Yawger,
Recording Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The following recommendations were also
read by Mrs. Elliott :

Recommendations of Executive Committee

November 15, 1921:

Approval of the findings of the Special Com-
mittee appointed by the President General to
look into the matter of the Major William
Overton Callis Chapter in regard to the funds
raised for the reconstruction of Tilloloy, and
the Recording Secretary General instructed to
write a letter informing the Major William
Overton Callis Chapter of the decision that

" the funds so raised, for this purpose, which
have been used for this reconstruction, stand
as' the rightful use of this fund."

That the manner of free distribution of the
Manual of the United States for Immigrants
be left to the judgment of the President Gen-
eral and the Chairman of the Committee on the
Preparation and Distribution of the Manual.

That the temporary clerks be paid for a full
day on Saturday, November 12th, when the
offices were closed for half the day, because of
the opening of the Conference upon the
Limitation of Armament being held in
our building.

That Mrs. Brougham be paid 55 cents an
hour for temporary work.

That all literature sold by different
committees be also placed on sale in the
Business Office.

January 23, 1922:

The adoption by the National Board of Man-
agement of the following resolution :

Whereas, The Connecticut Daughters of the
American Revolution have agreed to reimburse
the National Society for the $6000 paid by Mrs.
Manson, through that State, for the Board
Room, and

Whereas, A fund of $1000 was given by
Mrs. Manson to the National Society in the
nature of a trust, the income of which was to
be used for the upkeep of the room, which
fund is still intact.

Resok'cd, That the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution, accept
the offer of settlement made in the pending case
of Manson ct al versus Daughters of the
American Revolution, which proposes repay-
ment of the seven thousand dollars ($7000) and
accumulated interest, if any, on the invested
portion thereof, it being understood that upon
completion of the payments the tablet in the
Board Room erected by Mrs. Manson will be
removed, and that it is further understood
that the foregoing proposition is accepted as a
compromise and is not in prejudice of the rights
of the defendants.

That Volumes 60, 61, and 62 of the
Lineage Book be contracted for at the best
price obtainable.

The employment of regular counsel on a
retaining fee for one year.

The acceptance of the offer of Messrs.
Minor, Gatley and Rowland, inasmuch as their
services in the past have been acceptable and
they have been highly recommended by our
Advisory Committee.

That the Registrar General be granted
two typewriters.

The issuing and placing on sale of official
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Conference and the painting of Troopships by
Frederick J. Waugh.

That the Chief Clerks should report to the
Executive Manager, in the absence »f their
National Officers, any necessity for ®ver-
time work.

The approval of the request of the Organiz-
ing Secretary General for a third permanent
clerk in her office, as provided for in Rule 11;
and that Miss Elena Marseglia be placed upon
the permanent roll February 1st in the office
of the Organizing Secretary General at a salary
of $75 per month, since she has served satis-
factorily on the temporary roll in that office
for several months.

Granting the request of Miss Nettleton,
Chairman of the House Committee, that a
stenographer be engaged and placed at the dis-
posal of the Chairman of the House Committee,
beginning April 15th, and continuing through
this (thirty-first) Congress.

Moved by Mrs. Guernsey, seconded by Mrs.
Buol, and carried, that we approve the action
of the Executive Committee of November 15th.

The recommendation of the Executive Com-
mittee at their meeting held January 23rd
relative to the Board Room was then taken up
and the President General read the follow-
ing statement :

Statement by the President General Relative
to the Board Room

In view of the fact that many of the more
recent members of this Board have little or no
knowledge of the history of the Board Room
and the controversy which arose in regard to
the marking on the label over the door leading
into it from the outer corridor, it is only fair
and proper that a brief outline of events should
be presented to this Board in order that it may
act with intelligence. Therefore the following
narrative is presented for your information.

Ill 1910 the sum of $6000 was given by Mrs.
John T. Manson, of New Haven, Connecticut,
for the finishing and furnishing of the Board
Room in memory of her Revolutionary ances-
tors. A memorial tablet in the room gives their
names and the names of the donor. The cluck
for the $6000 was presented to the Congress
of 1910 in l)ehalf of Mrs. Manson by the State
Regent of Connecticut, Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel.

In Octol)er, 1911, the National Board of
Management voted to carry out the motion made
at the previous meeting in June, that all rooms
in Continental Hall be marked with a label in
the corridor over the door of each, bearing
tlie name of the office and of the State by or
through which the room had been given. This
was ill accordance with a plan of many years'
standing. Under this vote the Board Room
was marked " Board Room— Connecticut."

About three years or so later, this marking
came to the attention of Mrs. Manson to whom
it was not pleasing, inasmuch as it appeared to
her to give the misleading impression that the
room was Connecticut's gift and not hers.

In April, 1915, she therefore applied to Mrs.
William Gumming Story, then President
General, to have the name " Connecticut "
removed. This was done, and inasmuch as
Connecticut entered a protest, a controversy
ensued, the history of which is familiar to all
who were in active office at the time, and which
it is not Connecticut's desire nor the National
Society's desire to reopen. The matter was
finally decided against Connecticut by vote of
the National Board of Management in
January, 1916.

In April, 1916, suit was brought against the
National Society by representatives of Mrs.
Manson in the form of a bill of complaint
praying for an injunction restraining the
National Society from ever replacing the name
of Connecticut over the Board Room door.
Ever since then this case has been pending in
the courts in Washington, D. C.

In 1917, Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey,
having become President General and acting
under advice of counsel, replaced the name
" Connecticut " in its original position over
the door, where it remains to-day. This action
was unanimously sustained by the National
Board of Management in October, 1917.

Recently the other side has made an offer of
settlement out of court which proposes that the
National Society repay to the Manson estate
the sum of $7000 given by the late Mrs. Manson
for the Board Room, $6000 of it being the
aforesaid sum given through Connecticut and
$1000 given later through Mrs. Story, then
President General, for an endowment fund for
the upkeep of the room. It was further pro-
posed by the lawyers of the other side that
repayment be made of " such interest as may
have accumulated up to the time of settlement
upon the portion of the fund which has been
invested, it being of course understood that upon
the completion of such payments the tablet in
the Board Room erected by Mrs. Manson will
be removed," and it being further " understood
that the foregoing proposition is made solely
with a view to a compromise of the pending
litigation, and is not in prejudice of any rights
of the plaintifTs." (See letter of October 26,
1921. from Messrs. IVedle and Ogili)y. lawyers
for the plaintiffs.)

Our Society's lawyers have advised us that
taking into consideration all the facts and
circumstances of the case they feel that a
settlement such as has been suggested would
be a desirable thing to bring about. (See corre-
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As a next step it was necessary for the
National Society to approach the Connecticut
Daughters of the American Revolution for the
purpose of finding out if they would be willing
to reimburse our Society for the $6000 paid
through Connecticut in the event of its accept-
ing this offer, for obviously the National Society
has no funds out of which this $6000 could be
repaid, it having been of course spent on the
room and the furnishings. The $1000 endow-
ment fund is of course intact, and can be repaid
with its unspent interest at any time.

Consequently your President General pre-
sented this matter to Connecticut at a meeting
of the State Council held on December 1, 1921.
The Council unanimously voted to present the
following recommendation to the regular meet-
ing of Connecticut Chapter Regents and Treas-
urers called for January 13, 1922 :

" That the Council recommend to the
Chapter Regents and Treasurers at their
January meeting that the Connecticut
Daughters of the American Revolution repay
the sum of $6000 to the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution, for
the Board Room in the event of the National
Society's acceptance of the offer of settle-
ment in the pending case of Manson ct al.
versus the National Society, Daughters of
the American Revolution, it being understood
that the foregoing proposition is accepted as
a compromise and is not in prejudice of the
rights of the defendants."
The above recommendation was adopted
unanimously by a rising vote at the aforesaid
meeting of Chapter Regents and Treasurers.

It is moreover understood that in passing
the above vote Connecticut agrees to this repay-
ment only in the event of the National Society's
accepting the offer of settlement, and provided
that the aforesaid memorial tablet erected by
Mrs. Manson in the Board Room is removed,
and that the stand heretofore taken by Con-
necticut relative to the Board Room is not
prejudiced by this compromise settlement.

Under these conditions your President Gen-
eral understands that the Connecticut Daughters
of the American Revolution stand ready to pay
this sum of $6000 for the Board Room cash
down at any time, and thus retain this room
for Connecticut.

Mrs. Hunter moved that the recommendation
made by the Executive Committee in regard to
the Board Room be adopted:

The adoption of the following resolutions
Whereas, The Connecticut Daughters of the
American Revolution have agreed to reimburse
the National Society for the $6000 paid by Mrs.
Manson, through that State, for the Board
Room, and

Whereas, a fund of $1000 zvas given by Mrs.

Manson to the National Society in the nature
of a trust, the income of zvhich zvas to be used
for the upkeep of the room, zvhich fund is
still intact.

Resolved, That the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution, accept
the offer of settlement made in the pending
case of Manson et al. versus Daughters of the
American Revolution, ivhich proposes repay-
ment of the seven thousand dollars ($7000) and
acciunulated interest, tf any, on the invested
portion thereof, it being understood that upon
completion of the payments the tablet in the
Board Room, erected by Mrs. Manson, zvill be
removed, and that it is further understood thai
the foregoing proposition is accepted as a com-
promise and is not in prejudice of the rights of
the defendants.

The motion of Mrs. Hunter was seconded by
Miss Serpell, and carried by rising vote unani-
mously. Moved by Miss Coltrane, seconded by
Miss Temple and carried, that the Treasurer
General be authorized, and she is hereby
directed, to carry out the terms of this vote.
Mrs. Buel stated that it was with extreme
gratification that she presented for Connecticut
a check to the Treasurer General for $6000.
Mrs. Elliott moved that a rising vote of thanks
and congratulation be given Connecticut for
their generous gift of $6000 for the Board
Room. This was numerously seconded and
carried by a unanimous rising vote.

The further recommendations of the Execu-
tive Committee at their meeting held January
23, 1922, were then taken up as follows : That
Volumes 60, 61, and 62 of the Lineage Book
be contracted for at the best price obtainable.
Adoption of the recommendation moved by
Miss Temple, seconded by Mrs. Perkins, and
carried. The employment of regular counsel
on a retaining fee for one year: the acceptance
of the offer of Messrs. Minor, G alley and
Rozvland, inasmuch as their services in the past
have been acceptable and they have been highly
recommended by our Advisory Committee. The
President General read the following letter
from Mr. Minor, of the firm of Minor, Gatley
and Rowland, who, she took occasion incident-
ally to inform the members, was no relative of
hers or her husband, but was the lawyer em-
ployed by the previous administration and she
had availed herself of his legal knowledge when
occasion for such service arose.

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

President General, Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
Dear Mrs. Minor :

I have conferred with my partners in regard
to the wish of the National Society to employ
counsel on a retainer and considering the char-

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acter of the services, which would be principally
that of advising with you and the other mem-
bers of the Society, w^e are of the opinion and
are willing to serve you in this capacity for an
annual retainer of $500. This amount, however,
is not to include any services of an extraordi-
nary nature, such as court litigation, prepara-
tion of important legal papers or services
requiring our absence from the city.
Yours very truly,

Benj. S. Minor.

Moved by Mrs. Guernsey seconded by Mrs.
St. Ciair, and carried, that this recommendation
of ihc Executive Committee be approved. The
adoption of the recommendation that the Regis-
trar General be granted tzvo typeivriters was
moved by Mrs. Bahnsen, seconded by Miss
McDuffec, and carried. With regard to the
recommendation for the issuing and placing on
sale of official postcards of the Limitation of
Armament Conference and the painting of
Troopships by Frederick J. IVaiigh, the Presi-
dent General stated that many inquiries had
come from Daughters visiting the Hall for
such postcards and estimates had been secured.
During the discussion it appeared that many
of the members desired that there should be
postcards of the pen with which, and the table
on which, the treaties were signed, and it was
explained that while estimates had been secured
only for postcards of the auditorium in which
the Conference had met, the wording of the
recommendation would not preclude the issuing
of postcards covering any of the features of the
Limitation of Armament Conference. Mrs.
Sherrerd moved the adoption of this recom-
mendation. Seconded by Mrs. St. Clair and
carried. The adoption of the recommendation
that the Chief Clerks should report to the
Executive Manager, in the absence of their
National Officers, any necessity for over-lime
iK.'ork. was moved by Miss Strider, seconded
by Mrs. Elliott, and carried. In considering
the recommendation of the Executive Commit-
tee for approval of the request of the Organis-
ing Secretary General for a third permaneul
clerk in her office as provided in Rule II ; ajitl
that Miss Elena Marseglia be placed upon the
permanent roll February 1st in the office of the
Organizing Secretary General at a salary of
$75 per month, since she has served satisfac-
torily on the temporary roll in that office for
sdrral months. Mrs. White requested that
she be permitted as Chairman of the Sub-
Committee on Clerks to add two names to
provide for two clerks in the Treasurer (un-
eral's office, that of Mrs. Boston and Miss-
Green to he placed upon the permanent roll
February Isl in the offiice of the Treasurer
General at a salary of $75 per month, they

haz'ing served satisfactorily on the temporary
roll in that office for several months. The
adoption of the recommendation with the addi-
tions was moved by Mrs. St. Clair, seconded
by Mrs. Barrett, and carried. Mrs. Young
moved the adoption of the recommendation
granting the request of Miss Nettlcton, Chair-
}iiau of the House Committee, that a stenog-
rapher be engaged and placed at the disposal
of the Chairman of the House Commtitce,
beginning April 15th, and continuing through
this Thirty-first Congress.

Miss Strider then read her report.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
Two hundred and fifty applications presented
to the Board and 1140 supplemental papers veri-
fied ; 1390 total number of papers verified.

Permits issued for 1456 insignias ; 548
ancestral bars, and 1400 recognition pins.

Papers examined and not yet approved : 827
originals and 460 supplemental.

Papers returned unverified : 14 originals, 21
supplemental ; 1140 new records verified.
Respectfully submitted,

Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, that the secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the aduiission of
250 applicants for membership in the Society.
The Recording Secretary General pro Icm.
announced the casting of the ballot and the
President General declared the 250 applicants
members of the National Society.

Mrs. Hanger now read her report as Organ-
izing Secretary General.

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Alanagement :
I have the honor to report as follows :
Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents : Mrs.
Julia Humphreys Boyd, Adairsville, Ga. ; Mrs.
Lulah Robertson Prentice, Morganfield. Ky. ;
Mrs. Alice Paul Smoot, Camden on Gaulev,
\y. Va.

The following Organizing Regencies have
expired by time limitation: Mrs. Anna Fentress
Sinead, Camden, Ark. ; Mrs. Blanche C.
Dorman, Nashville, Ark. ; Mrs. Elsie Colcock
Moore, Pine Bluff, Ark.; Mrs. Rebecca Dobbs
Sharpe. Red Bluflf. Calif.; Mrs. Clara H. B.
Owings, Mt. Sterling, Ky. ; Mrs. Marv Pace
Wall, Murphysboro, 111.; Mrs. Genevieve E. W.
Wolfram, Des Plaines, 111.; Mrs. Nellie Maria

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 239

Merritt, Dorchester, Mass. ; Mrs. Ella C. The report of the Organizing Secretary-
Bennett Viele, Carnegie, Pa. General was approved as read. In the course
The following chapters have reported organ- of a discussion as to the organization of chap-
ization since the last Board meeting: Chapter ters and their confirmation by the Board, the
at Petersburg, III; Chapter at Blackstone and Parliamentarian stated that under the present
^. "^ ^ . , \. X- J r- «: By-laws it did not require confirmation by the
the Chapter at Ipswich, Mass.: \ancy de Graff ^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^,^ ^,^^p^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^^.^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^

Toll at Monroe, Mich. ; John Hoyle at Hickory, j^^^ complied with the requirements for organ-

N. C. ; Chancellor Wythe at Ashland, Va. ; ization, but that a by-law would be presented to

Comte De Grasse at Yorktown, Va. : Trans- the Board to be acted on at the coming Congress

Alleghany at Weston, W. Va. so amending the By-laws as to give the Board

There being no State Regent of Nevada, I the power of confirming or rejecting chapters,

herewith present the name of Mrs. Harriet S. Mrs. Guernsey protested against the recognition

Gelder for confirmation as Organizing Regent of chapters without their being confirmed by

• t R ' N da ^^^ National Board of Management and asked

„, ' . \ nr\ r^ ■ ■ T-, ^ x- that her protest be spread on the minutes.

Charters issued 20. Organizing Regents noti- ^^^^^ ^^ ^.^^ 3^^p^„_ ^^^^^^^^ ^^ ^^^^

fied 86. Permits for Regents and ex-Regents ^ash and Mrs. St. Clair, that Mrs. Guernseys

bars issued 79, permits for State Regents bars protest be spread upon the minutes. The

issued 3. result of the vote showed 32 in favor, two

Respectfully submitted, opposed, and one not voting.
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger, Mrs. Hunter read her financial report

Organizing Secretary General. as follows :

Report of Treasurer General

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management :

I herewith submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from October 1,
1921, to January 31, 1922:

CURRENT FUND
Balance in Bank at last report, September 30, 1921 . $27,077.56

RECEIPTS

Annua! dues, $109,105; initiation fees, $21,618; supplemental fees, $1753;
Apostrophe to the Flag, $1.92; certificates, $6; copying lineage,
$.50; creed cards, $35.92; D.A.R. Reports, $28.27; die of Insignia,
$.60 ; directory, $2.24 ; duplicate papers and lists, $420.94 ; exchange,
$2.05 ; hand books, $2.50 ; index to Library books, $1.51 ; Immigrants'
Manual, sale of copies, $421.53; interest, $320; interest. Life Mem-
bership fund, $4.25; Lineage, $900.31; Magazine— subscriptions, .
$6202.50; single copies, $179.61; advertisements, $1747.50; proceed-
ings, $18.24; remembrance books, $.80; rent from slides, $23.50;
ribbon, $43.12; sale of waste paper, $1.80; slot machine, $1.30;
stationery, $17.09; telephone, $11.35; index to Lineage books, $15;
books for Library, $24; refund, expressage, $.88; refund, ex-
penses of Conference, Limitation of Armaments, $814.10.

Total receipts 143,725.33

$170,802.89

DLSBURSEMEXTS

Refunds: annual dues, $1559; initiation fees, $563; supplemental

fees, $16 $2138.00

President General: clerical service, $615.50; hotel and traveling ex-
penses, $721.61; postage, $30.50; telegrams and expressage, $65.44;
paper and book, $5.35 1438.40

Organizing Secretary General: clerical service, $1223.57; engrossing, $9;
postage, telegrams and telephone, $22.50; regents' lists, $81.47;
paper and box, $1.95 1338.49

240 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Recording Secretary General: clerical service,, $940; lists, $15; postage,

expressage and telegram, %7.72; repairs to dater, $1.25 963.97

Certificates: clerical service, $382.48; certificates, $400; engrossing,

$662.65 ; postage, $160 ; tubes, $75.05 1680.18

Corresponding Secretary General : clerical service, $438.72 ; postage and

telegram, $126; paper and expressage, $299.10; scales, $6 869.82

Registrar General: clerical service, $5481.30; binding records, $111;

postage, $30; book, cards and permits, $91.05; stamp and pad, $2.05. 5715.40

Treasurer General: clerical service, $5021.33; cards, copying books and

paper, $144.86 ; repairs to typewriter, $14.50 5180.69

Historian General: clerical service, $906.24; paper, $4.48; postage, $3. 913.72

Reporter General : blanks and circulars 40.01

Librarian General: clerical service, $817.52; accessions, $17.50; book

labels, $23 ; postage, expressage and telegram, $7.23 865.25

Curator General : clerical service, $348.72 ; postage $1 349.72

General Office: clerical service, $930.64; messenger service, $160;
stamped envelopes and postage, $1957.01 ; supplies, $294.21 ; adjust-
ing typewriters, $10.10; carfare and expressage, $4.79; newspaper
clippings, $5.81 ; wreaths and flowers, %7Z ; Professional service,

$300 3735.56

Committees : Building and Grounds — clerical service, $20 ; postage, $2 ;
telegram, $.82 ; Finance — clerical service, $40 ; Historical and Liter-
ary Reciprocity — clerical service, $45 ; folders and clasps, $5 ; Legis-
lation in U. S. Congress — postage, $8.38 ; Liquidation and Endow —
ment — engrossing, $18; postage, $5; paper and envelopes, $23.94;
National Old Trails Road — circulars, $7.70 ; paper, $9.33 ; Patriotic
Education — clerical service, $6.75; postage, $26.13; bulletins and cir-
culars, $50.25; Patriotic Lectures and Slides — lectures, $100; rentals,
$16; slides, $1.75; postage, $4.35; Philippine Scholarship — reprints
of reports, $3.50; postage, $20; Preservation of Historic Spots —

postage, $10 ; photo, $5 ; telegram, $5.77 434.67

Expense Continental Hall : employees pay roll, $3204.25 ; electric cur-
rent and gas, $392.15 ; ice and towel service and water rent, $115.94;
coal, 200 tons, $2490; inspection and repairs to elevator, $32.02;
supplies, $121.19; evergreens, grass seed and bone meal, $24.15;

laundering, $3 ; bronze markers on building, $216 6598.70

Printing Machine Expense: printer, $160; electros and plate, $84.84;

ink, $17.40 262.24

Magazine: Committee— clerical service, $542.42; copying books, cards,
folders, files and paper, $106.84; postage, $55; telegrams and ex-
pressage, $8.64; Editor— salary, $800; stationery, $14.05; postage,
$34.50; book and paper, $8.57; telegrams, $1.52; articles and photos,
$278 ; Genealogical Editor— salary, $180 ; Printing and mailing Sep-
tember—December issues, $11,928.50 ; cuts, $889.17 14.847.21

Auditing accounts 31)0.00

D.A.R. Reports : postage 5 00

Duplicate papers (refunds) 2.00

Furniture and Fixtures : paper cutter 171.50

Lineage: Vols. 57 and 58, $3686; old volumes, $17.50; postage; and

expressage, $40.73 3744.23

Proceedings: clerical service, $6; 2000 copies, $1734.20; postage, $5;

wrapping and mailing, $263.51 2008.71

Remcm!)rance books : postage 35 qq

J^''^'!"" '.^^^y.'.'.^'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 58^88

stationery 2?8 10

State Regents' postage 254 15

Support of Real Daugbiers / ' 696.ob

Telephone 214 95

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT

Thirty-first Congress:

Credential Committee: clerical service $12; postage, $30; paper,

$4.95 ; stamp and pad, $1.20 48.15

Total disbursements

Transferred to Permanent Fund, by order of National Board of
Management

Balance

PERMANENT FUND
Balance in Bank at last report, September 30, 1921

RECEIPTS

Charter fees $100.00

Administration Building contributions 531.50

Continental Hall contributions 1460.30

Liberty Loan contributions 320.50

Interest— Liberty Loan 3791.19

Liquidation and Endowment Fund 204.52

Commissions Insignia $832.50

Recognition pins 169.20 1001.70

Inerest : Bonds $45.00

Bank balances 24.23 69.23

Total receipts

Notes payable — National Metropolitan Bank

Transferred from Current Fund by order of the National Board of
Management

DISBURSEMENTS

Administration Building, 4th-7th payments $119,000.00

Interest— Notes payable 1803.51

Cerificate of title, tax certificate, preparing trusts and notes, recording

trusts and survey 265.10

Total disbursements

Balance

Petty Cash Fund

SPECIAL FUNDS

LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Balance September 30, 1921 $16.24

Receipts 350.00

Balance ,

immigrants' manual

Balance, September 30, 1921 $18,699.72

Receipts 1181.15

241

55,149.70

$115,653.19

20.000.00

$95,653.19

$5,533.35

7,478.94
119,000.00

20,000.00

$152,012.79

121,068.61

$30,944.18

$500.00

$366.24

19,880.87

242 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Disbursements — English, Italian and Spanish editions $13,281.65

Balance

PAINTIiXG — CONVOY OF TROOPSHIPS

Balance, September 30, 1921
Receipts

Disbursements
Balance

$5923.34
614.15

$6537.49
2320.88

$6599.22

4216.61

PILGRIM MOTHERS MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN

Balance, September 30, 1921
Receipts

Disbursements — refunds
Balance

$15,509.45
1545.05

$17,054.50
202.50

16,852.00

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

Receipts $15,014 20

Disbursements 15.014.20

PHILIPPINE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT

Balance, Sepember 30, 1921

Receipts

Interest

Balance

$16.16
226.00
231.38

473.54

PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SPOTS

Balance, September 30, 1921

121.00

RELIEF SERVICE

Balance. September 30, 1921
Receipts

Disbursements ,

Balance

Total Special Funds

$63.43
871.00

$934.43
768.43

166.00

$28,794.61

RECAPITULATION

Funds

9-30-21 Receipts Disbursements Bal. 1-31

('^^n-fut $27,077.56

Permanent

Petty Cash

Life Membership

Immigrants' Manual

P'.i'"tinK 5^923 34

Pilgrim Mothers' Memorial Fountain 15,509.45

5,533.85

500.00

16 24

18.699.72

$143,725.33
146,478.94

350.00
1,181.15

614.15
1,545.05

$75,149.70
121,068.61

13.281.65

2.320.88

202.50

$05,653.19

30.944.18

500.00

366.24

6.599.22

4.216.61

16.852.00

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243

Patriotic Education

Philippine Scholarship

Preservation of Historic Spots
Relief Service

15,014.20

15,014.20

16.16

457.38

473..^4

121.00

121.00

63.43

871.00

768.43

166.00

Totals $73,460.75 $310,237.20 $227,805.97 $155,891.98

DISPOSITION OF FUNDS

Balance, National Metropolitan Bank . . . .
Petty Cash (In Treasurer General's office)

$155,391.98
500.00

Total $155,891.98

INVESTMENTS

Permanent Fund— Liberty Bonds $100,000.00

Permanent Fund — Chicago & Alton Bonds 2,314.84

Permanent Fund — Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Bond 1,000.00

Philippine Scholarship Fund— Liberty Bonds 8,200.00

Life Membership— Liberty Bonds 200.00

$111,714.84

[NDEBTEDNESS

National Metropolitan Bank — by order of the 29th Continental
Congress

$176,000.00

Respectfully,

(Mrs. Livingston L.) Lilli.xn A. Hunter,

Trcasiiri-r General.

Mrs. White as Chairman of the Finance
Committee, read the report of that Committee :

Report of Finance Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
As Chairman of the Finance Committee I
have the following report to make for the
months of October, November, December and
January. Vouchers approved amounted to $205,
667.97, including $15,014.20 received for Pat-
riotic Education, $119,000.00 was paid to the
contractors of the new office building and other
large amounts were expended for :

Clerical service $17,767.19

Magazine 14,847.21

Employees of the Hall 3,524.25

Postage 2,079.27

Support of Real Daughters 695.00

Translating and printing the Manual
for Immigrants in English, Ital-
ian and Spanish 13,076.25

Lineage (vols. 57-58) 3,686.00

Picture of Troopships 2,227 00

Proceedings of 3Cth Continental

Congress 1,734.20

Miscellaneous as itemized in report

of Treasurer General 12,016.40

The Finance Committee makes the following
recommendation : " In view of the fact that the
Society has in the Current Fund more than
$95,000 which will not be needed for immediate
use in payment of current expenses and which
at the present time is drawing but two per
cent., we recommend to the National Board of
Management that the Treasurer General be
authorized to borrow from the Current Fund
$50,000 which will be the amount of the De-
cem.ber and January payments on the Admin-
istration Building and carry it until such
time as the money shall be needed for cur-
rent expenses."

Respect f nil V submitted,
(Mrs. George W.) Louise C. White,
Chainnau, fiiiaiwc Coiuiilttcc.

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The report of the Auditing Committee was
read by Miss Coltrane, Chairman.

Report of Auditing Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:

I have the honor to report that the Auditing
Committee has met each month since the Oc-
tober Board Meeting. The reports of the
Treasurer General up to and including January
31, 1922, and the audit thereof, by the American
Audit Company have been compared, found to
agree and placed on file w^ith the Recording
Secretary General.

Respectfully submitted,

Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Chairman.

Aloved by Mrs. Wilson, seconded by Miss
Scrpell, and carried, that the report of the
Aiiditiiif/ Committee be accepted. Miss Coltrane
moved iliat zve express our appreciation to the
American Audit Co)iipaiiy for making their
audits to suit the convoiiencc of the Treasurer
General for her report to the Board. This was
seconded by Mrs. W. O. Spencer and carried.

Mrs. Hunter called attention to her report
in which was shown a balance to the credit of
the Philippine Scholarship Endowment Fund of
$473.54 and moved that the Treasurer General
be authorized to invest the balance in the Philip-
pine Scholarship Fund in Liberty Bonds. This
was seconded by Miss Coltrane and carried.
Mrs. Hunter stated that that brought the Fund
to about $8600, less than $1400 to raise to com-
plete the $10,000 goal.

The Treasurer General stated that there were
being held in the Treasurer General's office a
large number of initiation fees at $1. the papers
were in the office of the Registrar General and
had not yet been verified, and in order to clean
up the offices she moved that the Treasurer Gen-
eral he authorized to return all initiation fees
which -a'cre received prior to the :^oth Congress
for those application papers zvhich up to Octo-
ber 1. 1922. cannot be verified. Seconded by
Miss Coltrane and carried.

Airs. White read again the recommendation
of the Finance Committee— /» viexn' of the fact
that the Society has in the Current Fund more
than $9.'^. 000 xvhich zvill not be needed for im-
mediate use in payment of current expenses and
which at the prctcnt time is drazving hut tzuo
per cent., zee recommend to the National Board
of Management that the Trea.utrer General be
authorized to borrozv from the Current Fuml
$60,000 zvhich zvill be the amount of the Decem-
ber and .January payments on the Administration
BuildiiKi and carry it until such time as the
money shall be needed for current expenses.

On motion of Mrs. Bahnsen, seconded by Mrs.
Chubbuck, the adoption of the recommendation
of the Finance Committee was carried.

Recess was taken for luncheon 1.20.

The afternoon session was called to order at
2 : 20. There being no objections. Miss Crowell,
Chairman of State and Chapter By-laws, was
invited by the President General to be present
during the discussing of the proposed by-laws to
be submitted to Congress. Copies of proposed
amendments were distributed among the mem-
bers, which it was explained had been drawn
up by the Parliamentarian after a conference
with the President General and several of the
National Officers, to which were added one or
two amendments that seemed to cover points
which the present By-laws did not cover. Much
discussion ensued, in which practically every
member of the Board took part, as to the
advantages and disadvantages and the proper
wording of the various suggestions. The fol-
lowing were voted on and carried as the
amendments to be proposed by the Board.

Proposed amendment to the Constitution

Amend Article III, Section 1, of the Consti-
tution, by striking out the entire Section and
substituting the following :

Any woman is eligible for membership in the
National Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution, who is of the age of eighteen
years, and who is descended from a man or
woman who, with unfailing loyalty, rendered
material aid to the cause of American Inde-
pendence ; or is descended from a recognized
patriot, a soldier, a sailor, or a civil officer in
the service of one of the several Colonies or
States, or of the United Colonies or States,
provided that the applicant be acceptable to
the Society.

Proposed Amendments to the By-laws

Amend Article HI, Section 3, by striking out
the word "publication" and inserting "com-
pilation," so that said Section of said Article
as amended will read.

Section 3. Chaplain General. — The Chaplain
General shall open all meetings of the Society
with the reading of Scripture and prayer, and
shall conduct such religious service as occasion
may require. She shall have direction of the
compilation of the Remembrance Book.

Amend Article III, Section 6, by inserting
the following sentence after the word "chap-
ters" in the eighth line : " She shall receive
from organizing chapters the report of organi-
zation, verify the same in conjunction with the
State Regent, and submit such report to the
National Board of Management for its
approval or rejection of the organization of the
Chapter, and shall notify such organizing chap-
ters and the State Regent of the Board's action

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245

in this respect." So that said Section of said
Article as amended will read as follows.

Section 6. Organizing Secretary General. —
The Organizing Secretary General shall re-
ceive through the State Regents all applications
for authority to organize chapters and appoint
Organizing Regents, and shall present the same
to the National Board of Management for its
action and shall notify the Organizing Regent
of her appointment, and send instructions. She
shall, in connection with the respective State
Regents, have supervision of the organization
of chapters. She shall receive from organizing
chapters the report of organization, verify the
same in conjunction with the State Regent, and
submit such report to the National Board of
Management for its approval or rejection of the
organization of the chapter, and shall notify
such organizing chapters and the State Regent
of the Board's action in this respect. She shall
issue charters, etc., etc.

Amend Article V, Section 8, by inserting the
words " of the amount of the initiation fee of
the National Society and " after the word " pay-
ment " so that said Section of said Article as
amended will read as follows :

Section 8. A member dropped for non-pay-
ment of dues may be reinstated by the National
Board of Management only upon the payment
of the amount of the initiation fee of the
National Society and of her indebtness to the
chapter and through the chapter to the National
Society, or if a member at large, to the
National Society.

Amend Article IX, Section 2, by adding the
following paragraph :

No chapter by reason of a meeting held for
the purpose of organizing a chapter under any
of the provisions of this Section shall be
deemed to be legally organized or entitled to
any of the rights of a duly organized chapter
until a written report, in duplicate, of such
organization meeting, on forms to be furnished
by the National Society, containing the date
of such organization meeting, the proposed
name of the chapter, the names and signatures
of the organizing members and of the officers
thereof who shall be selected from the organiz-
ing members, and showing by the certificate
of some officer of the proposed chapter that a
majority of the organizing members were pre-
sent at the organization meeting, shall be sent
to and verified by the Organizing Secretary
General in conjuntion with the State Regent,
and the organization of the chapter approved
by the National Board of Management.

Amend Article IX, Section 8, by adding
the sentence :

No Chapter whose dues are in arrears to its
State Conference shall be entitled to represent-

ation at any meeting of the National Society.

Amend Article IX, Section 9, by striking out
all after the words "Registrar General" in line
7, and substituting the following : " No mem-
ber shall be entitled to more than one transfer
in a year. Members at large uniting to form a
chapter shall not be regarded as a transfer.
The transfer cards of a member at large to a
chapter, or of a member of one chapter to an-
other chapter, shall be presented by the member
desiring to be transferred, to the chapter with
which she wishes to unite. If she is accepted
by the chapter, the transfer shall become effect-
ive upon the receipt by the Treasurer General of
a statement from the chapter receiving the
member to that effect. A transfer of a mem-
ber of a chapter to a member at large shall at
once be reported by the chapter to the Treas-
urer General and shall become effective upon
its receipt.

Transfer cards must be accompanied by a
coi y of the membership application paper. If
the copy is made by the Niational Society, a fee
of one dollar shall be charged the member for
each copy.

Amend Article IX, Section 14, by adding the
following sentences : " A chapter desiring a
certain name shall present it to the Organizing
Secretary General who shall submit it to the
National Board of Management for approval or
rejection. After a name has been officially
granted, it shall not be changed by the chapter
unless permission is granted by the National
Board of Managment, which shall require a
two-thirds vote.

Amend Article IX, Section 16, by striking out
present section and substituting the following:

Section 16. Chapters shall send annually to
their State Regent or State Historian, as each
State Conference may decide, such reports as
may be requested by the Reporter General to
the Smithsonian Institution, these reports being
obligatory under the charter of the National
Society, Daughters of the American Revolution.

Amend Article XI, by adding a Section 4, to
read as follows :

Any chapter wilfully violating the rules of
the National Society or conducting itself so as
to be discreditable to the organization, may be
reprimanded, suspended, or disbanded, by the
National Board of Management, by a two-
thirds vote, provided the rules of the parlia-
mentary authority adopted by the Society for
the trial of members are observed.

The following amendment from the Mary
Ball Chapter was presented to the Board and
discussed. Moved by Mrs. Wilson, seconded
by Mrs. Sparks, that the amendment offered by
the Mary Ball Chapter be endorsed. The mo-
tion was lost. All the requirements as provided
for in the By-laws on amendments having been

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met with, this amendment was ordered printed
and circulated in accordance with the provisions
■of the By-laws.

Mary Ball Chapter of Tacoma, Washington,
proposes the following amendment to Article
IX, Section 2, (c) changing the last clause
to read ;

"And provided ruch additional chapter shall
contain at least twenty-five (25) members who
have not previously belonged to any chapter." So
that said sub-division of said Section shall read;

(c) In a locality where there is already a
chapter an additional chapter may be organized,
provided the existing chapter or chapters has
reached a membership of at least fifty, and
provided the organization of the chapter is ap-
proved by the State Regent and the National
Board of Management, and provided such
additional chapter shall contain at least twenty-
five members who have not previously bebnged
to any chapter.

Washington : Helen K. Aetzel, Regent,
Sacajawea Chapter; Francis S. Jones, Regent,
Seattle Cha^^ter ; Sarah S. Patton, Regent,
Robert Gray Chapter ; Vira W. Masters, Regent,
Lady Stirling Chapter; Charlotte W. Reed,
Regent, Rainier Chapter ; Blanche Lowell Chase,
Regent, Esther Reed Chapter; Mrs. Henry
Longstreet, Regent, Mary Ball Chapter.

Ohio : Amanda L. Alessenger, Acting Re-
gent, Catherine Greene Chapter; Mrs. Edward
L. Harris. Vice President General from Ohio ;
Airs. William M. Wilson, Ohio State Regent.

California: Tamalpais Chapter. Ethel New-
all, Regent ; Sequoia Chapter, Bessie B. Hays,
Regent: State Regent of California. Sarah
Foster Harshbarger.

Alontana : Phebe Comfort Anderson. State
Regent. Montana; Susie M. Passmore, Regent,
Silver Bow Chapter; Lucy Jane Kemper, Cor-
responding Secretary, Silver Bow Chapter.

North Dakota : Mrs. George Morley Young,
North Dakota State Regent ; Mandan Chapter.
Fannie Taylor Bowers, Regent; Bismark Chap-
ter, filadys Eaton Grady, Regent.

A rising vote of thanks was tendorcrl Mrs.
Anderson for her assistance. Miss Coltrane
read her rijinrt as Historian General as follows :

Report of Historian General

Madam President General and Members of tlir
National Board of. Afanagement, Daughters
of the American Revolution :
Our work of historical interest has been car-
ried on the past few months with a decided
increase in enthusiasm and interest, however at
this time we have little to re:)ort. One very
interesting sketch has been sent to us. It is the
life of Col. Charles Burrell of Canaan, Conrect-

icut, written by himself at the age of eighty
years and copied in 1829 from the original by his
granddaughter, Mrs. Eliza Rockwell Emerson.
A list of some very valuable marriage records
has been presented by Miss Cordelia Phifer of
Charlotte, North Carolina, and we feel much
work is being done along these lines that will
appear in a later report.

The work on the War Service Records is
being pressed. Since our last report we have
received twelve volumes. Nebraska, 1 : Texas,
2; Oklahoma, 1; Rhode Island, 1; Utah, 1;
Arizona, 1 ; New Mexico, 1 ; and Kentucky, 4.
The records of Missouri, Iowa, and New Jersey
are in process of binding. There remains now
only eight states who have not reported but we
are working most diligently to have this work
completed by Congress.

The three Vice Chairmen working with the
Historian General have been most active in
their cooperation and I am sure fine results will
be obtained from their labors.

It is quite essential that we do not forget to
perpetuate th? memory of our Revolutionary
ancestors. The work on our Lineage books has
been more rapid than usual. Volumes 57 and

58 are now ready for distribution and I urge
you to notify your chapters regarding these vol-
umes so that members attending the Congress
will be prepared to purchase them. Volume

59 is at the printers and will be finished by
April 1st. The records for \'olumes 60 and
61 have been prepared and are ready for the
printer, 62 is in preparation.

By request of our President General the His-
torian General's office was askcl to preserve
the newspaper clippings of the Limitation of
Armament Conference. A scrap book con-
taining these clippings has been very carefully
and efficiently compiled and is now ready.
Respectfully submitted.

JlC.N.V \\'lXSI.OW Coi.TRANK,

Historian (rciirriil.
Report accepted.

The report of the Re-iorter (ieiieral to tl:e
Smithsonian Institution was read by Mrs. I'llliott.
the Recording Secretary General f^ro ion.

Report of Reporter Gereral to Smithsonian
Institution

Madam President General and Meml)ers of tiie
X'atinnal Board of Management :
.\fter nieetiiig with you last October, your
repiirtir yinvral spent several busv weeks on
tlu' re|iiirt to the .Smithsonian Institution, and
at this time li.is to report that on December 27tli
the mannscriiit was mailed to the secretary of
the Institution, who acknowledt^cd it with a very
cordial and appreciative letter, and stated that
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mittee. At the same time, the editor of the
Institution wrote that he hoped to have the
report ready for distribution at our Congress
in April.

Many of the state offices reported promptly
and satisfactorily, but a considerable number
were slow and their reports inadequate. Not-
withstanding the fact that all communications
emphasized the necessity of sending in reports
by November 1st, several of them were not re-
ceived until the middle of December, and one
historian's report from a prominent state came
the night of December 23rd — too late to be
included in my report, since my manuscript had
to be in the hands of the typist not later than
December 20th. In such a case, the state can
only receive credit in the Smithsonian report for
the work reported by the various committees
and included in the summary of the proceedings
of our Congress.

However, with one or two exceptions, ad-
equate reports were finally obtained from each
state in time to be included in the Smithsonian
report. There was a general desire on the
part of the state officers to cooperate, and the
delinquencies were largely due to inexperience.
Naturally the first report of an officer is a re-
port of work accomplished during the last year
of her predecessor's term of office, and in many
cases it seems that the outgoing officer had not
been sufficiently careful to pass on proper
information to her successor. I am working on
a plan which I hope to discuss with the State
Regents in April, and which will, I believe, min-
imize this difficulty.

Respectfully submitted,

Lillian M. Wilson,
Reporter General to Sinithsoiiiaii Institution.

There being no objections the report
was accepted.

Mrs. Elliott gave the total number of acces-
sions to the Library from Mrs. Ellison's report,
the report in detail to be published as usual.

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board :
I have the honor to report the following
accessions to the Library :

BOOKS

Ar.An.AJiA

From the State Librarian, Miss Marv C. 'I'liurber,
the following 5 volumes:
lOof"'"^'^ ^l^era of Alabama. J. C. DuBosc. 2 vols.

History of MethodUm in Alabama. A. West. 189.3.
Famous American Men and Women. 189.').
188?*'*''"^^ 0/ the Confederate States Nan/. ,1. T. Scliarf.

Proceedinf/s of ISlh Annual Conference of the Arkan-
sas D. A. R., February 3-!,, 19?A. Presented by the
Arkansas "Daughters."

CoNNHCTlCt.'T

A Century of Vernon, Conn., 1808-1008. 1911. Pre-
sented by Mrs. J. M. Williams of Orford Parish Chapter.

A Centennial Sketch of New London. W. H. Starr.
1876. Presented by Lucretia Shaw Chapter.

The following 2 volumes presented by Mrs. Sidney H.
Miner :

Early History of the First Church of Christ of New
London, Coini. S. L. Blake. 1897.

Laivr History 0/ the First Church of Christ of New
London, Conn. S. L. Blalce. 1900.

DlSTIflCT 01'' CoLUMIilA

Bioyraphieal Encyclopedia of New Jersey. 1877. I're-
sented by Our Flag Chapter.

The following 3 volnmes presented by Mrs. Charlotte
Emerson Main :

American Families, Gcnealoyleal and Heraldic. W. It.
Cutter.

Catherine Schuyler. M. G. Humphreys. 1897.

Margaret Wlnthrop. A. M. Earle. 1896.

Harmon Genealoyy in New England. A. C. Harmon.
1920. Presented by Miss Eva Jackson in name of Samuel
Gorton Chapter.

Memories of a Long Life in Virginia, ,1. H. Jfoorc.

1920. Presented by Miss Virginia Miller.

GEOIKilA

The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-17JiO. A. L. Fries.
1905. Presented by Commodore Richard Dale Cliapter.

Letters of Eliza Wilkinson. C. Gilnian. 1839. Pre-
sented by Baron De Kalb Chapter.

Subscription to the Georgia Historical Society Quar-
terly. Presented by Thronateeska Chapter.

Americanism. World War History of Troup County,
Ga. 1919. Presented by Mrs. C. M. Awtrey.

Illinojs

Tlie following 12 volumes were received Ihrough Miss
Effie Epler, State Librarian:

History of Bond and Montgomery Counties, III. AV. H.
Perrin. 1882. Presented by Mrs. Charles Davidson,
State Historian.

History of Hancock County, III. C. J. Scofield. 2 vols.

1921. Presented by Martha Board, Plymouth Rock and
Shadrack Bond Chapters.

History of Ogle County, III. H. G. & R. H. Kauff-
nian. 2 vols. 1909. Presented by Mrs. Frank 0.
Lowden, State Vice Regent.

History of Irorjuois County, III. H. W. Beckwith.
1880. Presented by Mr. D. C. Seerest.

History of the English Settlement in Edwards County,
III., 1817-1818. George Flower. 1882. Presented by
Mrs. William Beye.

Reminiscences of Early Chicago. E. 0. Gale. 1902.
Presented by G. AVhittier Gale through George Rogers
Clark Chapter.

Perrin's History of Illinois. J. N. Perrin. 1906.
Presented by the author.

History of Kendall County, III. E. W. Hicks. 1877.
Presented by State Society.

Memorial of Rev. David Loy Tressler, Ph. D. 1880.
Presented by Mrs. Mary Tressler Newcomer.

Autobiography of Gurdon Saltonstall Hubbard. 1911.
Presented by George Rogers Clark Chapter.

Indiana

History of Lake County, ind., 183^-1872. T. H. Ball.
1872. Presented by Tippecanoe River Chapter.

History of Frankfort, Kentucky Cemetery. L. F.
Johnson. •1921. Presented by Mrs. George Baker.

Eidht Generations of an Ipswich-Paine Family. L. A.
Carter. 1920. Presented by Mrs. Carrie Stratton Howard.

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Early Settlers of Harrison, Me. G. T. Rldlon. 1877.
Presented by Mrs. Susan S. Lowell.

Bangor Historical Magazine, vols. 4 and 5. 1889-
1890. Presented by Frances Dighton Williams Chapter.

The following six books presented through Mrs. C. B.
Porter, State Librarian ; First two presented by Lydia
Putnam Chapter :

Historical Sketch and Roster of I he Aroostook ]\'ar,
1329. 1904.

Maine in the Northeastern lloundary Controversy.
1919. H. S. liurrage.

Next two presented by Esther Eayres Chapter.

History of the Maine State College and the University
of Maine. M. C. Fernald. 1916.

Sketches of Old Town. D. Norton 1881.

Twenty Years at Pemaquid. J. H. Cartland. 1914.
Presented by Mrs. G. H. Hopkins and Mrs. C. H. Wood
of Frances Dighton Williams Chapter.

Old Hallowell on the Kennebec. E. H. Nason. 1909.
Presented by Mary Kelton Dummer Chapter.

The Centennial History of Waterville, Me. E. C.
Whittemore. 1902. Presented by Silence Howard Hay-
den Chapter.

History of Cumberland County, Me. 1880. Everts
& Peck. Presented by Mrs. Grace Leadbctter.

Massachusetts

Old Marlborough Sea Captains: 1915. Presented by
Brigadier General John Glover Chapter.

Genealogy of Descendants of Anthony Collamer, 1915.
Presented by Aliss Adalinc C. Young, through Chief
Justice Gushing Chapter.

Old Scituate. 1921. Published and presented by
Chief Justice Gushing Chapter.

From Prudence Wright Chapter nine volumes were
received.

Rose of Sharon. S. C. Edgarton. 1842.

At Home and Abroad. M. F. Ossoli. 1850. Pre-
sented by Mrs. E. B. Heald.

Fletcher flenealooy. E. Fletcher. 1871. Presented
by Mrs. W. H. Merrill.

Life of Henry Wilson. 187C. Nason and Russell.
Presented by Mrs. N. W. Appleton.

Laws of Commonwealth of Massaehnsitts, 77iSO-7S07.
Vol. 2. Presented by E. A. Williams.

Washington and His Generals. J. T. Headlev. 2 vols.
1847.

Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. J. Digclow, ed.
1868.

Life of Major General Nathanael Greene. W. G.
Simnis. 1856. The last four volumes presented bv
Miss Annetta S. Merrill.

HUtory of Xorlh .1,1, iws, Maits., 77.',fl- /SSJ. W. F.
Spear. Is85. l'r(<,iit. .1 1,\ Fort Massachusetts Chapter.

Wat,rt,nr„'s Milil,,,,, lllston,, mC-ms. 1907. Pre-
sented by WatiMtowii Chaijtur.

From Old Blake House Chapter:

Memoirs of Roger Clap. 1844.

Annals of the 'Town of Dorchester. J. Blake. 1846.

From fJcneral Benjamin Lincoln Chapter:

Lives of Ih,' Signers of the Declaration of Indipcnd-
ence. N. Invight. 1851.

History of Harvard Cjllioe. (Vol. 2, Matlier's Mag-
nalla Christi Americana.) 1820.

Private Corre.ipondence of l),nii,'t Wihslrr. F. Wcli-
ster. 2 vols. 1857.

The following ton books presented liv Mrs. William
De Y. Field of Paul Revere Chapter:

History of Middlesex Counlii, Masr. I). H. Iliir-l.
3 vols. 1H90.

Records of the Town of Weston, n.'id-tHOtt. l-dl', f^.ic.
1893. 1894.

Historical Sketch of First Conqreoalional Chunh in
Marlborough, Mass. L. A. Field. 1859.

Sketches of HUtoric Churches of Greater Boston. 191s.

Peculiarities of American Cities. W. Glazier. IssO.

Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. J.
Davi.s. 2 vols. 1881.

Burials and In.icriptions in Ih, W,itnul Sin, I Cm-
etery of Brookline, Mass. II. .\. Ciuniriings. l!l20.
Pre.sented by compiler to Paul Revere Chapter for Librarv

History of the First Church in Roxhiiry, Mass., IC.in-
IftOI,. W. E. Thwing. 1908. Presented bv Mr.s. Wil-
liam De Y. Field.

The While House Gallery of Ofjirial Portraits of the
Pre.iidrnt.i. Presented by General Bdijamin Lincoln
Chapter.

Presented by Abigail Phillii)s Quiiicy Chapter:

Histoni of Old Braintrce and Quineii. W. S. Pattee.
1878.

Epitaphs from Burial Hill, Plymouth, Mass. B.
Kingman. 1892.

Presented by Sarah Deming Society, C. A. R., through
Peace Party Chapter:

Boston Common. M. A. Howe. 1921.

The Berkshire Jubilee. 1845.

Berkshire Historical and Scientific Society Collections.
10 vols. Presented by Peace Party Chapter.

Michigan'

Old Settlers of the Grand Traverse Region. Wait &
Anderson. 1918. Presented by Mrs. Fred W. Culver.

Michigan D. A. R. Year Book 1921. Presented by
Miss Alice Louise McDufFee.

Presented by Mrs. M. D. M. Bertch :

Memorials of the Grand River Valley. F. Everett.
1878.

Political Histovaj of Michigan. J. V. Campbell. 1876.

Report of War Work of the D. A. R. of Michigan,
April, 1915 to .ipril, 1919. Compiled and presented by
Mrs. W. H. Wait.

Eighteen books by Michigan authors presented by
Michigan Daughters for the Michigan Room.

Minnesota

From Keewaydin Chapter the following 14 volumes
donated by Miss Marian \V. Moir :

History of Merchants' National Bank of New York.
P. G. Hubert. 1903.

The National Bank Act. E. W^olcott. 1882.

I'estimnni/ of .ifforneu-Grneral Brewster with Letters
and Do,-i,ni,'i,ts. W. M." Springer. 1884.

Lif,- ,,f s,n,i„,l Mill.r, I>. P. S. Miller. 2 vols. 1869.

Life mill L,tl,rs f,f Ilmih Miller. P. Bayne. 2 vols.
1871.

Memoirs of Mary Lundie Duncan. 1842.

Memoirs of Hannah L. Murray. G. Spring. 1849.

Memorials of Thomas De Witt. 1875.

Memoirs of Morris C. Sutphen, D. D. 1876.

Records of a Girlhood. F. A. Kemble. 3 vols. 1878.

Guilford Genealogy. H. M. Guilford. 1918. Pre-
sented bv Miss Helen Guilford.

Presented by Mrs. C. W. Wells:

Fifty Years of Plymouth Church, Minneapoli.'i, Minn.
1907.

IVar Book of Plymouth Congregational Church, .Min-
neapolis, .Minn.

Mi.ssissii'i'l

Proceedings of the 3rd Southern Forestni Conoress.
1921. Presented by Belvidere Chapter.

State Centennial Souvmir Proyram. /SV/-/.V7. X. T.
(irove. 192]. Presented bv Mrs. J. B. White.

rrislorii of Ihe Town of Crnish. N.iv Hampshire.
W. II. Cliil.l. 2 vols. Presented by Mrs. Austin Tyler.

New Jeiisev

Presented liv Orange Moutitnin Chnpler:

riirly Yiars at Raritan. A. Messier. 1873.

History of the Prcsbyterimi Church in Trenton, N. J.
J. Hall. 1859.

History of Newark. N. J. J. Atkinson. 1878.

Presented by Mrs. Mott Bedell Vail, Regent of Jersev
Hllle Chapter:

('idliili,iii of riijitoricat Addrr.,)ses.

Hislorinil Di.,icourse. T. DcWitt. 1859.

Hisloriral Sketch of 1st Presbyterian Church, New
Uninsirirk. N. .J. R. Davidson. 1852

tr,aiU Anniversary 1st Reformed Dutch Church, New
Brunswick, N. ,1 . R. IL Steele. 1807.

Princeton and Its lnslitution.<t. J, A. Hageinaii. 2
vols. 1879.

Historical Tales of New York Cily and Slat,. J. F.
Watson. 1832.

History of Burlington and Mercer Counllis. Wood-
ward and Hagcnian. 1883.

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History of Orange County, N. Y. Ruttoiiber & Clark.
1881.

National Portrait Gallery. 3 vols. Herring & Long-
acre. 1836.

History of Hudson County. C. H. Winfleld. 1S74.

New Mexico

Military Occupation of New Mexico, ISiG-lSol. R. E.
Twitchell. 1909. Presented by Jacob Bennett Chapter.

New York

History of Greene County, N. Y. 1884. Presented
by Mrs. John F. Yawger.

Anthology of Niagara Falls. C. M. Dow. 1921. 2
vols. Presented by Ticonderoga Chapter.

Gtoversville. H. Sprague. Presented by Mrs. Louise
H. De Lamater.

The Salisburian. E. G. Salisbury. Vol. 1. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Richard Knight.

Israel Angell, Colonel of the 2nd Rhode Island Reg-
iment. L. L. Lovell. 1921. Presented by Mrs. F. H.
Lovell, the author.

History of Greenwich, N. Y. E. P. Thurston. 1876.
Presented by Mrs. Anna N. Rogers of Willard Mt. Chapter.

History of King's County and of the City of Brook-
lyn, N. Y\ H. R. Stiles. 2 vols. 1884. Presented by
Battle Pass Chapter.

History of Columbia County, N. Y. 1878. Presented
by Hendrick Hudson Chapter.

North Carolina

Through the State Librarian, Mrs. Van Landingham:

Life of Oliver Hazard Perry. J. N. Niles. 1821.
Presented by Mrs. John L. Bridgers.

In Meworiam Mary Love Stringfield Wulbern, 1873.
1907. Presented by Dorcas Bell Chapter.

Glowing Embers. Mrs. John Van Landingham. 1922.
Presented by the author.

Camp-Fires of the Revolution. H. C. Watson. 18.58.
Presented by Mrs. John Lippelman, Regent Cincin-
nati Chapter.

ORECiOX

McLouglllin and Old Oregon. E. E. Dye. 1921.
Pl-esented by Mrs. U. G. Smith.

Pioneer History of Coos and Curry Counties. Oregon.
Orvil Dodge. 1898. Presented by Coos Bay Chapter.

Presented by Quenett Chapter:

Reminiscences of Eastern Oregon. E. L. Lord. 1903.
Presented by Mrs. Eva Lord Houghton.

Crossing the Plains. 0. Thomson. 1890. Presented
by Mrs. Lulu D. Crandall.

Pennsylvania

Centennial and Memorial Association of Valley Forge.
H. J. Stager. 1911.

History of Schuylkill County, Pa. Volume 1. 1907.

Political Hand-Book of Berks County, Pa. M. L.
Montgomery. 1883. Presented by Mrs. L. L. Jones.

Annals of the Families of Caspar, Henry, Baltzer and
George Spengler. E. W. Spengler. 1896. Presented by
Yorktown Chapter.

History of Cambria County, Pa. H. W. Storey. 3
vols. 1907. Presented by Quemahoning Chapter.

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Vols. .53 and .54. 1919, 1920. Presented by Mrs. Rob-
ert Alexander.

A7inals of Buffalo Valley. Pa., 1755-185,5. J. B.
Linn. 1877. Presented by Miss Mary H. Linn.

Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County,
Pa. 2 vols. M. L. Montgomery. 1909. Presented by
Misses Emily, Margaret and Sarah Reider through Berks
County Chapter.

Hutory of Bethlehem, Pa., 17^1-1892. J. M. Lever-
ing. 1903. Presented by Bethlehem Chapter.

From the Philadelphia Chapter:

Life of Major-General William Henry Harrison. 1840.
Presented by Mrs. G. H. Shriver.

Extracts from the Diary of Jacob HiUzheimer of
Philadelphia, 1765-1793. 1893. J. C. Parsons.

Historical Sketch of the Cornplanter and of the Six
Nations of Indians. J. R. Snowden. 1867.

Description of Ancient and Modern Coins. J. R. Snow-
den. 1860.

Description of the Medals of Washington and of
National and Miscellaneous Medals. J. R. Snowden.
1861. The last two presented by Mrs. Sarah P. S.
Mitchell.

Presented by Miss Lucy A. Helms, Regent of Mahaii-
tongo Chapter.

Three Decades of Federal Legislation. S. S. Cox.
1885.

Rhode Island

Old Time Meeting Houses of the Connecticut Valley.
C. A. Wight. 1911. Presented by Mrs. Richard Jack-
son Barker.

Tennessee

Presented by Judge David Campbell Chapter:
Writings of George Washington. J. Sparks. Vols.

3, 4 and 5. 1834.

Letters of Richard Henry Lee. J. C. Ballagh. 2

vols. 1911.

Texas

From Betty Martin Chapter :

Texas. A Contest of Civilizations. G. P. Garri-
son. 1903.

Under Six Flags. M. E. M. Davis. 1897.

History of Texas, 16S5-1892. J. H. Brown. 2 vols.
1893. Presented by Mrs. E. K. Downs through the
Chapter.

Governors and Other Public Men of Texas. N. G.
Kittrell. 1921. Presented by Lady Washington Chapter.

Report of the 22nd Annual State Conference of the
Texas D. A. R. 1921. Presented by Texas Daughters.

Vermont

Stephen A. Douglas. E. S. Marsh. 1914. Presented
by Mrs. Jennie DeWolf Braley, Regent Lake Dun-
more Chapter.

Poets and Poetry of Verynont. A. M. Hemenway.
1858. Presented by Miss Lora J. Blood.

History of Norfhfield, Vt. J. Gregory. 1878. Pre-
sented by Mrs. G. F. Barker.

Virginia

History of Tazewell County and Southwest Virginia,
1748-1920. W. C. Pendleton. 1920. Presented by
Northampton County Chapter.

Proceedings of the Virginia D. A. R.. Oct. 6, 1921.
Presented by Virginia Daughters.

Wyoming

History of Wyoming. I. S. Bartlett. 1918. 4 vols.
Presented bj' Cheyenne Chapter.

Other Sources

Report of the American Historical Association for 1913.
3 vols. 1921.

Year Book, 1920-1921. 1921. Presented by the So-
ciety of Colonial Wars in the State of New York.

Report of the Commissioner of the Land Office of Mary-
land, 1919-1921. Presented by the Commissioner.

The Masons as Makers of America. M. G. Peters.
1921. Presented by Rear Admiral G. W. Baird, who
gave at same time two pamphlets.

Presented bj' the State Historical Society of Wis-
consin.

The Struggle Over Ratification. M. M. Quaife. 1920.

The Convention of 13J,6. M. M. Quaife. 1919.

Year Book Louisiana Society, S. A. R., t921.

Report of Librarian of Congress for 1921.

Iowa Chronicles of the World War. M. L. Hansen.
1921. Presented by the Iowa State Historical Society.

PAMPHLETS

Colorado
Presented by Arapahoe Chapter :

Semi-Centennial of the First Congregational Church
of Boulder, Colo.

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Dedication Services of the Congregational Church of
Boulder, Colo.

Connecticut

From Mrs. J. M. WOliams of Orford Parish Chapter:
Sketches of Manchester, Conn. J. M. Williams
Directory and Manual of the Second Congregational

Church, Manchester, Conn. Rev. C. M. Calderwood. 1915.
lOOtli Anniversary of 1st Church of Christ, Manchester.

1880.

History of Ne^v London, Conn. 1892. C. J. Viets.

Presented by Lucretia Shaw Chapter.

DisriiicT or Columbia

List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Berwick, Me. W.
D. Spencer. 1898. Presented by Miss Ella S. Wood of
Eleanor AVilson Chapter.

Illinois

Presented by Mrs. Thomas Perry, through the State
Librarian, Miss Effle Epler :

Theodore Roosevelt. 1920.

Abraham Lincoln. 1920.

George Washington. 1920.

Three Centuries of Pilgrim History. 1917. The above
four addresses by WDliam E. Barton.

George Rogers Clark, Memorial Address. M. Starr.
1906.

Indiana

Record of Shuhacl Chapman Family. D. M. Chapman.
1897. Presented by Tippecanoe River Chapter.

List of Revolutionary Soldiers of Berwick, Me. W. D.
Spencer. 1898. Presented by Mrs. Susan S. Lowell.

. Massachusetts

From Mrs. Nellie R. Fiske of Wayside Inn Chapter:

A Hundred Years of the Old Meeting House. A. W.
Cutting. 1915.

Historical Address. A. W. Cutting. 1911.

History of the First Parish, Weston, Mass. E. S.
Coburn. 1921. Presented by Mrs. William De Y. Field.

The Pilgrim Fathers in Holland. J. I. Brown. 1920.
Presented by Mrs. M. L. Osborne.

Michigan

Edmund Whittiir. His Ance.ftry and Descendants.
B. B. Whitticr. 1917. Presented by Mrs. Fred W.
Culver together with the Whittier Family Chart.

From Ypsilanti Chapter for the Michigan Room 16
pamphlets were received, 12 of which were presented
by Miss Bessie Blakrsley.

Minnesota

From Mrs. M. C. Wells two pamphlets relating to
Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis, were
received.

Some Early Settlers. 1921. Mary Cousins McCabe.
Presented by the author.

New Hampshire

Proceedings of the l.'inth Anniversary of Cornish, A'. //.
Presentc'd by Mrs. Austin Tvlcr.

Ni

YoitK

Presented by Mrs. Louise Hildreth IX' Lamater:
Kinysboro, y. Y.,. Presbytcriun Church. G. Ilarkncss.

1876.

Re-Vnion of Sludrnls of Kinoshornviih Arodcmii,

1831-186:!. 1900.

Stories of the Counties of \,ntli (\
Presented by Miss Cordelia \\. I'hif,

Pennsylvania

Centennial Number of the Washington, Pe7insylvania
Reporter, August 15, 190S. Presented by Miss Jane Hall.

From Shikelimo Chapter:

Plunkett the Pennamite. B. Smith.

Captain Logan, Blair County's Indian Chief. H. W.
Shoemacher. 1915.

From Lebanon County Chapter:

Reminiscences of Noted Men and Times. H. M. M.
Richards. 1918.

Papers of Lebanon County Historical Society. 1919.

Lebanon County's Part in the Revolutionary War.
H. M. M. Richards. 1909.

Historical Sketch of Gov. Joseph Hiester. H. M. M.
Richards. 1907.

The Hiester Family. H. M. M. Richards. 1907.

Valley Forge and the Pennsylvania-Germans. H. .M. M.
Richards. 1917.

From Miss Lucv A. Helms :

Gazette of the United States, May 3, 1789. (Reprint).

Ulster County, N. Y. Gazette, January -}, ISOO.
(Reprint).

Universal Philadelphia Correspondent, September 7,
1782.

Sketch of Poultney Baptist Church, Vermont. C. Rip-
ley. Presented by Mrs. George H. Ripley.

Beginnings of Texas History. C. Pollard. 1921.
Presented by Lady Washington Chapter.

Other Sources

Smith-Weary Chronology. Frank 0. Weary. 1921.
Presented by compiler.

Year Book, 1920, American Clan Gregor Society. E. W.
Magruder. 1921. Presented by the Society.

Year Book, 1921, Carnegie Endowment for Interna-
tional Peace. Presented by the Society.

Gloucester County's Most Famous Citizen, Gen. Frank-
lin Davenport, 1755-1832. F. H. Stewart. 1921. Pre-
sented by author.

Virginia First. Lyon G. Tyler. 1921. Presented
by author.

Dedication of Cole's Hill Memorial, Plymouth. Mass.,
Sept. 8, 1921. Published and presented by General Soci-
ety of Mayflower Descendants.

Year Book New Jersey Society of Pennsylvania. 1921
Presented by the Society.

Genealogy of the Hill Family including Sketch of Joel
Barlow. M. Hill. 1879. Presented by Mrs. Helena
Hill Weed.

War Register, 1917-1918. 1921. Presented by the
Society of Colonial Wars in State of New York.

The Reade Record. 10 Numbers. Presented by Reade
Family Association.

MANUSCRIPTS

C0L01!AI>0

History of the Oldest Congrrgnlional Church in Colo-
rado. Presented by Mrs. J. B. Place of Arapahoe Chapter.

Nicw Jeusky

I'resented by the compiler, Mrs. Florence B. Piorson:
Early Days of WcHficld, N. J. Florence B. Pierson.
•■The Old Weslflcld Church." Florence B. Pierson.

(Typewritten.)

New York

Bible Record of Miss Frances Slauffer's Family. Pre-
sented by Battle Pass Chapter.

North Carolina

Through the State Librarian Mrs. Van Landinghani a
collection of manuscripts (9) were presented by Mrs. John
L. Bridgers and a collection of papers (5) relating to
Cabarrus County was presented by Cabarrus Black
Hoys Chapter.

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Washington

Two biographical sketches were presented by Mrs.
\V. H. Bryden and also two photographs.

PERIODICALS

Essex Institute. January.

D. A. R. Magazine. December, November, January.

Michigan History Magazine. July, October.

New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings. October,
January.

Newport Historical Society Bulletin. October.

loica Journal of History and Politics. October

Kentucky State Historical Society Register. January.

Neiv York Public Library Bulletin. September, Oc-
tober, November, December.

New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin.
January.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
January.

New York State Historical Association Quarterly. April.

Sprague's Journal of Maine History. December.

Palimsest. November, December, January.

A'. S. S. A. R. Bulletin. October, December.

Missouri Historical Review. October.

A'. ^. U. S. Daughters of 1S12. November.

Georgia Historical Quarterly. December.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
October.

Virginia .Magazine of History and Biography. October,
Januarj-.

]yitliam and Mary College Quarterly. October.

Maryland Historical Magazine. December.

Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Maga-
zine. October.

County Court Note-Book. October, December.

Illinois State Historical Society Journal. July.

The list includes 223 books, 72 pamphlets, 36
periodicals, 20 manuscripts and 4 photographs.
Respectfully submitted,
(AIrs. Frank D.) Annie C. Ellison,

Librarian-General.
Report accepted.

Mrs. White read her report as Curator Gen-
eral as follows :

Report of Curator General

Madam President General, Members of the
National Board of Management:

I have the honor to report the following ac-
cessions since Board Meeting, October 18, 1921 :

Colorado : An almanac of the year 1780.
which contains records of Massachusetts Bay
and New Hampshire. Commencing with a list
of the Honorable Council of the former State,
it contains the names of Artemas Ward, Caleb,
Thomas and Nathan Gushing, Samuel Adams,
and John Hancock. In the list of members are
many names prominent in the early history of
the State. Other interesting lists are those of
justices of the peace, barristers, attorneys and
officers and instructors of Harvard College
presented by Mrs. Herbert B. Hayden,
Araphoe Chapter.

The lists are being copied for reference in
the Library.

District of Columbia: Old Chelsea china
plate, saucer and dish. Bohemian glass bowl,
also a fan with tortoise shell sticks, presented

by Mrs. B. C. Yorks, Regent of Martha Wash-
ington Chapter. Also received through the
Dolly Madison Cb^apter of the District of Col-
umbia, Mrs. H. B. Patten, Regent, the beautiful
silver teapot, tea strainer, tray and sugar bowl,
formerly the property of Dolly Madison, which
was erroneously credited to Pennsylvania in
the October report of the Curator General.

Kansas : Linen handkerchief, hand embroid-
ered made for the wife of Davis Carroll of
Maryland, by her daughter Harriet L. Carroll;
presented by former's granddaughter. Miss
Mary Belle Hollister. Atchison Chapter. Topaz
earrings worn by the wife of Davis Carroll,
inherited from her mother, presented by
same donor.

Maryland : Iron key made in 1700 ; also
an iron smoking pipe brought over by the
Dutch early in the 18th century, presented by
Mrs. James Loughborough, James Mont-
gomery Chapter.

Massachusetts : Blue glass bowl, formerly
owned by Sally Somes Mackey, of the same
State, presented by Mr. George R. Mansfield.
Bronze lustre pitcher, 3% inches high, presented
by Old Oak Chapter. Two glass cup plates,
presented by the Col. Timothy Bigelow Chapter.

Manuscript, presented by Airs. Eudora AI.
Burnham, Alargaret Corbin Chapter.

Rhode Island : China plate presented by Air.
Arthur Duncan Green, a descendant of Lieut.
Job Green 1777-78.

The government of the United States of
America : Through the courtesy of the Sec-
retary of State, Hon. Charles Evans Hughes,
who presented to our President General, Mrs.
George Alaynard Alinor for the Daughters of
the American Revolution, the flag staff pen-
holder used by Secretary Hughes in signing
the five treaties, Alonday, February 6. 1922.
formulated by the Delegates to the Conference
on Limitation of Armament : from our Presi-
dent General. Airs. George Alaynard Minor the
gavel presented, by our President General, to
Secretary Hughes, for the use of the chairman
of the Conference, the plenary sessions of which
were held in Afemorial Continental Hall, from
November 12. 1921. to February 6, 1922.
Respectfully submitted,

Louise C. White.

There being no objection the report
was accepted.

Airs. Elliott then read her report.

Report of Corresponding Secretary General

Aladam President General and Alembers of the

National Board of Alanagement :

Since October first the following supplies

have been mailed from my office to chapters

and individuals making request for such service :

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Application blanks 29,162

Leaflets "How to become a member".. 2,643

Leaflets of General Information 2,525

Transfer cards 2,101

Constitutions 1,679

Twenty-one hundred and nine letters were
received and recorded and seventeen hundred
and sixty-eight letters were written.

The free distribution of the Manual for Im-
migrants having been placed in this office there
have been sent out 11,519 copies; of which
6,183 were of the English edition, 3,329 Italian
and 2,007 Spanish.

Respectfully submitted,

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Corresponding Secretary General.

Report accepted.

The Treasurer General reported with much
regret that since the last meeting of the Board
a week ago the Society had lost through death
39 members. The President General here spoke
of the death of Miss May Duncanson, who had
been chairman of the Seating Committee for
the Congresses for many years and had rend-
ered service for a high quality to the Society.
The President General reported that flowers
had been sent from the National Society and
several of the National Officers had attended
her funeral, the members of the Board rose in
silent memory of Miss Duncanson and the
other deceased members.

Mrs. Hunter reported also that 42 members
had resigned, and that 24 former members hav-
ing complied with the requirements for
reinstatement had requested to be reinstated.
Mrs. Hunter therefore moved that the Secretary
be instructed to cast the ballot for the rein-
statement of 24 members. Seconded by Mrs.
Frisbee and carried. The Recording Secretary
General pro tent announced the casting of the
ballot and the President General declared these
24 former members reinstated in the Na-
tional Society.

Miss Strider presented the following supple-
mental report.

Supplemental Report of Registrar General
I have the honor to report 190 applications
presented to the Board, making a total of 440.
Numbers of members admitted.

November 750

December 1325

January 1420

February 440

Total .3935

Respectfully submitted.

(Miss) Emma T. Strider.
Registrar General.
Moved by Miss Strider. seconded by Mrs.
White, and carried, that the Secretary he in-

structed to cast the ballot for the admission of
190 applicants for membership. Mrs. Elliott
announced the casting of the ballot and the
President General declared the 190 applicants
members of the National Society.

Mrs. Hanger read the report of the Build-
ing and Grounds Committee as follows :

Report of Building and Grounds Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Alanagement :

Immediately following the October Board
Meeting your Chairman at the request of the
President General took up with the represent-
atives of the Government the changes in the
Auditorium necessary to the acommodation of
the Conference on Limitation of Armament.
Daily consultations were held regarding details,
the final decision being that the seats in the
center of the Auditorium must be taken out, a
floor laid level with the platform also seats
under the balconies raised so that all could have
a view of the center. This work was under
the direction of Commander Rouzer, U. S. N.
who was especially selected for his ability. On
October 22nd, the actual work began under his
direction with government employees and car-
penters. The seats were removed and stored
in the basement, the carpenters taking poses-
sion and in a short time the floor was laid.
During these preparations the building was
closed to the public but open to the D. A. R.
and for business.

As the time went on the State Department
expressed a desire to have the office rooms on
the main floor put at the disposal of the Dele-
gates to the Conference, for Committee
Meetings. Your Chairman at first thought that
this would be an impossibility for the work
of the National Society must go on without
interruption. After much thought and planning
it was deemed possible to make changes which
would leave the Ohio, Missouri, District of
Columbia. Illinois. New York, and Texas rooms
availaiilc for government use.

The Building and Grounds Committee ap-
proved the suggested changes, the President
General obtaining the consent of the National
Officers whose offices were to be moved and
the respective State Regents cheerfully consent-
ing to have their rooms used as offices, the
following changes were made : office of Curator
General to Library, office of Historian General
to Library, office of Executive manager to Lib-
rary, office of Recording Secretary General to
New Jersey room, office of Corresponding Sec-
retary General to Massachusetts room and the
office of the Organizing Secretary General to
Delaware and Virginia rooms. For the con-
venience of the majority of clerks the Catalogue

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was placed in the Library. The clerks lunch
room, also south corridor in basement was
requested for use by the Government for print-
ing and issuing documents in connection with the
Plenary Sessions, north corridor basement for
typewriter, stenography and telephone service,
therefore the clerks lunch room was moved
from the basement to the top floor pantries,
adjoining the Kitchen and Banquet Hall.

As a committee we desire to express our ap-
preciation of the cooperation of the State Re-
gents and National Officers especially to Mrs.
White, Curator General, and to Mrs. Ellison,
Librarian General.

The October Board having authorized the
purchase of flags of the Nations participating
in the Conference your Chairman ordered same
but later cancelled the order as the government
furnished these flags gratis which have been
displayed daily since the convening of the Con-
ference according to government direction.

On account of affording protection to the
delegates the U. S. Government deemed it wise
to place our Building under Alilitary Guard as
much as three days before the first Plenary
Session. Arrangements to safeguard our build-
ing and all entering were made by a represent-
ative of the State Department, a U. S. Army
Captain and your chairman. Soldiers were on
duty on the exterior day and night and secret
service men on the inside. The Government
issuing special passes to all using the Building
daily. Our Building however has always been
open to the Daughters and for business, the
President General having made one stipulation
when granting its use to the government, that
stipulation being that our w^ork must go on.
While there have been inconveniences and
restrictions to be endured yet the work has
gone on without interruption, the clerks
showing not only adaptability but a fine spirit
of cooperation.

Nearing the opening of the Conference when
arrangements had been completed. Mr. Hughes,
Secretary of State, ^Ir. Root, ]^Ir. Lodge and
Mr. Underwood came to the Building to see our
Auditorium which had been transformed into an
International Council Chamber. I deem it of
great interest to report that Mr. Hughes said,
" If Alemorial Continental Hall had been built
for the purpose, the result could not have
been better."

It is of great interest to know that the re-
volving chairs used by the delegates to the
Conference are to be preserved by the U. S.
Government as of historical value, each chair
to bear a plate inscribed not only with the name
of the Delegate and Conference on Limitation
of Armament but with Memorial Continental
Hall; The chair used by President Harding
at the opening and closing sessions of the Con-

ference is a reproduction of the chair used by
the Continental Congress at the signing of the
Declaration of Independence — this chair be-
longed to the National Society having been
presented to the National Society by Continental
Dames Chapter of the District of Columbia.
The table upon which all the treaties were
signed is also the property of the National So-
ciety— a reproduction of the one in Indepen-
dence Hall — given in memory of Sabra Lavania
Beach Goddard of Granby, Conn., by her five
sons. This desk table was presented to our
Aluseum for the use of the Curator General.
The chair used at this table during the signing
is also the property of the National Society
presented by the Spirit of '76 Chapter of New
Orleans, La.

On February 3rd, the State Department
declaring that the Auditorum would be avail-
able and the consent of the President General
being obtained, a meeting of the business organ-
ization of the Government was called by
President Harding.

!Many requests have been received for the
use of the Auditorium but until the Government
released it such requests could not be con-
sidered. On February 13th the Government
will begin to restore the Auditorium to its
regular order.

We do not feel that this report would be
complete did we not call attention to the extra-
ordinary ability, ingenuity and resourcefulness
displayed at all times by our Superintendent Air.
Phillips who was largely responsible for the
successful carrying out of the many details in
connection with the preparation of our Hall for
this Conference. In fact our entire force of
employees showed that they measured up
w-hen tested.

A Cross Stitch picture of "Samuel before
Eli" for the Massachusetts room was presented
by Miss Maria Carter being the work of her
mother, a direct descendant of Elder William
Brewster. This piece of work has been ac-
cepted by the Art Committee and placed in the
Massachusetts room.

A large fine old linen damask table cloth size
5 X 514 yards has been presented by Miss
Annetta Shipley Merrill — member of Prudence
Wright Chapter, Pepperell, Mass., the cloth is
presented for use in the Banquet Hall.

The mirrors in the Connecticut room have
been resilvered, estimates having been submitted
by Hires Turner Co. of Rosslyn, Va.. $44.92.

The Bronze Markers authorized by the Board
October, 1921. have been placed as ordered. The
price of these was $216.00 for both instead of
$225.00 a saving of $9.00 of the amount author-
ized by the Board.

Acting upon the authority given by the Ex-
ecutive Committee June 16, 1921, approved by

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the Board October 18, 1921, a typewriter has
been ordered for the office of the Treasurer
General and placed.

Upon request of the Registrar General and
authority of- the Executive Committee January
23, 1922. Two typewriters have been ordered
and placed in her office.

On January 23rd, your Chairman brought to
the attention of the Executive Committee the
necessity of a new roof for our Memorial
Building— the Executive Committee voted that
at least two estimates should be obtained and
submitted to the Board.

Relying upon the advice of Marsh and Peter
Washington D. C. (architects of the Adminis-
tration Building) regarding the proper kind of
roof, the following estimates have been ob-
tained in accordance with specifications fur-
nished by them:
Samuel H. Edmonston & Co.. Wash.,

D. C $8285.00

Harry F. Boryer 8614.00

Your Committee recommends that the work
be given to Samuel H. Edmonston & Co., Con-
tractors and Builders, and that the contract for
the work be awarded upon the actual cost of
materials and labor plus a commission to the
contractor. This plan is endorsed by Marsh
and Peter.

Your Committee recommends that a sum not
to exceed $8500.00 be allowed to cover the cost
of the new roof and restoration of interior
plastering as damaged by leakage.

We beg leave to file with the recording Sec-
retary General the specifications for the roof,
letter from Marsh and Peter and estimates as
obtained from Samuel H. Edmonston and
Harry F. Boryer.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger.
Chairman, Building and Grounds Committee.

There being no objection, the report of the
Committee was accepted without its recom-
mendations. Moved by Mrs. Frisbee, seconded
by Mrs. Guernsey, and carried, that the re-
commendation for nezv roof to Memorial
Continental I fall he ado fled {as offered by Mrs.
Hanf/cr). Moved by Mrs. White, seconded
by Miss .Serpell, and carried, that the second
recommendation of the lUtildini/ and Cirounds
Committee he adopted.

Mrs. Hanger stated that she had once before
brought before the Board the matter of new
sound-proof doors for the Auditorium during
the Congress, and was again bringing it because
of a letter just received from Miss Nettleton
Chairman of the House Committee; that Marsh
and Peter had drawn specifications and plans
for these doors, to be so well made and beauti-
fully finished to corres])nnd in every way with

the beauty and dignity of the lobby, with many
panes of glass so that those who are compelled
to remain in the lobby at one time or another
may look through these windows into the audit-
orium; that it was Miss Nettleton's feeling that
the success of the Congress, the Comfort of
the President General and of the delegates de-
pended largely on the quiet that could be
maintained, and therefore this proposition was
brought to provide three doors according to
the specifications already furnished and already
estimated upon. The exact figure could not be
given because the architects felt it was best to
have it done by the actual furnishing of mater-
ials and day labor, plus a commission of seven
per cent., and while it was not the expectation to
spend the whole amount, it was recommended
that a sum not to exceed $680 be allowed
for this purpose — the purchase of three new
doors leading from the lobby into the auditorum.
The adoption of the recommendation regard-
ing nezv doors was moved by Mrs. Sherrerd.
seconded by Airs. Buel and Miss AIcDuffce,
and carried.

Miss Lincoln here presented her own report
as Editor, including with it the report for the
Chairman of Magazine Committee, Mrs. Bissell,
who was still detained at home because of the
illness of her husband.

Report of Editor of Magazine

Aladam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
Since my last report to this Board four
issues of the Magazine have been published —
November, December, January, and February.
The December Magazine was devoted ahnost
exclusively to the account of the gift of the
fountain and water system to the French vil-
age of Tilloloy by the National Society, while
the January issue contained a special account of
the first meetings of the Conference on the
Limitation of Armament. A description of tlie
last meetings of the Conference, held during
the past week, will appear in the March Mag-
azine. An account from the achitectural view-
point of the new office building illustrated, with
photographs and architects drawings, will appear
in this issue also.

.Among the articles which appeared the past
four months, and which attracted special at-
tention were "The Story of the Purple Heart"
by Mr. J. C. Fitzpatrick, and "Continental
Marine Ofiieers of the American Revolution"
Major E. M. McClellan. U. S. Marine Corps.
Mrs. Neyle Colc|uitt's article on the Octo-
hiT Maga/iiie. "Our French Liberators" has
lui'ii translatrd into French and re-published in
both iMench and Canadian journals. The
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in it that he not only wrote a note of apprecia-
tion to Mrs. Colquitt, but purchased a number
of copies of the Magazine. Incidentally I may
mention that the October edition is completely
sold out.

Among the articles yet to appear in the Alag-
azine are the following : "American Illiteracy,
A National Menace" by Paul V. Collins, "An
Unmarked Revolutionary Site in Ohio," by C.
L. Martzolff, "Old Pelham, Massachusetts" by
Mrs. Anna P. See, and " Last Days at Mount
Vernon," by Charles Moore, Chairman, Fine
Arts Commission of the United States.

In the absence of our National Magazine
Chairman, Mrs. Charles Bissell, detained in
Connecticut by illness, I will give a brief sum-
mary of the financial out-look for the Alagazine.
To date our subscriptions total 13,822. Our
February expirations amount to 895.

The following editions for 1921 have been
completely sold out, January, February, April,
June, July, August, October, and only a few
copies are left of the March, May, September
and December Magazines.

The business office reports that we are selling
many single copies since October 1, 1921 to
February 6, 1922, inclusive, we have sold 720
Magazines, a good record when you stop to
think that our Hall has been closed to the pub-
lic since November and our Magazines have
been sold chiefly through mail orders. Of the
single copies thus sold 248 were for the Jan-
uary, 1922, Magazines which contained the
article on the arms conference.

Since the $2.00 rate went into efifect on July
1, 1921, we have received 3560 new subscrip-
tions and renewals. Thus during these seven
months we have averaged 508 subscriptions a
month only. The money received during this
time for each $2.00 subscription totalled $7,120.

Last year during the corresponding seven
months we received 8,336 one dollar subscrip-
tons which netted us $8,336. In other words
$1,116 more than we have received in the past
seven months, in spite of the increase in the
subscription price of the Magazine.

Securing regular and prompt renewals as
well as new subscriptions is necessarily impor-
tant, and I beg that the members of this Board
will exert their influence to push the interests
of the Magazine and secure subscriptions.

The Magazine has obtained recognition as an
historical publication outside of this Society.
It is a vital part of the organization; it upholds
your traditions, publishes the official news of
the National Society, which can be obtained
nowhere else, and carries your publicity.

Surely the Magazine is deserving of the
loyal support of every member.

Respectfully submitted.

Natalie S. Lincoln.

There being no objection, the report
was accepted.

Mrs. Guernsey, Chairman of the Committee
on the Erection of the Administration Building,
made the following report for her Committee.

Report of Committee on Erection of
Administration Building

Madam President General and Members of
the Board.
The Administration Building Committee is
happy to report progress in the erection of the
building since the last meeting of the Board.
As you will remember the cornerstone was laid
with impressive ceremony on October 19th — and
the building is now under roof.

With the work of construction so satisfac-
torily progressing the Committee's time has
been given to correspondence with the states
and members who have asked for information,
and requested permission to take rooms or some
special features of decoration or usefulness.

It has been decided that the sum to be asked
for the various rooms shall include the entire
cost for furnishing, and a part of the finishing
— the Society itself paying for the actual con-
struction of the entire building.

It has also been decided that all money con-
tributed must be in the hands of the Treasurer
General by January 1, 1923.

From the estimates of the cost of the rooms
supplied by the architect a definite price for
each room has been agreed upon, the prices
ranging from one to three thousand dollars,
and the states and members requesting infor-
mation have been given these prices.

Since October the following States have
taken rooms :

New Hampshire, office of Corresponding
Secretary General. Pennsylvania, two commit-
tee rooms ; Washington, office of Organizing
Secretary General ; Florida, Office of Regis-
trar General.

The Treasurer General, Mrs. Hunter, has
taken the office of the Treasurer General, and
Mrs. R. W. Alagna, Regent of the Mercy War-
ren Chapter of Massachusetts has taken the four
marble columns in the central hall or Catalogue
room as a memorial to her mother.

Rhode Island. South Carolina, and Wisconsin
asked for rooms last April, and the particular
rooms to be taken by them will soon be decided
upon, and the National Society, Children of
the American Revolution is also considering
a room.

Correspondence is being carried on with

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Colorado, Louisiana, Kentucky, Georgia, South
Dakota, Tennessee, a Chapter in New York
State and one in West Virginia, showing how
wide spread is the interest in and enthusiasm
for the new building.

The definite pledges so far received and
filed are as follows :

Fifteen hundred dollars pledged by North
Carolina for the office of the Historian General,
$1000 pledged by New Hampshire for the office
of the Corresponding Secretary General, $1500
pledged by Washington for the office of the
Organizing Secretary General, $1000 pledged
by Florida for the office of the Registrar Gen-
eral, $1000 pledged by Nebraska for the office of
the Reporter General to the Smithsonian Insti-
tution, this gift being made in honor of Mrs.
Charles H. Aull past State Regent and Vice
President General, $2000 pledged by Connecticut
for the President General's suite, $2700 pledged
by Pennsylvania for two communicating rooms
to be used as committee rooms, $8000 to
$10,000 pledged by the National Officers Club
for the small auditorium, $1000 pledged by Mrs.
Hunter for the office of the Treasurer General,
$1200 pledged by Mrs. Magna for four
marble columns.

A number of requests have come from mem-
bers and chapters for the privilege of making
individual gifts and a list of possible gifts to
meet these requests is being prepared.

In this list will be placed the five drinking
founts, the bronze markers on the outside nam-
ing the building, the elevator, the fire proof
door to the vault and other items of £(
similar nature.

In this building the rooms and gifts may be
suitably inscribed either as gifts or memorials.
This is a departure fom the rule observed in
Memorial Continental Hall, the nature and uses
of this building making it possible to place
inconspicuous inscriptions without marring the
architectural design.

The following payments have been made
by the Treasurer General to the Architect
and Builder.

In June, 1921, $8000; July, $11,000; August,
$14,000; September, $32,000; October, $27,000;
November, $32,000; December, $36,000. Jan-
uary. 1922, $24,000; making a total of $184,000
paid before February 1, 1922.

The chairman invites correspondence in re-
ference to the building and will be glad to
cofipcrate with all interested members in ar-
ranging for gifts.

Sarah E. Guernsey,
Clidinium, .■Uliiiiiiislratifln BitUduu] Committee.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Morris, as Chairman of the Committee
on Preservation f)f Historic Spots, reported on
the progress of tln' 'Ndrktown Bill, and gave an

encouraging account of a visit by the President
General and herself to the Secretary of War
who promised his support to the bill. She
urged the members of the Board, and through
them members all over the country, to write
their Representatives and Senators to use their
influence to preserve Yorktown. The President
General also urged all members to take to heart
the suggestion of the Chairman, and suggested
that they get from Mrs. Morris the names and
addresses of the men on the Committee which
had the bill in charge in order that word
might be carried back to the chapters that
letters should be written these men.

The Recording Secretary General Pro tcin
referred to a letter received from Mrs. Wait,
and on motion of Mrs. Morris, seconded by |
Mrs. Sherrerd, it was carried, that a letter of
love and sympathy he sent to Mrs. Wait from i
the National Board, N.S.D.A.R. Mrs. Hodg-
kins moved that a note of love and sytnpatJiy be
sent to Mrs. Moss, Vice President General from
Missouri, and regrets for her absence from this
meeting of the National D.A.R. Board of Man-
agement. Seconded by Mrs. Kitt and carried.

The President General made a brief report of
the situation in Tilloloy, reading the following
extract from a letter received from Baroness de
la Grange :

" I have good news from Tilloloy and all is
working well. The water has to be turned off
at night because of the heavy frost. I found
that it was absolutely necessary to build a
little house over the well in order to shelter the
machinery during bad weather. We are making
this house large enough to hold a little motor
in case later on the Commune decides to buy
one as an auxiliary to the wind mill. This work
will cost about Frs. 10,000 and I ordered it as
you told me I could do so if I thought it wise."

Dr. Barrett, State Regent of Virginia, invited
the members of the Board to furnish any ideas
they might have to the Daughters of Virginia
in regard to a great historical pageant which
is to be given in May at Richmond for a week,
of which time the Daughters oi the .Xnierican
Revolution are to have one day, and she trusted
that all members who were descended from
Virginians would be interested that their ances-
tors be properly represented on that occasion,
and she therefore invited corresixjndenco
and suggestions.

Mrs. Buel stated one of the chapters in Con-
nirticut. Faith Trumbull Chapter of Norwicli.
wished to be allowed to incorporate in order t"
hold property. Moved by Airs. Bahnsen, sec
onded by Mrs. Chubbuck. and carried, ///.;/
/•"<;//// Trnmbnll Chapter of Connecticut he ol-
lo'icrd to incorporate so as to be able to hold
property. Movtd by Mrs. Wilson, .seconded by
Mrs. Harris and carried. ///(// Cincinnati Chap-

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ter be allou'cd to incorporate for the purpose
of oifuing property.

The drawing of seats for Congress then took
place, the Recording Secretary General pro tern
drawing for those states not represented. The
drawing resulted as follows :

Drawing of Seats for 31st Continental

Congress, 1922

1 Washington

15 Missouri

2 Virginia

16 Cuba

3 Florida

17 Wyoming

4 Indiana

18 Arizona

5 South Dakota

19 District of Columbia

6 Wisconsin

20 Delaware

7 New Hampshire

21 Mississippi

8 Louisiana

22 Alarvland

9 South Carolina

23 Arkansas

10 New Mexico

24 Kentucky

11 Idaho

25 Maine

12 Montana

26 Rhode Island

13 Vermont

27 New Jersey

14 W>st Virginia

28 Minnesota

^^^^^^^M

29 Pennsylvania

30 Orient'

31 California

32 Hawaii

33 Ohio

34 Georgia

35 North Dakota

36 Connecticut

37 Oklahoma

38 Iowa

39 Oregon

40 New York

41 Illinois

42 Nebraska

43 North Carolina

44 Michigan

45 Utah

46 Alabama

47 Texas

48 Colorado

49 Massachusetts

50 Kansas

51 Tennessee

The President General reported to the Board
the receipt of the various gifts then on display
on the Board Room Table, and it was voted
that the President General express the thanks
of the Board to the generous and thought-
ful donors.

The motions as passed were read and ap-
proved, and on motion the meeting adjourned
at 6:25 p.m.

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Recording Secretary General, pro tern.

FORM OF BEQUEST

Where one desires to leave both real and
personal property to the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution, any one
of the following forms can be used :

" I hereby give, devise and bequeath, abso-
lutely and in fee simple, to the National
Society of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, having its headquarters at Washing-
ton, in the District of Columbia, (here describe
the nature of the property to be given),
to be used and expended for the objects
and purposes for which said National Society
was incorporated."

In case a cash legacy only is desired to
be given.

" I give and bequeath, absolutely, to the
National Society of the Daughters of the

American Revolution, having its headquarters
at Washington, in the District of Columbia,
the sum of

($ ), to be used and expended for the

objects and purposes for which said National
Society was incorporated."

In case a devise of real estate only is desired
to be given to the National Society.

" I give and devise, absolutely and in fee
simple, to the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, having its head-
quarters at Washington, in the District of
Columbia, (here describe the real estate in-
tended to be devised), to be used and ex-
pended for the objects and, purposes for which
the said National Society was incorporated.

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF THE DAUGHTERS

OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS

MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

SEVENTEENTH AND D STREETS. N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C.

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1921-1922

President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1922)
Mrs. William H. Wait, Mrs. William D. Sherrerd,

1706 Cambridge Road, Ann Arbor, Mich. Highland Ave., Haddonfield, N. J.

Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson, Mrs. James Lowry Smith,

Eola Road, Salem, Ore. Amarillo, Tex.

Miss Alethea Serpell, Mrs. Frank W. Bahnsen,

902 Westover Ave., Norfolk, Va. 1720 22d St., Rock Island, 111.

Miss Louise H. Coburn, Skowhegan, Me.

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

2272 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N. Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Alinneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)

Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St. Louis, Alo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N. C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. I.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1830 T St., Washington, D. C.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,

2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D. C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yavvger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. (i. Wai.i.ac K W. Hangkk, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Coiitineiital Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter. Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson.
Memorial Continental Hall.
Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. I-.i.liso.n, Mrs. George W. White.

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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OFFICIAL

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1921-1922

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

BiSBEE.

MRS. GEORGE W. VICKERS,

394 N. 3rd St., Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. CLARENCE S. WOODWARD,
2005 Scott St., Little Rock.

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,
817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. OSWALD H. HARSHBARGER,

269 Mather St., Oakland.
MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. AVILLIAM HENRY KISTLER.
1145 Logan St.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. JOHN LAIDLAW BUEL,

Litchfield.
MRS. CHARLES H. BISSELL,
Southing TON.

DELAWARE

MRS. JOHN W. CLIFTON.

Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. FRANCIS A. ST. CLAIR,

1319 T. St., N. W., Washington.
MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E., Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. EVEREST G. SEWELL,
143 S. E. 2nd St., Miami.

MRS. J. A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

GEORGIA

MRS. MAX E. LAND,

305 14th Ave., Cordele.
MRS. WILLIAM C. VEREEN,

Moultrie.

HAWAII

MR,S. N. L. SCOTT,
The Courtland Hotel, Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. ROBERT C. HUDELSON,

Box 324, Gooding.
MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,

421 2nd Ave., E., Twin Falls.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EUGENE CHUBBUCK,

Grand View Ave., Peoria.
MRS. FRANK O. LOWDEN,

Springfield.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,

1011 N. Penn St., Indianapolis.
MRS. JAMES B. CRANK SHAW,

3128 Fairfield Ave., Fort Wayne.

IOWA

MRS. FREDERICK ERNEST FRISBEE,

" Fairhill," Sheldon.
MISS AMY E. GILBERT,

State Centre.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,

" Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. J. M. ARNOLD,

539 Garrard St., Covington.
MRS. GEORGE BAKER,

Frankfort.

LOUISIANA

MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,

2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.
MRS. CHARLES FLOWER,

Alexandria.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,

282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 GoFF St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.

MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,
2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,

Pinehurst, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MISS ALICE LOUISE McDUFFEE,

1012 W. Main St., Kalamazoo.
MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1906 Ke.nwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON,
1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MRS. JAMES HARPER AVYNN,

Greenville.
MRS. CHARLTON HENRY ALEXANDER,

850 N. Jefferson St., Jackson.

MISSOURI

MRS. PAUL D. KITT,

Chillicothe.
MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedalia.

MONTANA

MRS. ALVAN L. ANDERSON,

420 S. Idaho St., Dillon.
MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

814 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER.

1731 L St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH,

Chadron.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. LORIN WEBSTER,

Plymouth.
MRS. LESLIE P. SNOW,
Rochester.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY D. FITTS,

448 Ridge St., Newark.
MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watchung Ave., Plainfield.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. J. F. HINKLE,

Roswell.
MRS. R. p. BARNES,

Albuquerque.

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NEW YORK

MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,
8 Lafayette St., Albany.

MRS. CHARLES M. BULL,
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

WORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPENCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TILLETT,

810 N. Tryon St., Charlotte.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,
300 8th St., S. Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. WILLIAM MAGEE WILSON,
Church and Kino Sts., Xenia.

MRS. JAMES HENRY ALLEN,
4.31 N. Detroit St., Kenton.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. H. H. McCLINTOCK,

903 JoHNSTONB Ave., Bartlesville.
MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

OREGON

MRS. JOHN A. KEATING,

8 St. Helen's Court, Portland.
MRS. WILLARD MARKS,
807 S. Ferry St., Albany.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EUWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston, Linden Ave., Pittsuurgii.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westerly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,

4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN C. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,
Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. M. R. HOPKINS,

12% 5th Ave., N. W. Aueudeen.
MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL,
Sioux Falls.

TENNESSEE

MISS MARY B. TEMPLE,

316 West Cumberland St., Knoxville.
MRS. PERCY H. PATTON,

1092 E. MoRELAND Ave., Memphis.

TEXAS

MRS. I. B. McFARLAND,

1313 Castle Court Blvd., Houston.
MRS. A. D. POTTS,

Belton.

UTAH

MRS. GEORGE H. DERN,

36 H St., Salt Lake City.
MRS. CLESSON H. KINNEY,

820 E. 4th South St., Salt Lake City.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

Middlebury.
MISS JENNIE A. VALENTINE,

302 Pleasant St., Bennington.

VIRGINIA

MRS. KATE WALLER BARRETT,

Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,
915 Orchard Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER
1804 15th Ave., Seattle.
MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,

724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. CLARK W. HEAVNER,

BUCKHANNON.

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.

WISCONSIN

MRS. RUDOLPH B. HARTMAN,

4001 Highland Park, Milwaukee.
MISS HELEN DORSET,

330 S. 6th St., La Crosse.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGER,

Shanghai, China.
MRS. TRUMAN SLAVTON HOLT,

Manila, Philippine Islands.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER,
MRS. DANIEL MANNING.

Honorary Presldenti General

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,
MRS. WII>LIAM CUMMING STORY,

MRS. ge()R(;e thaomer <;ukunsey.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MAUV V. K. CAMKM..

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MAKV S. LOCKWOOD.

Honorary Vice Presidents General

MRS. A. IIOWAUI) CI^.MJK, 1805. MRS. J. MOHC.W SMITH. 1911.

MRS. Mir,l)l{i;i) S. MATIIKS, 1S99. MRS. THEODOKK ('. HATES, 1913.

MRS. MAUV S. LOCKWOOD. 1905. MRS. F. GAVI.OKH IMTNAM, 1913.

MRS. WILLIAM LINDSAV. 1900. MRS. WALl-ACK DELAKIKLD, 1914.

MRS. HELEN M. BOVNTON, 1906. MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSIINELL. 1914.

MRS. SARA T. KINNEY. 1910. MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY. 1918.
MR.S. GEORGE M. STERNBERG, 1917.

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VOL. LVI. No. 5

MAY, 1922

WHOLE No. 357

THE THIRTY-FIRST CONTINENTAL

CONGRESS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

X an address ringing with
patriotic fervor and appreciation
of vital issues of the moment
and filled with a lofty pride that
beautiful Memorial Continental
Hall had been the scene of the
epoch-making Conference for the Limi-
tation of Armament participated in by
nine nations, ]\Irs. George ^laynard
Minor, President General, opened the
31st Continental Congress at 10.30 a.m.
Monday, April 17th.

The Hall presented an inspiring sight
and there was not an empty seat in the
entire auditorium when ]Mrs. Minor
began her address. Even the museum
had to be utilized as seating space for
some of the delegations because of the
increased representation.

Cornetist A. Whitcomb. of the
United States Alarine Band, sounded
" Assembly," and the picturesque proces-
sion of pages, led by its chairman, Mrs.
Willoughby S. Chesley, walked slowly

up the main aisle of the auditorium. On
reaching the stage the line parted and
the pages walked down the side aisles to
their stations. Then followed the mem-
bers of the National Board of Manage-
ment, after which walked Mrs. Minor,
the President General. \lvs. Minor was
greeted with continued applause, which
did not end until she raised her gavel
and called the 31st Congress to order by
the authority vested in her.

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer, wife of the
Senator of Missouri and Chaplain Gen-
eral of the Society, read Scriptural selec-
tions and offered a touching prayer. The
audience then stood, and led by Miss
Annie Wallace, recited the " Salute to
the Flag." An " Ode to the Flag," writ-
ten by Mrs. Daniel M. Lothrop, the
beloved founder of the Children of the
American Revolution, was then recited
by ]\Iiss Stella Waterman, a member of
the C.A.R.

The author of the " American's Creed,"
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Mr. William Tyler Page, recited the
Creed, after which the " Star Spangled
Banner " was sung by the audience.

The President General was given an
ovation as she began her address. It was
as follows :

With great pride, I welcome you to-day to
your beautiful home now made historic as the
scene of the most memorable conference of
nations that has ever filled the pages of history.
In Memorial Continental Hall, a new era has
had its birth.

" This building has many memories," said
Secretary Hughes, at the close of his memorable
speech which brought the proceedings of the
Conference to an end on February 4th. " This
building has many memories, but I trust, in
the opinion of the Daughters of the American
Revolution, it is now invested with a special
sanctity and with a most precious memory,
because here the spirit of democracy, which
they desire to see supreme, has been evidenced
in our collaboration together as representatives
of great peoples in order that we may have,
in place of a worse than fruitless competition,
a generous cooperation expressive not of the
sinister ambition of despotic governments, but
of the true spirit of the peoples represented
in these democratic governments, and it is that
spirit which we, as representatives, have sought
here to evince, because whatever governments
want, the peoples of the earth want justice,
peace and security."

Secretary Hughes spoke truly : " a special
sanctity and a most precious memory " will
forever envelop Memorial Continental Hall.

Beautiful and stately, dedicated to the mem-
ory of the men and women whose blood and
tears won independence for our country. Memo-
rial Continental Hall has had a second
dedication. It has been dedicated to an idea
old in God's sight, but new in world politics —
the idea of peace on earth, good-will towards
men, the idea of generous cooperation instead
of " fruitless competition." Here in our Hall,
the ideal of national independence has been
linked up with the ideal of international
friendship, understanding and cooperation.
You are sitting to-day in the place where the
nine controlling nations of the world have
sat together in peaceful and sympathetic con-
sideration of one another's aims, needs
and aspirations.

Listening with thrilled intentness was a brill-
iant assemblage, packed from floor to ceiling —
soldiers and diplomats, statesmen, writers,
journalists, legislators, men and women of
world-wide fame — all listening to words and

witnessing acts which have made a new epoch
in history.

The Conference on Limitation of Armament
and Pacific and Far Eastern Questions had a
success which was due " to two things," said
Secretary Hughes. " In the first place," he
said " we had a definite and limited aim." In
the next place, we have had what each of the
delegations who have spoken has emphasized,
the spirit of generous cooperation. When we
gathered, all promised cooperation and that
promise has been faithfully kept. . . . What
we have sought is an appreciation of the high-
est national interest in efforts making for
peace and the removal of unnecessary causes
of controversy."

Mr. Balfour spoke at this same concluding
session of the " changed feelings of men."
" Already," said he, " this feeling of mutual
suspicion, mutual fear, has given way to a
spirit of a very different character. Confidence
has taken the place of mistrust."

These two great leaders struck the keynote
of the Conference. The great theme through-
out was cooperation, good-will, mutual trust.
When nations trust one another, we are on the
highroad to peace. One cannot emphasize this
thought too much. It is hard to realize how
new it is in the history of international rela-
tions. We are so very familiar with the spirit
of cooperation in various narrower social rela-
tions, that it is hard to realize that never before
have nations met together in this spirit of
mutual confidence instead of mutual distrust.
Memorial Continental Hall, I repeat, will
remain for all time a monument dedicated to
this new thought in world relations, the thought
of good faith, cooperation and trust as the
guiding spirit of the nations dealing with one
another — " The old order changeth," the old
diplomacy has given place to new. The new
has been tried and found to be a workable
proposition. " Cards face up on the table "
were found to lie more potent than all the
secret understandings whereby diplomats in the
past have sought to over-reach one another.
" Confidence has taken the place of mistrust."
Only as we get further away from the scene
shall we be able to sense the stupendous signifi-
cance of it all. The halting of naval compe-
tition and scrapping of huge existing arma-
ments ; placing under the ban of civilized
nations the barbaric warfare of Germany and
her coward's weapon.s — the submarine and
poison gas; the settlenunt of the ominous
questions of the Pacific, where a coiifiagration
once started might have enveloped the whole
world once more in flames of war — all these
things and many others are among the achieve-
ments of this Conference on Limitation of
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" guests," as Secretary Hughes so graciously
expressed it.

We are, indeed, fortunate that we were privi-
leged to have this small share in an event so
significant for all mankind. Are we going to
be worthy of this shrine, now made doubly
sacred as the memorial of national patriotism
and international good-will? Are we going to
carry on in the spirit of the nine nations who
have been our " guests ? " I believe we are.
I believe that what has been happening in
Memorial Continental Hall will be for our
Society a new consecration to that spirit of
democracy which we " wish to see supreme,"
and which was evidenced by the representatives
of the great peoples who met under our roof.
Are we not more than ever the guardians of
this democracy that is ours and theirs? Con-
secration to this spirit of democracy means
service — service of home, service of country,
service of God over all. There is so much
that we can do ; the field of service is so wide ;
the call to service is so imperative, we needs
must answer, for this great democracy of ours
has many enemies assailing it from within and
without. A false democracy is seeking to
overturn our representative form of govern-
ment and to replace it with mob-rule or gov-
ernment directly by the populace instead of by
representatives. This is the false democracy
of the socialist and communist. It is the more
insidious because it masquerades as true democ-
racy, deceiving the people. It masquerades also
as " industrial democracy " founded on groups,
industries, trades and classes as the political
unit, instead of on geographic districts or
numerical divisions of the whole people regard-
less of class or occupation.

This false industrial democracy leads to
group or class legislation, " bloc " control of
government and the dictation of powerful
minorities. It holds the seeds of true democ-
racy's death.

There is likewise a false internationalism
which seeks democracy's death. This is the
socialistic internationalism which aims to oblit-
erate all nationalities and differences of race,
which mocks at patriotism and love of country
and violates man's most sacred instincts in the
name of universal brotherhood. My brother
may live in a different house and yet he may
be my brother ; there is no need for me to tear
down his house and mine and obliterate all
fences in an effort to do him a brotherly good
turn. Yet this is what the false internationalist
seeks to do when he strikes at nationality. In
this he strikes at the very foundation of " Home
and Country " — yours and mine and all men's.

As guardians of the pure fire of patriotism
and love of native land, it is our most sacred
duty to concern ourselves witli these dangers ;

to build up true democracy on which the Re-
public rests ; to promote true internationalism
through which the nations are bound together
in the bonds of mutual faith and trust while
preserving their national identity. Thus shall
we " carry on " in the spirit of the
great Conference.

Our democracy is assailed by yet another
danger. This is the slacker voter, both male
and female. There are startling statistics
revealed by the last census, which show that
millions of eligible voters in this country are
too indifferent to go to the polls. Out of
54,421,832 eligible voters, 27,763,966 did not
take the trouble to cast their vote — over one-
half of our electorate, in other words, failed
in this most sacred duty of citizenship and
of this failure the women must bear their
full share of responsibility. Is it any wonder
that politics are corrupt, that selfish and
cowardly men are in office all over this country
for what they can get out of it? How many
dare not do the right thing for fear of losing
votes? Is it any wonder that we face the
disheartening spectacle of political cowards
cringing under the whip of powerful groups
demanding legislation under threat of loss of
votes if it is refused? This political fear in
high places is the curse of our country, but
whose fault is it? If 27,000,000 voters care
so little who govern them that they voluntarily
renounce the priceless privilege of self-govern-
ing mankind, they have the kind of rulers they
deserve. What will be the end of our democ-
racy if our citizens are so careless of this
great duty and moral obligation of the ballot?

The price of free democracy is loyal, intelli-
gent service in the primaries and at the polls.
Put up clean, honest, fearless men for office
and then go and vote for them. Clearly this
is your duty and privilege ; loyalty to Home
and Country demands it. Can the country
which our forefathers founded on the principles
of self-government endure if its citizens are
civic slackers? I cannot believe but that public
conscience will awaken, will be shocked into
animation by this startling revelation — will set
itself to rectify this appalling evil. Remember,
we women are ono-half of the citizens of this
Republic. We must help in this awakening.
In every community Daughters of the American
Revolution will hero find a wide field of service.
How dare we attempt to teach good citizen-
ship to the foreigner if we are not good and
faithful citizens our.selves? Let us be found
among the intelligent, loyal and constant voters
everywhere in our own communities, setting an
example of good citizen.ship. Let us put coura-
geous men in office — men who are not afraid to
refuse to put the base dollar mark on patriot-
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because it is right ; who are not afraid of the
soldier vote or the Irish vote or the German
vote or the farmer vote, or any other bloc of
votes, but dare to serve the best interests of the
whole country, whatever happens to them. Let
us be true to the democracy we so proudly teach
and which, as Secretary Hughes so truly said
of us, " we wish to see supreme."

Another insidious danger assails the very
heart of our democracy. This is the slacker
home. It is said that the American home is
" going into the discard." Must this flippant
expression be regarded as truly stating the case?
Are we American women no longer the guar-
dians of the American home? It does require
a determined act of faith to believe that the
American home will survive the automobile and
the movies, the thirst for pleasure and diversion,
the restless urge of a world not yet stabilized
after a universal convulsion, yet I have that
faith. Inherent in the Anglo-Saxon is his love
of his home and this country is fundamentally
Anglo-Saxon. Inherent, also, in many of the
nations which make up our foreign population
is the love of home, but the ideals of the
American home are not always theirs. To
hold fast to these ideals is woman's distinct
sphere of action, but this sphere is not bounded
by the four walls of the house. It reaches out
to better schools, purer movies, cleaner drama,
modest dress, better discipline for the child at
home and in school. An undisciplined child is
good material for future upheavals and revo-
lutions. It is said that the morals of the rising
generation are as loose as its goloshes. I do
not believe it. I have faith — faith in the young
people of to-day, faith that they will make
good and settle down when the world rocks a
little less uneasily in the whirlpools left by
the war. The world grows better — not worse —
with every succeeding generation. There is
too much pessimism. Weak lamentations will
not help matters any. Acid criticism only
rebounds against itself. Be constructive.
" Keep the home fires burning." the family lamp
alight. Its quiet radiance is needed in this
jazz- weary world. The qualities which have
made America what it is were born in the
home and must remain there if democracy is
to endure. Thrift, industry, honesty, kind-
ness, truthfulness, courtesy, unselfishness,
modesty, purity of heart and thought, a con-
science quick to repel wrong, and above all
religious faith — these are the products of a
Christian home and these are the foundation
stones of the nation. Build them into your home
life lest democracy perish. Upon the homes
that you make and your daughters make after
you, this nation depends for its life. Washing-
ton wrote in his Farewell Address, " Of all the
dispositions and habits which lead to political

prosperity, religion and morality are indispen-
sable supports." Religion and morality, faith
and right conduct; help this nation to hold fast
to them, for we have been drifting away.

Recently a little book was brought to my
attention with this title : " Keep God in Ameri-
can History." Clearly its author points out the
deep religious faith in the guidance of God
that has prevailed throughout all stages of our
history, from the age of discovery down
through all the great crises in our national
development. The leading motive of Columbus
was to spread the Gospel, his first act in the
New World was to raise the cross and kneel
in prayer.

Later, a Pilgrim band landed with the Bible
and a Compact beginning " In the name of God
Amen." Throughout all our history, the
spoken and written words of our great leaders
pay humble and constant tribute to the guiding
hand of God; our fundamental state documents
recognize His sovereignty. The Declaration of
Independence appeals to Divine justice as a
witness. Washington was a man of prayer
and supreme faith. When the makers of our
Constitution were about to adjourn in failure,
after four weeks of hopeless groping, Franklin
rose and reminded the delegates that not once
in their deliberations had they turned to God.
" I have lived, sir, a long time," said he,
addressing Washington in the chair, " and the
longer I live the more convincing proofs I see
of this truth that God governs in the affairs
of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the
ground without His notice, is it probable that
an empire can rise without His aid? I, there-
fore, beg leave to move, That hereafter
prayers, imploring the assistance of Heaven
and its blessing on our deliberations be held in
this assembly every morning before we proceed
to business." From that time on the delegates
made successful progress with the Constitution,
which thus had its birth in prayer. They finally
fulfilled Washington's great exhortation, when
he said to them, " Let us raise a standard to
which the wise and honest can repair, the event
is in the hands of God."

Lincoln, in the black crisis of the Civil War,
prayed that he " might be on God's side for
God is always right," and to-day. President
Harding has said in a recent speech, " No nation
can prosper, no nation can survive, if it ever
forgets Almighty God."

Our greatest presidents, statesmen, lawyers,
soldiers— all have woven God into their lives
and into the life of the nation. Read their
great state papers ; you will find God underlying
all of them. It is significant that in this Hall
the Armament Conference began and ended with
prayer. " Keep God in American History."
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shall be my country's, my God's and truth's."

Let us, also, strive to keep truth in American
history. There are those who are attempting
to distort it to pander to their hatred of Eng-
land under guise of love for America. Farcical
attempts to re-write the school histories, which
are thought to be too favorable to England, are
being made and threatening pressure is being
brought to bear on teachers and historians,
whose only object is to be fair and speak the
truth. This is nothing more nor less than
deliberate anti-British propaganda ; it is the
same old attempt in another form to set England
and America against one another and to per-
petuate the bitterness of a day long past.

The unfriendly acts of Britian are dwelt
upon, the friendly acts ignored, and a good
word spoken or written for England, or an
attempt to be fair to her, brings forth abuse
and threats.

It is useless thus to attempt to dispute the
historic fact that American history has its
roots in English history, that American liberties
are sprung from English liberties from Magna
Carta downwards, and that America is essen-
tially English in origin and development, in
laws, language and literature. Other nations
have made later contributions, and to a lesser
extent, to our national life, but not one of
them can claim to be our motherland.

The sinister attempt to wipe England out of
our national life has not the truth for its object,
but the base motives of prejudice and hate.

Keep the truth in our histories, for history
without truth ceases to be.

As a Society dedicated to preserve the records
of the past, this watchful guardianship of our
history is one of our peculiar duties. If we do
not guard our past with reverence, no one else
will do it for us. Furthermore, what our
children are being taught in general is also
peculiarly our concern. The grave .suspicion
is coming to the nation that our children may
not be getting the training in school that they
ought to have — that the solid foundations of
education and character are lacking in the
public-school systems of to-day, leaving us
with an appalling amount of illiteracy and weak
moral fibre. However this may he, it is our
business to find out the Ini,' conditions and
remedy them if need be from the bottom up.

Far better for the child is the good old-
fa.shioned training in the elements of a sound
education and the cardinal virtius of honesty,
decency, integrity and truth than all the sinu])-
tuous modern school houses you can build.
Give him character and the good old funda-
mentals of a sound education; the higii-brow
superficialities will look out for themselves and
will probably never be missed.

Good homes, good schools — these are the
nation's life, the very bone and sinew of a
democracy within a Republic. See that you
maintain them throughout our land as the
fathers bequeathed them to you, and pass them
on to your children's children and to the for-
eigner within our gates. With friendliness and
understanding, let us teach the foreigner the
ideals of the forefathers, that they too may
become American in thought and soul. Thus
may we become in fact " one nation, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all."

The " torches of understanding have been
lighted," said President Harding in his farewell
speech to the Armament Conference, " and they
will glow and encircle the globe." This means
an understanding among nations within our
borders as well as throughout the world. It
means trust and cooperation. It means that
the greatest gift of the Conference to the world
has been a spiritual gift.

I believe we have been called back, after
much wandering, to a keener world conscience,
and a deeper faith in the government of God,
for, where men meet in the spirit of peace on
earth, good-will to men, there is God in the
midst of them.

" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead nor doth He sleep ! "
" The wrong shall fail, the right prevail
With peace on earth, good-will to men ! "

Keep God in the life of Home and Country
and He will do the rest.

" For what doth the Lord require of thee but
to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God."

The second speech of the morning was
made by Princess Cantacuzene. grand-
daughter of President Grant. The Prin-
cess recited the he1]> Russia had given to
America at \ari(ius ])eri()(ls in her history.

"Russia was the tirst to c.ill for world
peace," she said, " and Russia and America have
many times worked hand in hand. Nervous,
exhausted, anxious lun'ope is now trying hard
to understand the criminals who have clutched
ivussia by the throat. The possibility of rebuild-
ing Russia is great and America's good charac-
ter gives her the le.idership in the rt'huilding
of the world."

Mrs. 1 j\iii.i;st(Hi IluiUcr read her rc-
])()rt as Chairinan nn the C'otnmittec on
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ing strength was 2743, representing 950
chapters with a membership of less than
50; 620 with a membership from 50 to
100 ; and 277 chapters with a membership
of 100 or more.

Mrs. George W. White, chairman of
the Program Committee, presented her
report which was unanimously accepted.
Mrs. Henry B. Joy, chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, read the
standing rules that were to govern
the sessions of the Congress and an-
nounced the following members of
her committee :

Mrs. Henry B. Joy, Chairman, Michigan;
Mrs. H. Eugene Chubbuck, IlHnois ; Mrs. Frank
D. ElHson, Massachusetts ; Mrs. Harold R.
Howell, Iowa ; Mrs. Edward L. Harris, Ohio ;
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Missouri ; Miss Alice
Louise McDufifee, Michigan ; Mrs. Robert J.
Johnston, Iowa; Mrs. Samuel E. Perkins, In-
diana; Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Texas; Mrs.
Andrew Fuller Fox, Mississippi ; Mrs. Howard
L. Hodgkins, District of Columbia ; Mrs. Frank
W. Bahnsen, Illinois ; Mrs. Kate Waller
Barrett, Virginia.

At the afternoon session reports of the
National Officers were given.

In her report as Chairman of the
National Board of Management, Mrs.
George M. Minor, the President General,
told of five regular and four special
meetings of that Board ; of her trip to
France to dedicate the water system
given by the National Society to the vil-
lage of Tilloloy ; of placing Memorial
Continental Hall at the disposal of the
Government for the plenary sessions of
the Conference on the Limitation of
Armament ; and of the final settlement
of the controversy relative to the Board
Room in Memorial Continental Hall in a
manner satisfactory to both parties.

" You will be gratified to learn of the un-
precedented increase in our Society during
the past year," she continued, " which, in spite
of the raising of our initiation fee, has broken
all records. Last year we admitted 11,216
members, and this year 12,515. Those who

feared that the $5.00 initiation fee would check
the increase in our Society, will, we feel sure,
be agreeably disappointed.

" Your President General dislikes to report
that while the increase in the initiation fee did
not affect the membership of the Society the
same is not true as to the increase in the price
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine, for our subscription list shows
a decrease. We know this is not due to the
quality of the Magazine for every number is
full of interest, and of information which every
Daughter should have. The present subscrip-
tion price of two dollars a year is still much
less than that of many other periodicals. Can
you not bring up the subscription list.''

Mrs. Minor also reported that the funds
for the three special projects on which
the Society is working — the Immigrants'
Manual, the War Painting, and the Pil-
grim Mothers' Memorial at Plymouth,
Mass., were nearing completion, and that
the $100,000 worth of Liberty Loan bonds
subscribed during the World War has
been paid. She concktded her report with
a tribute to the unselfish services of the
members of the National Board of Man-
agement and the clerical force of
the Society.

Among the interesting reports given by
the National Officers Monday afternoon
were those of Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
Chaplain General, Mrs. A. Marshall
Elliott, Corresponding Secretary General,
and Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Record-
ing Secretary General, who stated that
10,084 certificates of membership and
1156 Block certificates had been sent out
from her office during the year. ^^Irs.
G. Wallace W. Hanger, Organizing Sec-
retary General, gave some interesting
statistics of the work of her office. She
stated that 170 chapters had been organ-
ized in the last two years; Organizing
Regencies confirmed, 131 ; Organizing
Regencies expired, 37; Organizing Re-
gents resigned, 2; Organizing Regents
re-appointed, 32; chapters authorized,
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banded, 16; chapters reinstated, 1; total
number of chapters to date, 1847; total
admitted membership, 179,309.

The Registrar General, Miss Emma T.
Strider, said in part in her report :

Since the last Continental Congress, 12,515
women have been added to our membership,
the largest number ever admitted in one year
in the history of the organization. The report
of admissions, 1920-1921 was 11,216, so a
gain of 1289 has been made over last year.
The last national number accorded at the
Board Meeting of April 15th was 179,309.

In addition to the original application papers
3254 supplcmentals have been accepted, a total
of 15,769 papers verified, or an average of
about 51 papers for every working day. Of
these verified papers mentioned 3203 have added
new records to our files.

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Treasurer
General, ])resented her report in which
was given an itemized statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the National
Society. The printed report, distributed
to the delegates and alternates showed
that the total receipts from every source
amounted to $280,352.62 during the year,
and the total disbur.sements $152,977.90.
The Mun of $79,784.74 had been expended
for ])atrif)tic education and 7?i educational
and industrial institutions aided thereby.

Reports of the Finance and Auditing
Committees were given by their respective
chairmen, Mrs. George W. White and
Miss Jcnn Win.slow Coltrane. The latter
also reported as Historian General.

Miss Coltrane said in part:

To date 43 .Slates have sent in 107
volumes of war .service records, consist-
ing of 13,0(XJ records, and three others
have their work well on the way to com-
pletion. These books are gifts of richest
value lor future generations in i)articular,
and (.ur Society owes a debt of (lcri)est
gratitude to the wonien who have com-

piled these records and we are justly
proud and grateful for their service.

In her report Miss Lillian M. Wilson,
Reporter General to the Smithsonian In-
stitution, called attention to the list of
Revolutionary soldiers' graves located
each year. The last list contained over
250 names. The lists are published only
in the Smithsonian Report and are of
great genealogical value.

The valuable reports made by Mrs.
Frank Ellison, Librarian General, and
Mrs. George W. White, Curator General,
completed the afternoon session.

The formal opening of the Congress
took place on Monday night in the pres-
ence of a notable assemblage in Memorial
Continental Hall, comprising high Gov-
ernment officials and distinguished diplo-
mats. The speakers of the evening were
Hon. Charles E. Hughes. Secretary of
State; M. Jusserand, the French Ambas-
sador, and Sir Aukland Geddes, the Brit-
ish Ambassador.

In introducing Secretary Hughes, the
President General stated :

No words of mine are needed to introduce
the first speaker of the evening.

The eyes of all the world were upon him
and his associates for the twelve weeks of the
great Conference on Limitation of Armament.
The hopes of all the world have hovered about
liim and those hopes have been justified.

He honors us very highly in coming to us
to-night ; his presence here gives us the
opportunity to tell him face to face of the
profound admiration that we have for his
leadership in the great events which have made
the Conference unique in the world's history.
We rejoice in this opportunity to tell him of
our deep appreciation of the significance of
these events, which we believe have opened up
an era of hope and blessing for all mankind.

I have great honor in presenting the Honor-
al)le C harles Kv;ins Hughes, .Secretary of State.

In his speech Secretary 1 lughes said
in part :

treaties we
of aniilv i>

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mulse or documents. It lies in the earnest
desire to remove causes of misunderstanding
and distrust."

Memorial Continental Hall, which had been
dedicated to the institutions of liberty at home,
is now also dedicated to the cause of inter-
national friendship.

" With the incessant flow of sensational
narrative, with attention fixed on stories of
crime and human frailty, what proportion of
our voting population is able to observe with
intelligent discrimination the course of political
events and is prepared adequately to discharge
the duties of citizenship.

" How many of the relatively few who have
the advantage of high school or college training
know their American history? How many
have the necessary equipment of information
which enables them to appraise the actual
working of our system of government — to dis-
cern defects and to judge of remedies?

" It must ever remain true that the most
necessary and difficult study of free peoples is
democracy itself. Yet with all proper em-
phasis on the constant need of instruction and
of a better understanding of our institutions,
we are constantly reminded that mere knowl-
edge is not enough. We need the civic wisdom
which can only come from the long practice
of a people imbued with the highest patriotism
and the spirit of loyal service.

" Public opinion should demand not only of
our public servants but of all those who try
to influence the public, either on the platform
or through the press, a sense of civic
responsibility.

" Nothing is more regretable than the appa-
rent lack of it at this time. In the field of
international affairs, recklessness of statement
is especially injurious to the interests of the
country. Some of our editors and public men
write and speak as though what they said of
foreign peoples and their government could not
be seen or heard beyond the three-mile limit.

" The first duty of a people that desires peace
is to cultivate good-will and the only cure
for intemperate statement is the resentment of
an intelligent community. Let it be under-
stood that those who indulge in diatribes against
foreign peoples and their governments who hold
them up to ridicule, who impute to them base
motives and asperse their honors are enemies
first of their own country and as such deserve
universal censure."

The French Ambassador, M. Jusser-
and, who spoke after Mr. Hughes, pre-
sented the thanks of his government for
the gift by the D.A.R. of a water system

to the devastated village of Tilloloy in
France. The Ambassador spoke of the
movement to preserve the fortifica-
tions at Yorktown and approved the
plan highly.

In closing, he said :

" I am glad to hear that a tablet will soon
be unveiled in this hall which will commemorate
the signing of the recent conference treaties
here. I am proud to say that France was pres-
ent at that conference, and that she is the only
nation that had put into practice the principles
for which that conference stood, even before it
was called. The friendship between your coun-
try and mine will ever flourish, and I present
to you the thanks of France for your kindness
to my countrymen."

At the close of M. Jusserand's address,
the President General presented to him
the painting, " United States Troops
Bound for France," the gift of the
National Society to the French Govern-
ment for its war museum in Paris, saying :

When our Government asked this Society to
present a painting of troopships to the French
Government to be placed in the United States
room of the War Museum in Paris, we re-
sponded with pride and pleasure at the honor
conferred upon us in thus being given an
opportunity to have a share in this great memo-
rial museum of the World War. We were
fortunate in securing the services of one of
America's foremost marine painters, Mr.
Frederick J. Waugh, who had freely given his
art to his country as a camouflage artist during
the war, and who gladly accepted the commis-
sion to paint this picture especially for our
purpose. The subject, depicting a convoy of
troopships conveying American soldiers to
France, was assigned us by the Government,
which desired to memorialize in this way this
great branch of the service. It was deeply
gratifying to us to be of service to our own
Government by contributing such a painting and
at the same time to have the opportunity to
give this gift to our valued friend and ally,
France. It is therefore with especial pleasure
that I present this painting in the name of the
National Society Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution to the Government of the
French Republic.

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The British Ambassador. Sir Auckland
Geddes, in making the concluding speech
of the evening, said :

" I asked last jcar, when I had the pleasure
of addressing you. that you persuade your
Government to take the lead in calling the
nations together to make peace more stable.
I also urged that your members do all you
could to prevent the spread of false infor-
mation about other nations.

" The British people realize the influence of
the United States upon their countrymen, and
we do not regret what happened at Yorktown,
because from it a great part of the freedom
of the British people has come. There we
learned how to handle the distant colonies, and
from it has sprung the growing freedom of the
British dominions.

" We learned there that nations could not
live in the same house if one tried to dominate
the other. Nations must decide their affairs
for themselves. We learned there we could not
centralize authority in one city over people scat-
tered over tile seven seas. Then, at the arms

parley, we learned that if nations are to live
together in friendship, they must be independent,
but cooperating with one another.

" England and America in some respects have
a common past. I hope that the battlefield of
Yorktown will be preserved for all time.
America should realize that Yorktown is re-
garded by us as one of the shrines of the
British Empire, because it forced the British to
take government into their own hands."

Ambassador Geddes then paid a tribute
to the memory of the late Surgeon Gen-
eral Gorgas. and asked the National
Society to assist in the erection of the
school as a memorial to him in Alabama,
where sanitary workers are to be trained.

" The international interest that knows no
boundaries is that of health and prevention of
disease. General Gorgas is immortal because
he brought the knowledge of the laboratory into
the field and swept out large areas of disease."

'J1ic i)r()gram for the evening session was as follows:

Entrance of Pages escorting the President General.

" Stars and Stripes Forever " — The Marine Band. Suusa

Taylor Branson, Second Leader.
Invocation: Rev. William S. Abernetiiy. D.D.

Music :

The Old Road John Prindle Scott

The Awakening Gilbert Spross

Mrs. William H. McGervey.
Address: Hon. Charles Evaxs Hughes

Secretary of State
" Star- Spangled ]>anner "

The Marine Band
.Address: Mr. J. J. JrssERAND

^■hnhassador from France
Music: LiF.ur. Ji:ax J. Lauat

Accofnfanied by Caj't. Pit J 'out
Address: Sir Auckland C. CiEDDES

Ambassador frotn Great Britain
Music.

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MILITARY MEDALS OF THE WAR WITH
MEXICO AND THE CIVIL WAR*

By Theodore T. Belote
Curator of History, United States National Museum

HE series of medals awarded
by Congress in recognition of
military and naval services from
the period of the Revolution to
that of the Civil War, in number
and variety, exhibits a regular
development from the time of the Revo-
lution to that of the War of 1812, v\dien
the zenith is reached, and after this
conflict the number of medals awarded
for this purpose decreases until the Civil
War, when only one medal of this char-
acter was awarded. This is explained
in the case of the War with Mexico by
the fact that the naval operations of this
war were negligible, and the military
operations were confined principally to
two expeditions led, respectively, by
Major General Zachary Taylor and
Major General Winfield Scott, who were
the only recipients of medals of this type
awarded for services during the War
with Mexico. During the Civil War, two
military decorations of the type awarded
in European countries for military ser-
vices were established by Acts of
Congress, and the only medal awarded of
the same character as those awarded
during previous wars was one presented

* The illustrations of the medals are from
photographs taken by L. C. Handy, Washing-
ton, D. C, of bronze replicas in the United
States National Museum.

to General Ulysses S. Grant, who had
preeminently distinguished himself in the
latter conflict.

The expedition of the " Army of
Occupation " of Mexico, as it came to be
known under General Taylor, began on
March 8, 1846, when camp was broken
at Corpus Christi and a march along
the coast towards the mouth of the
Rio Grande at Matamoras was begun.
The forces commanded by General
Taylor came into collision with the
Mexicans under General Arista on March
8th, along the road from Point Isabel to
Matamoras near Palo Alto, and the first
major engagement of the war resulted.
The road at this point runs between two
lines of thicket, or chaparral, the one on
the east being much further from the
highway than the one on the west. The
Americans came in sight of the enemy
about noon, and after a brief halt
advanced to the attack. The American
right wing was composed of the Third,
Fourth and Fifth regiments of infantry
with Ringgold's light battery and
Churchill's eighteen-pounders, the whole
imder the command of Colonel Twiggs.
The left was guarded by the First bri-
gade, under Lieutenant Colonel Belknap,
and consisted of a battalion of artillery
serving as infantry, Duncan's light
battery, and the Eighth regiment of

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infantry. When the American forces
had approached to within seven hundred
yards of the Mexican hues, they were
fired upon by the enemy's batteries. The
American artillery at once replied and
the battle thus from the very beginning
took on the nature of an artillery duel, a
character which in the main it continued
to preserve until the Mexicans were
defeated and had given up the field. At
the end of an hour's time the Mexican
commander realized that the American
artillery was superior to his own and

was frustrated by the Third Infantry.
The Mexican artillery, which had
advanced to support the cavalry and
infantry attack on the American right,
had been forced to retire by a battery
of Ringgold's guns, and thus the enemy
attack at this point completely broke
down. Meanwhile, the encounter between
the main lines of the American and
Mexican forces was continuing with
severe losses to the Mexican troops who
bravely sought to support their artillery
in close formation. The Mexican attack

OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE MEDAL AWARDED BY THE STATE OF VIRGINIA TO

MAJOR GENERAL WINFIELD SCOTT FOR THE EXPEDITION FROM VERA CRUZ TO

THE CITY OF MEXICO. 1847

tlial t(j continue to subject his men to the
deadly fire of the former w^as to ensure
the defeat of his forces. He, accord-
ingly, began to mana-uvre with a view to
breaking the American line. His first
movement in this connection was an

on the American right having failed the
enemy commander determined to try an
attack on the left, which he doubtless
presumed might have been weakened, to
reinforce the other end of the line. In
this design the enemy \vas assisted by the

attack on the American right, made with smoke and flame from the burning prairie

cavalry, supported by a body of infantry
and two guns. The cavalry at first
attackcfl from the direction of the
chaparral at right angles to the American
litie, but were repulsed by the Fifth
Regiment, which had been sent by
General T.iylor to oppose this movement.
A portion of the cavalry then passed to
the rear of the American forces with a
view to cutting out the wagon train which
was i)arl<((l at thi-^ point. This movement

which obstructed the view and seriously
interfered with the accuracy of the
American artillery fire. The attack on
the American left was, however, per-
ceived in time, and when the enemy
a]iI>roachcd this point they w^ere met wMth
such a deadly artillery fire that they
faltered and finally fell back in confusion.
A second advance ended in the same
manner, and another cavalry attack upon
the .'\merican right having failed the

MILITARY AIEDALS OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO AND THE CIVIL WAR

panic of the two retreating wings of the
Mexican army communicated itself to the
main body in the centre and all retreated
together. Darkness now threw its pall
over the field, which was quickly freed of
all the Mexican troops. The Mexican
commander now being convinced that his
troops w^ere no match for the Americans
in the open prairie, at early dawn on the
morning of the ninth retreated to a strong
defensive position at Resaca de la Palma.
At one o'clock on the ninth the
Americans advanced in pursuit of the

road, which precluded the use of artillery
with any great degree of accuracy,
against enemy troops, in the same manner
as they had been employed during the
preceding day. The Mexican guns on the
north side of the ravine were, however,
attacked by an American battery, but
without decisive results. The former were
captured soon after by a force of
dragoons, and the American artillery thus
could be posted on the northern crest
from which position they prepared to
attack the Mexican lines on the opposite

enemy, and halted before the ravine of
Resaca de la Palma, where he had taken
refuge on the main road to Matamoras
and about four miles from the latter
place. The general outline of this ravine
is a rather sharp curve resembling that of
a shepherd's crook, w^ith the convex side
to the south. The main highway to
Matamoras cuts the western side of this
curve about in half. This road was pro-
tected by the Mexican general, with three
guns at the northern side of the ravine
and four on the south. The Mexican
infantry was stationed on the north and
south crests of the ravine, and a strong
force of cavalry in the rear. The entrance
to the ravine was obscured by a thick
growth of chaparral on both sides of the

side of the ravine. The Mexican guns
on the south of the ravine were captured
by the Eighth Infantry, assisted by the
Fifth, and the battle was decided in favor
of the Americans by this bold stroke.
The Mexicans at once retreated across
the Rio Grande, and nightfall put an end
to hostilities. The Rio Grande campaign
had ended with the complete overthrow
of Mexican military power to the north
of that river.

As the result of the operations just
described by an Act approved July 16,
1846, Congress resolved "That the thanks
of Congress are due and are hereby ten-
dered to Major General Zachary Taylor,
commanding the Army of Occupation,
his officers and men, for the fortitude,

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skill, enterprise and courage, which have
distinguished the recent brilliant opera-
tions on the Rio Grande," and " That the
President of the United States be author-
ized and requested to have a medal of
gold procured, with appropriate devices
and inscriptions thereon, and presented to
General Taylor in the name of the
Republic, as a tribute to his good conduct,
valor and generosity to the vanquished."
The medal presented in accordance
with this resolution bore on the obverse
the bust of General Taylor to the right

Taylor very similar in description to the
one awarded for the battles of Palo Alto
and Resaca de la Palma. The obverses
of these two medals were identical. The
reverse of the second bore the following
inscription within an oak wreath, " Reso-
lution of Congress March 2, 1847,
Monterey, September, 1846." The reso-
lution in accordance with which this
medal was awarded read as follows :
" Resolved unanimously by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the
United States of xA-merica in Congress

OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE MEDAL
FOR THE BATTLES OF FORT DONELSON.

in military uniform partly surrounded by
the inscription " Major General Zachary
Taylor." Tin- reverse bore, within a
wreath of laun-l and palm entwined about
a serpent swallow ini^^ its tail, a design
emblematical of iiniuortality. the follow-
ing inscrijjtion " \\v olution of Congress
July 16. lK4f., Talo Alio, May 8, 1846,
Re.saca dc la I 'alma. May ^K 1846."

.After his victories at the two locations
already described, (ieneral Taylor ad-
vanced into Mexieo. and afler defeating
the Mexican forces in ;i \\\wr (l;i\s'
conflict S-ptember 21st--2.^rd, cai)tnre(l
the city of Monterey. In recognition
of this victory, by an .Act approved
March 2. 1847, Congress i)resented
a second gold medal to ( ieneral

assembled : That the thanks of Congress
are due, and are hereby tendered, to
Major General Zachary Taylor, his
officers and men, for the fortitude, skill,
enterprise, and courage which distin-
guished the late brilliant military
operations at Monterey and, that the
President be requested to cause to be
^ truck a gold medal, with devices
enibU'niatical of this splentlid achieve-
ment, and presented to General Taylor
as a testinionv of the high sense enter-
laine(l by Congress of his judicious
and distinguished conduct on that
memorable occasion."

The (|nestion now arose as to the
.■KUi-^ahility of contining the campaign to
the occn|)ation of the northern section of

MILITARY MEDALS OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO .AND THE CIVIL WAR 279

the enemy country or pushing on to the
Mexican capital with a view to bringing
the war to a successful conclusion. The
decision was hnally made by President
Polk and his cabinet to send an expedition
directly to the city of Mexico by way of
Vera Cruz rather than risk the long and
wearisome march over the deserts from
the north. The Vera Cruz expedition
was entrusted to the command of Major
General Winfield Scott and a part of
General Taylor's forces were detached
from his command to join that expedition.

days of February last, in the battle of Bueiia
Vista, in defeating a Mexican army of more
than four times their number, consisting of
chosen troops, under their favorite commander,
General Santa Anna," and " that the President
of the United States be requested to cause to
be struck a gold medal, with devices em-
blematical of this splendid achievement, and
presented to Major General Zachary Taylor,
as a testimony of the high sense entertained
by Congress of his judicious and distinguished
conduct on that memorable occasion."

The obverse of the medal awarded in
accordance with this resolution bore the
undraped bust of General Taylor to the

OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE MEDAL AWARDED TO MAJOR GENERAL
ZACHARY TAYLOR FOR THE BATTLE OF BUENA VISTA, 1847

Learning this fact, the Mexican General
Santa Anna conceived the idea of defeat-
ing General Taylor before he could receive
assistance. He, accordingly, attacked
the Americans under Taylor at Buena
Vista on February 23, 1847, where he
met with a complete defeat. This
engagement ended the serious work of
the Americans in the northern section
of Mexico.

By an Act approved May 9, 1848,
Congress resolved as follows :

" That the thanks of Congress are due, and
they are hereby tendered to Major General
Zachary Taylor, and, through him, to the offi-
cers and soldiers of the regular army of the
volunteers under his command, for their valor,
skill, and good conduct, conspicuously dis-
played, on the twenty-second and twenty-third

right above sprays of oak and laurel.
Above the whole appears the inscription
" Major General Zachary Taylor " and
below " Resolution of Congress May 9,
1848." The design of the reverse
exhibits in remarkable detail the progress
of the engagement for which it was
awarded. Large bodies of troops are
shown manoeuvring upon an open plain
with high mountains in the background.
The design is encircled by two serpents,
one a rattlesnake, their heads and tails
entwined in combat. Above appears the
inscription " Buena Vista, February 22
and 23, 1847," and below are sprays of
cactus and oak. This was the final medal
of the war granted in connection with the
northern campaign.

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The events of the southern campaign
have often been described in detail and
are too well known to need repetition
here. The American forces, commanded
by General Scott, were everywhere vic-
torious under his brilliant and efficient
leadership. The city of Vera Cruz was
captured by a combined land and naval
attack after a brief siege and surrendered
March 29, 1847. The advance upon the
city of Mexico began April 8th. Ten
days later the Mexicans were defeated
at Cerro Gordo. The militarv advance of

try and good conduct, conspicuously displayed
at the siege and capture of the city of Vera
Cruz and castle of San Juan d'Ulloa, March
29, 1847; and in the successive battles of
Cerro Gordo, April 18th ; Contreras, San
Antonio, and Churubusco, August 19th and
20th ; and for the victories achieved in front
of the city of Mexico, September 8th, 11th, 12th
and 13th; and the capture of the metropolis,
September 14, 1847; in which the Alexican
troops, greatly superior in numbers, and
with every advantage of position, were in
every conflict signally defeated by the
American arms," and " that the President of
the United States be. and he is hereby, requested
to cause to be struck a gold medal, with
devices emblematical of the series of brilliant

OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE MEDAL AWARDED TO MAJOR GENERAL
ZACHARY TAYLOR FOR THE CAPTURE OF MONTEREY, 1846

the victorious forces was somewhat
delayed by various negotiations under-
taken with a view to making peace.
These, however, failed and in the engage-
ments of Contreras, August 19th, and
Churubusco, August 20th, the Mexicans
were again defeated. The climax was
reached when the city of Mexico was
captured September 14th, after victories
had been gained at Molino del Rey,
September Sth, and Chai)ultepec, Sep-
tember 13lh.

In recognition of tliis almost unparalelled
scries of successes, by an .\ct approved March
9. 1848, Congress resolved : " That tlio tbanks of
Congress be, and they are hereby, presented to
Winfield Scott, Major General commanding-in-
chief the army in Mexico, and tbrongh him to
the olTicers and men of the regular and volun-
teer corps under liini. for tiieir uniform gallan-

victories achieved by the army, and presented
to Major General Winfield Scott, as a testimony
of the high sense entertained by Congress of
his valor, skill, and judicious conduct in the
memorable campaign of 1847."

The medal awarded in accordance
with this resoltition bore on the
obverse the undraped bust of General
Scott to the left, with a scroll above,
inscribed, " Major General Winfield
Scott," and the inscription, " Resolu-
tion of Congress March 9, 1848," l)elow.
In the space between the scroll and
the inscription on either side the bust
were arranged fifteen stars. The design
of the reverse was extremely complicated
and divided with exquisite detail into
seven medallions, the central one repre-
senting tlic taking of thi- city of Mexico,

MILITARY MEDALS OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO AND THE CIVIL WAR 281

and the six surrounding ones, each of
which was encircled by a wreath of oak
and laurel, representing the following
engagements, the names of which are
inscribed within the respective medallions.
Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, Contreras,
San Antonio, and Churubusco, Molino del
Rey, and Chapultepec.

In recognition of his services during
this expedition, the State of Virginia also
presented to General Scott a gold medal
of very interesting and artistic design.
The obverse of this medal bore the bust

of which are inscribed with the names of
the engagements from Vera Cruz to the
city of Mexico. Above appears the in-
scription " Fecit quod cogitavit " or " He
accomplished what he planned," and
below " From Virginia." The entire
design is encircled by a closed wreath of
oak united at the bottom by a shield
bearing the Virginia coat of arms.

The medals described represent very
well the military history of the War with
Mexico. The whole story of that conflict
is closely connected with the work of the

OBVERSE AND REVERSE OF THE MEDAL AWARDED TO MAJOR GENERAL ZACHARY
TAYLOR FOR THE ENGAGEMENTS OF PALO ALTO AND RESACA DE LA PALMA, 1846

of General Scott to the left resting upon a
tablet inscribed as follows : " The com-
monwealth of Virginia presents this
medal to Major General Winfield Scott
as a memorial of her admiration for the
great and distinguished services of her
son whilst Commander-in-chief of the
American armies in the War with
Mexico, 1847. The tablet is flanked by
trophies of Mexican arms with an
American eagle poised at either end
in an attitude of attack. The reverse
bore a view of the American attack
upon the city of Mexico with a
fluted column in the foreground, the
base of which is inscribed " 1812 " f and
the top " 1848, Mexico." The column
is hung with festoons of laurel, the bases

two commanders whose services are
commemorated by the awards just de-
scribed. The two expeditions which they
led accomplished the main objects with
which the war was begun, and this was
fittingly recognized by Congress in con-
nection with the services thus rendered.

The period of the Civil War marks the
final award to date by Congress of a
military medal of the character just
described and the beginning of a system
of recognition of special military and
naval services by means of decorations
established as a class and awarded for
individual acts of bravery or special

t Referring to General Scott's achievements
during the War of 1812 already described in
the second article of this series.

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services. The final medal of the charac-
ter under discussion to be awarded was
presented to General Ulysses S. Grant in
accordance with an Act of Congress
approved December 17, 1863, in recog-
nition of his services in connection with
the opening of the Mississippi River and
the victories of Fort Donelson, Vicksburg
and Chattanooga. The obverse oi this
medal bore the bust of General Grant
to the left in military uniform with the
inscription " Major General Ulysses S.
Grant " above and " Joint Resolution of
Congress December 17, 1863," below.
This design is surrounded by two circles
between which appear at the top a spray
of laurel and oak and at the bottom a
circular wreath of sugar cane, tobacco,
cotton and wheat. Between the outer
circle and the rim of the medal are thir-
teen stars arranged in four groups, three
at the top, three on either side, and four
at the bottom. The reverse design is
divided in the central foreground by a
pyramidal trophy of arms surmounted by
a liberty cap. On the left appears a view
of the Mississippi River, with Vicksburg
in the background; on the right the
Tennessee River at Chattanooga ; above
upon a rainbow spanning this design
appears a female figure representing
America holding in her right hand a shield
inscribed " Donelson " and in her left a
cornucopia. The whole is enclosed by
two circles between which flows the
Mississippi River, with a gunboat above
and below, and a river steamer on either
side. Between the outer circle and the
rim of the medal are thirteen stars
arranged in the same manner as those on
the obverse.

The medal just described was the only
one of this character awarded by Con-
gress during the Civil War, and closes
the long list of such awards which

began with the gold medal awarded
by the Continental Congress to General
Washington for the recovery of Boston
from the British in 1776, which was
described in the first of this series
of articles.

Prior to the award of the medal
described above to General Grant, Con-
gress by an act approved December 21,

1861, established the first permanent
American war decoration in the strictly
modern sense of that term,| by the
institution of the Naval Medal of Honor
for award to " such petty officers, sea-
men, landsmen, and marines as shall
most distinguish themselves by their
gallantry in action and other seamenlike
qualities during the present war." The
establishment of this decoration which
was followed by an act approved July 12,

1862, establishing a similar decoration for
the Army, marks the beginning of the
adoption by the United States Govern-
ment of the policy of awarding military
and naval decorations of modern type to
the personel of the Army and the Navy
for special services, of the same type as
the decorations of European countries
and the abolition of the custom of award-
ing special gold or silver medals of the
type issued from the period of the
Revolution to that of the Civil War.

As originally designed both the Army
and Navy Medals of Honor consisted of
a bronze five-pointed star, each point
terminating in trefoils and bearing a
branch of L'uirel and oak. A central
medallion bore a female figure represent-

t The badge or decoration of the Purple
Heart, established by a Order of General
Washington as Commander-in-Chief of the
.\rmy at Newburgh, in 1782. would undoubt-
edly have become as well known as tlic present
Medal of Honor had Washington's plans in
this connection been realized; but for some
unknown reason the award of this honor was
apparently discontinued after it had been
1) "-towed upon llu-ce recipients.

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183

ing America as Minerva wearing a helmet
surmoimted by an eagle; her left hand
rests upon fasces and with the United
States shield in her right she is repulsing
a crouching male figure armed with ser-
pents representing the forces of Discord.
The Army medal was attached to a bronze
eagle, displayed, above crossed cannon
and a group of nine cannon balls, the
whole suspended from a ribbon with

graved in the case of the Naval medal
with the name, rank and ship of the
recipient, and the place and date of the
deed for which given, with the legend
" Personal Valor " above. In the case of
the Army medal, the name of the recipient
was given, preceded by the legend " The
Congress to " and followed by his mili-
tary rank, name of the organization to
which he was attached, and the place and

thirteen alternate red and white stripes
and a solid blue top to which was attached
a clasp bar with a shield in the center,
a spray of laurel below, and a cornucopia
at either end. The Navy medal was
attached to an anchor suspended from an
open bar of fasces, with a star in the
center, and a similar bar clasp without
the star at the top of the ribbon which
was the same as that of the Army medal.
The reverses of both these medals were
plain. When awarded these were en-

MEDALS OF HONOR AS DESIGNED
OF THE CIVIL WAR

date of the deed for which the medal
was awarded.

The development of the policy in con-
nection with the award of the Army
Medal of Honor during the Civil War
is most interesting. The original act
establishing the decoration provided for
its award " To such non-commissioned
officers and privates as shall most distin-
guish themselves by their gallantry in
action and other soldier-like qualities
during the present insurrection." Thus
the Armv medal like the Navy medal

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might be awarded for other soldier-Hke
quahties as well as bravery in action and
was also like the latter for award only to
non-commissioned officers and enlisted
men. By a section of an act approved
March 3rd of the following year the
possible award was extended to commis-
sioned officers and the limitation as to the
period of the Civil War was removed.
It was, however, at the same time pro-
vided that the deed for which the
medal was awarded should have been
accomplished in action, thus departing
from the usage in the case of the
naval medal which continued to be
awarded for acts of gallantry performed
in other connections.

The Army Medals of Honor granted
for special services during the Civil War
cover, however, a very wide range of
action. The most usual exploit for
which a Medal of Honor was awarded
seems to have been in connection with
the colors and consisted either in the
defense of the United States colors or the
capture of the colors of the enemy. To
accomplish the latter seemingly assured
to the individual concerned such an
award. In many such cases of course
extraordinary bravery was shown. Other
acts of bravery to be thus awarded con-
sisted in facing large bodies of the
enemy alone until the unit of which the
recipient was a member had been rallied,
in leading small bodies of troops to the
attack, and in being the finst to enter the
enemies' works. Many were granted for
bravery in connection with the defense
of batteries. The spectacular attempt of
twenty-two men of Major General P. M.
Mitchel's command, who in April, 1862,
" penetrated nearly two hundred miles
south into the enemy's territory and cap-
tured a railroad train at P>ig Shanty,
Georgia, in an attempt to destroy the
bridges and track between Chattanooga

and Atlanta,"§ was rewarded in the case
of six survivors of the expedition with
Medals of Honor. These appear to have
been the first military medals of honor to
be awarded and the exceptional bravery
of the men who received them can scarcely
be doubted, although opinions may vary
as to the legitimacy of their undertaking
as a military enterprise. An exceptionally
generous distribution of medals of honor
was made in January, 1865, when such
medals were issued tO' all the members of
the Twenty-seventh Maine Infantry, who
mustered out with that organization
because about 300 officers and enlisted
men of the regiment had volunteered to
remain in service until the result of the
Battle of Gettysburg was known, although
their term of enlistment expired July 1st.
Medals of Honor were also awarded to
the twenty-nine officers and non-
commissioned officers who formed the
escort of President Lincoln's body from
Washington, D. C, to Springfield,
Illinois.il These two cases were, how-
ever, of an exceptional character and
medals of honor w'ere issued in connection
with the Civil War period for the most
part for individual and exceptional acts
of bravery, which would in most cases
measure up to the present standard for
the award of that medal ; namely, that it
can be given only for conduct of such a
character as to rank higher than the mere
discharge of a dangerous duty; or in
other words, for an act which if unper-
formed could not justly subject the
individual in question to censure, and
which when performed distinguishes him
" conspicuously by gallantry and intre-

§ See Battles and J. coders of the Ciznl War,
vol. ii, page 79.

II The history of the Medal of Honor duriiiR
the period of the Civil War is well described
in a publication of exceptional merit, War
Medals of the United States, by Bainnan L.
Hc'ldcn, from which the above data was secured.

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pidity at the risk of his Hfe, alone and
beyond the call of duty."

The method of awarding the Naval
Medal of Honor for special services dur-
ing the Civil War was very similar to
that followed in case of the Army medal.
The Navy medal could, however, during
that period, be awarded only to enlisted
men and was not as in the case of the
Army medal available for award to
commissioned officers. On the other
hand, the award of the Navy medal was
not as in the case of the Army medal
confined to recognition of acts performed
in actual contact with an enemy, a con-
dition, indeed, as has already been stated,
not always observed in the award of the
Army medal ; the Naval medal might
under the law have been awarded for
heroic deeds performed in the line of
naval duty of any character whatever.
Actually, however, the Naval Medals oi
Honor awarded for services during that
period seem to have been confined to acts
performed under fire or at least within
the actual fighting zone.

There are thus a number of points of
special interest and importance in connec-
tion with the history of these two medals
which have continued to be the highest
awards of this type to be issued by the
United States Government since the time
they were first established. The Naval
medal was the first to be authorized,
being established in December, 1861.
The establishment of the Army medal
followed in 1862. The medals were at
this time identical in design but were
suspended from clasps of different types,
as explained above, and the inscriptions
used on the reverse were not the same.

In spite of the fact that the medals were
established originally and primarily to
reward special services rendered during
the Civil War and that their designs were
symbolic of that conflict, the original
design was used on the Army medals of
honor awarded for services rendered
subsequent to that period until 1904, when
the design was changed to one of a more
appropriate character, and the original
design of the Naval Medal of Honor was
retained until a new design was estab-
lished to be awarded for services during
the war with Germany. Of correspond-
ing interest and importance is the fact
that the Army Medal of Honor was
awarded to non-commissioned officers
and enlisted men only during the period
from 1861 to 1863, since which time it
has been awarded to commissioned offi-
cers as well. The Naval Medal of
Honor was awarded to petty officers and
enlisted men only from 1861 to 1915,
when Congress authorized its award to
commissioned officers also.

As already stated, the establishment of
the Medal of Honor for the Army and
the Navy during the Civil War marked
a distinct step in the development of the
American war decoration. The practice
of awarding special gold or silver medals
for military and naval services was dis-
continued at that time. A long period
was tO' elapse before other military and
naval decorations were tO' be established
by the United States Government, but
the close of the war with Germany in
1918 was destined to render the possible
awards of this character available to those
in the military and naval services of the
United States as complete and varied as
was the case in most European countries.

ANCIENT PELHAM AND THE OLDEST
TOWN HALL IN NEW ENGLAND

By Anna Phillips See

HREWD as their Scotch ances-
tors are the people of Pelham,
Massachusetts, who still cast

their votes in the ancient Town
Hall at the " Centre." To be
sure, the " Centre " is an aban-
doned hilltop, but the inconvenience of
travelling up a two-mile grade in winter
is nothing compared with the possession
of the oldest town hall in New England —
perhaps in the country. This Town Hall
has been in continuous public use for 178
years and was erected some thirty years
before Lexington or Bunker Hill or the
Declaration of Independence.

The relic is the bridge that connects
Pelham of to-day with an honorable and
thrilling past. What small town has
witnessed more exciting experiences
than the church war with Parson
Abercrombie, the escapade of the clerical
imposter, Stephen Burroughs, the " Sup-
l)lyer," or the insurrection hatched at
Conkey's Tavern known in history as
Shays' Rebellion?

'i'he old town hall, built in 1743, was the
first church of the settlement and was
used from the beginning for both civil
and religious meetings. On the floor were
.square box pews assigned to difTerent
families according lo ihcir rank and
dignity. The ])ulpit was high above the
congregation and rcacbcd by a long flight
of steps; for the minister must nerds see
the folks in the gallery as well as in llie
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pews. Above the pulpit hung a great
sounding board. To-day some of the old
pews made of stout yellow pine, are still
intact though much bewhittled by genera-
tions of mischievous boys.

It is said that Lord Pelham, for whom
the town was named, so appreciated the
honor that he sent a church bell. After
a safe voyage from England it arrived in
Boston, but as no money was forthcom-
ing to pay the freight charges, it remained
in storage. The people of Boston finally
bought it and hung it in the tower of
the old South Meeting house, where it
remains to this day.

In the Pelham
Church there was a
curious ctistom
brought from Scot-
land of attendance on
the Lord's Supper by
means of admission checks of lead called
" Tokens." These Tokens, stamped with
the letters " P. P.", signifying Pelham
Presbyterian, were given out by the min-
ister at the preparatory service held the
week before the comnumion. I f a church
member w^as absent from this service and
so received no Token, he cou'd not par-
lake of the communion. After each
Lord's Supper the Tokens were collected,
and placed in the keeping of elder or
minister till the next preparatory lecture.
After the Pelham Presbyterian Church

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was merged in the Congregational de-
nomination, the Tokens, which would
have been such priceless relics of a rare
colonial custom, were given away as
souvenirs by one of the pastors of the
church. Two Tokens, however, are still
treasured in Pelham.

Was it a Scotch custom also to bury
the dead in coffins painted a bright red or

by the wealthy. In Boston a school
was established to teach the art of spin-
ning with foot wheels and the highest
ladies came as pupils. The women of
Pelham sold their fine linen cloth at good
prices and flax was the most important
crop next to the food grains. Another
novelty brought to New England by the
Scotch was the potato. It was a coarse

TYPICAL SOUNDING BOARD AND PULPIT OF THE EARLY NEW ENGLAND CHURCH

was paint of that hue the least expensive ?
We read that coffins of this brilliant color
were made by one Ezra Brown at his
" turning shop."

The women of Scotland excelled in the
spinning of fine linen thread and brought
with them to this country the " Little
Wheel," called also the " Foot \\'heel."
This made a finer and more even thread
than the cumbersome large wheels used
by the English colonists, and the cloth
spun from this thread was correspond-
ingly finer and better. " Scotch linens "
af once became fashionable and in demand

tuber which the natives refused to eat or
even con.-ider fit for the diet of anyone.

The history of Pelham is bound up
with the old church which is now called
the Town Hall. The Scotch pioneers
who settled this tract among the hills came
to free America that they might worship
according to their own ideas. Because
of racial feuds in the north of Ireland,
whither they had removed from Scotland
at the behest of King James I, they immi-
grated once more — this time to New
England. Five ship-loads of Scots
arrived at Boston in 1718. Some re-

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mained in that city, some went to Andover
and Worcester, while sixteen families
dared the wilderness and founded Lon-
donderry, N. H. The Worcester colony
was unhappy there and bought the town-
ship (a part of East Amherst) that was
incorporated as Pelham, January 15, 1742.
The peace which they did not have in
Ireland or in Worcester evaded them

preached a sermon calculated to stir the
most hardened conscience.

The Presbytery at last took a hand
in the quarrel and impeached Mr.
Abercrombie on the question of " Infant
baptism." When he refused to yield in
the slightest degree, they suspended him
from his pastorate and appointed certain
" Supplyers " to fill the pulpit, ordering

Pub. by Will.ird

PRESENT CHURCH AND OLD TOWN HALL, PELHAM. MASSACHUSETTS

after they had founded a town and church
to embody their ideals. The call to their
first pastor, Rev. Robert Abercrombie,
was by no means unanimous ; the church
was split almost before it was organized.
Mr. Abercrombie was a born fighter and
his congregation was animated by the joy
of combat. There ensued a church war
that lasted for eight years, and two law-
suits, the second of which was not settled
till 1759! An unhappy outcome of the
solemn ordination at which Jonathan
Edwards, minister at Northampton,

the selectmen to close the meeting house
doors against him. At this the militant
minister " saw red " and the selectmen
trembled! When the first Supplyer
appeared on the scene, Mr. Abercrombie
refused him the pulpit. The Supplyer,
much bested, implored the Selectmen to
allow him to preach on Monday instead
of Sunday, which was granted. On
Monday the selectmen kept the doors
locked tuitil the preacher arrived, then
two nf tliem hustled him into the pulpit
while two others {orcibly restrained Mr.

ANCIENT PELHAM AND THE OLDEST TOWN HALL L\ NEW ENGLAND 289

Abercrombie from entering the same.
: Supposing the " fighting parson " had
mounted those stairs, zvhat would have
happened in the old Pelham church ? No
[ wonder it is recorded that the " Supplyer
in a most precipitate manner began
the service ! "
J Whatever the rights of the quarrel

I between pastor, presbytery and congre-
gation it was most unfortunate for
the settlement. The reputation for
I inharmoniousness kept other colonists
J from joining them and ministers would
not accept the pastorate. For long periods
the church had no minister but was
dependent on Supplyers. During one
interim of nine years the town was
j indicted in 1763 by the Grand Jury of
I Hampshire County and ordered to appear
in court to answer for neglect. At last
the stormy Pelham church met its " come-
I uppance " in the person of the unique
religious fraud known in history as the
" Supplyer Stephen Burroughs, alias
Rev. Mr. Davis."

On an April morning in 1784 a person-
able young man of nineteen rode up
West Hill to the home of Deacon
Ebenezer Gray with a letter of introduc-
tion which affirmed that the bearer, " Rev.
Mr. Davis," was well fitted to act as
Supplyer for the Pelham church. Deacon
Gray engaged the young man at a salary
of $5 a Sunday beside board and " horse-
keeping." Had the isolated settlement
of Pelham been more sophisticated, they
would have been warned by the unclerical
garb of the applicant, for he wore a coat
of light gray with silver buttons, a vest
of green and breeches of red velvet ! The
Supplyer proved satisfactory, and if he
had not been obliged to preach a funeral
sermon in a private house he might never
have been found out. As it happened,
some one looked over his shoulder and
saw that the manuscript was dingy with

use and yellow with age. In short, the
sermon could not have been written by
the young man. Suspicion spread through
the community, for the most important
qualification for a Scotch Presbyterian
minister was the ability to compose dis-
courses. The Pelhamites, accordingly set
a trap. The following Sunday the elders
halted the young man at the church door,
just at service time, and asked him to
preach from a clause in the fifth verse of
the ninth chapter of Joshua : " And old
shoes and clouted up on their feet."

The Supplyer, apparently not discon-
certed, mounted to the high pulpit and
conducted the preliminaries to the sermon,
having only this short time in which to
think out a discourse on such a barren
passage of scripture as had been thrust
upon him. He was more than equal to
the test, however, and preached such a
sermon as convinced all that he was able
to think out a discourse on any topic
whatsoever. At the close he scored the
congregation so that they writhed on their
hard wooden seats.

After this proof of his ability as a
preacher, Davis was left in quiet until
his Dartmouth College friend, Joseph
Huntingdon, unexpectedly dropped down
on him for a visit. During his stay of
several days he repeatedly addressed
Davis as " Burroughs," and suspicion was
again aroused. Realizing that the game
was played out and no doubt congratulat-
ing himself that he had preached fifteen
of the sixteen Sundays for which he
was engaged and that he had collected
pay for all of them. Burroughs rode away
by night to Rutland, Massachusetts. The
excited Pelhamites immediately started in
pursuit. What they proposed to do with
him is not known, but they ached to lay
their hands on him! In the streets of
Rutland, Burroughs faced an angry mob,
knocked down with a stone Doctor

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Hinds, the physician of Pelham, and
finally defied them all in a barn where
he had the affrontery to preach the
" haymow sermon."

At this there was a discussion between
the Pelhamites and the Rutlanders, the
former insisting that the Supplyer was a
criminal and the latter deeming it no
offence to preach under an assumed name
if the preaching was good! Or even to
collect $5 in advance ! A compromise
was reached and all, including Burroughs,
went to Wood's Tavern, where he spent
the mooted $5 in refreshment for the
crowd. At this juncture Doctor Hinds
appeared, smarting in body and in spirit.
As he was Pelham's heaviest taxpayer,
they decided to arrest Burroughs, where-
upon he locked himself into a room in
the second story of the tavern, jumped
from the window to the shed roof and
so escaped.

And who was this young rascal posses-
sing so much courage and brain but no
moral responsibility? Sad to relate he
was the proverbial minister's son, the only
child of Rev. Eden Burroughs, pastor at
Hanover, N. H. At the age of seventeen
he was expelled from Dartmouth College
and in quest of adventure shipped as
doctor on a packet bound for France.
Returning home he was caught in a rob-
bery and forced to leave Hanover. Then
it was that he helped himself to a
saddlebag full of liis father's old sermons
and rode southward through the Connec-
ticut valley until he came to Pelham.
'I"he snl)se(|uent career of this talented
yoinig fraud was notorious. His adven-
tures as clerical iinposter, alchemist,
passer of counterfeit ni(»ne\-. convict,
reformed man. and teacher were pub-
lished in his book called the IJfc
of niirn>u(/lis.

The private rebellion of the Pelhamites
against their reliijioiis fraud was soon

followed by another of a more serious
nature against the state. Shays' Rebel-
lion, the leader of which was Daniel
Shays, of Pelham, was hatched at the old
Conkey Tavern in the " Hollow," where
the more turbulent spirits met to talk over
their grievances. 1 he people were now
passing through hard times due to the
War of the Revolution. H taxation for
the World War appears heavy to us now,
what must the taxes have seemed to an
impoverished population when one-third
of all money raised for the government
was by direct taxation — and there were
only 90,000 polls in Massachusetts. We
should have said, " Fund the war debt,
pay interest annually and reduce the
principal by instalments," but the instal-
ment plan had not then been invented.
Private indebtedness was very large,
paper money of little value and specie
hard to obtain. The law satisfied neither
debtors nor creditors, and the poor hated
all courts and all lawyers. The farmers
of western Massachusetts came at last to
believe that if they could prevent the
sessions of the courts in the shire towns
of the state, they would end the entry and
trial of suits for debt.

With this purpose Captain Shays, of
Pelham, and Captain Billings, of Amherst
(veterans of the war), raised a body of
troops in Hampshire County. During
the fall and winter of 1786-7 the insur-
gents were active, closing so many
courthouses that Governor Bowdoin was
forced to issue a warrant for the arrest
of the leaders and to call out 4400 of the
State Militia under Major General
Pincoln. After an unsuccessful attempt
to capturi' the Stale .\rsenal at Spring-
field, during which four of the rebels were
killed. Shays retreated through the deep
snow to South Iladley and Amherst on
bis way to relham. General Lincoln in
pursuit traile(| Sha\s' forces, so the storv

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goes, in a peculiar manner. One of the
rebels wore a knitted woolen cap a thread
of which caught on the branch of a tree.
As the man walked the cap unravelled
and the thread guided the pursuers.
This, however, may be only a \ani!

On that winter day in January. 1787,
the dwellers along the road from Amherst
to Pelham saw 1 100 men weary and foot-
sore, toiling through the drifted snow.
The men finally reached the top of West
Hill and halted before the old Pelham
church, now the Town Hall. Part
camped there, and part moved down
through the " Hollow " past Conkey's
Tavern and up to the summit of East
Hill, where they stayed five days. \\'hen
Shays feared that General Lincoln would
rout him from his strong position on the
hills, he retreated once more to Petersham.
Here Lincoln surprised him and the rebel
leader fled, leaving his men to get away as
best they could.

This ended the insurrection. The State
wished to impress on the people that it
was dangerous business to rebel and
imposed various penalties. Twelve men
were sentenced to be hung thoug4i Shays,
unjust as it may seem, was not one of
them. It is a matter of history that by
order of the governor, John Hancock, the
condemned men, did not receive their
pardon until they had actually mounted
the gallows; a rather cruel method of
teaching the wisdom of loyalty to
the State.

The people of Pelham shared in the
" drive " a century ago for the founding
of Amherst College, as it is recorded
that Wells South worth gave the first
load of granite for the foundations.
Two years later Adam Johnson (donor
of Johnson Chapel) willed $4000 to
the ■' Collegiate Charity Institution in
Amherst." The will was contested by
Johnson's brother, a poor man. who had

received but $12 from the estate. He
declared that he had been cheated out of
an inheritance by undue influence and
published a pamphlet to let the world
know of it. The closing paragraph runs
as fo.lows: "Nevertheless, as Amherst
Trustees never rested till they got the
princi])al part of my brother's property
into their possession and as I am an old
man * * * and my earthly property all
consumed, yet would will and beciueath
this composition of Scripture truth for
the benefit of Amherst Trustees * * *
namely, " Am I therefore become your
enemy because I tell you the truths"

The tale of the Pelham " Bad Boy " is
gleaned from the court records of
Northampton. In the early days a
family named Hyde settled in the Hollow
and one of the children, Samuel, was
into all kinds of mischief. He was finally
arrested by John Worthington, Esq.,
attorney for " ye Lord ye King," and
taken to court at Northampton. Let the
quaint records tell the story :

" De Rex vs. Hyde, 1765. John
\\'orthington, Esq., attorney for ye Lord
ye King in this behalf comes here and
gives this court to understand and be
informed that Samuel Hyde, of Pelham,
in ye county of Hampshire, yeoman in
the night next following the third day of
May instant, did with force and arms
privately and secretly in the night time set
up and erect a large log against one of ye
doors of ye dwelling house of William
Fergerson of said Pelham yeoman and
did also set up and erect as aforesaid a
large Hoggs Trough against another of
ye doors of said house all with intent to
obstruct and hinder ye passage through
ye doors aforesaid, and also that s*^ Hyde
on ve same Night did with force and arms
and Secretly as aforesaid take six shirts
ye Goods and chattels of ye said \\'illiam
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aforesaid where they were hanging and
ye same shirts ye said Hyde did then and
there in ye manner aforesaid throw on ye
Ground or rowl in ye dirt so that said
shirts were much Damnified. Also that
said Hyde did then and there in Hke man-
ner break and destroy fourteen Goose
eggs the proper goods and chattels of said
William then being in said WilHam's
barn, and also then and there with force
and secrecy throw down twenty rods of
fence partly surrounding one Close of
William Conkey of Pelham Yeoman, and
did then and there take off from ye hinges
with force and arms and secretly as
aforesaid one barn door from ye barn of
William Conkey of said Pelham Yeoman,
and ye same door put under water in a
pond there and heaped stones on ye same
to keep it Sunken and Secreted under ye
water, all which is against Law and
Contrary to ye peace of ye said Lord
ye King his Crown and Dignity. The
said attorney of ye Lord ye King appears
and ye said Samuel being held comes here
and being set to ye Bar and put to plead
says he will not Contend with ye King.
It is therefore considered by ye Court
how here that said Samuel for his said

offence shall pay a fine of two shillings to
ye King and Costs of prosecution taxed
at two Pounds five shillings and four
pence two farthings."

It appears that the naughty Samuel
learned well this lesson, for we read that
he grew up to be a respected citizen and
a deacon in the Scotch Presbyterian
church of Pelham and was often Moder-
ator of the town meeting.

To-day in Pelham there are fewer
people above ground than lie in the eleven
graveyards of the town. One epitaph is
often quoted. It is in the burial ground
on the Packardville road — a white marble
slab about seventy years old.

Warren Gibbs

Died by Arsenic Poison

Mch 23, 1860 aged 36 years

5 months and 23 days

Think my friends when this you see
How my wife liath dealt by me
She in some oysters did prepare
Some poison for my lot and share
Then of the same I did partake
And nature yielded to its fate
Before she my wife became
Alary Felton was her name.

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THE KNOX MEMORIAL

By Blanche Waldo Avers
Ex-Regent of General Knox Chapter

BOUT nine years ago the sul)-
ject of a memorial to Gen.
Henry Knox was agitated when
some money was pledged and
given, enough to purchase land
not far from the beautiful
Knox Mansion, known as " Montpelier."
Work had hardly been started when
our country entered into the World War,
and all memorial work in Maine ceased,
the State Conference
voting to give the
money, which had
been set aside for
marking historic
spots, to aid our
soldiers.

It was not until
the spring of 1920
that the work was
again taken up, and
at our State Confer-
ence of 1921 the
resolutions committee offered the follow-
ing resolution, that was carried unani-
mously, viz. : " That our State Regent,
Mrs. Lucy Woodhull Hazlett, at the
expiration of her term of oHice, be made
State Representative for the Knox
Memorial work."

Mrs. Hazlett was born in Thomaston,
and visited MontpeHer frequently until
she was fourteen years of age. She was
personally acquainted with the daughter
of General Knox, and has given an

MONTPELIER

accurate description of the mansion from
personal recollection.

Mrs. Hazlett's father. Reverend
Richard Woodhull, was one of the execu-
tors of the Knox estate and when the
mansion was offered for sale, Mr.
Woodhull tried to find someone to buy
and preserve it but failed because this
was a commercial period without senti-
ment ; and it was sold to a syndicate of
men, who after rent-
ing it for a numl)er
of years, had it torn
down to make room
for a shipyard and
railroad station.

All that remains of
the famous Knox
estate is a small brick
building, formerly
the servants' quar-
ters, but now a rail-
road station. It is
probably the oldest building used for this
purpose in the United States.

Beginning the work for the Knox
^lemorial, our State Representative, with
the approval of our State Regent,
appointed a large " Board of Assistants,"
composed of prominent men and women
from different parts of the State, whose
duty it is to arouse interest in this great
work of patriotic education.

Mrs. Henry Knox was a grand-
daughter of General Samuel Waldo, who

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before the War of the American Revo-
lution came into possession of a large
tract of land in Maine called the " Wald(>
Grant." Mrs. Knox, after the death of
her mother, inherited part of this land
and General Knox purchased the re-
mainder, giving rise to the saying that
" Henry Knox owned half of Maine."

Some of this land lay along the banks
of the Georges River in what is known
as the town of Thomaston and on this
land the General built a mansion which
was named Montpelier,
after a beautiful estate
in France, which an in-
timate friend of Mrs.
Knox once visited.

The mansion com-
manded a fine view
of the river and the
surrounding country.
When the house was
completed General and
Mrs. Knox invited a
few of their most inti-
mate friends to go with
them to their new home.
A vessel was chartered ^
and the family with their friends left
Boston for Thomaston, and as they sailed
up the Georges River around the bend the
first view of Montpelier was obtained.
Madam Knox was delighted and the
guests were astonished to see so beautiful
a ])lace among the forests and mountains
of that then distant section of the state.

Many of the forest trees were cut down
and a beautiful lawn laid out witli wind-
ing ])aths leading to the river and to
the village. The interior of the house
was very handsome, the rooms being
much larger than those at Mt. Vernon.
On the walls hung many fine pictures,
one being a full length jxirtrait of George
Washington. The furniture was mabo<^-

GENERAL HENRY KNOX

any, handsomely carved, brought f r,om
other countries. The large ball in the
centre extended from the drawing room
to the state dining room, and the stairs
went up about half-way to a landing
then branched each side to the second
story. The light came from the roof,
giving the hall a spacious appearance.
Another entrance to the hall opposite the
oval room opened into a smaller hall with
a door in the rear, which opened into the
main hall. The house had what we call
an "English Basement"
used for kitchen, store
room, sitting room for
servants and one or two
l:)edrooms for the maid
servants. There were
nine buildings on two
sides of the house form-
ing part of a circle.

General Henry Knox
was born in Boston July
25, 1750. He received
a common school edu-
cation in Boston, and
just as he was about
to enter college his
father died, which changed his plans. He
helped support his mother and }-oung
brother by securing a clerkship in a store.
When he was twenty years of age he took
part in the Boston Massacre; and a year
later opened a book store on Cornhill,
Boston. He married Miss Lucy Flucker.
daughter of Thomas Flucker, the King's
royal secretary of the province.

Before the battle of Bunker Hill, Knox
and his wife escaped the guards of
General Gage, and with his sword care-
fully concealed in the folds of her dress,
thc\- made their way to Cambridge where
he olTered his services to the American
general, who eagerly accepted them; and
the \oung man's career destined to be-

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come so brilliant opened at the earliest
pages of the Revolutionary War. By his
ability he attracted the attention of
Washington and other commanders, and
from this time began the lifelong inti-
macy between George W^ashington and
Henry Knox.

During the Revolutionary War Knox
was actively engaged from the beginning

to the end, and the valuable service he
rendered his country made him generally
regarded as W^ashington's successor as
commander-in-chief of the United States
Army in case of another war. He served
his country for over twenty years.

Is it not time for a memorial to be
erected in the honor of Henry Knox?

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Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

IX The Suffrage AIovement

1. Gener.m..— The most accessible general
accounts of the movement for suffrage are to be
found in the encyclopedias, Britannica, Interna-
tional and Awcricaua. especially the latter. The
article in McLaughlin and Hart's Cyclopedia of
Government is good. Another good brief account
is Ida H. Harper's Brief History of the Move-
ment for JVoman Suffrage in the United States,
published by the National Woman Sufifrage
Publishing Company in JVoman Suffrage: his-
tory, arguments, results, edited by Miss Bjork-
man. E. R. Hecker's Short History of Jf'oman's
Rights,. 150-157, and Schirmacher's Woman
Suffrage, Z-42, bring the story down to 1914
and 1909 respectively. Stanton, Anthony and
Gage's History of IVoman Suffrage, continued
to 1900 by I. H. Harper, gives a mass of detail
for the period it covers. Belle Squire's Woman
Movement in America is a much briefer ac-
count. Something of the history and an outline
of the arguments on both sides may be obtained
from Selected Articles on Woman Suffrage,
edited by Edith M. Phelps in the Debater's
Handbook Series ; and the Supplement to the
Annals of the American Association for Politi-
cal and Social Science for May, 1910.

2. The Pioneer. — The agitation for a broader
suffrage in the third and fourth decades of the
nineteenth century touched the (piestion, but
only touched it. For Frances Wright and her
teachings .see the references in the Magazine for
March, 1922. Another stimulus came from the
action of the World's .'Xnti-Slavery Convention
at London in 1840 in refusing to admit women
as delegates from the United States. The story
is told in History of Jl'oman Suffrage, i, 50-63,
and S(inire, Woman .Movement in .hneriea
64-75.

3. The Imkst C'onvk.ntions.- The social set-
ting of the first organized Woman Suffrage
movement is pictured in T. C. Smith's I'arlies
and Slavery (American Nation) ch. 19. The
story of Seneca l""alls Convention (July 19,
20, 1848) and the early forms of the agitation
is given in McMaster's History of the People
of the United Stales, viii. 117-122, and Squires
Woman Movement in America. 75-78; for more
detail see the History of Ifoman Suffrage, i.

63-88. A full account of the first National
Woman Suffrage Convention (at Worcester,
Oct. 23, 24, 1850) is given in the History of
Woman Suffrage, i, 215-226.

4. The Civil War Period. — The connection
of woman and the suffrage with the anti-
slavery agitation has already been noted.
While the predominance of slavery from 1854
on drew attention from suffrage, the war amend-
ments to the Constitution, granting suffrage to
the negro, indicated a method of securing
action by the national government. For the
period see Squire, IVoman Movement ni Amer-
ica. 92-126. The close of the period is marked
by the organization of the two woman suffrage
associations, the National at New York in May,
1869, and the American at Cleveland in Octo-
ber of the same year. See History of JVoman
Suffrage, ii, 400-402, 756-766, for accounts of
these conventions.

5. St.a.te and National Suffrage. — The
years following 1869 were characterized by
movements in two directions, for suffrage in
the states and for suffrage by an amendment
to the national constitution. Bryce's Amer-
ican Com))ion"a'ealth. ch. 96, summarizes the re-
sults up to 1890. Ogg's Nationa I Progress
(American Nation) 151-156, gives an outline of
the later period, and another view may be ob-
tained from Earl Barnes' JJ'oman and Social
Progress. 173-206. The History of JVoman
Suffrage has chapters on individual states.
The JVoman Suffrage Year Book for 1917, p.
26-42, gives in tabular form the stages and re-
sults of state action up to 1916. Something
more may be found in Shaw's Story of a Pioneer,
239-260. For the connection with the Progres-
sive movement see Theodore Roosevelt's Auto-
biography, 161-167, and Dunton-Clark's Pro-
</;-.\v.vnr Movement. 90-108.

6. The Nineteenth Amendment. — For tliis
consult the encyclopedia articles already men-
tioneil, supi)lemented by the International Year
Kook. I. H. Har|)er's Story of the Xaliomil
.Imendmriil for JVomtin Suffrage gi'ves a brief
account. The IVomau Suffrane ]'ear Hook for
1917, p. 45-58, gives the story up to 1916.
Material for its last stages must be sought in
such periodicals as the Literary Digest or Rc-
7'ieu- of Reviavs.

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Edith Roberts Ramsburgh

Drawings by
Zoe Lee H. Anderson

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MARTIN

" Alartin " is a Norman name meaning " War-
like." It was adopted as a surname at a very
early date. On the " Roll of Battle Abbey "
the name of Le Sire de St. Martin appears.
Battle Abbey was dedicated to Saint Martin
and the date of its Roll is 1066.

The family is of great antiquity in England
and was founded by Martin de Tours, who was
born 1030. William Martin of Tours went to
England with William the Conquerer, as a gen-
eral in the Norman army and to his share fell
the Barony of Cemmaes. of Kemeys, in County
Pembroke. He became Baron of Kemeys and
also Lord of Combe Martin of Martinshoe,
in Devon.

His only son Baron Robert Fitz-Martin (son
of Martin) married Maud Peverell, and they
had two grandsons, William, 2nd Baron of
Darlington born 1160, from whom descend all
those of English Lineage bearing the name of
Martin ; and Oliver, who settled in Galway,
from whom descend all those of Irish Lineage.

Martin de Tours and his successors, were
members of the King's Council, as Barons
of Cemmeas, and continued to be lords in the
English Parliament.

South Moulton, in Devonshire, was held by
the Martin family by service of finding a man
with a bow and three arrows, to attend the
Earl of Gloucester, when he was hunting in
the neighborhood.

Captain John Alartin, of Plymouth, England.
sailed round the globe with Sir Francis
Drake, 1577.

There was a William Martin at London. Eng-
land, who assisted the Puritans in the prepara-
tions for their journey to Plymouth Rock.

Christopher Alartin and his family came over
in the Mayflfl2ccr. Other Alartins came to
Massachusetts, Connecticut, \'irginia, in fact they
came in almost every company for some years.

CLARK

The name Clarke, Clark, etc. was employed
in England as early as the eleventh century.
It undoubtedly referred in the first place, to
the office of a clerk, a clergyman, a clerk in
Holy Orders, etc., as at that time the Church
was the only source of learning.

One writer states that the name particularly
meant a person who could read and write an-
cient and Medieval lore, and therefore the Med-
ieval bearers of this name were very proud of
it. The Clarks lived in East Anglia and were
influential in building and managing the priories
and abbeys of that part of the country. They
had been dwellers in England before the
Norman Conquest.

The name of Milo le Clerk is found in the
" One Hundred Rolls " compiled in the reign of
Edward 1st, which contains the records of per-
sons who owned lands in the time of William
the Conquerer, for which they paid rent in
money, etc. or gave service as soldiers.

There is a tradition which connects the Clark
family by marriage with that of the descen huits
of Joseph of Arimathea.

Thomas Clark of Bury, St. Edmonds. Gent,
mentions in his Will dated 1506, a St. Anthony
Cross of gold in the shape of a " T." of great
weight, which was borne in an armorial coat,
and was worn by Nicholas Drury, his great
grandfather, in the expedition of Spain, 1386
with John of Gaunt. Duke of Lancaster.

Many of the name were colonial immigrants
to America, among whom we find the mate of the
Mayflozccr. Hon. Thomas Clarke of Plymouth,
1623, Hon. and Captain Daniel Clark, one of
the first settlers of Windsor, Connecticut, 1639,

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Samuel Doak Chapter (Morristown, Tenn.).
Iti considering the history of our Chapter since
the 1920 State Conference, we have the pleas-
ure of reporting a year of activity and interest.
Regular meetings have been held monthly;
following the business session a program along
lines of historical research and on subjects of
general interest is carried out. One meeting
took place in the evening in compliment to the
members who are teachers and business women
and cannot be present in the afternoon. A pro-
gram was conducted on Conservation and Thrift
and the Chapter has made the request that
exercises be conducted in our schools along this
line. This suggestion met with the hearty
cooperation of the teachers. In December the
Chapter arranged for a commemorative service
in one of our churches, to celebrate the Tercen-
tenary of the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers.
In February, in lieu of the Washington Tea,
a Sacrifice Luncheon was served at which time
we realized $325. This amount was forwarded
at once for the relief of Europe's starving chil-
dren. Two of our representatives attended the
Thirtieth Continental Congress. A prize of $5
was given to the high school for the best
essay on an historical subject, $5 to the high
school student making the highest grade in
American history during the year and $5 to
be divided between the two grammar schools
for the same accomplishment. We have com-
pleted our quota of $75 on the D.A.R. scholar-
ship in the State University and have finished
payments on the $100 scholarship taken late
last year. Couperatnig with two other women's
organizations, the Red Path Chautauqua was
brought to the city for the ninth successful
season. The Chapter celebrated Flag Day by
serving refreshments at a downtown shop, the
proceeds of the enterprise going to Mountain
School work.

In Juno wc had the pleasure of entertaining
our State Regent and listening to an inspiring
address by her. The Extension Secretary of
Lincoln Memorial University was also a guest
at this time and spoke very interestingly of
her work.

A committee of the Chapter assisted in
making a social survey of the city, our par-
ies

ticular part of the work being a survey of the
churches. Attention was called to Constitution
Day and by request of the Chapter, exercises
in accord with the day, were held in all
our schools.

A year's subscription to the Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine was
placed in the High School Library. The His-
torical committee continues its work, collecting
the Military Records of Hamblen County boys
in the World War. We have given $25 for the
Monument to Pilgrim Mothers and $10 for
Naval Picture for World War Museum, and
$25 for Americanization. The Chapter has
sent its annual quota of $15 for Mountain
School work and in addition $20 to the Devil's
Fork School and has given $25 for local health
work. Our Chapter entered actively into the
campaign for Tennessee D.A.R. Hall at Lincoln
Memorial University and has contributed $768
to this fund. Treasurer reported receipts for
the year amounted to over $1900. Our Chapter
membership is 104, with all dues paid for 1922,
and all obligations met to date.

It will ever be our pleasure to cooperate, as
best we can, in fulfilling our duty to Home and
Country, and we hope that the years which
are before us may, for Samuel Doak Chapter,
be replete with deeds worthy of Daughters of
the American Revolution.

Mrs. Eugene Eckel,

Regent.

Kindrick Chapter (Rockwood, Tenn.) was
entertained by Mrs. T. A. Wright at her beauti-
ful home on South Ninth Street, Knoxvillc,
Friday, October 7th.

Mrs. Wright is noted for her gracious iiospi-
tality, and served a delicious four-course lun-
cheon. The Regent, Miss Tar water, sang " The
Faith of Our Fathers " in a charming manner,
and the one hundred and fortieth anniversary
of the Battle of King's Mountain was appro-
priately observed.

The State Regent, Miss Mary Boise Temple,
gave an interesting account of the D.A.R. Hall,
located at Lincoln Memorial University, at
Harrowgate, Tennessee, and the splendid work
being done there. Miss Temple honored the

WORK OF THE CHAPTERS

Chapter by appointing Mrs. R. B. Cassell
State Chairman, Magazine.

Our Regent, Miss Tarwater, has a beautiful
voice, having studied abroad, and will render
a group of songs at the State meeting in
Knoxville, November 5th and 6th.

Pauline Hill,

Historian.

O'Fallon Chapter (O'Fallon, Mo.) has
spent a pleasant and profitable year under the
leadership of its Regent, Mrs. Jno. Williams.
An interesting program was planned for each

at our meetings. We send him cards and greet-
ings and the Chapter has remembered him
with a gift of money each year since we gave
him up through the Society.

The Chapter has had several delightful social
events, chief among them a reception given by
the St. Charles Chapter at the home of Mrs.
McHilney. This was rather a " get acquainted "
affair and we feel that the chapters become one
big chapter in this way.

The Chapter has not forgotten its financial
obligations and has helped various worthy

MEMBERS OF ELr/.ABETH CAREY

meeting, and was carried out successfully
throughout the entire year. Some of the topics
studied were " Alaska," " The American
Negro," " Present-day Immigration." " Indian
of To-day," and " Revolutionary Heroes."
These were studied with special reference to
the growth of our country up to the present
time. The same thought is to be brought out
in the study of cities for the ensuing year.

Our Chapter has kept in touch with our
French orphan adopted during the war. Many
of our members write to him regularly and his
letters are read with great interest and pleasure

CHAPTER IN PILGRIM COSTUME

causes both local and foreign. The coming
year bids fair to be better than ever before.
Mattie Keithly,

Historian.

Maricopa Chapter (Phoenix, Ariz.). At the
celebration last year of the twenty-first anni-
versary of the organization of our Chapter,
Mrs. W. J. Oliver, for many years our faithful
treasurer, gave the following report of our
work through the years :

A tree has ever been symbolical of growth
and stability, and it seems particularly fitting
that the charter for Maricopa Chapter should

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have been presented under one of Arizona's
beautiful palms. The charter was presented
by Mrs. Price, State Regent, to Mrs. Talbot,
Chapter Regent. At that time no one dreamed
that this same tree would one day grace the
campus of the large Monroe School, but many
changes occur and the home site of Mrs.
Millay, where this charter was presented, has
now been converted into a fine modern
school building.

Maricopa Chapter endeavored to further
patriotic education, introducing the flag code in
the schools and each year offering a prize for
the best essay written in the grade schools on
some subject of patriotic interest.

This monument was unveiled by Mrs. W. E,
Thomas, one of the charter members, and her-
self a pioneer woman.

An important work was the raising of $50
for a scholarship for one of the Southern
White Schools in which Mrs. Pryor was par-
ticularly interested. Other mementos of the
Chapter's efforts, bringing the southwest in
touch with its sister chapters, were the gift of a
chair and the presentation of two Pima baskets
to Memorial Continental Hall, while a still more
conspicuous gift was that of a large silken
flag presented to the National Congress at its-
meeting in 1918. This was the State flag of
Arizona and attracted a great deal of attention.

HOSTESSES AT COLONIAL TEA AND RELIC EXHIBIT HELD OCTOBER 25
BLACKWELL. OKLAHOMA

During the earlier years most of the dues
collected were donated to Memorial Continental
Hall Fund. In later years the money has been
u.scd for purposes of more local interest.

One of the historical spots marked was the
grave of Count Duppa, who is credited with
having named Phoenix, but probably the best
known work of our State Daughters was the
erection of a marker on tlie Old Trails' High-
way near Flagstaff. This is a large boulder
with a lironze plate insert on wliicii is inscril)e(l :
In Memory of
tile Pioneer Women
f.f
Arizona.
iM-ected by the
Arizona Daughters
of the American Kevohition.
July 4, 191. r

BY SARAH HARRISON CHAPTER,

When Arizona was called upon to offer her
young men to her country's service, two State
flags were presented by the D.A.R., one to the
National Guards and another to the enlisted
men from this State. The flags are now in the
custody of the Legion of Honor.

When the National Society asked for a con-
tribution of $1 per member to finish paying the
indebtedness on Memorial Continental Hall,
Maricopa Chapter decided to increase its pro-
portion and bought a $50 bond instead. The
rei)ort of war work is quite incomplete, owing
to the fact that the Chapter did not work as an
organization, but joined tho.se already organ-
ized. During the Red Cross Drive, Maricopa
('liai)ler erected a very attractive booth, from
which various members assisted in soliciting
contriliutions, tiie total amounting to $485.

An in/portant p.irt ni tlie work of the Chapter

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is assisting in the care of those afflicted with
tuberculosis, and in raising sufficient funds for
the erection of a cottage for the use of a
tubercular patient.

For several years past Maricopa Chapter has
contributed to a baby chest under the super-
vision of the Associated Charities, while
Americanization work is occupying the most
important place at present. The Daughters
take turns in teaching English at the Mexican
" Friendly House," in this manner doing their
bit to lessen our great foreign problem.

(Mrs. C. W.) Bella W. Botsford,

Corresponding Secretary.
Sarah Harrison Chapter (Blackvvell, Okla.),
organized February 11. 1914, then the only
Chapter in Kay
County, drew its
membership from
the various towns.
Two years ago we
sponsored the
Ponca City Chap-
ter which now has
a membership of
35. That we are
proud of our re-
lationship to this
Chapter but mildly
expresses the bond
between us.

Our regular
monthly meetings
are held at the
homes of the
members with in-
structive study

along patriotic lines and interesting programs
with Flag Day, February 22nd, and State-
hood Day fittingly observed. Seven teachers,
members of our Chapter, are doing excellent
work in Patriotic Education, five in the Black-
well Schools, one at Manhatten, Kansas, and
one in St. Louis, Mo. Prizes are given annually
to the Blackwell and Tonkawa Schools for
essays pertaining to good citizenship. We have
pledged $100 to the Mountain School at Tomas-
see, S. C, $25 of which was paid early last
year, thereby enrolling our Chapter as one of
the founders.

With a membership of thirty-five and three
additional names ready for the Chapter's ap-
proval, we are taking part in State as
well as local work. On October 25th we
held our first meeting, to which the public
was invited, when twelve members were
hostesses at a Colonial tea and relic display
at the home of the Regent, Mrs. J. A. Riehl.
Antiques of educational interest were many and
perhaps the rarest was the mite loaned by Rev.

Air. Wilson. The coin was made 72 B.C. and men-
tioned in the Bible as " The Widow's Mite."
A Roman coin in circulation in the fifteenth
century was also the property of Mr. Wilson.
Among other relics shown were an Aztec idol
picked up in a ruined city of old Mexico by a.
member of a surveying party many years ago.
A crucifix about twelve inches in length rescued
by one of our soldier boys from a cathedral
wall in France, a newspaper containing aa
account of the death of Washington, and
so forth.

A marriage certificate, bearing date of
twentieth day first month, 1739, containing the
names of wedding guests, was in good state
of preservation, as were the wedding handker-
chiefs of finest
linen, that of the
groom being
twenty-eight inches-
s(|uare, while the
bride's was twenty-
iDur inches square
.md appropriately
decorated with two-
turtle doves. A
carved fan of
sandal wood carried
at German court
three hundred years-
ago was beautiful,
while a baby feeder-
was from the same
country and equally
old. A collection-
of bead work and
Indian relics,
loaned by Grandfather Brewer, was of excep-
tional interest because of its connection with the-
early history of Oklahoma. Mrs. Katherinc
Schuessler, of Tonkawa, brought her flax spin-
ning wheel and spun throughout the afternoon.
A dainty cup of tea, poured from a wonderful
Colonial tea service, by ladies gowned in the
style of that period, evidenced the hospitality of
then and now.

A varied program of instrumental music,
songs and readings added much to the pleasure
of the afternoon. " My Grandmother's Patch-
work Quilt," a reading by Mrs. Thos- E. Kirby.
brought vividly to heart and mind memories
dear and sacred.

Cordelia Lunxeford Beatty,

Registrar.
Green Mountain Chapter (Burlington. Vt.)
began its year October 11th, with a luncheon,
followed by a business meeting with interesting
reports, by the Regent and Mrs. Loomis, of
the State Conference held at Montpelier. Mrs.
Eoomis spoke of the many graves of Revolu-

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tionar}' soldiers marked by the dififerent chap-
ters in Vermont. In September, under the
auspices of the Chapter, there was celebrated
at the High School the one hundred and thirty-
third anniversary of the adoption of the Consti-
tution of the United States. We were honored
in December with a visit by Mrs. John Stewart,
our State Regent, who proposed that the Presi-
dent General's message be read at the meeting.

We have fulfilled our pledges to the Sarah
Thacher Guernsey Memorial for a scholarship,
and have given $10
loward the Burling-
ton Rest Room ; $5
to the International
College at Spring-
field toward their
Christmas dinner ;
a prize of $5 to the
high school student
attaining the high-
est mark in Ameri-
can history ; $8 as
usual to the Pro-
tective League and
$10 to the college
at Springfield.

Our Chapter went
on record as favor-
ing the resolution
of the Marquis de
Lafayette Chapter
of Montpelier to es-
lablisha scholarship
for needy boys and
girls in our State,
also heartily endors-
ing the mca.sure then
before the Legis-
lature of Vermont
regarding the regu-
lation of moving
pictures. A petition
was si g n e d by

members to pre- amkrican ii,Af; (;ivi.\ to hi
serve the Moore hy o.s-co-

farm where the siege of Yorktown took place.
Thirty dollars was used for the printing of
manuals to be given to the immigrants who
came to this country; twenty or more books
have been sent to the Mary Fletcher Hospital,
and eight subscriptions have been sent to
Washington, for the Daughters of thk Ameri-
can Revolution Magazine.

Washington's Birthday was celebrated by an
entertainment and tea, and on Easter Monday
the Chapter gave a dance at the Ethan Allen
Club on which a large sum was realized to be
used for educational purpose.

By a vote of our Chapter, dues were raised

from $2.10 to $2.50 and Lineage books to date
placed in the Fletcher Library.

We also had a very artistic representation of
Martha and George Washington in our Fourth
of July parade.

Flora A. Johnson,

Historian.

Priscilla Alden Chapter (Carroll, Iowa).
Very profitable meetings have been held during
1920; eight new members were accepted and
seven new memliers
and two transfers
in 1921. Constitu-
tion day was ob-
served with a
luncheon, followed
by a pleasing pro-
_^^^_ gram in keeping
//mm J A aS^H with the day. The
average attendance
has been twenty.
The Chapter meets
the first Saturday
of each month,
October to June
inclusive. Instruc-
tive papers and dis-
cussions have been
given by different
members at each
meeting. Our Re-
gent presented
beautiful silk flags
to the Morris Dunn
Post at Carroll,
and also to the
Mereyl Hay Post
at Glidden.

A Colonial tea
was given in mem-
ory of the landing
of the Pilgrims.
Invitations were
os-^iu R(; iiosi'ii \i iRov PA.. extended to the dif-
Hu chapter fercnt literary

societies in Carroll, Glidden, and West Side.
In November the Chapter held a bazaar, selling
fancy articles, popcorn balls and candy.
Twenty-five dollars of the money derived from
this sale was sent to the Martha Berry School.
Two hundred dainty packages of cakes and
candy were sent to Knoxville and Iowa City
as Christmas gifts for the World War Veterans.
The Chapter has steadily grown and will soon
number fifty. All the members arc loyal
workers, ready for service.

(Mrs.) Mary Macomder Winter,

Historian.

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Os-co-hu Chapter (Troy, Pa.). A memor-
able occasion during the year in the events of
Os-co-hu Chapter was the presentation of a
beautiful American flag, 10 x 20 feet, to the
Blossburg Hospital, in loving memory of Dr.
William Armstrong De Witt, only son of Mr.
and Mrs. William De Witt, of Troy. Dr. De
Witt was Surgeon-in-Chief of the hospital at
the time of his death, having given ten years
of his splendid services there.

The presentation took place on the lawn,
where a fifty-foot pole had been newly erected.
The Regent, Mrs. Robert E. Van Syckel,
gave a fine opening address. The oration,
"Modern Chivalry," was impressively given
by Charles Joralemon.

Mrs. Wm. T. Gustin, Chairman of the Flag
Committee, then made the presentation, in the
name of Os-co-hu Chapter. The young son of
Doctor De Witt, little " Billy," assisted in
holding the flag as it was carried to Dr. Lloyd
Cole, Surgeon-in-Chief, who fittingly thanked
the Chapter in behalf of the hospital. The
" Star Spangled Banner " was played as the
flag was being hoisted by the Regent and
Mr. Wm. De Witt.

Refreshments were served on the hospital
porches to the large number of D.A.R. mem-
bers and guests present.

Susan D. Wrench,

Historian.

Swatara Pine Ford Chapter (Middletown,
Pa.). The organization and growth of our
Chapter is the realization of the old adage,
" Where there's a will, there's a way," for when
in February, 1920, our present presiding officer
was appointed Organizing Regent of a chapter
in Midletown there were but three D.A.R.
members in the town. Two of these belonged
to a neighboring chapter, and only one was
ready to throw in her fortune with the new one
about to be formed.

Middletown was founded in 1755 by George
Fisher, great-great-grandfather of our Regent,
Mrs. Ira R. Springer, and because of its Revo-
lutionary activities, proved fallow ground for
the planting of a society of descendants of the
American Revolution.

In April, 1920, a chapter was organized con-
sisting of nineteen members and the name
" Swatara Pine Ford " was adopted. The old
Pine Ford was on the main line of travel be-
tween Lancaster and Carlisle and was the only
means of crossing Swatara Creek, where it
forms the eastern boundary of our town. It
was so named because of the sturdy pines
which lined the western bank on both sides of
the ford. The statesmen and officers of those
early days crossed here in their travels back and
forth many times and this fact, together with its
location, made the name a peculiarly fitting one.

We have grown rapidly and have had delight-
ful meetings. On April 17, 1921, we celebrated
our first birthday with a Birthday Social. The
Regent was the recipient of a beautiful basket
of flowers and the birthday bags with which
each guest was provided, netted $42. A musical
and literary program was given and the refresh-
ments were featured by a large cake with one
candle, a surprise gift by one of the members.

By the sale of cakes, candy and Valley
Forge Christmas cards we have added to our
treasury nearly one hundred dollars. We con-
tribute to all the worthy objects that ask our
aid and are working at present to have moved
to our local cemetery the bodies and tombstones
now resting in two abandoned and neglected
graveyards in our borough. Nineteen of the
said bodies are of Revolutionary heroes.

In June we celebrated " Ancestors' Day " in
our historic old church, the cornerstone of
which bears the inscription " Sant Peter's
Kierch, 1767." We have had the pleasure of
entertaining the Regents of eight neighboring
chapters, our honored State Regent, Mrs.
Edwin Erie Sparks, and our beloved Vice Presi-
dent General, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook.

On Armistice Day, with flags, banners and
pennants flying, we made our initial bow to the
public as marchers when we joined in the
parade of patriotic societies. The automobiles
were gaily decorated and in one of them rode
our oldest member Cninety-two). while among
those on foot was our youngest, just eighteen.

At the State Conference in Reading our
Chapter was signally honored by having the
song by our Regent officially adopted as a
Slate Song.

(Miss) Grace Parker Keeper.

Corresponding Secretary.

New York City Chapter (New York).
Ours is the " Mother of Chapters," for it was
the first one formed in the National Society,
having received its name and the appointment
of a Regent from the National Society on
October 11. 1890. and was formally organized
April 19, 1891. It is to-day one of the largest
chapters in the Society.

Through a time-honored custom, our annual
reception is held on January 6th to commemo-
rate the wedding anniversary of General and
Mrs. George Washington. This year it was a
double anniversary, for we were celebrating
the thirty years of our existence as well. The
address of the day was " George Washington
and His Times." delivered by Dr. James
Sullivan, New York State Historian; while
the feature of the occasion was the exhibition
of Houdon's Bust of Washington which our
Chapter has presented to the Hall of Fame,
and which will be unveiled in May with im-
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place in the recep-
tion room with
the American
Flag for a back-
ground, and was
the centre of
attraction. Dis-
tinguished guests
from all parts of
the country were
present, among
them National
D. A. R. officers,
State and Chap-
ter Regents,
Presidents of
Clubs and of Pa-
triotic, Educa-
tional and Chari-
table Societies.

The sculptor
Houdon came
from France in
1785 to model
a statue of
Washington for
the State of Vir-
ginia which had
ordered it. Tie
spent two weeks
at Mount Vernon
while General
Washington posed
for the famous
full-length statue
which stands in
Virginia's Capitol at Richmond, and a second
is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New
York. This handsome bronze bust is a replica
of the original statue.

It is a happy coincidence that the " Mother
of Chapters " should memorialize the " Father
of Our Country " by placing this favorite bust
in the beautiful memorial cloister of the Hall
of Fame, which was the gift to the New York
University of the Chapter's member, Mrs.
Finley J. Shepard.

Another historical event was celebrated by
the Chapter on Benjamin Franklin's l)irthday,
when a wreath was placed on liis statue in
"Printing House Scjuare," Park Row, New
^'ork City. The President General, Mrs. George
Maynard Minor, could not be present, but
vv:is at her re(|uest represented by Mrs.
Alfred W. Cocbr.in, Regent, accompanied by
Miss Amelia Day Campbell, Recording Secre-
tary. The invitation to participate in the cere-
monies re(|uested that the floral offerings take
the form of some one of l*-ranklin's many occu-
pati<jns or accomplishments, so very fittingly

BRONZE BUST OF GEORC;E VVASHIN(;TON, PRESENTED TO THE HALL

OF FAME OF THE NEW YORK UNIVERSITY BY THE NEW YORK.

CITY CHAPTER, N. S. D. A. R.

the D.A.R. wreath
referred to his
invaluable aid to
the Revolutionary
cause, and to his
further service to
his country, as one
of the Framers
of the Declaration
of Independence
and of the Con-
stitution of the
United States.
Mrs. Alfred
W. Cochran,
Regent.
Miss Amelia
Day Camp-
bell, Record-
ing Secretary^

B ethlehem
Pen nsylvania
Chapter (Bethle-
hem, Pa.). On
February 20, 1921,
a meeting, was-
held in the Parish
House of Trinity
Episcopal Church,
contemplating the
organization of a
local Chapter
D. A. R. At this
meeting it was-
unanimously de-
cided to call the new Chapter, Bethlehem Penn-
sylvania Chapter.

The Chapter was organized in Bethlehem,
Saturday afternoon, March 19, 1921, in the
Auditorium of the Dodson Building, with Mrs.
Winter L. Wilson, who was appointed Organ-
izing Regent on February 9, 1921, in the Chair.
The meeting was opened with prayer by the
Rev. Arthur Glasier, rector of Trinity Episcopal
Church, this city. Those who worked iiule-
fatigably for the organization of a local
Chapter were amply rewarded for their
efforts with the attendance at this first
initial meeting, there being almost four-
score interested persons present, including
representatives from Easton, Allentown, Phila-
delphia and Montrose, Pa. Application for a
Charter was made by the Regent to the Organ-
ing Secretary General. The Chapter was
launched with two beautiful flags in its pos-
session— the National emblem and the State
flag, both donated by members. The Dodson
Company extended the Chapter their beautiful
.•Xuditorium for tiieir permanent meeting place.
A small table made from the wood of the his-

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toric " Penn Treaty Tree " was used as a desk
for the enrolling of the members. This antique
table is the property of Mrs. Charles Dodson,
granddaughter of General Thomas Craig of
Revolutionary fame.

Bethlehem Pennsylvania Chapter began with
nineteen transferred members listed as organ-
izing members, all volunteers most of whom
•came from Liberty Bell Chapter, Allentown,
and thirty-six whose papers were sent to head-
quarters at Washington, these being the
Charter members, the list for such membership
having closed February 28, 1921.

Greetings and assurances of hearty support
and cooperation were received from Liberty
Ecll Chapter through Miss Grim, Regent, and
Mrs. F. O. Ritter, Honorary Regent, who is
also a State Officer. Among the donations
received were the printing of one thousand
postcards for the announcement of monthly
meetings, a bound volume of the Constitution
■of the United States, entitled " Lest We
Forget," a ballot box, the American's Creed,
and coverings to protect the flags when not
in use.

Our Regent represented the Chapter at the
Thirtieth Continental Congress in Washington,
also pledged $10 toward the Indian Listitution.
■Our Chapter not six months old sent their quota
of sixty cents per capita for the Pilgrim Foun-
tain to the National Society.

After the second meeting, the Committee
appointed on Americanization and Patriotic
Education was active in procuring nearly two
hundred instructive books, which were placed in
a room at the Girls' Club, Bethlehem, South
Side, for the use of the foreign children. This
room was furnished entirely by the American-
ization and Patriotic Education Committee and
was formally opened September 15, 1921. Every
Thursday, from 4 until 9 o'clock, about two
hundred children gather at the rooms, recite
the American's Creed, salute the flag and are
instructed in American history. Twenty-five
nationalities are represented at these meetings.
Nearly five hundred books have been donated
to the Committee. At Christmas a stocking
filled with candy and a book were given to
each child and through meeting the children
the Committee was able to relieve the distress
of several families.

The Regent and six delegates represented the
Chapter at the Twenty-fifth D.A.R. Conference
at Reading, Pa. Twenty-five dollars was
pledged toward furnishing a room at Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington, D. C. The
Chapter has pledged sixty dollars toward the
Near East Relief Fund, requested by the
State Regent. Thirty members subscribed to
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine, five of which are for five years.

xAt present writing the Chapter numbers
fifty-nine members.

(Mrs. C. E.) Harriet E. Chamberlix,

Historiciii.

South Parish Chapter (Blackstone, Mass.).
The one hundredth Chapter of the Massachu-
setts Daughters was organized at the home
of Mrs. Howard F. King, Millville Heights, on
January 31, 1921. Mrs. Anna Taft Buck,
founder. (She also founded the Old Mendon
Chapter January 24, 1912, under the State
Regency of Mrs. James G. Dunning, of Spring-
field.) Our guest of honor was the State
Regent, Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway, who offi-
cially organized the " South Parish " Chapter
of Blackstone. The meeting was called to
order by Mrs. Buck, opening with singing of
America, followed by the Lord's prayer in
unison. Mrs. Buck then gave a " Welcome "
to the sixteen out of the nineteen organizing
members who were present. Mrs. Shumway was
then introduced by Mrs. Buck. The officers
elected to serve were : Regent, Anna Taft
Buck; Vice Regent, Cora Warfield Rhodes;
Recording Secretary, Minnie Thayer Fuller ;
Corresponding Secretary, Sadie Rich King;
Treasurer, Bertha Whipple Ellsworth; Regis-
trar, Dora Thayer Aldrich ; Chaplain, Mary
Engley Esty ; Historian, Jessie Read Hood.
Other members present were Ada Scott
Mansfield, Providence, R. L; May Hervey
Wheelock, Hyde Park, Mass.; Carrie Stearns
Daniels, Lillien Gates Voelker, Martha Taft
Whipple, Sadie Kelley Chase, Louise Whipple
Ramsey, Jennie Aldrich Greenman.

Piano solos were rendered by Mrs. Nash
and Miss Alice Aldrich during the afternoon.
The Regent, Mrs. Buck, announced the chair-
man of the committees of the Chapter. Follow-
ing this Mrs. Shumway presented the new
Chapter with a beautiful silk flag. The salute
to the flag was given. Mrs. Buck thanked the
donor in behalf of the Chapter. The State
Regent then gave a talk upon the most import-
ant work of the D.A.R. for the coming year.
A social hour followed. A dainty lunch was
served by the hostess, Mrs. King. The house
was beautifully decorated with roses and ferns.
At the close of the meeting four new names
were sent in.

(Mrs. C. W.) Anna Taft Buck,

Regent.

Samuel Reid Chapter (Eatonton, Ga.),
organized seven years ago, has grown to forty-
eight members. Monthly meetings in the homes,
with interesting programs, have added a social
spirit to the business side. This year a beauti-
ful Year-book subject, " Women of America,"
is being supplemented as the occasion demands.
Patriotic days have been fittingly observed.

For Mothers' Day we had as our guests two

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of the oldest mothers of the town. On
LaFayette Day a piece was read proving the
great Frenchman's love for America, by stating
that on his return from his last visit here, he
carried back American soil in which to be
buried. This fact seems not generally known.
A May Festival, Community Party and sale
of poppies for Armistice Day, netted the
Chapter a nice sum. We are loyal to our
National organization, to our State, and to our
home, at all times. One hundred dollars was
loaned a girl for Normal course. This is the
second girl we have helped. The first one we
gave a year at the State Normal. Five dollars
given our high school, and $2.70 to Girls'
Club; $15 to Martha Berry and $10 more for
University fund; $2.50 to Meadow Garden,
the home of George Hatton. A silver loving
cup is ofifered each year for best historical
essay. This cup has been won by the same girl
three times. In addition to this, $5 is offered
for best average, to stimulate . interest in the
study of history.

Floral offerings were placed upon the casket
of a soldier brought back from France.

During the World War the Samuel Reid
Chapter was loyal and true, responding to all
calls. The Regent was a strong promoter in
organizing the Putnam County Red Cross

Chapter, soon after

the United States went

into war. She was

elected Chairman, later

serving as Vice Chair-
man. The members

served on important

committees, worked

with Red Cross,

bought liberally of

Bonds and Certificates,

and helped the Ameri-
can soldier in every

possible way. The

Chapter bought three

Liberty Bends and

some War Saving

Stamps. Gave 100 per

cent, to the $100,000

Liberty Bond and to

Tilloloy. Fostered a

French orphan for two

years. Since the war,

has given her part to
" American Manual "

and to "Painting for
Soldier's Memorial "
in Paris.

.■\ shelf in the City

Library is sustained by

Chapter. Lineage and reference books have
been secured. The Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Magazine is given to the
Library each year.

A fund is on hand for memorial to our boys
of the World War, and another fund begun
for memorial to Joel Chandler Harris. Eaton-
ton is proud to claim the " Uncle Remus,"
known to all nations as her son.

Martha Virginia Edmondson,
Regent.

Mount Ashland Chapter (Ashland,
Ore.). Our first birthday was most fittingly
celebrated, when on October 21, 1921, a beauti-
ful monument of granite and bronze was
unveiled by Crater Lake and Mount Ashland
Chapters, just south of the old historic Culver
Place at Phoenix, Ore., on the Pacific Highway
— in commemoration of the fifteen men who
blazed the Trail through Southern Oregon and
the Rogue River Valley.

During a conversation at a Civic Club ban-
quet, April 25, 1919, it was discovered that a
number present were eligible to wear the
D.A.R. pin. Mrs. Gordon MacCracken, a
member of the Chicago Chapter, wrote for
information regarding the formation of a

Chapter,
fourteen

On January
ladies met

MONUMKNI UNVEILED BY CRATER LAKE AM) M(
ASHLAND CHAI'TERS. OCTOBER 21, l';21

17, 1920, at her call,
with Mrs. Caroline
Schuerman. A second
meeting was called
May 18th with Mrs.
MacCracken as Organ-
izing Regent in the
Chair. Seventeen
blanks had been ap-
proved at AVashington.
On July 7th the name
Mount Ashland Chap-
ter was selected by
majority vote and a
Constitution and By-
laws adopted. On July
8th the first animal
meeting was held at
the home of Mrs.
Mary Dodge. Officers
were elected, the oath
of office duly adminis-
t c r e (1 . and Mrs.
Keating, State Regent,
pronounced Mount
Ashland Chapter offi-
cially organized, with
twinty-one Charier
numbers.

In March Mrs. Mac-
Cracken, Kci^cnt, was
sent to the i'jLibth

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Annual D.A.R. Conference at Salem. At this
time Mount Ashland Chapter stood sixth in
membership among eighteen State chapters. At
the Annual meeting May 20, 1921, there was
a membership of 41. Ten meetings had been
held inclusive of this meeting. Appropriate
exercises had marked Constitution Day. Papers
especially prepared on pertinent topics had been
read at these meetings. The social debut of
Mount Ashland Chapter was made February
22, 1921, with a banquet to 125 guests, at which
interesting addresses were made.

We have planned our Year-book to conform
to suggestions given by the Historian General.
After the first meeting. September 16. 1921,
devoted to the Constitution, the general topic
is " Early Oregon History."

There has been the greatest unanimity of
effort during this first year and we are entering
our second, anticipating it as one of hopeful
endeavor and still greater accomplishment.
(Mrs. H. W.) Grace Eleanor Owexs-

AXDREWS,

Historian.

TABLET PLACED ON THE COURT HOLSE IN ST

A committee from the Chapter, confer-
ring with school officials, arranged for prizes to
be given in Junior High for the best work in
American history and for work of patriotic
nature in Senior High School.

The Chapter contributed to the monument
placed by the Legion in honor of our patriot
dead in Ashland cemetery. Established a
flower fund, met all calls of State Chapter,
and lastly, raised by voluntary subscription of
membership more than enough to meet our half
of the expense of the granite and bronze monu-
ment, the unveiling of which so fittingly com-
memorated our first anniversarv.

AUNTON. VA.. BY BEVKRLKV NLANOR CHAPTER

Beverley Manor Chapter (Staunton, Va.).
The principal work of our Chapter during the
past year has been the raising of funds for a
bronze memorial tablet to all residents of
Staunton and Augusta County who served
their country during the World War. The
unveiling of this tablet was the chief event in
the local celebration of Armistice Day, Novem-
ber 11, 1921. The tablet was placed upon the
wall of the Court House in Staunton, Va.

It bears the following inscription : " In Honor
of the men and women of Staunton and Augusta
Countv who served their country in the W^orld
War. '1914-1918."

Heading the list of 58 dead in the upper left

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space is " The Unreturning Brave," and in the
upper right space this quotation from a Greek
poet. " They Give New Splendor to the Dead."
At the bottom is the inscription, " The Right is
more precious than Peace," and the legend,
" Erected bv the Beverley Manor Chapter,
D.A.R.. Nov. 11, 1921."

Special stands were reserved for former ser-
vice men, members of patriotic and civic organ-
izations, cadets of Staunton Military Academy,
students of Mary Baldwin Seminary and
Stuart Hall. The following program was
■carried out :

" America," Stonewall Brigade Band. Invo-
cation, Dr. D. R. Wallthal. Introduction
of speaker. Judge Henry Holt. Address
■on " National Defense," Dr. John Calvin
Metcalf of University of Virginia. Presenta-
tion of tablet, Mrs. John Adam Alexander,
Regent of Beverly Manor Chapter. Unveiling
•of tablet, Mrs. Wilbur Phelps, Mrs. Charles
Roller. Calling the roll of " Unreturning
Brave " and closing " Interpreting the Ideals
of Pershing's Crusaders," Col. Hierome L.
Opie. Star Spangled Banner, Staunton, Mili-
tary Cadet Band. The President's Proclama-
tion and benediction. Rev. J. Lewis Gibbs.

At 12 o'clock the audience bowed, with the
American nation, in silent prayer for a space
■of two minutes that the ideals, fought for by
these men and the men whose representative
was interred at Arlington Cemetery, might be
realized through the World Conference at
Washington for disarmament.

In his address. Doctor Metcalf said he be-
lieved we must still have regard to National
•defense in case of attack and we could do so
without antagonizing in thought or deed the
deliberations of the Armament Conference.
His address was most scholarly. The success-
ful consnmmation of the tablet plans was due
to the untiring efforts of our Regent, Mrs.
John Alexander.

Our Chapter has 47 members with papers in
preparation to bring the membership to fifty-
five. We give a medal each year for the best
essay from the third and fourth year high
school upon some historical subject assigned
by the Ciiapter.

The c;hapter celebrated Constitution Day,
September 17. 1921, in a most appropriate way.
The Honorable Harry St. George Tucker, of
Lexington, made an addiess, the main theme of
which was " Back to the Constitution."

Another important part of our historical
work has been the filling out of blanks for the
World War Honor Roll. There are 29 men
eligible, including men in all departments of the
Army and Navy and many officers of note.

Mks. L. L. SUTIIKKI.ANI),

Historian.

Janet Montgomery Chapter (Montgomery
County, Md. ) celebrated the one hundred and
forty-fifth anniversary of the erection of said
county, September 6, 1921, at the court house
in Rockville, Maryland, in the presence of a
large gathering of persons from the county
and elsewhere.

Mrs. Frank P. Stone, Regent of the Chapter,
presided over the exercises, which were held
in the Circuit Court room, decorated with
United States and Maryland flags and D.A.R.
pennants. The invocation was by Rev. John B.
Henderson, of Rockville. In the absence of
Judge Peter, Mr. Preston B. Ray, clerk of the
Circuit Court, delivered an address of welcome
to the Daughters, which was followed by an
address of welcome to the audience by the
Regent of the Chapter. President Harding's
regrets and his message of greeting were de-
livered by his personal representative. Mr.
E. L. Stock.

Colonel Washington Bowie, Jr., a descendant
of Allen Bowie, delivered an address on " Early
Maryland History," and Hon. David J. Lewis
made an address on " Government." An enjoy-
able feature of the occasion was the singing of
patriotic songs by the audience under the direc-
tion of Mr. William F. Prettyman and Mrs. J.
Somerville Dawson, of Rockville.

Following the exercises in the court room
the crowd gathered on the court house lawn,
\\here properly inscribed bronze markers were
placed on ten large trees in honor of the fol-
lowing ten commissioners who founded the
county : Nathan Magruder. Allen Bowie,
Zadok Magruder, Thomas Cramphin. Jr.,
Jolm Willson, John Murdock, Henry
Griffith, Joseph Willson, James Perry and
Richard Wootten.

The markers, which were in the shape of
a shield, were nailed in place by descendants of
the men thus honored and contained the follow-
ing inscription : " Memorial Tree Dedicated to

, Commissioner, Montgomery County,

Maryland, September 6. 1776. by Janet Mont-
gomery Chapter, D.A.R., September 6, 1921."
The ten trees will be Rockville's " hall of fame "
and have been registered by the American
Forestry Association, being the first " hall of
fame " idea carried out in the East.

A special delivery letter from Mrs. Harding,
regretting her inability to be present, was
received too late to be read to the assemblage.

The benediction was pronounced by Rev.
P. R. Wagner, of Rockville. and thus ended a
most delightful occasion, the success of which
was due to the faithfulness and efficiency of our
Regent, Mrs. Frank P. Stone, and of the ciiair-
inan of our committee on Historic Spots, Mrs.
Walter Iv Perry.

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gomery County fair, lately held at RockviUe,
had a very creditable exhibit of Revolutionary
relics under the auspices of our Chapter.
(Mrs. L. G.) Ruth Belcher Van Fossen,
Historian.

Elizabeth Cummins Jackson Chapter

(Grafton, W. Va.) was organized July 19,
1921, in the home of Mrs. Harry Walter, a
niece of the Regent, Prudence Sarah Hinkle.
The first meeting of the Chapter was held at

for Armistice Day was held. The Chapter
decided to be listed among the other organiza-
tions of the city, and demonstrate in the proces-
sion on Armistice Day, and did so by putting
on a float which was conceded to be the most
artistic and significant one in the march. On
the float was a Dove, Uncle Sam driving on.
Peace, Dame at the spinning wheel, George
Washington and Betsy Ross, Betsy cutting the
star with five points and assuring Washington
that the flag would be well made.

FLOAT OF THE ELIZABETH CUXLMINS JACKSON CHAPTER IN ARMISTICE DAY PARADE AT GRAFION, W. VA.

the home of Mrs. Vesta Beagle, Vice Regent,
the 17th of September, Constitution Day, and
was fittingly celebrated. On the 4th of October,
the Regent and two delegates attended the
I State Convention at Huntington, West Vir-
ginia. October 18, 1921, a silver tea was given
I at the home of Mrs. Jed Robinson, which was
la success, and a pleasing sum realized. The
I Chapter sent a box of West Virginia's rich soil
to the Regent of the Milledgeville, Ga.. Chapter
of the D.A.R., to be mixed with loam from all
states in the Union, in which the Milledgeville
D.A.R. planted a Liberty tree.

The Chapter has thirty-one organizing mem-
bers, and seven non-resident members. It is
supplied with rituals, all members read the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine, and twenty-two informal badges
are used.

On November 1st a called meeting to plan

The designing, lettering and painting was
done by a great-great-great-grandniece of
Elizabeth Cummins Jackson, Mrs. Anna
B. Phinney.

Committee : Mrs. Jed Robinson, Mrs. B.
Phinney. Mrs. Vesta Beagle, Mrs. Florence
Donohue, Mrs. Mary Hyde Reddick.

Prudence S. Hixkle.

Regent.

Lake City Chapter (Lake City, Minn.) has
this year realized one of its greatest desires to
leave its stamp upon the community in some
outstanding way. This it has done by placing
a monument by the shores of historical Lake
Pepin. Through the untiring efforts of the
Regent, Mrs. C. W. Woodford, whose splendid
enthusiasm has held the scattered Chapter
together for a period of several years, the
work of the Daughters has thus been marked.

As the city has never placed a memorial

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of any kind to its soldiers, it is especially fit-
ting that this monument should be dedicated
to the veterans of the three wars— the Civil
War, the Spanish-American War, and the
World War. On Armistice Day, in the pres-
ence of the citizens of Lake City, the monument
was presented by the Regent. The bronze
tablet, covered by a colonial flag, was unveiled
by Mrs. J. M. Underwood, first Regent of
the Chapter. Mr. C.
W. Woodford, of the
Garfield Post, St. Paul,
Minn., accepted the
monument in behalf of
the Civil War veter-
ans, Dr. W. P. Durree
for the veterans of
the Spanish-American
War, and Mr. H. C.
Timberlake for the
veterans of the Louis
McCahill American
Legion Post. The
State Regent then dedi-
cated the monument to
the soldiers, living and
dead, who had fought
for their country.

Following the dedi-
cation was the pro-
gram, consisting of
patriotic songs and
readings. The State
Regent gave a clear
and very interesting
account of the work
of the Society, bring-
ing in the favorite
story of Maria Sau-
ford's trip to the
National Congress and
of her Apostrophe to
the Flag. Through
the courtesy of the
Chaplain, Mrs. W. E. Perkins, copies of the
American's Creed were distributed, and read
by the audience. The afternoon closed with the
smging of the "Star Spangled Banner."

So the ultimate aim of the little Chapter has
been accomplished. A splendid I)owlder from
the hills has been secured, the bronze tablet
IS in place. There the monument stands on a
piece of land deeded to the Society by the City
fathers, where all may see the tribute paid our
American soldiers.

Co\.STANCIC A. WoODFOkn,

Hislnrian.

KRiiCTKD BY
POND CRl'

Wauseon Chapter (Wauseon, Ohio). In
her report to the Twenty-second Annual Ohio
Conference, our Regent reported a membership
of 54, 17 of whom are non-resident members.
As a means of raising funds we use the mite
box system; over $67 were raised by this
method, half of which amount was sent to the
Shauffler School and the remaining half was
divided equally between the Hinman and Berry
schools. The Chapter
gave a gold medal to
the high school student
of American history
having the highest
average grade.

Clippings and book-
lets of historical inter-
est were sent to the
Librarian General and
several pieces of old
china to the National
Museum. The china
was donated by Mr.
George Green, whose
wife now deceased,
was a charter mem-
ber of our Chapter.
Several beautifully
bound " Journals of
American History," a
gift of Mr. Green,
were placed in the
Wauseon Public Lib-
rary, also the Daugh-
ters OF THE American
Revolution Maga-
zine was placed there
as usual. Unbound
\ () 1 u in e s of the
Daughters of the
American Revolu-
tion Magazine were
hdund and added to the
Library's book racks.
(Mrs. W. H.)
Florence Spring
Maddox.

Pond Creek Chapter (Pond Creek, Okla-
homa). More than a thousand persons, many
of them from neighboring counties, witnessed
the ceremonies attending the unveiling of the
Grant County Memorial Monument at the
Pond Creek Cemetery, Sunday afternoon, July
17, 1921.

The monument was erected under the direc-
tion of the Pond Creek Chapter in commemo-
ration of those from Grant County, who gave
their lives for the cause of Civilization and
Democracy during the late World War.
Thirty-two names are inscribed.

The monument is of gray granite, four by

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six foot base and ten feet high, and cost
$4500. The money was raised by popular sub-
scription, soHcited by the members of the
Chapter. The Chapter has also erected near
the monument a steel flag pole fifty-two
feet high.

Members of the various American Legion
Posts and Boy Scouts of the county were
present in uniform and assisted in the service.

Mrs. Margaret McDaniels, nee Wiseman,
who died the twelfth day of January, 1922,
was a charter member of our Chapter. She

all join in the celebration of Mrs. McDaniel's
hundredth birthday. The schools were closed
and everyone far and near gathered at her
home to pay their respects to her age. She
was the recipient of many gifts, among them
two immense frosted cakes, each adorned with
one hundred tapers.

The K. C. Commercial Club band made a
special trip to her home, where they played
" When You and I Were Young, Maggie,"
" Silver Threads Among the Gold," and other
appropriate selections. The Club also presented

~ (.■..)ei>-''^N.'ft" •■»*-:"'.

•LOAT OF PHILIP FREEMAN CHAPTER IN PARADE

was born in Virginia, May 18, 1815, just four
months before the birth of Airs. Mary Pike ;
and when death claimed her, after a brief ill-
ness, her exact age was 106 years, seven months
and twenty-four days.

Probably no other Daughter could boast of
having lived continuously on one farm for
more than seventy years in succession ; but
this was the remarkable record made by Mrs.
McDaniels. She was married at an early age
to a farmer near Gallia, Ohio, where she
remained for seven decades and reared eleven
children. Sixteen years ago she came to Pond
Creek, and during the presidential election in
1920, she cast her first ballot at the age of
104 years.

Six years ago our city mayor, F. J. Gentry,
proclaimed a holiday in order that we might

her with one hundred carnations, and on each
succeeding birthday they have remembered her
with flowers and congratulations.

Mrs. McDaniels was very abstemious
throughout her long life ; she believed in pro-
moting habits of health, and had an abiding
faith in her Creator. This probably accounts
for her longevity and the fact that she retained
to the last the intelligent use of her faculties.
Mrs. Alice H. Dow,

Regent.

Philip Freeman Chapter (Connellsville,
Pa.) was organized May 20, 1916. Organizing
Regent, Miss Clara B. Pritchard; First Vice
Regent, Mrs. Rose Marietta Dull ; Second Vice
Regent, Mrs. Almeda Baer Lyon; Secretary,
Mrs. Bessie Hamilton Hays; Treasurer, Mrs.

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Eliza Balsley Percy; Registrar, Mrs. Eliza
Marietta Foust ; Historian, Mrs. Emma
Buttermore Erbeck; and Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mrs. Marie Wilson.

The Chapter was named for Philip Freeman,
who enlisted in 1776 in the company commanded
by Capt. Samuel McCune, Colonel Watts'
Regiment— in what was termed " The Flying
Camp." He served out his enlistment of six
months when he was discharged. In 1776 he
enlisted in Virginia in the company commanded
first by Capt. George Rice, next by Capt.
Charles Porterfield, and afterwards by Capt.
Gamble. He was in the battles of Brandywine,
Germantown, Monmouth, and Stoney Point,
and served three years, the full time for which
he enlisted. The Regiment was commanded by
General Daniel Morgan, but upon Morgan's
promotion it was commanded by Colonel
Feelerger, from whom Freeman received an
honorable discharge in Philadelphia, Penna.

We organized with forty-four members, six-
teen of which were descendants of Philip
Freeman. The first work we did was war work.
We made bandages for the boys at the Mexican
Border. Later, when our boys went to the
World War, we joined the Red Cross. The
Governor appointed one of our members on the
Safety Board. Many of our members received
from the Red Cross cards in recognition of
service faithfully perfoimed in behalf of the
nation and her men at arms, signed by President
Woodrow Wilson, of which we are justly proud.

The majority of our members take the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine. We have a membership of 72.

We had our regular meetings. We celebrated
Flag and Constitutional Days. We had a
knitting tea and card parties, sold food and
gathered clothes for the poor. Eleven mothers
of Democracy are members of our Chapter ; they
had twelve sons in the war. We joined with

the Red Cross in a silent parade. There were
thirty-eight hundred. We helped to make
thousands of flags for the parade and forty
large flags to decorate the Red Cross work
rooms. We had a beautiful float, representing
Betsy Ross making the first flag, our young
ladies representing General Washington, Hon.
George Ross, Robert Morris and Betsy Ross.
Clara B. Pritchard,
Organizing Regent.

The Polly Hosmer Chapter (South Haven,
Mich.) was organized May 8, 1918, and now
has fifty members. During the past year this
Chapter has sent the usual quota for the State
budget, and for work abroad has sent sixty gar-
ments to Serbian orphans. The members also
sold many Red Cross Seals and at the last meet-
ing voted to plant a tree in the home town of
each Gold Star Boy of our Country; also the
marking of old Indian trails. Flag Day was
observed with a well attended picnic, as was
also Washington's Birthday with a banquet to
which the husbands were invited.

As South Haven is on the eastern shore of
Lake Michigan we have many summer visitors
and as the D.A.R. members of many other cities
are always made welcome at our meetings they
aid much in exchange of greetings and ideas.

One of our members. Miss Genevieve Hart-
man wrote a three-act play entitled " The
American Evolution " especially for the Chap-
ter, to be given as our program at Scott
Club, one of the leading literary clubs of the
city. It proved a real success and was later
repeated to entertain the Hannah Mcintosh
Cady Chapter of Allegan, ]\Iichigan. A luncheon
preceded the play.

Mrs. John W. Hardt ably serves as our Re-
gent and the Year Book for the coming year
bespeaks a helpful and pleasant program.
Lucy Edson Carnes,

Historian.

GIVES TABLET TO D.A.R.

A joint resolution introduced on April lOtli
in tile United States Senate by Senator Curtis.
of Kansas and adopted by that body proposes
that the government present to llie Daughters
of the .American Revolution a suitable tablet

ill reco.t;nitition of the courtesy shown Iiy the
or.iianization to tlie c: iilerence on the limitation
of arniaineiit.

Sessions of tlu' arms conferi'uce were held in
Memorial (diitinentai Hall, owned by the
l)au,L;hters of the American Revolution.

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ANSWERS

3947. Sevier. — The name is French and was
1st written Xavier. Sevier fled from France
during the Huguenot disturbances, to England
where the fam lived for some years, leaving
France in 1572. In 1685 a Sevier who had m in
London, a Miss Smith, came to North Caro-
lina. His two sons, b in London were in Balti-
more Md. abt 1740. They were Wm. &
Valentine Sevier. They settled in Rockingham
Co., Va. where Valentine m Joanna Goade.
General John Sevier b in Va. Aug. 23, 1745 m
1st 1761, in North Carolina Sarah, dau of
Gov. Benjamin Hawkins of Ga. there were ten
ch by this m. Married 2ndly Aug. 14. 1780
Katherine Sherrill. Elizabeth Sevier, in Pickens
Dist. S. C. 1791 m Wm. Clark who had been a
Rev sol under Gen. Sevier. Sarah Hawkins
Clark b Washington Co., Tenn. Oct. 25, 1782—
84 d Clarksville Ga. June 29, 1867 "a dau of
Wm. & Elizabeth Sevier Clark" m June 1,
1802 in Pendleton Dist. S. Car. James Ruther-
ford Wyly Jemima (5) Benjamin (4) John
(3) Alexander (2) Alexander Cleveland Wyly
of Virginia) who d in Clarksville Ga. March
16, 1854 aged 72. Their youngest s was General
James Rutherford Wyly of the Creek Indian
War. References :- Lanman's Dictionary of
Congress, Allen's Biographical Dictionary
Drake's Dictionary of Biography, Reminiscences
of the Cherokees, by Hon. John Wm. Hen-
derson Underwood, in the Comant of Carters-
ville, Ga. May 7, 1885. Cleveland Genealogy,
Vol. 3, p. 2114.

4743. Cleveland. — John Cleveland b Nov. 8,
1769, Culpeper Court House, Va. m Rhoda
Kidd b Feb. 8, 1779. She lived in Elbert Co.
Ga. John was the s of Jacob Cleveland (not
Reuben as named in query) who d near Elber-
ton, Ga. abt 1790 aged 51. He m in Culpeper
Co., Va., Millie White Oct. 10, 1756. She was
b in New York State March 20, 1739 & d in
Elberton Ga. abt 1805. She was the sis of
Rev. John White a Baptist minister of Va.
Jacob Cleveland had 13 ch. Ref :- Cleveland
Genealogy Vol. 3, p 2099. — Mrs. Eleanor F.
Gibson. Sheldon, Iowa.

6318. Hall.— Deborah Hall b abt 1740—5 m
Thaddeus Davis. Deborah was of Fairfield, Co.,
Conn, but probably the fam came from farther
east earlier, as did the Davis's. This Deborah
had a sis Olive who m Thomas Beebe & they
had grandson Joshua Hall Beebe. Her bros
were Thos. & Joseph Hall. I find in the
History of Fairfield Co., the baptisms of three
ch of a Joshua Hall, in 1733, '34 & '36 (daus)
I do not think your Joshua, was the father of
Deborah but he may have been a bro & both
ch of an older Joshua, possibly the one who
moved to Fairfield County. — Mrs. Burton A.
Crane, 517 West 18th St., Erie, Penna.

6531. White. — I can furnish the will of

Jeremiah White whose dau m Cleveland.

This will be of great interest as you place your
White ancestry in New York State instead of
Virginia. His ch were Reuben, John Martin,
Betty m Webb Kidd, Letty Melton, Ann
Shackelford, Milly Cleaveland, Mary Martin
& grandson George Martin. The w of Jeremiah

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White was Mary Martin of that fam of Martins
of whom so many inquiries have been made.
The will of Jeremiah Martin is in Albemarle
Co., Va. made 1774 probated Vm .—Mrs. Alice
V. D. Picrrcpont, Violet Bank, Petersburg, Va.
6581. Allison.— If J. S. R. will write to me
I can help her with Alexander Allison who
moved from Maryland to York District S. Car.
I am a descendant of his s Thos. who m Jane
Carruth.— il/r.y. David Wall, Marianna, Ark.

10121. Lee.— There was a Lucretia Lee b
June 4, 1766, dau of Abijah & Abiah (Smith)
Lee whose fam is recorded at Middletown,
Conn. The record is given in the Appendix to
the Lee Family Gathering, a small book pub-
lished in 1884, p 102. Abijah was the bro of
this Lucretia. The fam moved to Western
Connecticut prior to the Rev.— Mr.y. G. F.
Crippcn, Mt. Pleasant, Mich.

10126. Farrow.— Judge John Belton O'NuU's
" Bench and Bar of South Carolina, p 159, gives
a short biography of Samuel Farrow, a s of
John whose record is asked for. On p. 503 is
a sketch of Patillo Farrow (s of Thos. &
grandson of John) on p. 159 is the fol-
lowing: His mother was Rosamond Waters,
a sis of Col. Phil. Waters mentioned in O'Nulls
Annals of Newberry Co." p. 218. His father,
John removed from Va. to S. Car. abt 1764—
65 & set on the Enoree, in what is now Spar-
tansburg Co., S. Car. About the beginning of
the Rev he returned to Va. to settle up his
unfinished business and on his way home was
stricken with smallpox & d in North Carolina.
He left the following ch :- Thos., John, Landon,
Samuel, Wm., Sarah, Mary and Jane. Then
follows a summary of Samuel's Rev rec & this
account of his mother's service, which I should
think would entitle her to a Rev rec. Samuel,
John & Landon were taken prisoners & con-
fined to Ninety-Six gaol. Their mother who like
her bro Col. Waters, was endowed with un-
conquerable courage & perseverance, obtained
their release by delivering to Col. Cruger six
British prisoners. There is no mention of
John's Rev ser so I infer he had none. — Mrs.
Susan B. Hull, Edgefield, S. Car.

10127. Little.— David Buttolph b Mar. 24,
1791. d June 30, 1869 in Middlebury, Vt. m 1st
in Shorcham, Vt. Dec. 4, 1817, Almira Little
b 1796 d Aug. 13, 1841. Her father was John
Little & her mother probably belonged to the
Bisscll fam as she was living at the home of
Solomon Bissell at the time of her m. John
Little was teaching the school and she was a
pupil. Her mother was dead and her father
had m again. The Vermont Census 1790 in
Sudbury gives a Joseph Little who had 3 males
16 & upwards, one male under 16 & 4 females.
Joseph Little (2) one male 16 & upward, one
male under 16 & 2 females. Sudbury, Vt.

is but a short distance from Shoreham Vt. I
have the data of Thomas Little of Eng. who
came to Plymouth, Mass. in 1630 & m Anne,
dau of Richard Warren of the Mayflower.
They all lived about Lebanon, Conn. — Mrs.
Calvin Rayburn, 1203 E. Grove St., Bloom-
ington, 111.

10127. Little.— Sudbury Vital Records :-
Asenath Little b in Springfield, Vt. May 8,
1770. Children of Rufus & Ennis Little were
Henry b Sept. 11, 1798, Ennis b Jan. 2, 1800,
Alsina b Oct. 4, 1801, Susanna b Aug. 14, 1803
& Melicent b June 2, 1805. The ch of Abijah

Little & Polly were:- Sally b June 30, 1808;

Willard b Sept. 29, 1809; Elisha b May 7,
1811; Sophronia b Jan 9, 1813 (Abijah &
Polly) ; Betsy b Oct. 8, 1816 ; Thedalia b May
18, 1818; Abijah b Dec. 17, 1820; Mary Ann
b Nov. 20 1824. The ch of Joseph W. Little

& Penelope were:- Thaerina b Feb. 1, 1789;

Wm. b Feb. 2, 1791; Sophia b Feb. 26, 1801.

Children of Joseph Little & Mary Ann

were:- Abigail Judson Little b Dec. 17, 1826.
Ennis Little d July 1, 1805. Flora Little dau
of Joseph W. d Mar. 10, 1803. The following
marriages are also to be found in the Vital
records:- Abijer Little of Sudbury & Polly
Warner were m Oct. 19, 1806. Asenath Little
of Sudbury & Jonathan Raylor, Feb. 12, 1818.
Justis Little of Sudbury & Deborah Haven Sept.
8, 1803. Nancy Little of Sudbury & Caroline
Kelsey July 23, 1820. Therina Little of
Sudbury & John Goodail May 9, 1806. Tarrah
Little of Sudbury & Wm. B. Goodell May 12,
1806. The foregoing vital records of Sudbury
seem to indicate that some Littles came from
Springfield, Vt. A Joseph Little was an early
settler in Springfield. He was a chartered pro-
prietor & the only one who settled in Spring-
field as most of the proprietors lived in
Northampton Mass. The Charter was given in
1761 & Joseph drew his lot soon after & in
1771 he drew again & was in town then. —
William H. Eldridge, Twin Falls, Idaho.

10133. Hyde.— Jonathan Hyde 1684-1726,
removed from Newton, Mass. with some of his
younger ch to Canterbury, Conn. His s Jona-
than b 1703 not 1707 (Ephraim was b 1707)
m Mrs. Abigail Hyde, settled in Brookline,
Mass. & left sons Caleb, Thaddeus & Nehemiah,
but no John. Jonathan Hyde 1711 (s of James
of Canterbury, s of Jonathan & Dorothy) m
Thankful Island, left 7 ch including Jonathan
1748, hut no John. Ebenezer (s of Jas. of
Canterbury) m 1742 Mercy Thatcher & had s
Tohn b 1747, too young to have Wm. b 1764.
Elisha (s of Timothy 1689) had Elisha 1730
m Mary Knapp in 1751 & had John b April
30. 1760 he was m 1782 & d 1802. I do not
find any other Johns thru the line of Jonathan
of Canterbury. It might be well to trace the

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line of John b 1681, m Sarah Prentice, who
was a bro of Jonathan of Canterbury both sons
of Job Hyde 1643-1685, who m Eliz. Fuller, dau
of John Fuller of Newton. You will find one
branch of Hydes in Jackson's History of New-
ton and back of Jonathan in Walworth's Hyde
Family Genealogy. — Mrs. B. A. Crane, 517
West 10th St., Erie, Pa.

10137. Deitz. — Johannes Deitz came to New
York State from Fulbock Germany. He was
b 1703 & d 1780, m Engelto Weiner in 1721
& lived near Berne, Albany Co., N. Y. Ac-
count of massacre gives place as nr Rensselaer-
ville. A description of the " Deitz Family
Massacre " by Tories & Indians is given in
" Frontiersmen of N. Y." p 591. Not only were
Johan & his aged w killed but also the w &
four ch of his s Capt. Wm. Deitz, who was
bound & compelled to witness the torture &
death of par, w & ch. Wounded & tortured
he was carried captive to Canada where he d.
Another s Johan Hendrick, not Jacob, (though
possibly there may have been a Jacob) was a
Lieut, in 15th Regt, Albany Militia. See p
128, New York in the Revolution. He was b
1721, d Dec. 14, 1800, m 1st 1745 Elizabeth
Ecker, 2nd 1749 Catherine E. Houck. She was
the mother of Elizabeth, b at Cherry Valley
June 10, 1752, bapt. July 20, 1753, d Jan. 12,
1825, m 1770 Phillip Nellis of Stone Arabia,

s of Andrew Nellis & his w Fox. Their

home near Palatine Church was burned by
Indians at the time of the Stone Arabia raid,
& Elizabeth with five ch fled to Fort Nellis.
Philip was with the Palatine Regt. having been
a Minuteman, since his ser in 1777 at both
Oriskany, when he was wounded & at Saratoga.
Their s Peter P. m Margery Spraker dau of
John Spraker & granddaughter of George
Spraker, both members of the Palatine Regt.
The s of Peter P. & Margaret Spraker was John
Deitz Nellis who m Samantha dau of Elijah
Stanton, a Rev sol enlisting from Preston,
Conn., who afterwards lived & d near Little
Falls, N. Y. — Miss Frances E. Gregory, 106
E. Concord Ave., Orlando, Florida.

This query was also answered by Mrs. John
Gibson, 162 California St., Huntington
Park, Calif.

10192. Murray.— " April 3, 1772, Elizabeth
Syng & John Murray " Ref .- Penna. Marriages
prior to 1810. Vol. 1, p. 249. Christ Church
Records, Phila.

(a) Rudolph. — Ref. Christ Church Records,
Phila. "June 6, 1771 Zebulon Rudulph &
Martha Syng." (prob. sis. of Eliz.) Swedes
Church Records, Phila. "Dec. 31, 1797,
Michael Rudulph & Elizabeth Young " " Dec.
18, 1792, Mary Rudulph & George Stuart."
" March 17, 1794, John Rudulph & Mary Wells."
1st. Baptist Church Records, Phila. "Feb. 14,

1794, Tobias Rudulph & Martha Milner" Ref.
Penna. Marriages Vol. 1 (prob. ch of Jacob
Rudulph.)— A/r.y. /. B. Moycr, 3322 Lombard
Ave, Everett, Washington.

8810. Wright.— Richard Wright m Abigail
Wigerly, June 8, 1757. Ref.- Penna. Mar-
riages prior to 1810, Vol. 1, p. 559. Records
of Swedes Church Phila.

10331. DiNSMORE.— Aug. 26, 1788, Wm. Dins-
more & Isabella Porter, (not Parker) Ref.
Penna. Marriages prior to 1810. Vol. 1, p. 559.
—Mrs. J. B. Moycr, 3322 Lombard Ave.,
Everett, Washington.

10266. Price. — The following is copied from
the Sharpless Geneaolgy, pub. in Phila. Pa. 1887.
John Price m Abigail, widow of Enoch Job,
and dau of Elisha & Rachel Gatchell of East
Nottingham, Chester Co., Pa. & had sons Elisha
& David. Her father was a prominent magis-
trate in his day & an active participant in the
border troubles with Maryland. She appears to
have been a 7th day Baptist & meetings were
held in her house abt 1770, she removed to
Chester before her d which occurred abt 1784.
Her s Elisha was one of the first resident
lawyers of Chester, who was a native of the
County. David Price m 14 November 1765
in Cecil Co., Md. Ann, dau of Wm. & Mary
Husband and their ch were Abigail, Wm., Mary,
David, Elisha, Ann & Margery. He d at Red-
stone, in the southwestern part of Penna. 7
Nov. 1773 and his widow m Josiah Haines,
who afterwards removed to that part of the
State. Redstone is now Brownsville, Fayette
Co. & Chester is Old Chester, Delaware Co.,
Vsi.—Mrs. H. C. W. King, Dietrich, Idaho.

10290. — A Gertrude Van Voorhis is mentioned
twice in the will of her father, Jacob Van
Voorhis, who was b Oct. 14, 1723, d Jan. 17,
1780. Gertrude was b between Oct. 1765 & July,
1769, & was the dau of his second w,
Trocy Myer.

Jacob Van Voorhis left Fishkill, N. Y. in
early life & was a Merchant in New York City,
t& was a member of the Provisional Committee
of One Hundred, appointed by the citizens.
May 5, 1775.

His will dated Sep. 1, 1775, was proved Apr.
5, 1784 & recorded in the Surrogates Office of
the City & County of New York in Liber
36, p. 369.

His father was Johannes Coerte Van Voor-
hees, b Apr. 20, 1683. Maried Nov. 19, 1703,
& d Oct. 10, 1757. His will is recorded in
New York, in Liber 21, p. 19.

His mother was Barbara Van Dyck, dau
of Achaias Van Dyck & Jannetje Lamberts, b
Dec. 20, 1682. who d April 18, 1743.

Johannes Coerte Van Voorhees was s of
Coert Stevense Yan Voorhees & Marretze
Gerretse Van Couwenhoven ; & grandchild of

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Steven Coerte Van Voorhees, who immigrated
from Holland in Apr. 1660 & settled at Flat-
lands (part of Brookline) Long Island, N. Y.
Authority for the above. "A Genealogy of
the Voorhees Family in America " by Elias
W. Van Voorhees. Published by G. P. Put-
nam's Sons, New York & London, 1888.—
Paul Voorhees, Resident Engineer, Phila. &
Reading Ry. Co., Reading, Pa.

10312. Hall.— In " The Story of the Declara-
tion of Independence" by Wm. H. Michael, it
gives Lyman Hall b at Wallingford, Conn. Apr.
12, 1724 d in Burke Co., Ga. Oct. 19, 1790.
American Biography Vol. 3, by Robt. Wain,
Jr. (1823) says that Lyman Hall m in his
native province & in 1752 removed to South
Carolina, later to Georgia where he set at
Sunbury. This vol says he d at abt the age
of sixty. "His only s d not long before and he
left a widow in independent circumstances."
Wain had stated that Lyman Hall was b abt
1731 & that he m bef. the age of twenty-one.
— Mrs. V. E. U'yiiian, 625 Mentor Ave., Paines-
ville, O,

10313. Ford.- Write to E. R. Ford, Qneonta,
N. Y. He is a desc of Jacob Ford & has com-
piled a genealogical record of the Ford fam.
— K. IV. Ford Eaton, 45 Woodward Ave.,
Buffalo, N. Y.

10331. GiLLET. — Mercy Gillet Bishop was the
dau of Nathan Gillet & was b at Salisbury,
Conn., May 28, 1766. The fam consisted of
eight daus & one s. Mrs. Bishop was the old-
est & was m to Richard Bishop at Phillipstown,
Rensselaer Co., N. Y. Mar. 31, 1785 & d at
Perry, N. Y. (Genesee Co.) Oct. 5, 1861.
Have not been able to find that Nathan Gillet
had a Rev War rec but am still searching. If
you know of one I will be glad to hear from
you. — Alahcl E. Reynolds, 232 Calumet St.,
Laurison, Mich.

10331. Gillet. — Marriages. David Gillet
(b Nov. 6, 1747) & Freelove Maxam (b Feb.
24, 1750,) m Dec. 13, 1772; Daniel Gillet &
Sallie Warner m Dec. 29, 1805; David L.
Gillet & Catharine Ludington m Nov. 23, 1829;
Daniel M. Gillet & Fanny E. Dudley m March
7, 1838; Thomas W. Gillet & Rebecca R. Sher-
man m Sept. 2, 1840; Harvy Gillet & Maria
Elton m Aug. 1844.

Deaths. David Gillet d Feb. 17, 1827;
Frcclovc Gillet d Mar. 28, 1836; Daniel (iillet
d Jan. 30, 1873; Sally Gillet d June 24, 1859;
David L. Gillet d May 13, 1839; Thomas W.
Gillet d Feb. 15, 1863; Harvy Gillet d Sept. 5,
1873; Fanny E., w of Daniel M. Gillet d April
2, 1874; Thomas Warner d Jan. 26. 1836; Sarah,
w of Thomas Warner d Apr. 16, 1844.

liirlhs. Rhoda b Dec. 13, 1773; Lois b Oct.
19, 1776; Lydia b Aug. 20, 1778; David b
Aug. 28, 1780; Sarah b May 30, 1782; Daniel

b Apr. 17, 1784; David b Sept. 3, 1785; Eunice
b Sept. 2, 1787; Electa b July 15, 1790; Betsey
b Apr. 7, 1792.

Children, of Daniel & Sally Gillet; Harvy
Gillet b Dec. 8, 1806, Maria, w of Harvy ; David
L. June 30, 1808, Catharine, w of David, b
Sept. 8, 1804; Thomas W. Sept. 21, 1810,
Rebecca R., w of Thomas, Sept. 2, 1819;
Daniel m May 20, 1812, Fannie E., w of Daniel,
Sept. 11, 1811; Austin H., s of David & Catha-
rine Gillet, b March 30, 1834.

Children of Daniel & Fannie Gillet ; Sarah
E., b Apr. 26, 1841; Horace D., b Dec. 30,
1846; David L., b Dec. 18, 1848; Jerome L.,
b May 30, 1852.

Children of Daniel M. & Fannie Gillette;
Sarah E. Gillette & Truman F. Judd, Feb. 10,
1864; Horace D. Gillette & Alice Warner;
David L. Gillette & Josie Wilcox. The above
data taken from a Bible in the possession of Mr.
J. L. Gillette.— il/u.y M. A. H. Smith, 432
Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga.

10337. Crawford. — Col. Wm. Crawford m
Hannah Vance in 1744. He led a force of 480
volunteers against the Indians in 1782, was cap-
tured & tortured to death. This & other inter-
esting facts are given in " Historic Shepherds-
town " by Dandridge & will be copied if
desired. — Mrs. Robt. Ferris, Laddonia, Mo.

10345. Harris. — Isaac Johnson, s of Capt.
Isaac & Elizabeth (Porter) Johnson m at Rox-
bury, Mass. Dec. 26, 1669, Mary dau of Capt.
Daniel & Mary (Weld) Harris of Roxbury &
Middletown. Isaac Johnson is bur in River-
side Cemetery, Middletown, Conn, nr the depot,
under a tree. — Mrs. Joseph F. Porter, 825 N.
36th St., Kansas City. Mo.

10342. Arnold.— Write to Airs. C. L. H.
Randon, Mohawk, N. Y. she may be able to
give you the desired information about Edwin
Arnold b at Little Falls, N. Y.—K. IV. Eaton.
45 Woodward Ave., Bufifalo, N. Y.

10345. — This query was also answered by
Mrs. John J. Stiibhs, 108 South 25th Ave.,
Omaha, Nebraska, giving as reference " Mat-
ernal Ancestry of Ezekial Gilbert Geer, D.D. "■

10374. Bush NELL.— On p. 248, Connecticut

Soldiers & Sailors in the Revolution, is this
item :- Daniel Bushncll of Hartland, Conn, en-
listed April 13, 1778. Also have in my
possession a letter written by Lydia Kilborn Mc-
Mann dau of Johanna &: Loman Kilborn and
granddaughter of Daniel & Hannah Bushnell, in
which she says she often heard her mother tell
about his being in the Rev & that he learned to
turn wooden plates for the sol to eat from. In
your query the name Freeman should be Tro-
man. Norman & Troman were twins. I am gr. gr.
dau of Norman Bushnell.— .1/iV.s Effic E.
Kniftht, Livonia, N. Y.

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old when the Rev War started, being over-
grown for his age. He volunteered as a sol
1776 under Capt. Patrick Calhoun against the
the Cherokee Indians & served two months. He
received a Pension from Sept. 22, 1832 until his
death which occurred Feb. 12, 1840. Patrick
later served as Colonel, had his horse shot from
under him. His father Sir Robert Norris also
ser in the Rev. Patrick m Racheal, dau of
Wm. b 1723 & Agnes (Long) Calhoun. He
was the ch of his father's second m to widow
Calhoun. His record can be found at the Pen-
sion Office, Washington, D.C. Your names of
Patrick's wives do not correspond with my
records, perhaps there were two patriots. — Mrs.
W. P. Rccd, Seneca, S. C.

10359. Coiner. — Michael Coiner b in Ger-
many 1/T20 d in Va. 1796. Margaret Diller b
Lancaster Co., Pa. 1734 d 1813 Va. Their ch
were George Adam 1773-1820 (Rev rec) m
Barbara Smith: Conrad 1775-1816 (Rev rec) m
Elizabeth Stunbaugh : George Michael 1758-
1840 (Rev rec) m 1st Miss Fosler, 2nd Susanna
Hawpse Elizabeth 1760, m Christian Balsley
(Rev rec) : Mary b 1762 m George Hedabaugh :
Casper 1764-1855. (Rev rec) m Margaret Bar-
ger : Catherine b Lancaster Co., Pa. 1766 moved
with her parents to Cumberland Co., 1773 m
George Slagle & removed to Augusta Co., Va.
1782 or 1789. George Slagle d 1820: John 1768-
1852 m Hannah Lauel 1778-1856: Martin
Luther 1771-1842, m Elizabeth Rea : Jacob 1771-
1826 m Mary Biers 1774-1840; Christian
1774-1857 m Jane Erwin 1784-1846; Philip
1777-1849 m 1st Catharine Taher, 2nd Mrs.
Catherine Aliller ; Fredrick. The ch of George
& Catharine Slagle were John, Jacob, Christian,
Franklin, David & George, twins, Henry,
Susian. Catharine, Mary & Joseph. The name
Coiner is spelled various ways. Michael Coiner
served in the Rev War.— il/r.y. Edith P. Head,
Catonsville, Md.

10380. LiNENSHEET. — These records are from
the Church Records at Barron Hill, St. Peter's
Evangelical Lutheran Church, founded 1752 by
H. M. Muhlenburg, D.D. Wm. Linenshied, w
Catharine; s John b 12 Dec. 1775: bapt. 28,
Apr. 1776 : sponsors, parents. Charles Linen-
schied, w Margret; twins Wm., Catharine b
28, July 1769 bapt. 13, Aug. 1769; sponsors
Wm. Linenschied & w Catharine. Wm. Linen-
schied, w Catharine; dau Margret b 4 July
1769; bapt. 13, Aug. 1769 sponsors Charles &
Margret Linenschied. Charles Linnenschiitz, w
Margret; dau Elizabeth b 1, July 1766; bapt.
31, Aug. 1766; sponsors W. Lebing & w Eliza-
beth. Also in the churchyard bur plot of St.
Peter's Church is a headstone erected to Eliza-
beth (Linensheet) Knous w of Jacob Knous
who d March 10, 1840 in the 75th year of her
age. Jacob Knous d Nov. 30, 1846 in the 86th

year of his age. These entries in the Church
records would indicate that the Catharine who
m Samuel Carpenter was a sis of Elizabeth who
m Jacob Knous of Knaus Hill, Roxborough.
—Mrs. Mary E. Ktwiis, 265 Basset St., New
Haven, Conn.

10391. WoLVERTAX.— This query can probably
be answered by A. N. Wolvertan, Suite 704,
Davidson Trust Bldg., Vancouver, British Col-
umbia, who has worked on the Wolvertan fam
for years. — H. E. Beats, Flemington, N. J.

10391. Wolvertan.— Undoubtedly you are
descended from Judge Charles Wolverton of
N. J. as he is the progenitor of all Wolvertons
in America. I am a desc. of Rachel Wolver-
ton b 1766, dau of Charles b 1741, s of Roger
b 1700 s of Charles Ut.—Addic JV. Craivford,
Canton, Pa.

10394. Halsev.— Thomas Halsey b Jan. 2,
1592, England, came to Lynn, Mass. 1637. Was
one of the founders of Southampton, L. I.
Married Phoebe— bef. 1627. Isaac Halsey b

prob. 1628—9 d 1725 m Mary ■ . Samuel

Halsey mentioned in Records of Southampton,
Vol. 2, p. 146. Jerusha Halsey b abt 1728 d 21,
April 1803 at Morristown, N. J. m Jonathan
Wood who d Jan. 2, 1804. Ref.- pp. 2,7, 38,
43, 53. "Thomas Halsey &: His Descendants
in America."— .1/r.y. Arthur M. McCrclUs, 42
Cole Avenue, Providence, R. I.

10401. Wilson.— Robert Wain, Jr. in his
" Lives of the Signers of The Declaration of
Independence " (American Biography) says
James Wilson was b in 1742 in the neighborhood
of St. Andrews, Scotland. He came to New
York at the age of 21 years & later settled in
Philadelphia. He d at Edenton, N. C. Aug. 28,
1798 while on his circuit as Judge of the
Supreme Court and was bur at Edenton. He
was m 1771 — 2 to Rachel, youngest dau of Wm.
Bird of Birdsborough, Bucks Co., Pa. She
d 1786. Their ch were Mary m Pascal Hol-
lingsworth ; Wm. d at Kaskaskias ; Bird, clergy-
man of N. Y. 1824; James, Lieut, in Army d
1808 at San Domingo ; Emily d at Norristown
1809; Charles, midshipman, d at Havana 1800.
The ch who d were not m. For his 2nd w
James Wilson m Hannah Gray of Boston.
Their s Henry lived but a short time. — Mrs.
V. E. Wymau. 625 Mentor Ave., Painesville, O.

10409. Lineberger. — The name was originally
spelled Lionberger. It is stated that three bros
Lewis, Peter & John immigrated from Germany
to England & from there to America prior to
1768. The parents started with them but both d
at sea. Lewis was a captain in the Rev in
North Carolina & afterwards settled there. It
is supposed that the John of the three bros, was
John the father of John mentioned in the query.
The first one was executor of a will in Va. in
1746. The second Tohn was in Va. in 1771

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in which year he was authorized to divide his
father's property. This second John had three
wives, all named Barbara. Presumably Barbara
Storr, of the inquiry, was the first. The last
was Barbara Harshberger whom he m about
1789 as her first ch was b 1790. As the first
John d 1771 (i. e. estate divided then) he could
not have been a sol in the Rev. I have not
the date of b of the second John or of his w
Barbara Harshberger, would be glad to receive
it— Mrs. Helm N. Rupp, 304 S. Main St.,
Monmouth, 111.

10410. Hill.— If Levi Hill, s of Samuel had
connections or ancestors in Conn, as follows —
Ebinezer, Luke, Zenas, Ira or Ebinezer, Jr. who
was b in 1717 & d in Stephentown, N. Y. should
be glad to correspond with you concerning the
Hill gen. & Hist. My records go back to
Guilford, Conn. \6%7.—Mrs. C. R. Sloan, 215
4th St., Marietta, O.

QUERIES

10452. Graham. — Wanted par & name of w
of Robert Graham. Wanted also dates of b & m.
He was a sol in John Haslips Reg Capt. Jona-
than Caldwell's Co. in Barracks at Dover, Apr.
12, 1776. Mustered Jan. 16, d 1814 in Delaware.
— D. W. S.

10453. LovETTMAR. — Hopestill Tyler & Mary
Lovettmar were m in Mendon Mass. 1668.
Wanted Mary Lovettmar's ances. — P. S. L.

10454. Custer.— Wanted ances & to corres-
pond with desc of Capt. Henry Custer who was
in command of a Co. from Lancaster Co., Pa.
Was he of the same line as Gen. George A.
Custer? — E. Z. C.

10455. Stull. — Wanted any information of
Juln Stull supposed to have ser as a sol in the
Rev War. Came from Pa. Had a grandson
who lived in Ohio.— E. K. S. C.

10456. Jones.— Wanted Rev rec of Gen. Allen
Jones at one time res of Yorktown, Va. Saf-
fcll's Records of the Rev War p. 113 contains
a letter to Gen. Allen Jones from one John
Pierce. Allen Jones owned warehouses at
Yorktown which he turned into Hospitals dur-
ing the Rev. Wanted any information of him.
— F. L. B.

10457. GiRDNER-GoERTNER. — Wanted any in-
formation of the Girdncr fam. Michael, s of
David Girdncr of Pa. ser through whole period
of Rev. He m Hulda Beach of Maine.— C. G.

10458. Oliver.— Wanted par of James De-
Gray of N. Y. b Dec. 13, 1792 d Feb. 4, 1871,
m Sept. 25. 1813, Sarah Wright. Wanted also
Rev rec of his father.

(a) Sheffield.— Wanted par & Christian

name of Sheffield of Hartford, Conn, who

m Bcsie Fowler who d 1867, 70 years old. Their
(lau Jane b 1814 m July 18.30 Rodney Parker
Liii^ar. Wanted also nar of Bessie Fowler,

did her father have Rev rec? Her sis & bro
lived at New London, Conn.

(b) West. — Deacon Joseph West & w Jeanne
Delano had s Joseph of Tolland, Conn, b Nov.
2, 1728 d Sept. 25, 1825. Married Lois Strong
of Lebanon, Conn. Wanted Rev rec of Joseph
West and par of Lois Strong. Their s Joseph
b June 3, 1766 d June 9, 1860 at Granville, m
Olive Rose or Ross. Wanted her par.

(c) Wright. — Wanted Rev rec of Jonathan
Wright b 1708 d 1777 m Tabiatha Sammis of
Huntington, L. I.— E. K. W.

10459. Devins. — Wanted par with dates also
names of ch of John Devins, 2nd Bat. 2nd
Establishment, 2nd Reg. N. J. Men in the Rev.
— H. M. W.

10460. Smith - Erwin - Williams - Clif-
ford - Blaisdell - Keys - Kendall - Sanborn-
Haley - Hitchcock - Hollister.— Wanted par
& ances of the following, giving when possible
Rev rec. Samuel Smith, b Sept. 3, 1731 m
Nov. 16, 1749, Abiah Chapin; Annie Erwin, m
July 1808 Isaac Griswold; Abigail Williams,
m Aug. 10, 1780 John Griswold; Sarah Clifford
m Aug. 12, 1741, Nathaniel Ladd of Kingston,
N. H.; Dolly Blaisdell m Isaac Ladd of
Alexandria, N. H. ; Hannah Keys, m Uriah
Pike of Hebron, N. H. ; Sarah Kendall m Daniel
Pike, Dunstable, Mass. 1746; Elizabeth San-
born, m Apr. 11, 1714 John Ladd of Kingston,
N. H. ; Edmund Haley m 1825 Lucy Sherwood.
N. Y. later of 111. ; Hannah Hitchcock m Abel
Chapin of Springfield, Mass. ; Lucy Hollister m
July 8, 1790, Nathan Sherwood of N. Y.
— L. A. S.

10461. Rogers. — Wanted par of Zenas Rogers
b in either Vt. or N. H. July 8, 1770 m Aug.
23, 1791 Hannah dau of Phineas & Hannah
Annis. Removed from Vt. to Chautauqua Co.
N. Y. in 1814 & d Oct. 16, of same year. Their
ch were Phineas, James Porter, Harry, Chaun-
cey, Lorenzo & Mary. Was his father in Rev
War? From records in the old Bible it would
seem that Rev. Daniel Rogers of Exeter, N. H.
was either his grandfather or great-grandfather.
— N. E. J.

10462. Cranston. — Wanted ances of John
Cranston who d 1828 age 71 and of his w Abi-
gail Tisdale who d 1847 age 86. Both are bur
in Hancock, Mass., where they are supposed to
have immigrated from R. I. John was a tax
payer in Stephentown, N. Y. as early as 1789.

(a) Arnold. — Wanted ances of Tabitha
Arnold b 1779 m Feb. 14, 1796 d 1861 & of her
husband Christopher Brown b 1772, d 1862 in
Berlin, Rensselaer Co., N. Y.

(b) Windsor. — Wanted ances of Margaret
Win.sdor b 1798 d 1854 ni David Kendal! h
1796 d 1842. Both arc bur in Pocstcnkill.

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N. Y. David's par were David & Abigail
Spicer Kendall.

(c) Sweet. — Wanted ances of Amos Sweet
who d 1793 & of his w Betsey. They were tax
payers in Stephentown, N. Y. as early 1789.
Were they the par of Lydia Sweet who m
Abel Tanner?

(d) Randall. — Wanted ances of Lucy Ran-
dall b 1760 d 1841 m 1780 Hezekiah Hull of
Berlin, N. Y.— A. C. L.

10463. TucKER-LiTTELL.— John Tucker lived
at Stony Hill, N. J. m Catherine Line had ch
Mary, m 1790 Joseph Camp; Susannah m Cor-
nelius Littell, s of Jonathan; Nancy, m Joseph
Morse; Chole, m Wm. Ryan; Henry, m Polly
McDaniel ; Moses, m Betsey Lyon ; Joseph, m
Deborah Line ; Elizabeth, m John Cilyon ; John,
m Betsy Stewart ; Rebecca, m Joseph Bingo ;
Patty, m Samuel Tucker. Cornelius & Susannah
Tucker Littell had ch Catherine & Rebecca
Catherine m Samuel Frasee; had 10 ch the
4th, Rebecca b Aug. 1805 in Ohio m Garrett
Vliet. Was there Rev ser for John Tucker.
Cornelius, Jonathan Littell or Samuel Frazee?
— M. V. N.

10464. Lane. — Wanted names of ch wath their
dates of Isaac Lane, a Rev sol. Wanted also
date of m of Elizabeth Lane to Joab Hill. They
lived in McMillan Co., N. C. later changed to
McMillan Co., Tenn.— G. D. C.

10465. Borden. — Wanted rec of Joseph Bor-
den b abt 1726 in Augusta Co., Va. later moved
to Irredell Co., N. C. He m Jane War-
ren. Their ch were Lewis, Benjamin, Mary
& Rebecca.

(a) Parker. — Wanted dates of b & m of
Jacob Parker, Somerset Co., Md. who d 1791.
He m Sophronia Terrell. Wanted her dates also.

(b) Rutherford. — John Rutherford, b 1759
d Oct. 31, 1833. Buried 3 miles from Sanders-
ville, Wash. Co., Ga. Had he a s named

Nathaniel Greene Rutherford? If not what was
their relationship? — J. W. H.

10466. Frizel. — Wanted Rev rec of Joseph
Frizel who was living at Wiscasset, Lincoln
Co., Maine, 1792. Wanted also any information
of his w Alary Langdon's fam. Her mother
was a Pembleton. — L. R. I.

10467. Daubin-D'Aubin. — Wanted any infor-
mation of Sylvester Daubin or D'Aubin who m
Alartha Kidd & who lived in Va. Their ch
were Major Moore Daubin, Martha, Mary &
Abner Daubin. — J. S. H.

10468. Woods. — Mrs. Anna Berry Woods de-
sires to correspond with anyone having Berry
gen. Her ances came from Va. to Pa.

10469. Wilson.— Wanted all the data avail-
able regarding Wilson who acted as Aide

de camp to Gen. George Washington. — M. B. B.

10470. Nelson. — Wanted par of Catharine
Nelson b in Md. abt 1780 m abt 1800 Wm.
Knight of Ga. & set in Barbour Co., Ala. where
she d & is bur.— L. C. H.

10471. Bevens — Wanted any information
concerning Wm. Bevens who m Eliza prob-
ably in Phila. abt 1790. He was the s of Sir
Wm. Bevens & had 3 ch Wm. ; Eliza ; & Harriet.

(a) Allen-Potter. — Wanted ances of Eliza-
beth Allen b 1795 m Thomas Potter b 1797,
probably in Knox Co., Ky.- — F. E. E.

10472. Smith.— Wanted par & gr par of Wm.
Finney Smith b in Ky. 1812 d in Wash. Co.,
Miss. 1889 ; Andrew Wood Smith b Ky. abt 1814
d Wash. Co., Miss. 1865 ; John Ellison Smith b
Ky. 18— d Wash. Co., Miss. 1859 ; James Dry-
den Smith b Ky., 18^ said to have moved nr
Brownsville, Tenn. 1840.— I. L. S.

10473. McCall.— Wanted par of Edward Rut-
ledge McCall b Charleston, S. C. Aug. 5, 1790 d
Bordentown, N. J. July 31, 1835. Congress gave
him a medal of honor for bravery in the War
of 1812. Would like to correspond with his
desc— L. C.

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ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

689 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

BiSBEE.

MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,
Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,

si 7 W. ,5th Ave., Pine Bi.uff.
MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,

A.MITY.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.
MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. CLYDE C. DAWSON,

1211 Race St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,

235 N. Main St., Southinotox.
MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,
61 Seymour Ave., Derby.

DELAWARE

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,

Sjiyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WH.LIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E.^, Washington, D. C.
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1752 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

2.33 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.
MRS. THEODORE STRAWN,

De Land.

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MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

IOC Culver St., Macon.
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MRS. N. L. SCOTT,

The CouRTLANi) Hotel, Honolulu.

MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Si.:<(iND Avi:., E. Twin Falls.
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(MS \, (;\KIIF,I,1I Avn., POCATEI.LO.

ILLINOIS

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1011 N. Penna St., Indianapolis.
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Independence.
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"Riverside," Wichita.

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152 E. High St., Lexington.
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2217 Glexmary Ave., Louisville.

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1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
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Cleveland.

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MONTANA

MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

SI 4 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.
MRS. ADELPHUS B. KEITH,

418 S. Washington St., Butte.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

1731 L. St., Lincoln.
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Ciiadron.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. LORIN WEBSTER,

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448 Rll)(-E St., Newahk.

MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watchuno Ave., Plainimeld.

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8 Lafayette St., Albany.

MRS. CHARLES M. BULL.
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

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Winston-Salem.
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810 jN'. Tryon St., Chablotte.

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Valley City.
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903 Johnston Ave., Bartlesville.
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231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

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MISS ANNE M. LANG,

115 W. 4th Stj, The Dalles.
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962 Pearl St., Eugene.

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MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston^ Linden Ave., Pittsburgh.

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VOL. LVI, No. 6

JUNE, 1922

WHOLE No. 358

THE CELEBRATED EDENTON, N. C. ,
TEA PARTY

Bv Fred A. Olds

NE of the oldest, quaintest and
most charming towns in North
CaroHna is Edenton, for many
years the seat of government of
this Colony or Province. Hap-
pily there have been preserved
many of the buildings of its early period.
No event in its two hundred and fifty
years' existence is better known than what
is popularly termed " The Edenton Tea
Party," of date October 25, 1774; appa-
rently the first declaration 1\v the women
of America of their patriotism and desire
to aid their country.

October 16, 1765, North Carolina men.
at Wilmington, took bold action to pre-
vent the use of the much detested stamps
prescribed by the " Stamp Act," made an
effigy of Lord Bute and burned it in the
public street and made the collector of
customs swear that he would have noth-
ing to do with the stamps. The defiance
was positive and it won.

The first provincial congress, or con-
vention, of North Carolina, composed of
deputies of the inhabitants of the Prov-
ince, held at New Bern, August 25, 1774,
in bold and open defiance of the Governor
and of his proclamation, declared in the
plainest terms that it claimed only the
rights of Englishmen and that it was the
verv essence of the British Constitution
that no subject should be taxed except
l)y his own consent; that the tax upon
tea and other articles consumed in Amer-
ica for the purpose of raising a revenue
was highly illegal and oppressive. It
then resolved :

•' That we will not, directly or indirectly,
after the first day of January, 1775, import
from Great Britain any East Indian goods,
or any merchandize whatever, medicines ex-
cepted'. That we will not make use of or suffer
to be used East Indian tea after September
10, next and we will consider all persons not
complying with this resolve enemies to their
country. That we will not export any of our
commodities to Great Britain after October
first, 1775."

327

328

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

On the 23rd of October Mrs. Penelope
Barker, a leader in society and of marked
force of character and distinction, called
a meeting of the ladies of Edenton on the
25th. at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth King.
This house in which the Tea Party was
held was quaint and handsomely built
of wood and stood facing the court-house
green, between the court-house and
Edenton bay. Fifty-one ladies responded
to the call and they were thoroughly
representative of the finest influence and
sentiment in the Colony. Mrs. Barker
was chosen as the presiding officer and
Mrs. Winifred Hoskins, secretary.

The meeting adopted a resolution
warmly commending the action of the
Provincial Congress above quoted, and
declaring : " We will not conform to that

pernicious custom of drinking tea and will
not promote the wearing of any manufac-
tures from England." The meeting then
adopted the following as its solemn
declaration and those present signed
their names thereto :

" Edenton, North Carolina,
October 25, 1774.
" As we cannot be indifferent on any oc-
casion that appears to affect the peace and
happiness of our country and as it has been
thought necessary for the public good to enter
into several particular resolves by a meeting
of members deputed from the whole Province,
it is a duty which we owe not only to our
near and dear connection, who have concurred
in them, but to ourselves who are essentially
interested in their welfare, to do everything as
far as lies in our power to testify our sincere
adherence to the same and we do therefore
accordingly subscribe this paper as a witness
of our fixed intention and solemn determination
to do so :

/jey48wj«,j»j«k^ aa^m^^

^ ON THIS SP.OTSTOOO THE RESIDENCE i.
' ' OF MRS eUIABETH KIMC IN WHiCH IMl .
LADIES QF £CENTOK MFT-0CT25^-"im
» ': FRCTE5T AGAINST THE '"l-.r ONTEA ^

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HRON/.E TKA POT AT KDENTON, N. C.

;.-;,. Acici,.:c•^: i^Nf-.-.K IJ'S-

CARICATURE OF THE EDENTON TEA PA

RTV. ORIGINAL IN THE NORTH CAROLINA HALL OF HISTORY

330

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Abigail Charlton
Elizabeth Creecy
Anne Johnstone
Mar}^ Woolard
Jean Blair
Frances Hall
Alary Creecy
Mary Blount
Margaret Cathcart
Jane Wellwood
Penelope Dawson
Susannah Vail
Isabella Johnston
Elizabeth Patterson
Margaret Pearson
Sarah Beasley
Frances Johnston
Grace Clayton
Mary Jones
Anne Hall
Sarah Littlejohn
Sarah Hoskins
M. Payne
Elizabeth Crickett
Elizabeth Vail

Lydia Bonner
Anne Horniblow
Marion Wells
Sarah Matthews
Elizabeth Roberts
Rebecca Bondfield
Sarah Howcott
Elizabeth P, Ormond
Winifred Hoskins
Sarah Valentine
Mary Bonner
Mary Ramsey
Teresa Cunningham
Lydia Bennett
Anne Haughton
Ruth Benbury
Penelope Barker
Mary Littledale
Elizabeth Johnston
Elizabeth Green
Sarah Howe
Mary Hunter
Anne Anderson
Elizabeth Bearsley
Elizabeth King."

It will be observed that the signers
were English and Scotch entirely.
Isabella Johnston, a sister of Samuel
Johnston, one of the most notable men
in the Province, was the fiancee of Joseph
Hewes, whose home in Edenton was near
the meeting-place of these determined
women. Hewes was one of the signers
of the Declaration of Independence at
Philadelphia July 4, 1776.

The news of this action by the Tea
Party was carried to London with great
quickness, for an English account of the
affair says:

" The news of the meeting of the Society
of Patriotic Ladies at Edenton appeared in
various English papers about the middle of
January, 1775. Possibly the imposing list of
signatures attached to the resolution passed at
the gathering caused our cartoonist to select
this incident as fairly" representative of the
moral and physical support the women of the
Colonies were contributing to the common
cause."

Another account, in the Morning Chronicle
and Advertiser, says : " The following is an
extract from a letter from North Carolina
dated October 27, 1774: 'The Provincial Depu-
ties of North Carolina having resolved not to
drink any more tea and to wear no more Britisli
cloth, many ladies of this Province have deter-

mined to give a memorable proof of their
patriotism and have accordingly entered into the
following honorable and spirited association.
I send it to you to show your fair country-
women how zealously and faithfully American
ladies follow the laudable example of their hus-
bands and what opposition your matchless
[italicized] ministers may expect to receive from
a people thus firmly united against them.' "
(Then follow the signed resolutions).

The news of this action by the women
was also carried to London in other ways,
for a letter from Arthur Iredell, of Lon-
don, to his brother James, at Edenton
(who married a sister of one of the
signers), said :

" Is there a female Congress at Edenton,
too. I hope not, for we Englishmen are afraid
of the male Congress, but if the ladies, who
have ever since the Amazonian era been esteemed
the most formidable enemies ; if they, I say,
should attack us the most fatal consequences
are to be dreaded. The Edenton ladies, con-
scious that the more we strive to conquer them
the more we are conquered, are willing, I
imagine, to crush us into atoms by their
omnipotency. The only security on our side to
prevent this impending ruin, that I can perceive,

THE TEA CADDY FROM WHICH THE TEA WAS POURED ON

THE FLOOR AT THE TEA PARTY. ORIGINAL IN THE NORTH

CAROLINA HALL OF HISTORY. RALEIGH

REPLICA OF THE HOL\-E OF MRS. ELIZABETH KING AT EDENTON, IN WHICH THE TEA PARTY WAS HELD.
THIS REPLICA IS IN THE NORTH CAROLINA HALL OF HISTORY

THE PUNCH BOWL OF MRS. WINIFRED HOSKINS. SECRETARY OF THE EDENTON TEA PARTY. IN WHICH
PUNCH WAS SERVED ON TH.AT OCCASION. ORIGINAL IN THE NORTH CAROLINA HALL OF HISTORY

332

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

IS the probability that there are but fv-w places
in America which possess so much female
artillery as Edenton."

It is quite evident from reading these
London comments that a picture had l)een
made of the Tea Party. In 1828 Lieuten-
ant William T. Muse, of the United
States Navy, whose mother w^as Miss
Blount, of Edenton, while on a cruise
stopped at the
island of Mi-
norca and there
saw in a barber
shop a carica-
ture of Edenton
Tea Party, a
mezzotint in
lively colors.
Lieutenant
Muse bought it
and in 1830
took it to Eden-
ton, where it
was i)laced in
the court house
and was viewed
with very great
interest. The
caricature is ten
by fourteen
inches in di-
mensions. Mrs.
Barker, the pre-
siding officer, is
shown, gavel in hand, her negro
maid, Amelia, standing behind her chair.
The rector of St. Paul's Church at
Edenton is shown as kissing the lovely
secretary, who turns a rosy cheek toward
him. The costumes of the period are
faithfully depicted. One lady is pouring
tea from a caddy upon the floor, another
in handsome costume is signing the re-
solves, while under the table is a child
playing with a string and a dog asleej).
Under Mrs. Barker's chair is a hot water

SRON'ZE MEDALLION IN THE ROTUNDA OF THE STATE CAPITOL,
RALEIGH. N. C. COMMEMORATIVE OK THE TEA PARTY

jug to warm the air. There are fifteen
figures in the picture, some of them
slaves. Mrs. Barker is portrayed in a
dignified and effective manner. Below
the picture is the following inscription :

" A Society of Patriotic Ladys at Edenton,
North Carolina. London : Printed for R.
Sayer and D. J. Bennett, No. 53 in Fleet Street,
as the Act directs, 25th March, 1775." The
printer, whose
name appears in
a corner was
Richardson, who
printed the fam-
ous " Letters of
Junius."

Mrs. Barker
was possessed
of dignity,
courtesy and
courage. Dur-
ing the War of
the Revolution
when a servant
ran into the
house and told
her that some
British soldiers
in charge of
an officer were
taking her car-
riage horses
from the stable,
she snatched
her husband's
sword from the wall, ran to the stable, cut
the reins, drove the horses back into the
building and informed the astonished men
that they could not molest her property
without ])eril. The officer actually apolo-
gized and informed her that she would not
again be molested. She was married
three times, her second husband having
l)een a nephew of Earl Craven. She and
Mr. Thomas Barker, her last husband,
are buried in b^denton, in the private
cenieterv at "llavs," the residence of

THE CELEBRATED EDENTON, N. C, TEA PARTY

333

Samuel Johnston ; one of the finest colo-
nial homes in America. In the same
cemetery lies Joseph Hewes, who died
of a broken heart not long after the death
of Miss Johnston, his fiancee, and her
remains are interred there also. In death
they are not divided.

In the North Carolina Hall of History
at Raleigh are the tea caddy from which
the lady poured the tea upon the floor ;
the punch bowl which was provided by
the charming secretary, who had brought
it from "Paradise," her home nearl)v;

the portrait of Mrs. Horniblow, one of
the signers, and the caricature ; together
with a perfect copy in miniature of the
Tea Party house, which was torn down in
1875. In the rotunda of the State Capi-
tol is a bronze tablet bearing a teapot,
commemorative of the Tea Party, and on
the site of the Tea Party House at Eden-
ton is a large Ijronze teapot surmounting
a cannon of the Colonial period. It should
be stated that Edenton, so long the Colo-
nial capital, was a social rival of
\\'illiamsl)urg. Ijefore the Revolution.

MRS. ANNE HORNIBLOW. A SIGNER OF THE RESOLVES AT THE

EDENTON TEA PARTY. FROM OIL PORTRAIT IN THE NORTH

CAROLINA HALL OF HISTORY. RALEIGH

A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

HILE reminiscences of the Congress
are still echoing through the Society,
it is timely in this message to stress
certain outstanding thoughts which
come to my mind in connection
with it.

It was a wonderful Congress, per-
vaded by a fine, earnest, uplifting spirit. Many
came to me afterwards and spoke of the
inspiration and help it had been to them.
Many more have written to me about it. The
earnest purposes, the sound patriotism, the
clear-cut Americanism of our great Society
were never so evident. What we stand for is
voiced by our Congress, and more and more
are the things that are said in our Congresses
being heeded by the general public and spread
far and wide by the press. More and more
our Congresses are becoming recognized as
the voice of America speaking in no uncertain
terms. Our endorsement of projects of all
kinds is being sought to such an extent that
we have to be very guarded in according it
lest we cheapen our influence by too frequent
and indiscriminate support. Speakers seek the
prestige of our platform for the advancement
of their various causes.

The Government turns to us for cooperation,
seeing in our Society a body of women un-
touched by socialistic, pacificistic or other radi-
cal and visionary theories of human " uplift "
and ready to lend its powerful aid to the fur-
therance of a sound and intelligent civic respon-
sibility, common sense, honesty and justice in
the administration of public affairs, a true
patriotism and an abiding loyalty to American
principles of life and government.

Our aid is sought — and gladly given — in the
struggle against the radical menace of the
times. This danger cannot prevail against our
country if we remain true to the principles
of the fathers and founders, but this is no
reason for minimizing or underestimating its
grave and sinister aspects. On the contrary,
this is the very reason we should constantly
appeal to this underlying !f)yalty to American
institutions in order to counteract this danger.
Believe me when I say tiiat it is a danger more
real tlian many realize or will admit. No chap-
ter in our Society should rest until it has
thoroughly investigated the conditions within
its reach and made sure that tliere is no in-
.S34

cipient disloyalty to America in its own com-
munity. No time should be lost in exposing
the poisonous doctrines of socialism that are
spreading everywhere and trapping the unwary
under the guise of a false Americanism or
some apparently innocent and desirable reform.
There are other utterly un-American move-
ments on foot but space forbids mentioning
them at this time. Socialism is preeminently
the open foe of our form of Government and
Constitution, of our home and family life, of
our religion and all that we hold most sacred.
You will find it in the big men's and women's
organizations of to-day, in our churches, in our
schools, in our colleges, in the house of your
next-door neighbor. You will hear it preached
by apparently sane, loyal and reputable Ameri-
cans whom you know; you will hear people
babbling of it as a great Christian ideal, heed-
less of the terror they are playing with, unmind-
ful of its ghastly work in Russia where
Bolshevism is pure socialism in action, devel-
oped to its logical results.

This fight against socialism and all forms of
radicalism must be taken up in earnest by all
who love our country.

I strongly recommend cooperation with the
National Security League and the National
Association for Constitutional Government in
their campaigns against socialism in all its
many and insidious forms. Read their litera-
ture and secure their speakers. Make a study
of our Constitution and the principles on which
it rests and of Magna Charta from which it
springs and teach these principles to others.
Be able to refute the plausible deceits that
seek to undermine our (jovernment. This is
ncj time to be silent or indififerent or sceptical
of the need of action.

Our aid is also sought against pacificism
which is again rearing its head against all sane
methods of national defense, willing to commit
again the crimes and blunders of unprepared-
ness and to sacrifice our youth to the mad folly
of dcfenselessness against a foe.

The sentiment of our Society against this
folly was again evidenced in this last Congress
by the introduction of no less than three reso-
lutions from as many diflfcrent .sources inde-
pendently of oni' another, protesting against any
cut in our Navy lielow tlie strength laid down
bv the treaties signed in the Conference on

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

335

Limitation of Armament, and in our Army
below what is reasonably necessary for national
defense. Many women's organizations are be-
coming the victims of the notion that total
disarmament will prevent war and are lending
themselves to a course that leads to untold
dangers in the mistaken belief that they are
promoting the objects of the Arms Conference
in behalf of peace. In direct protest against
such a policy, our Congress moulded these three
resolutions into one and adopted it, thus put-
ting our Society once more on record as opposed
to pacifism and in hearty accord with a strong,
sound policy of national defense, " to the end
that permanent peace may be maintained with
safety and honor."

Another subject needs a word of warning.
There is great hue and cry just now against
certain modern American histories written for
our public schools, the charge being made that
they contain misleading statements detrimental
to the patriots of the Revolution. A resolution
of our Congress referred the matter for careful
investigation to our national committee on
patriotic education. Before believing these
charges which are being circulated broadcast
against these histories — all of them with the
earmarks of a common source — first read the
histories themselves and judge for yourselves
whether or not the charges are well-founded,
and then investigate the source of the charges
and see whether or not they arise from a group
of people more interested in stirring up old
hatreds of England than they are in promoting
truth in history or patriotism in the rising
generation of Americans. Twisting the British
lion's tale is the last resort of cheap oratory
and the anti-British propagandist. German
propaganda, Sinn Fein propaganda and other

equally insidious forms of propaganda against
our Allies in the World War, and especially
against Great Britain have by no means died
out in this country. These attacks on our school
histories from all over the country, yet all hav-
ing a very suspicious similarity of charges, lead
one to suspect the source and motive of such
a sudden and well-organized movement, and
to feel that it deserves careful watching lest
we be made the easy victims and tools of some
false group of agitators whose object is far
from an honorable love of truth.

I took occasion to speak of this matter in my
address to the Congress, and I say again, we
want only the truth in our histories no matter
which side it favors ; and beware of being led
into that cheap and tawdry jingoism that tries
to pass itself off as patriotism. The attacks
and insinuations are so subtle that one is likely
to be trapped into making just the kind of
unthinking response most desired by the agi-
tator, and until these attacks are exposed, our
histories, which have been already ably defended
by historians, are likely to become the victims
of the pernicious race hatreds and antagonisms
that are the bane of this country and a continual
menace to our peace.

As a Society we are to-day being called upon
to defend our country as truly as were our
ancestors in 1776, only the defense is not now
against bullets but against the far more deadly
weapon of lies, of poisonous propaganda and of
traitorous innuendo. Let us answer the call
with the same loyalty, vigilance and faithfulness.
Let us not be found wanting in our coun-
try's defense.

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General .

THE THIRTY-FIRST CONTINENTAL

CONGRESS OF THE DAUGHTERS OF

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

NSPIRING reports of the
National Committees, truly in-
dicative of the progressive work
of the National Society, fea-
tured Tuesday morning's session,
which found the delegates
nearly 1500 strong and ready for the
serious work of the Congress.

Mrs. Henry B. Joy, chairman of the
Resolutions Committee, presented the
report of the Committee, the resolutions
being taken up one at a time. The first
was the recommendation of the President
General, that this ^ist Congress aiithor-
ij:cs and directs the establishment of a
standing committee to be knozvn as the
Liberty Loan Fund Committee, ivhich
committee shall consist of the President
General and the Treasurer General, ex-
officio, and five other members to be
appointed by the President General, and
sJiall haz'c charge of the administration of
the income from this fund in accordance
7vith the purpose designated in the vote
of the j/th Congress, and subject to the
approved of tJie National Hoard of Man-
agement. The resolution was put and
carried. The President General, when
reporting to the Congress on Monday
afternoon as chairman of the National
I'nard of Management, had stated that
the Liberty Loan fund had been com-
])Ieted and the inccmie was now
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the Society. Great applause had greeted
the announcement.

At the conclusion of Mrs. Joy's report,
the President General, as chairman of the
committees for Pilgrim Memorial Foun-
tain and Painting for the War Museum
in France, stated that both these funds
are nearing completion also.

Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, Hon-
orary President General and State Regent
of Kansas, read the report of the Ad-
ministration Building Committee as its
chairman, in which she told of the
progress made during the past year.
Many states have applied for the privilege
of equipping and furnishing various
offices in the new building. Mrs.
Guernsey reported that payments had
Ijeen made by the Treasurer General at
stated intervals as the construction of the
1)uilding i)rogressed to the amount of
$187,000, of which $26,725 should be
charged to repairs and improvements to
Memorial Continental Hall and not
to the Administration Building. Mrs.
Guernsey concluded her interesting and
comprehensive report with the recommen-
dation that the 31st Congress empower
the National Board of Management to
negotiate a loan to the amount of $185,450
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to complete the building. Her recom-
mendation, referred to the Resolutions
Committee, was later presented to the
Congress and adopted.

The next report on the program was
that of the Historic Spots Committee. Mrs.
James T. Morris, chairman. Mrs. Morris
gave a detailed account of the plan to
secure the battlefield of Yorktown, Va.,
as a military park. At the request of the
War Department a survey will be made
of Yorktown by student officers at Fort
Myer which will show what lands should
be in the proposed park to commemorate
the siege of Yorktown. The bill will
come before the United States House of
Representatives, Mrs. Morris stated, for
a hearing as soon as the survey is made,
and she begged the delegates to beseech
their congressmen to support the bill.

Other chairmen who reported at this
session were Mrs. William H. Talbott,
representing National Old Trails Road
Committee; Miss Annie Wallace, Correct
Use of the Flag Committee ; ]\Irs.
Williard T. Block, Liquidation and En-
dowment Fund Committee.

No afternoon session was held ; instead
the Congress, in a body, made a pilgrim-
age to the tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in Arlington Cemetery, Va. The Com-
mittee in charge of the event was headed
by Mrs. Herbert M. Lord. Through
courtesy of the War Department, Arling-
ton was closed to the general public
during the D.A.R. memorial exercises.
The ceremonies in tribute to the unknown
heroes of this nation who died in the
World War were attended by the
National Officers and about 3000
Daughters. For many of the delegates
the trip to Arlington was their first visit
to the national cemetery. The program
included Scripture and prayer by Mrs.
Selden P. Spencer, Chaplain General ; a
solo, " The Heavens Resound with His

Glory," Ijy Flora McGill Keefer, and a
prayer by the ex-Chaplain General, Miss
Elisabeth Pierce.

An appeal to patriotic Americans to
turn deaf ears to all propaganda designed
to divide the allied nations of the world,
whose friendship and mutual understand-
ing have been cemented more closely by
the conference on the limitation of
armament was made by the President
General in her address in the amphi-
theatre. She said :

Humbly and reverently we come here today
to bring the tribute of a sacred vow to America's
unknown dead. In the presence of the unseen
hosts of God here in this sacred spot we vow
that we shall not forget what this unknown
American and his fellows did to save the world
and civilization from cruel brutishness.

Greater than tribute of flowers, greater than
tributes of praise, is the tribute of loyalty to
the things for which these men died. These
things can not be measured by material stan-
ards ; they are the things of the spirit.

They are the things made sacred by the blood
and sacrifice of millions in all ages. Liberty
and justice, faith and honor, mercy and truth —
these were the things that Germany violated
and that these men fought to save. They
poured their fresh young strength into the
struggle for a righteous cause and planted our
flag with the allied flags in time to help stem
the tide of horror that seemed about to sub-
merge the world. The grim gray lines broke
and fled. Good prevailed over evil ; right
prevailed over might; righteousness prevailed
over the hideous mockery of materialistic
kulture. If we forget the issues of the war
these men will have died in vain. The unknown
boy whose earthly body lies here today will
have made a useless sacrifice; the mothers of all
the boys of all the Allies, both known and
unknown who made the supreme sacrifice, will
have given them up in vain. Such would be
the useless cost of our forgetfulness. Germany's
crime against the world in 1914, was a crime
against God and man. It staggered civili-
zation ; it seemed to shatter all that humanity
had ever gained of peace and prosperity and
liberty under righteous law. Insensate, and
mad for conquest and inordinate power Germany
blazed her path of blood and ruin through
martyred France and Belgium. The demon of
aggressive warfare was in possession of the
soul of the nation. Liberty and peace would
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And so our boys followed the flag to France
and fought to save liberty and peace from the
demons of war.

Can we ever forget this?

The life of our nation was at stake; no
ocean could be a barrier against such a conflict.

The ideals of America for which our ances-
tors fought in 76 were cast into the balance
of 1914. Would they be found wanting with
none to defend them? The allied flags
answered, No.

Can we ever forget this ?

We are here today to offer our vows of re-
membrance and gratitude and loyality.

We live in a world rescued from the Beast
of war and greed and conquest.

We owe it to all whom the unknown soldier
typifies to see to it that never again shall the
Beast be let loose upon the world.

"If ye break faith with us who die we
shall not sleep; though poppies grow in
Flanders fields."

We shall not break faith. America shall
keep the faith so long as a wayside cross re-
mains standing in England and the fields of
crosses gleam white in France.

We have fought side by side with the freedom
loving nations of the earth. We shall hold to
them in peace, that the fruits of victory may
be secure, and "peace on earth, good-will
toward men " may come nearer than a far
off vision.

In Memorial Continental Hall the allied
nations have been conferring together planning
ways to maintain the peace of the world by
removing the causes of war. Friendship and
mutual understanding have cemented more
closely the ties made dear by a common sacri-
fice. The propaganda that has sought since
the war to divide us has failed as it deserved
to fail. Its hissing tongues of slander should
fall on deaf ears hereafter, if we remember
this boy who lies at Arlington.

The thought of Arlington should forever
shame the base agitator into silence. America
will not forget the cause for which she paid
the price of Arlington, nor will she forget the
Allies who held the lines for nearly three
years before her flag was unfurled.

The Conference on Limitation of Armament
has drawn the nations once more together in
the same spirit in which they fought to-
gether for lil)erty and riglite )usness and a
lasting Peace.

Here at the grave of our uiikn )wn Dead,
we dedicate ourselves once more to tlu- high
ideals for which our allies and ourselves have
given our sons. We pay to them the vows
of remembrance. We offer to them a nation's
gratitude and reverence through the women
who by their ancestry and their heritage are

preeminently pledged to perpetuate the ideals
of liberty and justice and national honor for
which these sons laid down their lives.

We offer our fervent prayers to the Father
of all to make us worthy of these men who
gave their all that we might live in peace
and security.

We pray that we may be given the strength
to serve, and the steadfastness to remember.
" Lord God of hosts.
Be with us yet
Lest we forget, lest we forget."

Just preceding the conclusion of the
exercises the President General, accom-
panied by the National Officers, walked
to the tomb of America's unknown hero
and there reverently laid a wreath upon
it. She was followed by the State Re-
gents, who placed similar tributes upon
the shrine.

The paramount social event of the
Congress, the reception to delegates, alter-
nates, and visiting Daughters by the
President General, took place in the
auditorium of Memorial Continental Hall
on Tuesday night. Seldom has a similar
function in D.A.R. history been as bril-
liant. Official, diplomatic and residential
society in Washington was represented in
the long line of guests that entered the
west door and passed for three hours over
the palm-decked platform where stood
the President General and the members
of the National Board of Management
who received with her.

Meantime the pages of the Congress,
whose faithful services are invaluable,
enjoyed a reception and dance in their
honor given by the Abigail Hartman Rice
Chapter of flie District of Columbia, at
the Wardman Park Hotel.

( )n Wednesday morning, following the
regular report of the Resolutions Com-
mittee, Mrs. Edith Scott Magna, on be-
half of her father, Col. Walter Scott, of
New York C^ity, presented to the National
Society a valual)le bound copy of the auto-
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(1789-1922), which was received with
much applause, and the thanks of the
Society expressed by the President Gen-
eral, who requested Colonel Scott, seated
in one of the boxes, to rise that the
audience might greet him.

Among the Wednesday morning re-
ports was that of Miss Natalie Sumner
Lincoln, editor of the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine, and
Mrs. Charles H. Bissell, National Chair-
man of the Magazine Committee, who
reported the Magazine gaining in prestige
and doing a constructive work for the
Society. Mrs. Bissell aroused much in-
terest and applause by the recital of the
verses, " The Steady Subscriber."

Other reports read during the morning
included those by Mrs. John Trigg Moss,
chairman of Conservation and Thrift;
Mrs. Bertha M. Robbins, Patriotic Lec-
tures and Lantern Slides ; Mrs. Alice
Bradford Wiles, chairman. Legislation
of the United States Congress ; Mrs.
Caroline E. McW. Holt, chairman, Philip-
pine Endowment Fund ; Mrs. J. Morgan
Smith, chairman, Real Daughters; Mrs.
Wilford G. Chapman, chairman. His-
torical and Literary Reciprocity, and
Mrs. A. J. Brosseau, chairman of
Transportation.

The afternoon session was given over
to the discussion of Americanization and
Patriotic Education as the cure of Ameri-
can ills. In reporting Mrs. Edward
Lansing Harris, chairman, emphasized
the need of this activity and called the
phrase " to cherish, maintain and extend
the institution of American freedom, to
foster true patriotism and love of coun-
try " from the D.A.R. Constitution, the
cornerstone of the work of the Committee.

In her report, which was most compre-
hensive, Mrs. Harris said in particular :

" In a brief report it is impossible to mention
the half of all that has been done the past
year but some idea of its magnitude may be

gleaned from the report of the Treasurer
General whose books show that nearly eighty
thousand dollars have passed through her hands
for patriotic education. Even this amount is
quite conservative; there are still many chap-
ters that insist upon hiding their light under
a bushel ; they send money in every direction
without having it recorded.

Much progress has been shown by many
States but the pathway of the State Chairman
is seldom strewn with roses, she often finds it
quite difficult to secure the proper information
from the chapters even though she may have
been faithful in sending the national bulletins
and her own circular letters.

A short time ago we heard that the chief
factor in winning the war was unity- — ■" Unity of
aim, unity of effort and unity of direction and
command." — We have the foundation for this
unity, may we not make a more practical demon-
stration of it next year.

Our President General is a master in pro-
gressiveness, and we must be constantly on the
alert to keep up with her. A Chairman who
is a subscriber to the Magazine and reads the
President General's message every month can
be depended upon to enthuse her committee.
Last September we had a special message on
Constitution Day observance and in November
our attention was called to Education Week.
We were asked to cooperate with the American
Legion and the National Education Associ-
ation in promoting the welfare of our public
schools. Four States reported having joined
in this movement, possibly others cooperated but
omitted to report. This is to be an annual ob-
servance and we should look forward to it and
make advance preparation."

The following vice chairmen also re-
ported on their divisions of the work :
Mrs. Charles H. Aull, on Schools and
Colleges ; Mrs. John L. Buel, Manual for
Immigrants, of which 45,000 were dis-
tributed last year, printed in four lan-
guages— Erench, Italian, Spanish and
Polish; Mrs. William B. Neff. Girl
Homemakers; Mrs. Adin T. Hills, Chil-
dren and Sons of the Republic; and Miss
Alice Louise McDufifee. Americanization.

Reports from the various schools
assisted by the D.A.R. then were read.
Mrs. Fred H. H. Calhoun, of South
Carolina, made an appeal for the D.A.R.
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She asked that cottage dormitories be
given by the states. At the conclusion of
her remarks she presented a bouquet of
artificial flowers made by the girls of
Tamassee school to the President General.

The Caroline Scott Harrison dormitory
project of the Oxford College for Women
at Oxford, Ohio, in honor of the first
President General of the National Society,
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, was reported
as favorably progressing by Mrs. Austin
C. Brant. Chapters throughout the coun-
try have given $1724.83 to this project,
while Ohio Daughters have contributed
more than $6000, leaving more than
$8000 in hand. The memorial dormitory
is to cost nearly $100,000. Greetings were
read to the Congress from Mrs. James R.
McKee, daughter of Mrs. Harrison.

Other institutions which reported on
their work were Schaufiler Missionary
Training School ; International College ;
Berea College, Kentucky ; Maryville Col-
lege; Southern Industrial Institute; Pine
Mountain School; Lincoln Memorial
University. State Regents' reports closed
the afternoon session.

"You are not here because your forefathers
sent notes but because they put their muskets
on their shoulders and fought in a righteous
war," said Capt. Arthur Guy Empey, the World
War hero to the Congress at the Wednesday
evening session. " The army of America's
dead are here with you and it is an insult to
them to say ' the war is over, forget it.'

" The flag to last must be supported by real
Americanism," continued Captain Empey. " The
big c|uestion is, will foreigners be amalgamated
by Americans? It is up to the American mother
what becomes of these foreigners. They are
responsible for presidents and murderers alike.
No crime was ever learned in a home that was
really American. Treat your ally right, but
America first."

Captain Kmpey then scored the salacious
and inaccurate motion i)ictures. He asked the
delegates to exert their influence to keep the
motion picture 100 i)er cent, .'\mericaii and to
feature American heroes and history instead
of European ones in order to teach the aliens
and children the great events in American history.

Commissioner of Indian AtiFairs, Hon.
Charles W. Burke, was the third
speaker of the evening. He stated that
two-thirds of the Indians are now citi-
zens, and that education was the big
question. It has been found, he said,
that Indian children did well in the
public schools.

" It takes white blood to make an In-
dian a crook," continued Mr. Burke; "he
is not as dishonest as the whites, but
loyal, hospitable and full of abounding
virtues. The Indian will make good any-
where as he did in the World War, if
he is given a chance."

Henry Roe Cloud, a full-blooded In-
dian, head of a school in Wichita, Kansas,
told how much the Indian could con-
tribute to American life in equilibrium,
in poise and sturdy out-of-doors virtues
and the stoicism of philosophy that made
the red man quiet even in the face of
death. Mrs. Edward MacDowell, wife
of the American composer, gave an
account of the MacDowell colony at
Peterborough, N. H., and played some
of the selections of the composer.

Discussion of the proposed amendments
to the By-laws and Constitution occupied
practically all of Thursday morning's ses-
sion. A motion to uphold the Army and
Navy treaty standards was adopted
without a dissenting voice. It was also
agreed that every member give 25 cents
to form a ftuid amounting to about
$30,000 to print new editions of the
Immigrants' Manual.

The thirty-three I\cal l)aui;lilers of
the American Revolution had their pen-
sions from the Society raised from $8 to
$20 per month. The Congress indorsed
four imi)()rtant projects: ( 1) The erection
of a national archives' building in Wash-
ington; (2) to exempt the remaining lots
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National Department of Education, and
(4) the acquisition of the battlefield at
Yorktown,Va., by the government for a
military park. All these measures are
now pending before the U. S. Congress.

The delegates and visitors made their
annual pilgrimage to Mount Vernon in
the afternoon accompanied by Marshal
Jofifre, the French vv^arrior, vi^ho was in
the Capital for five days ; Ambassador
Jusserand, of France, and the military
attache of the British embassy, Major-
General Bethell.

Ambassador Jusserand planted on the
soil of the first President's home a tree
from La Grange Castle, France, the home
of Lafayette. A tree brought from
Sulgrave Manor, the Washington ances-
tral home in England, was planted by
General Bethell. Both were accepted on
behalf of the D.A.R. by Mrs. George
Maynard Minor. President General, and
subsequently presented to the Mount
Vernon Ladies' Association.

After the tree-planting exercises,
wreaths were placed on Washington's
tomb by Madame Jusserand, Marshal
Jofifre and Mrs. Minor. Mrs. Minor also
placed a wreath on the tomb of Martha
Washington. Before the picture of
Lafayette in a room in the Washington
mansion, which the Frenchman occupied
during his visits at Mount Vernon, a
wreath was placed by Miss Jenn
Winslow Coltrane, Historian General of
the Society.

Mrs. Minor made the principal address
of the afternoon. It follows :

Reverently we bring this tribute of a grateful
people to this most sacred shrine of the nation.

To Washington we brhig the tribute of a
memory that can never die. We, the descend-
ants of the men of his devoted army, bring
tribute to one whose sole descendant was his
country. What more can we say of him than
has already been said? The years have each
added their eulogies, their praise, to one who
was beyond and above all praise. And yet

there are things that may be said which will
profit us, though here today, we cannot add to
his glory.

We remember the deeds of Washington but
do we remember the words ? Do we even know
them? To think of Washington the soldier,
the military leader, comes easily to us : Washing-
ton at Valley Forge, on the Delaware, at York-
town — the Washington of the pictures and the
statues, all are familiar and perhaps lose
because of that familiarity. But the words
which this man wrote and spoke are summed
up for many of us in the tale of the cherry
tree. Of Washington the statesman, the thinker,
the president, we know next to nothing. Yet
his pen was even more potent, if I may say
so, than his sword. His state papers have
moulded the character of the nation and direc-
ted its policies. They are not many, but their
words are immortal. They are as alive and
as powerful and as much to be heeded today
as when first uttered or written. I am not
referring to phrases such as " entangling
alliances"- — a phrase which is not, by the way,
to be found in that form in his "Farewell
Address " and which has been made the foot-
ball of petty politicians. I am referring to the
bulk of his writings with their store of wisdom,
practical common sense, political sagacity, love
of honor among nations, and a living, daily
faith in God.

Let us go away from this place today with
a determination to read what Washington
addressed to this nation one hundred and fifty
years ago. And having read, we shall have a
deeper and more understanding love for our
native land.

In all his writings, in his circular letter of
congratulation and advice to the Governors of
the thirteen States when retiring from the com-
mand of his victorious army; in his diaries; in
his first inaugural address, and in his farewell
address when retiring from the presidency, we
find the gospel of Americanism and the faith
that the hand of God Himself guided the young
nation to its independence. We find the dec-
laration that without morality and religion the
nation cannot endure, and without union under
a strong just and righteous government it would
soon fall into hopeless ruin.

It is not possible or appropriate at this time
to make an extended commentary on these
brief, but immortal writings, which are as
applicable to today as to his own time. But it
is very proper to quote a very few of his
own words here in the place which he loved
and where his spirit keeps watch and ward over
the nation.

In his letter to the Governors he writes :
" There are four things which I humbly conceive
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venture to say, to the existence of the United
States as an independent power. 1st; an
indissoluble union of the States under one
federal head. 2nd : A sacred regard to public
justice, 3rdly : The adoption of a proper
peace establishment, and 4thly : The preva-
lence of that pacific and friendly disposition
among the people of the United States, which
will induce them to forget their local pre-
judices and policies, to make those mutual con-
cessions which are requisite to the general
prosperity, and in some instances to sacrifice
their individual advantages to the interests of
the community."

It is not hard to believe that the spirit of
Washington hovered over the Conference for
Limitation of Armament where these lofty
sentiments held sway over nine separate nations
working for the common cause of peace.

Concluding this letter he writes : " I now
make it my earnest prayer that God would have
you and the State over which you preside in
His holy protection : that He would incline the
hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of
subordination and obedience to the Government :
to entertain a brotherly affection and love for
one another, for their fellow-citizens of the
L^nited States at large ; and particularly for
their brethren who have served in the field :
and finally that He would most graciously be
pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love
mercy, and demean ourselves with that charity,
humility and pacific temper of the mind which
were the characteristics of the divine author of
our blessed religion ; without an humble
imitation of whose example, in these things,
we can never hope to be a happy nation."

In his first inaugural address, six years later,
he makes in this first official act as President
his fervent supplications to that Almighty Be-
ing who rules over the universe — who presides
in the councils of nations. . .that His benedic-
tion may consecrate to the liberties and happiness
of the people of the United States, a govern-
ment instituted by themselves for these essential
purposes ; and may enable every instrument
employed in its administration to execute with
success the functions allotted to his charge. No
people can bo bound to acknowledge and adore
the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of
men more than the people of the United States.

In his "Farewell Address" he exhorts us
thus; "Observe good faith and justice towards
all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with
all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct ;
and can it be that good policy does not r(|ual]y
enjoin it?"

We are filled today with thr blessed hope
that we as a nation are fuHilling tliese
great words.

Let us sec to it that the same fate and just-
ice pervades our conduct (o all nations; that

the same high resolve to dedicate this nation
to the service of God and humanity, lives in
our hearts today as it lived in the great heart
and soul of Washington."

At the presentation of the Lafayette tree,
Mrs. Minor said.

" It touches us very deeply to receive this
tree taken from the home of Lafayette. It
would touch us deeply to have a tree taken from
anywhere in France, but how much more deeply
do we feel in receiving one from the home of
him who brought help to America in her hour
of need. America will forever honor the mem-
ory of Lafayette. :

His was a gallant soul with far-reaching
vision. His was a nature that responded fer-
vently to the call of human liberty. His must
have been a character of high nobility to have
won the friendship of such a man as Washington.
It is most fitting that this tree should be
planted and take root in the soil of Washing-
ton's loved home where many a time he must
have welcomed his trusted friend and officer,
Lafayette. It will ever typify the deep grow-
ing roots of friendship between this country
and France

It is with a sentiment deeper than pleasure
that we now accept this tree from France and
present it to the Ladies' Association of
Mount Vernon."

The evening session of Thursday was
given over to the great event of the week,
the nomination of candidates for the seven
vacancies among the Vice Presidents Gen-
eral and addresses by Colonel John
Temple Graves, the well-known publicist,
and Dr. L. S. Rowe, Director General of
the Pan-American Union.

Colonel Graves paid a trilnite to Presi-
dent Harding and Secretary Hughes and
discussed the current issues of the day
with a view to their effect on world peace.
He urged upon the delegates the neces-
sity of a revival of the religion of patriot-
ism to remedy some of the social evils that
had come out of the inevitable reaction
of the war. He declared that the present
disregard for life was due to the war,
and that the war marriages had cultivated
disrespect for marital relations and cor-
rii])ted the spirit of American youth.

Dr. I.. .S. Rdwe said in ])articular :

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our respective buildings stand side by side
possesses a significance far deeper than mere
physical location. Our respective organizations
are founded on the same basic principle — the
idea of service. But the problems confronting
you are primarily national, those confronting
the Pan-American Union primarily international,
but the policy of both institutions is dominated
by the same broad spirit of civic usefulness
w^ithout which democracy is a mere word without
real content.

As I repeat to myself the name of your
organization "Daughters of the American
Revolution," I sometimes ask myself whether
it has occured to you to inquire into the services
of the daughters of the American revolution,
quite as significant and quite as productive of
far reaching results as the Revolution of 1776:
Are you fully aware af the important part
played by women in the revolutions that marked
the early history of our sister republics ; The
great heroines of the revolutionary period in
Central and South America stand forth as
examples which have been an inspiration to the
nations of this continent throughout the century
of their independence.

I look forward to a time when you, — the
proud possessors of an imperishable heritage, —
will cooperate efifectively and constructively
with the descendants of those who bore the
burden of the struggle in Latin America, for
the perpetuation and further development of that
spirit of service for which your organization
has always stood and which is the watchword of
all the Americas. I can conceive of no greater
international service that you can perform than
to develop a spirit of solidarity and community
of interest with similar organizations through-
out the American Continent."

At the conclusion of the formal exer-
cises of the evening" the names of the
candidates for Vice Presidents General
were placed in nomination. Onlv seven
were to he elected. Each nominating
speech was limited to three minutes and
the secondings were unlimited in numl)er
hut without the privilege of set speeches.

After each candidate was placed in
nomination she was presented to the Con-
gress. The candidates were Mrs. Frank
W. Mondell, Wyoming; Airs. Williard T.
Block, Illinois; Mrs. John L. Buel, Con-
necticut ; Mrs. Clark W. Heavner, West
Virginia; Mrs. J. Macauley Higginson,
Virginia; Miss Alice Louise McDufifee,

Michigan; Airs. Howard H. McCall,
Georgia; Mrs. I. B. McFarland, Texas;
Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, Florida, and Miss
Annie Wallace, New Hampshire.

Mrs. Duryea, of the Near East Relief,
told the Congress of conditions as she
found them in the Near East and made
a plea for the continued interest of the
Society, presenting to the President Gen-
eral for the Society a tal)let containing a
certificate of service.

Voting, social engagements and State
Regents' reports filled Friday's sessions
until time for the White House reception.
The long line of voters fcjrmed at 9 a.m.
The work of revising the amendments
went rather slowly as a consequence, but
they were concluded during the day.

Colonel Walter Scott, of New York,
who presented a bound book of auto-
gra]:)hs of Presidents earlier in the week,
sent in a check for $1000 to be used for
prizes. The Congress gave him a rising
vote of thanks for his generosity.

The D.A.R. were urged to study
forestry through the passage of a reso-
lution in recognition of the semi-centen-
nial of Arbor Day ofifered by Mrs. John
Trigg AIoss, of Missouri, National Chair-
man of Conservation and Thrift. It was
also resolved to cooperate with the Ameri-
can Legion and the National Educational
Association in the observance of Edu-
cation Week.

Three thousand delegates, alternates
and visiting members of the D.A.R. were
received by President and Mrs. Harding
at the White House. The guests were
received in the Blue Room, and after
the reception was over President and
Airs. Harding remained to chat with
their guests.

At the evening session interest was
on the qui vive for the announcement of
the results of the election. It was found

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that the following had been elected Vice
Presidents General : Miss Alice Louise
McDuffee, Michigan; Mrs. Frank W.
Mondell, Wyoming; Mrs. John Laidlaw
Buel, Connecticut ; Mrs. Williard T.
Block, Illinois ; Miss Annie Wallace, New
Hampshire ; Mrs. Howard H. McCall,
Georgia; and Mrs. Everest G. Sewell,
Florida. The successful candidates were
escorted to the platform and presented to
the Congress.

That the perpetuity of the Republic
depends upon keeping alight the fire of
patriotism was the declaration of Alvin
Ousley, of the Americanization Commit-
tee of the American Legion, who, iif an
impassioned speech, outlined the policies
of the Legion and pleaded for 100 per
cent. Americanism on the part of the
country's citizens.

" The American Legion is the dominant
factor in the manhood of this nation," he
said. " The members of this organization
will tolerate no partial Americanism. The
struggle of the future will be the strug-
gles of peace, and to ensure victory
therein America must have a navy that
will be strong in dignity before the
nations of the earth. America only
wants to be the friend of all the world,"
concluded Mr. Ousley, "and her, position
is one of peace and independence."

Miss Hermione Schwed, a representa-
tive of the National Association for Con-
stitutional Government, also addressed
the Congress. She urged the study of
the Constitution and said its makers were
constructive, far-sighted thinkers who had
built the historic instrument to meet the
needs of all time.

Under the direction of Mrs. Horace .M.
Towner, chairman, the Children of tlie
American Revolution ])resented an liis-
toric pageant of vital scenes in American
annals for which they hafl been trainee 1
bv Mrs. Marie Moore l-'orest. Koiuid

after round of applause greeted the
appearance of the tiny actors whose pic-
turesque costumes were so in contrast to
their childish faces.

The pageant given by the children was
divided into four parts, the first portray-
ing the vision of the new world, showing
scenes in Columbus' life and the tribal
life of the Indians of the North. Part
two was devoted to life in the colonies,
including sketches of Roanoke Island,
Jamestown, the Pilgrims, the Patroons
and Penn and the Quakers.

The nation was the theme of the third
part, which showed pictures of the Con-
tinental Congress, the signing of the
Declaration of Independence, At Valley
Forge, A Minuet, The Great Triumvirate,
The Boyhood of Lincoln and " America
To-day." The pageant concluded with a
tableau of Columbia receiving the States
who were represented by young girls
dressed in pink who bore State flags, and
carried symbols of the industries or prod-
ucts of each State.

One of the features of the pageant was
the dancing of tiny Louise Allen, who
portrayed a Dutch bride, and was obliged
to respond again and again to encores.

One of the most effective groups was
Columbia, with Miss Shirley Mulliken as
the central figure and Katherine Hawley
and Sarah Thrift as left and right guard.
Richard Edwards, as Columbus, and his
young brother, Walton M. Edwards, as a
l)age. won rounds of applause. Tiny Miss
.\llen, as the bride, and Pendleton Simons,
as the preacher, in the patroon wedding
scene, when all the actors were less than
four feet tall, were quite the hit of the
evening. Richard Hunt made a majestic
(ieorge Washington and Kenneth Wat-
kins a (lashing .Mar(|uts de Lafayette.

Ill the janu'stowii scene William
Hopkins took \hv part of C"a])t. John

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Smith ; William Russell. Powhatan, and
Sarah Thrift, Pocahontas. The group of
Indians were William and Percy Russell,
Harry Clarkson, Victor Knoope, Agnes
Gill, Catherine Posey, Elizabeth Dunlop,
Frances McNeil and Robert Rodenberg.
Elizabeth Sawtelle made a beautiful and
dignified Lady Washington, and a group
of girls from the local C.A.R. were
her attendants.

Two sessions on Saturday concluded
the Congress. The delegates passed
resolutions expressing gratitude to Presi-
dent and Mrs. Harding, the President
General and National Ofificers ; Doctor
Rowe, Director General of the Pan-
American Union ; the speakers and musi-
cians ; the pages ; the press ; all commit-
tees ; the police and the firemen and all
who had assisted in making the Congress
a success.

Among the resolutions passed denounc-
ing the " low type " of motion picture as
a menace to the nation, was one which
put the D.A.R. on record as favoring
the movement for better films and better
film production. Other resolutions were
those indorsing the proposed change of
name of the new bridge across the Poto-
mac from the Georgetown bridge to the
Francis Scott Key Bridge ; the distribu-
tion of the Immigrants' Manual of the
D.A.R. through the national councils of
women of the different countries ; en-
dorsement of the Lincoln Memorial Uni-
versity at Cumberland Gap, Tenn, the
observance of February 6th as Inter-
national Day.

The new Vice Presidents General in a
pretty ceremony were inducted into office
just before the close of Congress.

The outgoing and newly elected Vice
Presidents General were requested to
come to the platform, the President Gen-

eral expressing to the former her appre-
ciation for the splendid service they had
given, and welcomed the newly elected
Vice Presidents General to the National
Board. The oath of ofiice was ad-
ministered by Mrs. Spencer, the Chap-
lain General.

Earlier that day the Congress took
under advisement the offer of Miss Anna
Klumpke, of Paris, to will to the D. A. R.
Society the chateau formerly owned and
occupied by Rosa Bonheur, the famous
woman artist, for the establishment of an
American colony of American art stu-
dents. The proposed gift includes ten
acres of land as well as the chateau. The
Congress voted to refer the proposal to
the National Board of Management.

A touching episode took place during
the last few minutes when Mrs. J. Morgan
Smith, a veteran of many Congresses,
sang " Sweet Alice. Ben Bolt." The eyes
of all were wet, and then came another
charming incident in the impromptu ad-
dress of Mrs. Charles B. Bryan, of
Tennessee, who spoke to what she termed
" the old guard." " I greet the Old
Guard," she exclaimed. " Our tether is
growing shorter and we will soon have
our names in the Remembrance Book.
Yet we will also live in the memory for
the works we have done in this hall. All
people wish to be known — all wish to
be loved." Then she recited with fine
dramatic effect the poem, " We Need a
Little Loving."

After fifteen minutes of singing
patriotic songs and familiar l)allads, led
by Mrs. B. L. Heustis, the Chaplain
General, Mrs. Selden P. Spencer, offered
a short prayer, the delegates sang " God
Be with Us Till We Meet Again" and
the President General declared the 31st
Continental Congress adjourned sine die.

A GENETIC PORTRAIT CHART

According to Sir Francis Galton

In Which the Size of Each Likeness Shows the Proportion Which Each

Ancestor Plays in the Children's Inheritance

By David Fairchild

MR. FAIRCHILD'S article is reprinted through the courtesy of the author
and Mr. Oliver Olson, Managing Editor of the Journal of Heredity, published by
the American Genetic Association, an incorporated organization devoted to pro-
moting a knowledge of the knvs of heredity and their application to the improvement
of plants, animals, and hmnan racial stock.

The Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine is indebted to
Mr. Fairchild and Mr. Olsen for permission to republish from the Journal of
Heredity so interesting an article. — Editor.

ID you ever find in the attic an
old daguerreotype of some
ancestor and wonder at the
mystery of his blood relationship
to you? Did you ever get
together the photographs of all
those whose actual bodily existences have
contributed to your own ? When you stop
to think that these pictures of their faces
are all that is visible to-day of those from
whom you get your own nose, the cut of
your chin, your expression, do they not
seem worth preserving ? Was it not after
all into their faces that their friends
looked to read their character when they
were alive? They are not merely photo-
graphs of your grandparents as they sat
for a moment in the studio of some
forgotten phcjtographer. They are the
imperishal)le reflections cast by those
wonderful personalities which have made
you what you are.

In what proportion have these ances-
tors contributed to your particular person?
.Sir Francis Galton, whose studies on
human inheritance blazed the first real
trail into tins strange forest of ignorance,
has shown that, if one should take a
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square to represent his total inheritance,
one-half would represent the influence of
his parents; one-half of what remained
of the square would represent the in-
fluence of his grandparents ; one-half of
what still remained would be due to his
great grandparents, one-half of the re-
maining portions to his great great grand-
parents, and so on in regular diminish-
ing proportion.

This theory of inheritance, while not
explaining many things, helps one to
understand how quickly the influence of
distant ancestors diminishes until, for
example, that of a great grandparent is
only one-sixteenth as much as a grand-
parent and only one-sixty- fourth that of
a parent. To state the case in another
way : the chances that one will resemble
his great grandfather are only one-six-
teenth as great as that he will resemble
his father and one-fourth as great as that
he will look like his grandfather.

.Since the ordinary chart has too little
in it that appeals to the imagination. I
have covered each square with its corre-
sponding ancestral photograi)h with the
result shown in the accompanying Genetic
Portrait Chart.

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355

The bulk of people who are interested
in the general subject of genetics are not
familiar with the plants or animals on
which geneticists are making their experi-
ments (out of which are coming great
discoveries). They cannot easily tmder-
stand the significance of the hereditary
changes which are quite apparent to the
experimenters. They are accustomed,
however, to looking at photographs of
faces, and my idea in publishing this
arrangement of my children's ancestors
is to interest this class of the members in
their own ancestors and get them to make
Genetic Portrait Charts which will inter-
est a considerable number of their own
intimate friends and perhaps alter their
point of view somewhat, bringing it more
nearly in line with that of the research
men who are spending their lives in ex-
periments to find out just how the heredi-
tary machinery works.

The creation of better families is
acknowledged to Ije an important step
in the building of a better race, but this
involves their starting by the union of
good human stocks. May not the de-
velopment of Genetic Portrait Charts
arouse that interest in the family which
must come before we can expect the
creation of these better families and
through them of the better race?

As pointed out in the Journal of Hered-
ity by Mr. Alexander Graham Bell " one
certain means of increasing the prevalence
of any hereditary characteristic in a com-

Note. This Genetic Portrait Chart was
prepared by Mr. Fairchild for personal use,
and he was naturally quite reluctant to publish
it. On the ground, however, that it might
arouse an interest in the subject of inheritance
among those people who have little knowledge
of plants and animals, photographs of which
are featured in the Journal of Heredity the
Council of the Association urged its publica-
tion. The system of designating relationships
outlined by Dr. Bell is used in this
discussion. — Editor.

munity is to induce the individuals who
possess it to marry one another. " The
moment we have a body of desirable
persons whose parents were also desirable,
improvement of the race begins through
the marriage of such persons with the
normal population : for the proportion of
desiralile offspring born from the normal
partners will be greater than in cases
where the desirable partner had no ances-
tors belonging to the desirable class.

" The improvement will be still greater
when we have a body of desirable persons
who had grandparents as well as
parents desirable; and still greater with
each increase in the number of desir-
able ancestors."

Inasmuch as one can read character in
photographs and we have become very
expert in doing this — for we have studied
human faces all our lives — the grouping
of all one's ancestors permits of a valu-
able comparison.

The proper arrangement places the man
on the left side and the woman on the
right, which throws all of the male ances-
tors into another for quick comparison.
By looking to the right of Mrs. Fairchild,
for example, there appear her mother,
grandmother, and great grandmother in a
straight line of descent. Each ancestor
stands directly under his or her parents
and the whole relationship of all the ances-
tors is evident at a glance. Naturally, if
such a thing were possible, the ideal
arrangement would be to have all of the
photographs taken at the same age, say at
40, and from the same view.

By giving the data available as to the
bodily characters of each ancestor which
are known to be heritable, a more or less
clear picture is obtainable of the stock
from which the living representative
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on second thought, for the ancestry is
that common to all the children of a
family, for example, and all the children
and grandchildren of those children. For
example, my own ancestral photographs
are common to four other children of my
parents, fourteen grandchildren and two
great grandchildren, or twenty people in
all, whereas Mrs. Fairchild's ancestral
photographs picture the ancestors of nine
children. Together they should be of
interest to twenty-nine persons besides
the four living persons whose photographs
appear among them.

This method of arranging ancestral
photographs is capable of considerable
expansion. It is true, for example, that
in order to give as complete a picture as
possible of the variations in the stock,
photographs of all the brothers and
sisters of both parents should be shown,
since it is from a union of these two
stocks that the children came. Children
are almost as likely to resemble vuicles or
aunts as to resemble their own parents,
and in a chart of this character the uncles
and aunts should appear in the same scale
as do the photographs of the parents.

A further refinement of the photo-
graphic chart would represent the
brothers and sisters of the grandparents
and even the great grandparents, which
additions would make as complete a pic-
ture as possible of the family stocks which
through their various unions have made
the particular combination of characters
seen in the living descendants.

As I look at these light rellccticjus made
by living beings, some of them a century
ago, and realize that each one was the
result of the union of the two (man and
wife) who arc directly behind him 1 am
conscious (if the resemblance of this whole
structure to a network, a fabric stretching
down from the distant past to the present.
Eacli unicin of two souls is a knot in the

network, and each individual life is a
strand extending in time to the next
union. And is it not a wonderful con-
ception of human life to feel that we who
still live are knots in a marvelous net-
work of descent which has been running
on since man first came into existence on
this planet and which will go on until he
ceases to exist here? Supposing millions
could realize this and that their actions
were affected l^y it as they are now by
mysticism and that there should be in-
augurated by youth throughout the world
a study of this cjuestion of the unions of
great human stocks, would not it lead to
the building of superb strains of the
human race? Is there any conceivable
or at least reasonable method other than
by our own conscious control of our
children's inheritance to open the way
to the birth of those superior human
l^eings who we all believe are destined
to inhabit this world after we are gone?
Let every child study the network of his
inheritance and learn to be proud of its
longevity, its sturdiness, its intelligence,
its lovableness, and its force of character,
and when the time comes, he will hesitate
to unite it with an inheritance less worthy.

To supplement this photographic
arrangement with data giving such physi-
cal characters as are known to l)e heritable
has proven a difficult undertaking, since
the facts in many cases are unol)tainable.
^fragmentary as they are, however, they
are given here to show the type of facts
which might ])e included. Such charac-
ters as size, longevity, hearing, eyesight,
complexion, l)aldness, color of hair and
e\es. sliould certainly be given and, if pos-
sibk', many others.

In this photographic study of the ances-
try of Alexander Graham Bell Fairchild,
Barbara Lathrop I'airchild and Xancy
P)ell h'aircliild the system of Ancestral
Xiunbers has been used. As thev all have

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the same blood combinations, any one of
them may be taken as the propositus.
No. 1. The ancestors are then enumer-
ated 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, etc., according to the
following plan :

First parents (father and mother)

2. Children's father

David Grandison Fairchild. 1869.

Fourth of five children. Slender in youth

(5 feet 11^ inches) ; heavier at 45.

Complexion clear. Hair light brown;

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

50th year. Hearing good until death.
Hair light brown, not abundant. Delicate
complexion. First born of eight children.

6. Children's mother's father

Alexander Graham Bell. 1847. Sec-
ond of three children. Slender in youth ;
heavy in older age. Six feet. Olive
complexion. Hair and beard black,
abundant, turning white young. Eyes
dark; eyesight perfect to 70. Hearing

25 26 27 28 29 30 31

beard reddish, not abundant, becoming
gray early. Eyes blue, left one defective.
Has worn glasses from boyhood. Hear-
ing average.

3. Children's mother
Marian Hubbard Bell, 1880. Second
of four children. Slender (5 feet 7
inches). Complexion olive. Hair black
and abundant. Eyes dark. Eyesight
unusually good ; slight muscular difficulty.
Hearing excellent.

Second parents (grandparents)
4. Children's father's father
George Thompson Fairchild. Died in
63rd year. Tall (5 feet 10^^ inches).
Eyes intense black ; eyesight excellent to
50th year. Hearing good. Musical.
Hair black, turning gray. Bald fore-
head ; dark complexion. Last born of
10 children.

5. Children's father's mother
Charlotte Pearl Halstead. Died in 67th
year. Small and slim (about 5 feet 6
inches). Eyes gray; eyesight good to

perfect to 70. Musical. Slight sense
of smell.

7. Children's mother's mother
Mabel Gardiner Hubbard. 1857. Third
of six children. Slender. Fair, clear
complexion. Eyes gray, shortsighted
from childhood. Hearing totally de-
stroyed by scarlet fever at five. Hair
light brown, abundant.

Third parents (great grandparents)

8. Children's father's father's father
Grandison Fairchild. Died in 99th

year. Eyes black; eyesight good to 90th
year. Hearing good to 90th year. Tall.
Dark complexion. Hair dark, turning
white; bald forehead. Third born of
ten children.

9. Children's father's father's mother
Nancy Harris. Died in 80th year.

Eyesight good to advanced age. Hearing
good to advanced age. Hair auburn, not
abundant. Medium size. Second born
of seven children.

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10. Children's fathers mothers fatJicr
David Halsted. Died in 46th year after

week's illness. Eyes blue. Hair black.
Tall and slim. Clear complexion. Fourth
born of five or six children.

11. Children's fatJier's mothers mother
Mary Mechem. Died in 37th year.

Eyes gray ; eyesight defective. Hair light
auburn, not abundant. Medium stature ;
frail. Delicate complexion. Seventh born
of eight children.

12. Cliildretis mothers father's father
Alexander Melville Bell. 1819-1905.

Age at death 86. Slender in youth ; heavy
in old age. 5 feet 10 inches. Third
of four children. Olive complexion.
Hair black, abundant; reddish beard.
Eyes dark ; eyesight perfect to 80. Hear-
ing perfect to advanced age.

13. Children's mother's fatJier's mother
Eliza Grace Symonds. 1809-1896.

Age at death 87. Small and slight. First
of large family (8). Light complexion.
Hair becoming grayish. Eyes blue,
deeply sunken. Eyesight good to ad-
vanced age. Hard of hearing from
10 years of age. Musical. Slight sense
of smell.

14. Children's mother's mother's father
Gardiner Greene Hubbard. 1822-

1897. Age at death 75. Tall and slim.
One of large family. Complexion clear.
Hair dark, becoming white. Eyes black,
very short-sighted ; wore glasses from
childhood. Hearing perfect through-
out life.

15. Children's motJier's mother's mother
Gertrude Mercer McCurdy. 1827-

1909. Eighty-two years old when killed
in accident. Tall and slim. First (if
large family. Complexion clear. Hair
soft brown, abundant. Eyes gray; suf-
fered from cataract late in life. Hearing
perfect throughout life. Musical.

Fourth parents (great, great grand-
parents
Numbers 16 to 23 not given as portraits
are lacking.

24. Children's motJier's fatJier's father's

fatJier

Alexander Bell. 1790-1865. Age at
death. 75. Tall, fine figure. Second of
three children. Dark complexion. Eyes
dark ; eyesight good until advanced years.
Hearing perfect to time of death. Heavy
head of white hair in old age.

25. CJiildren's motJier's fatJier's fatJier's

motJier

Elizabeth Colvill.
death 73.

1783-1856. Age at

26. CJiildren's motJier's fatJier's motJier's

father

Samuel Symonds. 1776-1818. In
poor health for several years and died
of apoplexy at the age of 42.

27. CJiildren's motJier's father's motJier's

mother

Mary White. 1788-1872. Age at
death 84. Light complexion. Hearing
and sight good to advanced years.

28. CJiildren's motJier's motJier's fatJier's

fatJier

Justice Samuel Hubbard of Supreme
Court of Massachusetts. Data lacking

29. Portrait lacking.

30. CJiildren's motJier's motJier's mother's

father
Robert Henry McCurdy. Age at
death 80. Born 1800 died 1880. Data
lacking.

31. Children's niollier's motJier's motJier's

mother
Gertrude Mercer Lee. Born 1809,
(lied 1876. Age at death 67. Hair black,
abundant.

STATE GONFEi^NGES

IOWA

Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution
met in State Convention in Dubuque, March
14, 15, 16, 1922. The attendance was unusu-
ally good, there being three National Officers
two past National Officers, nine State Officers
one honorary State Officer, one real grand-
daughter, six chairmen of state committees,
thirty-nine regents, fifty-four delegates, and
twenty visitors present. From the open session
Tuesday evening until the close, when the invi-
tation of Cedar Rapids for the Conference in
1923 was accepted, every minute was full
of interest.

Distinguished guests present the first two
days, and in attendance also at the luncheon
tendered state and national officers by Mrs.
Edward J. Beach, Dubuque, Regent, included
Mrs. William N. Reynolds, North Carolina's
candidate for President General, and Miss Jenn
Winslow Coltrane, National Historian General.
Mrs. N. E. Kendall, wife of Iowa's governor,
was another honored guest, coming as a delegate
from Albia, her own Chapter.

Mrs. Walter C. L. Roe, of Colony, Okla.,
told of the wants and needs of the Indian tribes,
and pleaded for education and justice. A large
sum of money was raised for scholarships for
the Indian Institute at Wichita, Kansas, after
her address.

Chancellor AlcGowan, of the International
College at Springfield, also talked to the Con-
ference, and the sum of $579.35 was raised to
jl carry on Americanization work under his direc-

tion, in addition to scholarships already pledged
on behalf of Iowa women in the school. One
of the fine reports that showed work was that
of Mrs. DeWald of the Magazine Committee,
stating Iowa now stands seventh in the number
of members, and seventh in number of Maga-
zine subscriptions.

Announcement of the candidacy of Mrs. Mary
H. S. Johnston, of Iowa, for election as treasurer
general on Mrs. Reynolds' ticket, was received
with much enthusiasm and unanimously endorsed.

Election of officers resulted in retaining a
majority of the executive board, although not
in the same offices, since more than two years
consecutively in the same office is forbidden
under the by-laws. Miss Amy E. Gilbert, elected

State Regent, during the past two years has
been State Vice Regent, and previous to that
was for six years Iowa's very efficient state
treasurer ; no one can recall a time when she
has not been active in the state organization,
so that the overwhelming majority that resulted
on the informal ballot constituted her election.

Mrs. H. A. White of Clinton, former record-
ing secretary, was chosen vice regent ; Mrs.
Robert H. Munger of Sioux City, former audi-
tor, is recording secretary ; Mrs. C. L. Douglass
of Cedar Rapids became the new corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Alexander Hawley of Fort
Dodge, formerly librarian, succeeded Mrs. Grant
Ramsey of Grinnell as treasurer, while Mrs.
Ramsey became registrar; Mrs. Frank B.
Thrall of Ottumw^a, who has given such won-
derful service as historian in compiling war
records for Iowa, having served her allotted
number of years, made way for Mrs. Van Epps
of Iowa City, and Mrs. F. S. Burberry of
Indianola, prominent through her work on the
Flag and the Insignia committee as its chair-
man, became librarian, a work for which she
is eminently fitted. Mrs. Beach, Regent of
Dubuque Chapter, was elected auditor, but later
felt she could not serve, and her resignation
has been tendered.

Iowa, under the leadership of the retiring

state regent, has forged ahead, and with its

splendid membership and enthusiastic heads of

all departments has another fine year in sight.

Anna Ross-Clarke,

Corresponding Secretary.

KANSAS

The Twentv-fourth State Conference was held
in Pittsburg,' Kansas, March 28-30, 1922. Mrs.
George Thacher Guernsey, State Regent, pre-
sided at all the sessions. Mrs. Byron B. Beery
of Lawrence, State Registrar, reported an in-
crease in membership of 124 and the present
membership, including the 181 members-at-
large, as 2026. Two new chapters have been
organized in the State the past year — the Olathe
Chapter at Olathe on November 11th, and
the Chapter at Humboldt on February 18th.
This gives Kansas thirty chapters.

The State Librarian, Mrs. R. W. Neale,
reported that 21 books have been sent to the

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National Library during the year, Mrs. Wm.
H. Drake, of Fort Scott, mentioned a number
of gifts sent to the Revolutionary Relics Mu-
seum in Memorial Continental Hall.

Miss Clara Francis stated that the Sante Fe
Trail was marked several years ago and the
committee has very little work along that line
to do, except caring for the markers at dif-
ferent places.

Mrs. Milo McKee reported that there are
220 subscribers to the magazine and that every
member of the Wichita Chapter, of Wichita,
is a subscriber.

The Topeka Chapter, Topeka, reported the
placing of a marker for their Real Daughter,
Mrs. Margaret Brown, at Camden, Ohio, with
appropriate ceremony. Mrs. W. A. Johnston,
the daughter of Mrs. Brown, was an honored
guest of the State Conference.

It was voted to send $100 to the Tamassee
School, $100 to the American Indian Institute
at Wichita and $25 for a Philippine Scholarship.

The Conference authorized the State Regent
to notify the Committee in charge of the new
D.A.R. Administration Building being erected
in Washington, D.C. that the Kansas Daughters
desire to furnish the clerks' rest room in the
new building.

The reports of the State Chairmen of the
National Committee showed a keen interest in
the work as outlined by the National Society.
The annual reports of the Chapter Regents
v^ere interesting and showed that Americaniza-
tion and patriotism had been the keynote.

The members present at the Conference ap-
preciated the hospitality of the Oceanic Hopkins
Chapter and the sincere efforts of the Regent
Mrs. C. B. Dunwell in making the Conference
an enjoyable and successful one. The social
functions were elaborate and entertaining. Ex-
cellent music was furnished at all the meetings.

Conference adjourned to meet in 1923 with
Esther Lowrey Chapter at Independence, Kan.
Adelaide Morse,
State Recording Secretary.

RHODE ISLAND

The Twenty-eighth Aimual Conference of
the Rhode Island Daughters of the American
Revolution was held March 8, 1922, in the
Central Baptist Church, Providence. The State
Regent, Mrs. Samuel H. Davis, presided.

After prayer by Reverend Clarence M.
Gallup, and the Salute to the Flag, a welcome
was extended by Mrs. Matthias W. Raker,
Regent of the Hostess Chapter, (Rhode
Island Independence), to which the State
Regent responded.

Reports of officers and State Chairmen of
Committees followed. The .State Kogcnt, in
her annual report, expressed the hoiie that the

days of " pink teas '' had passed and in its place
the work of betterment of conditions and people
was appealing to every thoughtful woman. She
spoke particularly of the importance of service
in Americanization, suggesting the opening of
playgrounds where needed, and the providing
of places in rural districts in which the children
of great cities can spend a short vacation during
the summer months.

The Chairman of the Committee on Marking
Historic Spots, Miss E. Gertrude Arnold, an-
nounced that the bronze tablet to mark Butts'
Fort, the site of the Battle of Rhode Island,
will be placed next summer, possibly in August,
the anniversary of the battle. Mrs. Martha
A. Gardiner, State Historian, gave an interesting
report of the activities of the various chapters,
the aggregate indicating a vast amount of work
done. The State Registrar, Mrs. John T.
Cranshaw, stated the total membership in the
State as one thousand two hundred thirty-eight.

Between the morning and afternoon session,
luncheon was served in the dining room of the
church. At two o'clock the audience gathered
in the church. The procession of pages,
officers and guests, was led by Color Bearer,
Scout Virginia Davis, daughter of the State
Regent, followed by two young pages, Claire
F. Parker, daughter of the State Chairman of
Committee on Correct Use of the Flag, and
Miss Mary Church.

An address by Chester S. McGown, Chancel-
lor of the American International College at
Springfield, Mass. was the principle feature of
the afternoon program.

In it he said, "Eighty per cent, of the for-
eigners who come to America are fleeced in one
way or another inside of one month after land-
ing in this country. Unscrupulous taxi men,
boarding house agents, trickey politicians, bank-
ers, real estate agents, even their own people, prey
upon the new arrivals. And when the
impression is made upon them that the liberty
and justice which they expected to find here,
and for which they left their homes in the
Balkans or in Russia, in the same spirit that
brought the ancestors of the Daughters of the
American Revolution to these shores, seemingly
does not exist, they make fine material for the
Bolsheviki propaganda.

"If they are defrauded and wronged while
Americans stand by and permit it, they more
readily entertain the suggestions of the " Reds".
And the time of the empty dinner-pail is the
time for the insidiousncss of the Rod propa-
ganda to do its deadliest work."

Music was furnished by the Waterman Trio
and by a quartette who sang " Hail Rhode
Island" and "America the Beautiful."

A contribution was taken for the needy ex-
service men of the American Legion.

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The Conference closed with an informal

reception to the State Regent and State Officers.

(Mrs. Frederic A.) Myra Bumstead Morse,

State Vice Ri-geiit.

TENNESSEE

The Sixteenth State Conference of the
Tennessee Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion met in Knoxville November 3, 4, and 5,
1921, with the Bonny Kate Chapter as
hostess. The Conference opened with a
luncheon tendered by the Elks. The Masonic
Temple, where the Conference was called to
order at 2 p.m. by the State Regent, Miss
Mary Boyce Temple, was beautifully decorated.
Seated with Miss Temple on the stage were
Mrs. William Reynolds of North Carolina,
■ex-Vice President General ; Mrs. H. F. Lewis,
State Secretary of Virginia, and State Officers.
The invocation was pronounced by Doctor H.
C Wilson. The Salute to the Flag was given
by Mrs. Margaret Hicks of Nashville, and
■"America" was sung by the assemblage.
Welcome was extended by the Mayor and by
Mrs. B. B. Cates, Regent of the Hostess
Chapter, Mrs. Charles B. Bryan of Memphis
gave the response. The announcement that
the President General, Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, would not be present on account of
illness was received with sincere regret.

The splendid report of the State Regent,
Miss Temple, spoke of the new spirit which
liad been born in the State organization, and
gave a history of the work done for the erad-
ication of illiteracy in Tennessee, and announced
the completion of the $25,000 boys' dormi-
tory at Lincoln Alemorial University, also
$1,000 American History Scholarship in hon-
or of Mrs. J. Harvey Mathes in the Univer-
sity of Tennessee. Mrs. Reynolds and Mrs.
Lewis addressed the Conference. Telegrams
■and letters were read by Mrs. R. J. Yearwood,
State Secretary, from National Officers con-
gratulating Tennessee on its superb work for
patriotic education.

Thursday evening a reception was given
at the home of General and Airs. L. D. Tyson.

Friday morning reports of the State Officers,
•Chairmen of State Committees, and Chapter
Regents, were given ; all showing an increase
•of interest. At 12:30 p.m. the Conference
recessed, and a luncheon was given by the
Ladies Memorial Association and the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy.

The Memorial Hour was a beautiful feature
•of the afternoon session. A Roll Call of the
Chapters was read, and in memory of deceased
members, flowers were placed in a loving cup
which had been awarded Bonny Kate Chapter,
■by the late beloved Mrs. T. J. Lathem, Hernii
tage Chapter. A poem, "I Know that m;

Redeemer Liveth" was recited by Mrs.
C. B. Bryan.

A feature of the Friday evening session
was the address given by Mrs. A. W. Cook,
^^ice President General of Pennsylvania. The
Magazine Prize of $10 offered by Mrs.
Thomas Day and which had served to stimulate
the interest of all the Chapters in getting
subscriptions for the splendid publication, was
awarded to Bonny Kate for having the largest
number of new subscribers during the year.
Mrs. Day renewed her offer of the $10
prize for the coming year. Twenty new sub-
scribers were reported by Bonny Kate. Doctor
George A. Hubbell, of Lincoln ]\Iemorial Uni-
versity, emphasized the need of educational
work throughout Tennessee.

On Saturday morning, forty delegates went
in a special coach from Knoxville to Harrogate
where they were met with automobiles and
taken over the grounds and through the build-
ings of Lincoln Memorial University. Stop-
ping at the handsome Tennessee D.A.R. Hall,
outside of which a body of students, faculty
members and neighbors from nearby communi-
ties were gathered, "America" was sung and
the formal presentation of the Tennessee
Daughters' gift to the University was made
by Miss Temple, who said that this was a
moment of supreme joy to her and to all D.A.R.
members. The building was accepted on behalf
of the institution by Judge Morrison, Chairman
of the Board of Trustees of Lincoln Memorial
University. Luncheon was served at noon in
Norton Hall, the delegates being guests of
President and Mrs. George A. Hubbell. The
afternoon program was held in the auditorium.
A student, on behalf of the student body,
expressed gratitude for the work done for them
and for the beautiful building, and pledged
that the students would avail themselves of

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every avantage so generously made possible
for them by the Tennessee Daughters. The
degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred on
the State Regent, Miss Temple, by Doctor
George A. Hubbell for service rendered by
her in the cause of the education of the State.
In presenting the degree, Doctor Hubbell ad-
dressed Miss Temple as "the eminent daughter
of an illustrious father, friend of Lincoln Me-
morial University and of the mountain boy,
strong, true, earnest and faithful." In ac-
cepting the degree Miss Temple in tones low
with emotion, spoke of the loyal cooperation
of her fellow workers, and of the blessed privi-
lege of service which came to those abundantly
endowed with the world's gifts in helping those
less fortunate. She spoke of the students'
privilege in coming under the influence o'f
their splendid president, Doctor Hubbell, and
of the hope of the Daughters to give them
a chance in life through the erection of the
stately Tennessee D.A.R. Hall accommodating
120 boys.

A word of congratulation was spoken by
each of the distinguished visitors and by the
State Officers. The delegates were then driven
to Cumberland Gap to see the four States,
(Tennessee, North Carolina, Virginia and Ken-
tucky), D.A.R. Boone Trail Monument, and left
on the 3 p.m. train for Knoxville. Thus closed
the most delightful experience ever enjoyed at
an annual meeting of the Tennessee Daughters
of the American Revolution.

(Mrs. R. J.) Jennie W. Yearwood,
State Secretary.

WASHINGTON

The Twenty-first Annual Conference of the
Washington Daughters of the American Rev-
olution was held in the Tacoma Hotel, Tacoma,
Washington, February 20, 21 and 22, 1922. It
seemed most appropriate that at our "coming-
of-age" Conference we should be entertained
by the oldest Chapter in the State, Mary Ball.

We were highly honored by the presence of
our President General, Mrs. George Maynard
Minor ; the Vice President General from Penn-
sylvania, Airs. Anthony Wayne Cook; the
Treasurer General, Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter;
and our own Vice President General, Mrs. Henry
McCleary. All were won by their gracious
personality and by the generous giving of their
time to the Daughters during their entire visit.

Mrs. William Sherman Walker, State Regent,
called the Conference to order and the State
Chaplain, Mrs. J. L. Sutherland, a descendant
of (iencral Washington's Chaplain, pronounced
the invocation, .'\fter the Flag Salute led by
Mrs. H. H. Turner, 2nd Vice Regent, Commis-
sioner Fred Shoemaker welcomed the guests
on Ijchalf of the city of Tacoma and Mrs. Mc-

Cleary extended a most cordial welcome for
Mary Ball Chapter, which was responded to by
Mrs. John A. Parker, past State Regent. Mrs.
Cook brought greetings from her state and
Mrs. Hunter extended greetings from our
officers in Memorial Continental Hall and
gave a short account of the financial side of
our work.

Mrs. Walker then introduced the President
General who addressed the Daughters on the
vast work of the Society and of the power it is
today throughout the world.

Every Chairman of both National and State
Committees gave a splendid report — all showing
a great work accomplished.

Many gifts were announced to both the Na-
tional and State Societies. A number of his-
torical books were presented by- the State to
the National Society; Mrs. Walker, State
Regent presented a copy of the Genevan Bible
printed in 1608 and a book containing priceless
signatures of famous men and women of for-
eign countries connected with the Revolutionary
War to the National and to the State Society
an illuminated insignia. Two bound volumes
of War Service Records were presented to the
National Society. Lady Stirling Chapter pre-
sented to the State Society a replica of the
State Banner now hanging in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall.

Lady Stirling Chapter, Seattle, won a large
silk flag presented by the State Regent for the
greatest increase in Magazine subscriptions and
Ann Washington Chapter, Mt. Vernon, a silk
flag presented by the State Board for greatest
increase in members.

The full amount of $1,500 was enthusias-
tically pledged for the furnishing of a room in
the new Administration Building. Five hundred
dollars was given during the past year by the
Chapters toward improved housing conditions
for members of our University of Washington
Chapter attending the University.

Several noteworthy resolutions were adopted
and a number of amendments to the By-Laws —
among them being one for the raising of state
dues to one dollar per capita.

Four chapters were organized during the past
year and several more are almost ready for
organization. The State Society hopes to pub-
lish a Year-book the coming year for the
first time.

One of the most interesting events of the
Conference was the meeting held in the First
Congregational Church on the night of the
21st when Mrs. Minor delivered an address on
"Internationalism, True and False" and Mrs.
Cook gave a short patriotic talk. Among the
musical numbers was the singing by a
quartette of "Connecticut" in honor of our
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The social side of the Conference was not
forgotten and many small dinners and lunch-
eons were given the visiting members. Besides
a banquet Monday evening by Mrs. McCleary
and Mrs. Walker to the honor guests, State
Board, and Chapter Regents, Mary Ball Chapter
gave a beautiful reception Monday evening,
and "Acquaintance Luncheon" on Tuesday to
members, and on Wednesday a luncheon to the
honor guests, and State Board. Mrs. B. E.
Buckmaster, Regent of Virginia Dare Chapter,
Tacoma, entertained at luncheon on Tuesday
the honor guests and State Board, and Virginia
Dare Chapter entertained the delegates and
officers of Mary Ball Chapter at luncheon.

Mrs. H. W. Patton, Regent of Robert Gray
Chapter, Hoquiam, entertained the honor guests
and State Board at dinner on Tuesday.

Mary Ball Chapter was heartily congratu-
lated on having entertained such a momentous
Conference and in such a royal manner.

The State Society under the able and energetic
leadership of its Regent, Mrs. Walker, accom-
plished many important things the past year, and
has a still more ambitious program planned
for next year.

(Mrs. William Finley)

Sarah Parker Dunlap,
State Recording Secretary.

THE STEADY SUBSCRIBER

Verses from report of Mrs. Charles H. Bissell, National Chairman of the
Magazine Committee, to the 31st Continental Congress:

" How dear to our heart is the steady subscriber,

Who pays in advance of the birth of each year,
Who lays down the money and does it quite gladly,

And casts round the office a halo of cheer.
He never says. ' Stop it ; I cannot afford it,

I'm getting more magazines now than I read.'
But always says, * Send it ; our people all like it —

In fact, we all think it a help and a need.'
How welcome his check when it reaches our sanctum ;

How it makes our pulse throb ; how it makes our heart dance !
We outwardly thank him; we inwardly bless him —

The steady subscriber who pays in advance."

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BALL

The name is of Saxon origin, meaning swift,
or bold and has several variations, Balle, Bale,
Bal etc. Bal is also a Belgian surname.

Vice-Comes Bal, named as a landed propri-
etor, in the Doomesday Book of Exon, is the
first of the Ball family of whom there is
knowledge. Sir Peter Ball, who wrote many
books on the science of antiquities, is mentioned
in the " Worthies of Devon." The famous
Puritan Divine, John Ball, who lived in the
fourteenth century also belonged to the family.

One of the first heroes of the family was the
Alajor Ball, who alone and unarmed went in
the forest of Ladyswood to confer with High-
land deserters and induced them to return to
their allegiance.

Mahommed, 2nd Emperor of the Turks, said
of Thomas Ball, who defended the castle of
Salonica a year against the Turks, that he had
found many heroes in the country of the
Peloponnesus but only one man, Thomas Ball.

One of the early settlers of Springfield,
Massachusetts was Francis Ball, Son of William
of Wiltshire who came over about 1640, he
married Abigail Burt and all Massachusetts
Balls arc their descendants.

Edward Ball of Branford Connecticut moved
to New Jersey with a party of New Englanders
anfl helped build Newark.

The Southern Balls have always been a power,
Colonel William being the first to arrive in
1650, and settling at " Millenbeck" in Lancaster
County, Virginia. He married Hannah Atlierold
and was a direct descendant of William il.ill.
Lord of the Alanor Barkham who died in
1480, great graiulfalli. r <,t (iiorgc Wasliin.utnn.
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SEYMOUR

The House of Seymour descends from a
Knight, Sir William St. Maur who lived in
the thirteenth century, through his grandson,
Roger de St. Maur, Lord of Penlow and
Woundy, who married Joan, daughter of
Damarel of Devonshire.

John Seymour, of Wolf Hall in Wiltshire,
Sheriff of the County in the reign of Henry
7th, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Henry
Darell of Littlecote, Co. Wilts and their eldest
son, Sir John, was knighted by King Henry,
on the field of battle for gallant conduct as
one of the commanders of the King's forces
against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath. Later
for his prowess at the famous " Battle of the
Spurs" he was made a Knight Banneret by King
Henry 8th. He attended the King at the " Field
of the Cloth of Gold " where took place the
famous meeting of Henry and Francis 1st, and
also at Canterbury, when Emperor Charles 5th
came to England.

He made a brilliant alliance, his wife being
Alargaret, daughter of Sir Henry Wcntworth,
who was descended from practically all the
mediaeval dynasties of Europe.

Their son Edward, became the most power-
ful noble of the realm the Lord Protector of
England. He was knighted in 1523, was created
X'iscount Beauchamp; Governor and Captain
of the Lsle of Jersey; Chancellor and Chamber-
lain of North Wales; 1537 created Earl of
Hertford and later Knight of the Garter; 1543
was made Lnrd ( Irt at Cliamberlaiii of bjigland.
for life.

His great-grandson, Richard Seymour, came
tn Anu'rica and became one of the fore-
ninsi nun of Hartford, and a founder of
Xnrfolk, ("(innrcticnt.

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ANSWERS

10006. Simmons. — Moses Simmons, m Sarah

, Joseph Alden, s of John and Priscilla

Alden m Mary, dau of Moses and Sarah
Simmons. Children of Joseph and Mary Sim-
mons xMden were Isaac ; Joseph ; m 1690
Hannah Dunham; John, b 1674, d Sept. 29,
1730, m Hannah White; Elizabeth; Mary and
HopestilL— ^//.^.y Alice Trofton Smith, 302
Smith St., Tennille, Ga.

10119. FiXDLEY. — John Findley came to this
country from Antrim Co., Ireland, in 1761.
Was a bro of the Hon. Wm., member of Con-
gress in Penna. Living in 1810. — Miss Martha
A. Findlcv, 306 N. Main St., Monmouth, 111.

10162. 'Craxe.— John Crane (4) (Henry 3,
Henry 2, Henry 1,) was b July 1, 1741, in Dur-
ham, Conn. Will dated May 7, 1784. Estate dis-
tributed in 1790. Took Freeman's oath and
oath of fidelity to the State of Conn, at
Durham, Sept. 16, 1777. Married April 7,
1761, Abigail Camp who d 1788. Their ch were
Clarissa, b July 31, 1762, m Curtis Bates;
Elan, b July 23. 1768, m about 1790 Anne
Bishop, d Nov. 27, 1850; Timothy Botchford
b June 10, 1773, d Sept. 10, 1845, m 1st. Sarah
Teller bv whom he had 9 ch, including Clarissa,
b Sept. "9, 1805, in N. Y. City.— Mrs. B. A.
Crane. 517 W. 10th St.. Erie. Pa.

10167. Crist. — Geo. Crist came from Union-
town, Pa., where he and his bro operated mills.
One bro John came to Ind. with him. He m
Polly Updyke. Adam, Eve, George and John

were of the same family. Eve m Mc-

Pherson, father of Gen. McPherson (Civil
War). Geo. Crist's father is supposed to have

obtained land patent in Pa. for his ser in the
Rev War.— Jane Crist Riipp. Hillsboro, Kan.

10170. GoFF.— David Goff (Moses-Philip) b

April 29, 1702, d 1734, m Lydia , thought

to be Boardman. but not proved. She m John
Taylor Mar. 8, 1739. Her s Elijah Goffe chose
his stepfather, John Taylor, of Weathersfield,
as his guardian Mar. 18, 1746, being then 17
years old. Ref : Stiles, Ancient Weathersfield,
vol. 2. pages 259 & 700.— .1/r>r. Frank A. Corbin,
Orange, Conn.

10182. Randall. — Ephriam, b Easton, Mass.,
April 12, 1735. d Oct. 8, 1806, his house was
in N. Easton on N. Main St. He was an
owner of a grist mill. Clerk of a Baptist
Society, Constable and Selectman, 1798-1802.
He marched in Capt. Abiel Mitchell's Co. down
with the Lexington Alarm in 1875. Was a
corp. in Capt. Joshua Wilbore's Co., Col. John
Hatheway's Reg. Apr., 1777, serving 23 days &
later in the same year was in Capt. Sh'iw's
Co., Col. Geo. Williams' Reg. He m 1st Mary
Blake, of Milton, b Dec. 24, 1740, d May 10,
1776, dau of Moses and Hannah Horton Blake.
There were 7 ch by this union, Elijah being
the 6th. He m 2nd, Louise Stone, d Nov., 1812.
By this m there were 5 ch. Gen. of this branch
can be given as far back as 1640 by addressing
Maj. Wm. A. Randall, Manila Hotel, Manila,
P. I. — M. Sclicia Gray, Uniontown, Pa. This
query was also answered by Mrs. James C.
Burns, 1025 W. Adams St., Macomb, 111., who
gives as her reference W. L. Chaffin's History
of Robert Randall and his Descendants.

10182. Randall.— John Randall, b 1703 in
Taunton, North Purchase, d 1765 in Easton.

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Married 1st Stacy, no issue. Married 2nd,

May 4, 1732, Experience Willis, b about 1706,
dau of John and Mary Brett, of Bridgewater.
Their oldest ch Ephraim, b Apr. 12, 1735, d
Oct. 8, 1806, m 1st Mary Blake, of Milton, b
1740, d May 10, 1776. Their ch were Ziba, b
July 11, 1760, d Mar. 23, 1835; Elijah, b Oct.
14, 1762, d Oct. 11, 1766; John, b Apr. 11,
1765, d Aug. 13, 1837; Hannah, b Aug. 14,
1767, d Feb. 15, 1800, m 1789 John Packard
Stoughton; Mary b May 16, 1770, m 1793 Isaac
Stokes, Jr.; Elijah b Nov. 25, 1772, d 1850;
Moses b July 16, 1775, d Nov. 11, 1844.
Ephraim m 2nd. Louise Stone, d 1812. Their
ch were a ch b 1778, d 1778; Lemuel b Oct 1,
1779, d Oct. 11. 1802; Zephaniah b Sept. 24.
1783, d Jan. 5. 1855; Mindwell, b Feb. 8, 1786,
d June 23, 1870; Caleb, b Apr. 8. 1788, d 1813
with a camp distemper in U. S. service in
War of 1812.— Miss Sara E. Wilbar, 568
Pleasant St., Bridgewater, Mass.

10185. Ayres. — Judith Ayres (not Ayers)
was b in Buckingham Co., Va. She was the
dau of Nathan and Mary Leake Ayres. Nathan
was the s of Matthias Ayres & Mary was the
dau of Walter & Judith Maske Leake. Judith
Ayres m Jan. 6, 1786, Moses Spencer, who was
b Jan. 3, 1763. Have no data concerning his
parentage. Moses & Judith Spencer had s
Samuel Ayres Spencer b Jan. 8, 1797, m 1819
Mary Ann Moseley. I am descended from
Matthias Ayres, b Buckingham Co. in 1781, bro
of Judith, ref to above, & would be glad to
corres with desc of the Ayres & Leake fam.
Children of Nathan & Mary Leake Ayres are
John, m Elizabeth Bransford, 1793; Judith, m
1783, Moses Spencer; Nathan; Walter, m his
stepsister, Agnes Mazey, & settled in Ky. ;
Betsy m her stepbro Philip Mazey & settled in

Ky. ; Mary m Fuqua; Jane m Hol-

man, settled in Va., later in Ky. ; Martha M

Holman, settled in Va., later in Ky. ; Mathias
m Nancy Gilliam Howell, who was b in
Buckingham Co., Va., 1797 — they moved to
Mo. in 1836; Peter. After the death of his 1st
w, Nathan m a widow, Mary Bondurant Mazey,
dau of Huguenot. She had no ch by Nathan,
but 6 by her 1st husband, a Baptist preacher.
They were, Ephraim, m Woodsen ; Eliza-
beth, m Col. John Moseley ; Annie, m Richard
Lafou ; Philip m Betsy Ayres ; Agnes m Walter

Ayres ; and NatlianicL m ■ Daber.— ilZ/.w

Nellie Ayres, 725 W. 7th St., Scdalia, Mo.

10194. Bu.sHNFXL.— James Bushnell, b Mar.
12. 1716, m Mehitibic Dudley. Their oldest s,
Capt. Alexander Bushnell. was b in Lyme Co.
Dec. 2. 1739, d Mar. 18, 1818. in Ohio. Feb-
ruary 12, 1761, he m Chloe Wait, who was b
June 20, 1738. & d Oct. 28. 1832. Their ch
were Thomas, b 1762. m Rebecca Andrews
Mar. 14. 1782; Daniel b 1763. m 1st. Mar. 1,

1786, Rebecca Banny, 2nd, Eunice Brockway;
Wm. b 1766, m 1st, Mary Borden, 2nd, Candice
Adams; Chloe b 1768, m 1st Obediah Gilder-
sleeve, 2nd. Josiah Pelton ; Alexander, b 1771, m
Sarah Wells in 1796; Starling G. b 1772, m
Hilda Holcomb ; Mary b 1775, m Calvin Cole
in 1792; Hannah b 1778, m Dario Fuller in
1803; Lucy b 1780. m Aaron Brockway, 1807,
of New Conn., Ohio, and Phebe b 1784, m
Ashbel Borden. Alexander Bushnell was
admitted to communion in First Church, prob-
ably by letter, from Third Church at Lyme,
Dec. 2, 1770. Chloe was admitted Oct. 3, 1776,
Most of these records are from the First
Church of Hartland, Conn. — Mrs. Geo. A.
Hubbell, Harrowgate, Tenn.

10195. Huff. — One Moses Huflf, who served
in Lincoln Co., Maine, in the Rev War, was a s
of George Banfield Huff & his w Susannah
Colby. — Jessica J. Haskell, 33 Academy St.,
Hallowell, Maine.

10216. Holmes.— John Holmes, b 1727 at
Middleboro, Mass., was the s of Nathaniel
Holmes, 1692-1717, and Martha Cushman, b
1691. Their ch were Nathaniel ; Jedediah ;
Jabez ; Elkanah, and John, all b at Middleboro,
Mass.— il/r5. W. H. Sampson, 69 E. Main St.,
Leroy, N. Y.

10242. Maxwell.— Anthony Maxwell, b Air-
shire, Scotland. 1755. Son of Wm., was m at
Kinderhook, Dec. 10. 1790, d at Hudson. N. Y.,
1825. He was Sgt., 2nd Lieut.. 1st Lieut, and
Capt. ; was in Aaron Burr's Reg. and served
under him from the beginning to the end of
the war.—/. M. S.

10259. GiBBs.— Sheldon Gibbs, b Mar. 27,
1768. Rutland Co.. Vt.. had s Warcham Gibbs, b
June 17, 1794, d July 8, 1820, at Benson, Vt.. m

Laura . Their ch were Mary Ann Gibbs,

and Perry Gibbs, b 1820. d Sept. 5, 1865, at
New Orleans, La. The Gibbs family came to
America in 1630. — Mrs. Jennie S. McKinney,
2,2 N. Marr St., Fond du lac, Wis.

10280. Ramsey.— Page 216, vol. 5, f^fth
series of Pa. Archives : " Second Bat., muster
roll relating to Associations and Mil of the
County of Chester." Capt. John Ramsey,
Londonderry Co., Col. Evans Evans and again
in Vol. 1, Sixth Series, page 313, it says:
"John Ramsey paid 31.st May, 1781, as per
appeal.— E-Wr/Zt- Ogden Hyde, 1038 Clayton St.,
San Francisco, Calif.

10291. Felton. — Nathaniel Felton b about
1615, came from England 1633, m Mary, dau
of Rev. Samuel Skclton. Their s Nathaniel b
Aug. 15, 1655, m Anne, dau of Deacon John
Home, of Salem. Their s Elienczer. b 168S,

m Mehitibic . Their s David Felton, b

1711, d Mar. 20, 1792, at Salem, Mass., m
Sarah Houlton, b Apr. 10, 1715, and their s
James bpt Salem, Oct. 8, 1738. m Sarah

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Houlton, b Apr. 13, 1732, Salem, Mass. — Miss
Maude S. Baum, 917 West 5th St., Pine
Blufif, Ark.

10309. Henderson. — This record was found
in the Clerk's Office, Edgefield, S. C, viz.:
" We, Rebecca Henderson, Thomas Henderson,
Eli Henderson and Nathaniel Henderson, of
Warren Co., State of Ohio, sell to Enoch
Brazeal ' Rev.' 677 acres of land on Coffeetown
Creek, being a part of the land granted to
Nathaniel Henderson, deceased, date 1809.
Witnesses : John Stott, Willis Kelley, Ezekiel
Hollingsworth." This land was in Edgefield
Co. Nathaniel Henderson's will recorded in
1803, mentions w Rebecca, sons Richard,
Thomas, Wm., Eli and Nathaniel, and dau
Mary Ramsey, Martha Hollingsworth and son-
in-law Thomas Cook. Wife and Thomas Cook,
executors. Dated Oct., 1801. By putting the
will with the deed, it shows that part of the
family moved to Ohio; perhaps this Priscilla
of the query might be a dau of this family. —
Mrs. Susan B. Hill, Edgefield, D. C.

10312. Hall.— John Hall, immigrant, b 1605
at Coventry, Warwickshire, England, d 1678,
was a Colonial sol. Came to America in the
ship Griffin, 1630. Founder of Boston, Mass. ;
founder of New Haven, Conn., 1639; founder
of Wallingford, Conn. Married July 3, 1640,
Jeane, dau of John Woolen, of New Haven,
who d May 3, 1676. Ref. American Ancestry,
Vol. 12, page 127 : " Ancestry of Halls," by
Charles S. Hall ; " Davis's History of Walling-
ford " ; " Whitman's Halls." The fourth ch
was Capt. Samuel Hall, b May 21, 1646, d
Mar. 5, 1725, m May, 1668, Hannah, dau of
John & Grace Walker, b Sept. 27, 1646, d Dec.
20, 1728. He was the ances of Geo. Lyman
Hall, Signer, Governor of Georgia. John
s of Samuel & Hannah Walker Hall, b Dec.
26, 1670, was Asst. Judge of Upper House,
1722-1730, m Dec. 8, 1692, to Mary Lyman
(John 2, Richard 1), b 1667, d 1740. Daughter
of John Lyman and Dorcas, dau of John
Plumbe, the immigrant. John was the s of
Richard and Sarah Osborn Lyman, of Kent,
England. — Mrs. Clara M. Bell, Ogden, Utah.

10314. Felton. — Lieut. Nathaniel Felton, the
venerable patriarch of the family in Mass., who
came to Salem in 1633 when 17 yrs of age,
returned to England in 1634 & came back to
Salem in 1635. About 1645 he settled near
Felton Hills, Salem. The part of Salem after-
ward called Danvers, & now Peabody. Mrs.
Eleanor Felton, the mother of Benjamin,
Nathaniel, Judith and Margaret probably arrived
in 1635 as her s Benj. and bro Nathaniel came
at that time. Ref : Felton Gtn.—Miss Maud S.
Banm. 917 W. 5th St., Pine Bluff, Ark.

10332. Williams.— Col. Wm. Williams,
father of Elizabeth Whitmell Williams, who m

the Hon. John Johnston, of Bertie Co., N. C,
was appointed Col. from Martin Co. with
Whitmell Hill for Lieut. Col., Thomas Wiggins,
Maj., Kenneth McKenzie, 2nd Maj. He was
appt Adjutant of 1st Reg. Aug., 1775. Was
a member of the Provincial Congress at Hali-
fax Oct., 1776. He m Elizabeth the dau of
Thos. Whitmell, Esq., who bore him 3 ch, vis.:
Samuel, who m Charity Alston Dawson ;
Elizabeth who m Hon. John Jolinston ; Gen.
Wm. Wilhams, of Martin Co., who m 1st, Mrs.
Smith, & 2nd, his cousin, EHzabeth, dau of
Capt. Solomon Williams. — Mrs. Roger H.
Fassctf, 129 Dunning Ave., San Antonio, Tex.

10351. Clark. — Parmelia Clark & her twin
sister Rachel were daus of Henry Clark &
nieces of Abraham Clark, the signer. Othneil
Looker, hus of Pamelia, was b in Morris Co.,
N. J., 1757, & d Crawford Co., 111., 1845. He
was pensioned in 1833, at which time he was
living in Hamilton Co., Ohio. — Elvcnah H.
Jones, 224 Broad St., Newark, N. J.

10370. Ellis.— Maj. Wm. Ellis, b 1741, d
1785, m Amy Matlock, Dec. 30, 1756, their dau
Elizabeth, b June 15, 1767, m Daniel Fortiner.
Ref : A''. /. Archives, Vol. 22, page 125. Mar-
ried 2nd, Elizabeth Potts, their dau Sarah m
Daniel W. Thomas. Ref : D.A.R. Lineage Book,
vol. 50, page 334. — Elvenah H. Jones, 224
Broad St., Newark, N. J.

10337. Crawford.— Write to Miss Jennie
Beals, Earlham, Iowa, who is collecting data
of Col. Wm. Crawford and his bro Valentine.
He was bound at the stake 1782 at Sandusky,
Ohio, by Indians. I presume he had never had
a decent burial.— £. M. H. Moore, 1708 Race
St., Phila., Pa.

10343. Blair. — See the Boiling family, also
Horner's " Blair, Blackston and Bannister
Family." John Blair, signer of Constitution of
the U.S.A., known as Justice John Blair, was
s of President John Blair, Va., Council &
burg, Va., & great-nephew of Commissary
James Blair, Pres. of Wm. & Mary College.—
E. M. H. Moore, 1708 Race St., Phila., Pa.

10376. Sasnett.— Joseph Habersham's His-
torical Collection, Vol. 2, pages 497-499. " Lit-
tle is known of Joseph before his father's d
in 1742, but he moved to Iridell Co., N. C,
where his will is recorded. He m Mrs. Jane
Furgeson, nee Warren, a twin sister of Gov.
Nathan Rabun's mother. It is said they were
nieces of Gen. Warren, the hero of Bunker
Hill." His will is also found in the Chalkley
abstracts of Augusta Co. records dated 29th
April, 1803. He mentions w Jane, s Levi (the
land on Green River, Ky.), s Benj., Joseph &
dau Mrs. Rebecca Sasnett, w of Richard, & her
ch— Sallie, Mary and Joseph Sasnett. Also
Mary, w of Wm. Saunders, and her ch, brother-
in-law Thomas Bronson, one of the executors.

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Levi was a physician & Benj. Joseph d unmar-
ried. Rebecca & Wm. Sasnett moved from
Edgecomb Co., N. C, to Hancock Co., Ga.,
about 1800. Rebecca's dau Mary was 2nd w
of Henry Harris, of Hancock Co., & Sarah
(Sallie) m Wm. Hall & moved to Alabama.
She had 12 ch & these families intermarried.
Benj. Borden, f of Joseph, left a will recorded
in Chalkley abstracts. Vol. 3. He was said to
have come from N. J., was associated with
Lord Fairfax & through him obtained enormous
grants of land which gave rise to endless law-
suits. His eldest s and exec of his estate m
Mrs. Magdelene McDowell, and d within a few
years of smallpox. Two daus d at the same
time, leaving only one, Martha, to grow to
womanhood. His widow m in a few months,
John Bowyer, the schoolmaster, who had little
more than " the wearing apparel of one of his
station." (Deposition in Chalkley.) Between the
3rd husband & Martha Borden's husband's dau,
the heirs got little of the Borden property.
Benj. Borden, Sr., left his land in N. J. in
Bullshire & on Smith's Creek, N. Shenandoah,
to his sons, Benj., John & Joseph, except 2000
acres left his w Zerinal and daus. Abiel, m
1st, Pritchard, & 2nd, Worthington; Re-
becca, m Thomas Bronson; Deborah m

Henry; Lydia m Peck, & Eliza m

Nichols. There is a gen of the Borden family
published by Joel Munsell's Sons which traces
the family from Kent Co., Eng., to their first
settlement in R. I. in 1635 & thence to N. J.
and Va. As Joseph Borden's s, Benj. Joseph
d unmarried, the Borden's of N. C. must have
been the ch of Levi. — Mrs. Susan B. Hill.
Edgefield, S. C.

10373. Parks.— Joseph Parks, b Stonington,
Conn., 1708, d 1786 at Plainfield. His s, Robert,
b in Voluntown, Conn., Dec. 4, 1737, d 1810, m
April 2, 1760, Plainfield, Conn., Elizabeth Hall.
Would like to corres with desc of Joshua Hall.
—Miss Julia A. Webster, 121 Henderson St.,
Pontiac, Mich.

10389. MoTT.— Adam Mott, Jr., b at Walling-
ford. Conn., Feb. 19, 1735, d at Jcnchos Bridge,
June 16, 1811; m at Wallingford, Conn., Feb.
14, 1786, 2nd w Anna Cyrena Fillcy, b Apr. 20,
1763, d June 5, 1806. Their ch were Anna, b
Oct. 16, 1788, m Ashel Wheeler; Elisha, b
Sept. 12, 1789, m Azuba Norton; Nahamon
Ira, b Dec. 21, 1791, Chloe Coe ; Sopiiia, b
Sept. 6, 1793, unmarried; Alva Gleason, I)
June 12. 1796, unmarried. Adam Mott, Jr.,
went to Ticonderoga in 1775, Capt. Sedgwick's
Co., Col. Webb's Reg. served in Capt. l'.iel)e's
Co. 1776 at Long Island and in otlirr ser
during the Rev. Enlisted for the War in 1778,
Capt. Thos. Wooster's Co., Col. Samuel B.
Webb's Reg. Ref: "Annals of Winchester,"

page 3%.— Mrs. F. J. D. Guy, 143 Spring St.,
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.

10400. Clark. — Lucretia Clark was the dau
of Cardy, b Jan. 2, 1787, the oldest s of Daniel
Clark & his 1st w Lucy Hardee, who was the
dau of Geo. & Mary Cardee & b 1766, d Mar.
27, 1787. Daniel Clark, Dec. 24, 1760, at West
Haven, Conn., d Apr. 25, 1843, Sharron, Conn.
His Rev ser furnished by the Bureau of Pen-
sions is: "Enlisted 21st of Feb., 1781, as a
private, served 10 months in Capt. VanDeusen's
Co., enlisted again summer of 1782 for 6 months
in Capt. Mansfield's Co. ; served on guard duty ;
resided at New Haven, Conn., at time of enlist-
ment. Applied for pension 18th of Feb., 1833.
His claims was allowed." Daniel Clark was the
s of John & Kezia Clark, of Winsor, & his
b will be found in " Stiles' History of Ancient
Winsor." The ch of Pardy Clark were Jere-
miah, Jonas, Daniel. Maria, m Bailey;

Lucretia, m Earl Mosher ; & had Sarah, Louis.
James, Ellen, Earl, Julia who m Gaylord
Bailey & lived at Bull's Bridge, N. Y.— .1/ar-
garet A. Older, 1617 Grand Ave., Milwau-
kee, Wis.

QUERIES

10472. Johnson. — Robert Johnson, Scotch-
man and Rev sol, m Mary and lived in

N. J., probably Somerset Co., in 1769, removed
to Va. about 1788. Ten bros & sis went with
him and he had 11 ch. Wanted gen and dates
of Robert Johnson and w Mary. Would like
to correspond with Johnson's desc. — /. /. J\

10473. Stoddard. — Wanted gen of Mary
Stoddard, who m Thomas Crandall in Little
Compton in 1760. — C. A. E.

10474. Mifflin.— \\'anted par of Geo. Mifflin,
of Dallas, b 1792 in Pa. V. P. with Polk.
Did he have Rev anc. ? — D. C. H.

10475. White. — Wanted gen of Henry White,
who went from Buckingham Co. to Bedford
Co., Va., the last part of the 18th Century.

(a) Parker. — Wanted gen of Wm. Parker
who went from Fauquier Co., Va., to Pittsyl-
vania Co. about 1771. His father supposed
to have lived in Md. His ch were Benjamin,
David, George. The first two went first &
George d in Pittsylvania Co., \'a. — /,. E. J. P.

10476. Burgess. — Wanted dates of b, m & d
of Col. Wm. Burgess, Com. in Chief of forces
in Md. Also of his w Elizabeth Robbins. Their
s Capt. Edward Burgess m Sarah Chew &
their dau Sarah Burgess m Benj. Gaither.
Wanted all their dates.— R. B. G.

10477. Stuart.— Wanted gen of David
Stuart, who settled first in Va. & was later one
of the early pioneers of East Tenn. He was a
surveyor &' one of the Commissioners who
surveyed the State line between Tenn & N. C.

about" 1800. He m a Miss Ward, who

was a member of the Wartl faniilv of Cocke

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Co. He took up land in Cocke, Greene, Jeffer-
son and Knox Counties, Tenn. Had sons,
George & John. Wanted given name of his w
who had a sis Nanc)', who m Col. Wm. Jack,
of Newport, Tenn.

(a) Roadman. — Wanted gen of John Augus-
tus Roadman, who came from England & settled
in Williamsburg, Va., m Elizabeth Lightfoot
of Virginia. Their s Wm. Chesley was one of
the early settlers in Washington Co., Tenn. He
m Sarah Muse Sanford, of Richmond, Va.
Was he a Rev sol?

(b) Rankin. — Wanted maiden name of w
and Rev rec of David Rankin, b in Scotland,
pioneer settler in Washington Co., East Tenn.
Their ch were Louis, John, Wm. Dinwiddle,
Robert & James.

(c) Henry. — Wanted Rev rec of James
Henry, of Va., who m Jane McNabb and had
s Samuel Henry, b Oct. 12, 1777. Married
first, Elizabeth Garner, and 2nd, Deborah
McLain. His s Spencer Henry m Elizabeth
Maze, of Blount Co., Tenn.— E. B. S.

10478. Earl. — Wanted, birthplace, par. name
of w & dates of Thomas Earl, one of the first
prominent citizens of Chillicothe, Ohio. Was
he a Rev sol?

(a) Adams. — Wanted birthplace and par of
Robert Adams, who was one of Gen. Nathaniel
Massey's original surveyors of Chillicothe. He
m Patience Hull. Wanted also dates & names
of ch of Elisha Adams, who m Margaret
McCune of Va. — L. M. E.

10479. Daniels. — Wanted parentage of
Martha Daniels, who m Abner Rice, Sept. 17,
1732.— L S. E.

10480. White. — Wanted Rev rec and dates
of Thomas White, Sr., of Salisbury District.
N. C, and any information of him prior
to Rev.

(a) Regan. — Wanted any information of
Ralph Regan, of Lumberton, N. C. — W. E. S.

10481. Houghton. — Wanted par of Relief
Houghton, probably of Lancaster, Mass., b
1732-36, m July 10, 1751, to John Fairbank, of
Lancaster. — A. Y. B.

10482. Coffin. — Wanted par and gen & dates
of Charles Gorham Coffin, who m Theodosia
Van Horden, Nantucket, Mass., about 1817.
Lived a short time in Yarmouth, N. S., and
moved with family to N. Y. City. Buried
Woodlawn cemetery, N. Y. City. Is there Rev
rec in this ances? — M. S. G.

10483. Cogswell-Buell. — Dr. Joseph Cogs-
well, b Windham, Conn., m Erances Mitchell &
had 12 ch. Daughter Elizabeth m Dr. Walter
Buell. Is there Rev rec on either line? —
A. T. B.

10484. RiGGs.— Wanted dates & par of Edw.
Riggs, b 1764, m Sarah Higbee. He went

from N. J. to Finleyville, Wash. Co., Pa. Did
his father have Rev rec.?— C. R. McV.

10485. Combs. — Wanted names of both wives
of John Combs of Va. whose two sons Philip
and Sterling by his first w settled in Wilkes
Co., Ga., prior to 1784. Philip Combs m
Elizabeth Eidson about 1790. Sterling m 1st,
Frances McKinney, 1792, m 2nd, Mrs. Mildred
Wingfield Sims, 1807. From w'hat part of Va.
did John Combs come? — G. H. S.

10486. Griggs. — Thomas Griggs, b Nov. 23,
1756, in N. J., ser from Middlesex Co., m
Catherine Perrine of Spottswood, N. J., in
1784. His younger bro Nathaniel m Isabel
Debow. Thomas and family moved to Scoharie
Co., N. Y., where his s Reuben m and moved
away. Wanted par of Thomas and Nathaniel
and place of b. — M. G. H.

10487. Cook. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
ances of Jane Cook, b April, 1779, probably in
Chester Co., Pa., d April, 1856, and is buried
with her husband, Capt. Thomas Armstrong
(1812), at Wayne Church, nr Wooster, O.
They were m in 1801 in Columbiana Co., O.
Her sis Grace Cook m Robert McClanahan in
Columbiana Co., O., 1812.

(a) Shields. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
ances of Lydia Shields, b Mar. 14, 1791, prob-
ably in Ga. Related to Blair, Montgomery &
Shields families of Emmettsburg, Frederick
Co., Md. ; m Joseph Workman and lived nr
Gettysburg, Pa. Removed to Ashland Co., O.,
in 1815. His bros James and Hugh served
with the Pa. Mil during the Rev.— E. A. P.

10488.— Spencer. — Wanted gen and any data
of John Spencer, b Mar. 11, 1763, d 1816, m

Lydia , b Feb. 4, 1763. He moved from

Loudoun Co., Va., to O. They had 12 ch.

(a) Ardery-Ardrey. — Wanted any data con-
cerning John Ardery, who m Miss Watt in
Pa. & moved to Ky. after the Rev.— J. S. A.

10489. Shute-Green.— Wanted date of b and
gen of Mary Green, who m Richard Shute in
Maiden, Mass., Jan. 4, 1750. Did her father
have Rev rec?— W. A. M.

10490.— Stiles-Neal.— Wanted par of Abi-
gail Neal, of Westfield, who m Ephraim Stiles
Aug. 2, 1694. Their s Isaac b Oct. 6, 1696,
d Oct. 4, 1790. Did he assist in any way in
the Rev? He m his cousin Mary Brooks,
b Dec. 22, 1720, d Oct. 21, 1734. See Westfield
rec, page 129. Mary Stiles, b Sept 6, 1734. d
Feb. 25, 1801, m Phineas Southwell, of Suf-
field. Conn.

(a) Hopkins.— Arthur Nesmith, b 1721. en-
listed 1776 from Londonderry, N. H., in Capt.
Samuel McConnell's Co., David Gillman's
Reg. ; m Margaret Hopkins. Wanted her par
and date of d of Arthur Nesmith. — M. F. S.

10491. Reimmerse-Rhynderse.— Wanted gen
names of ch with dates of Annatje Reimmerse,

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w of David Relyea, of Kingston, N. Y.,
about 1757.

(a) Meeker. — Wanted names of ch of Sergt.
David Meeker and w Phebe Passel, of Essex
Co., N. J. HeM 1787.

(b) Billings. — Wanted gen of Sarah Bil-
lings, b 1772, m Adam, s of Ebenezer Pond, of
Wrentham, Mass. — M. K. C.

10492. Stevens. — Wanted ances with Rev
rec of Hannah Stevens, vi'ho m Albert Booth
in Maine. Se had a sis Hetty who m
Samuel Currier.

(a) Grunendike. — Wanted dates and name
of w of Samuel Grunendike or Groenendyke,
who served as sol in Rev from Middlesex Co.,
N. J., in Col. Jacob Hyer's 3rd Reg.— A. S. B.

10493. Peck.— Wanted par with Rev rec of
father of Daniel Peck of Baron and Nelson
Co., Ky. He m Nancy Withrow about 1801
and removed to Ind. about 1816. Wanted
Withrow gen also. — S. W.

10494. Davidson. — Wanted ances of Joseph
Davidson, b Davidson Co., Tenn., 1791, and m

Irwin. Wanted any information of this

family.— F. D. R.

10495. Pond.— Wanted Rev rec of Bartholo-
mew Pond, b Branford, Conn., 1736, d Camden,
Oneida Co., N. Y., Mar. 21, 1810.— H. G. B.

10496. WESSELL-WESSELLs.-7-Wanted par and
all data of Andrew Wessell, who m Catherine
Collier. Their dau Maria was b in Montgom-
ery Co., N. Y., 1800. Their other ch were
Peter, John, Andrew, Nicholas, Daniel, Nancy,
Lancy and Nellie. — J. W.

10497. — Watson. — Wanted gen and Rev rec
of Wm. Watson of Va. Also name of his w

with dates. Their ch were Susan, m

Dusan ; Philip Russell, b 1799, and ser in War
of 1812, m Mary Fishback ; James went to Mo.
Want names of their other ch.

(a) Fishback. — Wanted par & date of m of
Mary Rector Fishback, b 1795, Culpepper Co.,
Va., m Philip Russell Watson and moved to
Ky. in 1828. Their s Cumberland George, b
1825, was named after a preacher who was
pastor of Jeffersonton Church, Culpepper Co.,
1823 to 1863. Would like to correspond with
anyone having this information.

(b) Browning. — Wanted par & place of burial
of Capt. John Browning, of Culpepper Co., Va.,
b 1749. He was a member of Gen. Washing-
ton's body guard and fought in the battles of
Yorktown and Valley Forge. His w was Eliza-
beth Strother.— C. R. H.

10498. McLachlan. — Wanted names of the
12 ch of Colin McLachlan, of Chester Co., Pa.,
b 1750, d 1831.— R. M. D.

10499. SwANN. — Wanted par & Rev rec of
father of Catherine Swann, who m Col. Mayo,
of Richmcjnd, Va.

(a) Randoi.imi. — Wanted Rev rec of ances

of Elizabeth Randolph, who m John Railey, of
Richmond, Va. Her sis Jane m Peter Jefferson,
(b) Fluck.- — Wanted dates & Rev rec of
Casper and John Fluck, who removed from
Bucks Co., Pa., to Saxon, Pa. — E. R. F.

10500. Kendall-Clark. — Lucas Clark m
Miss Kendall, lived in Phila. ; the latter d about
1906, the former many years before. Ancestors
of both desired.

(a) Garrison.- — Ephraim Garrison lived in
Farmersville, 0., in 1867, and was uncle of
Lucas Clark. Would like to correspond with
some member of this family. — A. W. C.

10501. Shaw. — Daniel Fiske, of Sturbridge,
Mass., b Aug. 19, 1709, m 1st, March 31, 1743,
to Deliverance Brown and had 6 ch ; names
of the ch and their births are all recorded in
Stlirbridge. Married 2nd, Jemima Shaw about
1760 & had 10 ch. Wanted parentage of
Jemima Shaw.

(a) Carter-Bacon. — Wm. Carter, b Mar. 28,
1729, in Dudley, Mass. ; m there May 17, 1750,
Abigail Bacon. They had 11 ch whose names
and births are recorded in Dudley. Wanted
par & place & date of b of Abigail Bacon.
Wanted also all data of Wm. Carter.— M. B. B.

10502. McElnay-Brown. — John McElnay,
Rev sol, m Hannah Brown, 1779, in Pa.
Wanted her par. Did her father have Rev rec?

(a) Hunter. — Wanted par of Margaret
Hunter, b Jan. 6, 1786, m Joseph McNay.

(b) Holland-Lewis. — Wanted par of Sarah
Holland, of Md., who m Samuel Lewis. Wanted
also Lewis gen. — N. C. R.

10503. Preble. — Wanted par of Elizabeth
Preble, who m Samuel Yoho. Preble family
moved from Va. to Ohio. Would like to
correspond with desc.

(a) Delano. — Wanted par of Ruth Delano,
who m Abner Goodrich in 1760. Would like
to corres with some one who has Phillip
Delano family history. — R. J. M.

10504. Edmunds- Arnold. — Wanted dates &
place of b & m, ances & Rev rec of Robert
Edmunds who d in Warwick, R. I., Mar. 28,
1818. Wanted also dates of his w Hannah,
dau of Philip & Susannah Staples Arnold.

(a) Bellows.— Wanted name and ances of
Sarah, who m Eleazer Bellows, b Marlboro,
Mass., Aug. 1, 1696. His s Hezekiah, b South-
boro, Mass., Mar. 16, 1734, ni in Dudley, Mass.,
Aug. 3, 1759. And his s, Hezekiah, b Dudley,
Mass., July 2, 1761, m in Thompson, Conn.,
May 28, 1780, Susannah Coates. b Killingsley,
Conn., Aug. 30, 1762. Wanted Rev rec of
Hezekiah Bellows, Sr. & Jr.

(b) Coates-Turner. — Wanted gen of Susan-
nah Turner, who m in Dudley. Mass., Nov. 29,
1759, Eliphalet Coates, h Killingsley, Conn.,
July 25, 1734. Wanted Rev rec of Eliphalet
Coates. In 1780 he was in Windham Co., Conn.

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A few years later in Vt. and he d in N. Y.
State.— E. H. B.

10505. Cook. — Wanted par of Joseph Cook, b
Aug. 23. 1749, m Mehitabel Babcock. Had 8
ch including 2 pairs twins. He left Conway,
Conn., about 1799, and with his family settled
in central N. Y. and d the year following.—
M. L. S.

10506. Jones.— Nancy Ann Jones, b 1790, d
1873, m James Bird in 1807. Wanted par with
dates and Rev rec of father of Nancy Ann
Jones. Her mother was a Miss Colfield.
Wanted also par of James Bird. Did his father
have Rev rec? — F. S. H.

10507. Coleman. — Wanted information con-
cerning the Coleman family who prior to the
Rev lived near Camden, S. C, and into which
Richard Stratford & John Nelson m. Wanted
name of w of Richard Stratford, whose dau
Ruth m John Nelson. Is there Rev rec in this
line?— W. H. D.

10508. Rust-Reid. — Desire corres with some-
one having the Rust-Reid gen. The Rust fam
came from Westmoreland Co., Va., & the
branch about which I wish to obtain infor-
mation settled in Loudoun Co., Va. — M. C.

10509. MoosER-MosiER-MosER.- — Wanted par
and Rev rec of father of Barbara Hosier, b
1747, d Apr. 27, 1826, who m 1764 Isaac Riehm,
b Oct. 27, 1741, d May 15, 1820, lived in Lan-
caster Co., Pa.

(a) Redsecker. — Wanted par of Lieut.
George Redsecker, b May 22, 1735. d Mar. 11,
1788, m Anna Maria Andrerken, b 1739. d
Dec. 12, 1768. Was he from Lancaster Co.,
Pa.?— M. R.

10510. Cox.^Wanted Rev rec of Mordecai
Cox, b L. I. of Quaker stock. Settled nr
Brandywine, Chester Co., Pa., after the Rev,
m a Quakeress, Sarah Rogers. Wanted
her gen.

(a) Heelings. — Sarah Hellings, of Wil-
mington, Del., whose mother was an Auld, m
John, s of Mordecai Cox. Would like to corres
with someone interested in these lines. — G. A.

10511. Walton.— Wanted name and dates of
w and ch of George Walton, Signer of the
Declaration of Independence.

(a) Rush. — Did Benj. Rush, signer of the
Declaration of Independence have a s who set-
tled nr Charlotte, N. C. ? If so, give his name
and dates. — E. R.

10512. Rood. — Wanted dates and gen of Dr.
Daniel Rood, who m Dorothy Robinson in
Barre, Mass., 1777. He served from Ben-
ington Vt.

(a) Wood.— Wanted gen of Ira Wood b 1794,
m Delecta Allcott at Ballston Spa, N. Y. Had
a bro Epinetus. The family probably came
from Conn.— M. W. K.

10513. Beall. — Wanted date and place of b

of ances of Robert Beall & maiden name & gen
of his w Sarah. — L. R. E.

10514. — MoBLEY. — Jeremiah, s of Wm. and
Phebe Lovejoy Mobley, of Port Tobacco, or
Frederick, Aid., moved to N. C. where he served
in the Rev. Wanted proof of tliis ser and dates
of b, m & d.

(a) Matthews. — Wanted information con-
cerning John Custus Matthews of Va. Did he
have Rev rec? — M. L. M.

10515. DiETz.— Wanted par of Wm. Dietz, of
N. Y., b 1786, d 1852, m Martha Maguire, b
1788, d 1866. Did his father have Rev rec?

(a) Maguire. — Did Hugh Maguire of N. Y.
have Rev rec? He m Mary McLane at the
residence of Gov. Clinton. Their ch were
Katherine; Martha m Wm. Dietz; Bartlett;
Alary, m John Burroughs ; & Lydia. — M. P. D.

10516. Kahler.— Gerhard Kahler, b 1760, m
Katie Harmon, sailed from Bremer, Germany,
& settled in N. C. Had ch Henry, George,
AIar3^ George m Katie Waggoner, of Reding-
ton. Pa., in 1807. Their ch were Frederick,
Ambrose, Alarcus, Noah, Katie, b in N. C.
Wanted dates of b, m & d of all of these. Is
there Rev rec in any of these families?

(a) Clark-Reese-McKissack. — Carroll Cuth-
bert Reese m Tabitha Clark & both d about
1860. Their ch were Joe, Wm., Augustus,
Louise, Elizabeth,- Lucian, all of ,Ga. Lucian L.
Reese m Nancy Ann- McKissack, Jasper Co.,
Ga. Want to hear from some one who has
entered the D.A.R. on these lines.

(b) Alexander-Townsend-A n d r e w s . —
Richard, or Prichard Alexander, a Rev sol
from N. C, was killed at King's Mountain. His
widow was given a tract of land of 6 miles at
Murfreesboro, Tenn., at his d. Wanted dates
and name of his w to establish this claim. Their
s, David W. Alexander, m Sarah Jane Town-
send at Columbia, Tenn. Their datr-Idora
Alexander m W. H. Andrews, also ^ Colum-
bia, Tenn. Wanted all dates in^ese lines. ^
Did the father of Sarah Jane Townsend have J
Rev rec?— AI. A. R.

10517. HoYT-KiMBALL.— Wanted Rev rec of
Thomas Hoyt, b May 17, 1731, in Amesbury,
m Miriam Kimball, of Haverhill, Mass., Sept. 5,
1754, tanner bv trade. Aloved to Canterbury,
N. H., 1771, d in Army of Rev Sept. 1, 1778.
Wanted gen of Miriam Kimball, his w.

(a) Fitch. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
Judge Jonathan Fitch, b 1745, m Esther Sill,
d 1834.

(b) Temple.— Wanted gen of Fanna
Temple, who m Wm. Knapp in 1788. He
was a Rev sol & member of Boston Tea Party.
— R. B. D.

10518. Allen.— Was Josiah Allen, a Rev sol,
buried at South Attleboro, Alass, a s of Saml
Allen, who m 1st, Rebecca Carey, and 2nd,

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Mary, granddaughter of John Alden' Was
this Josiah the father of Sarah Allen, b about
1755, who m Philip Blake? Prob in Wren-
tham, Mass.

(a) Jones. — Wanted gen and Rev rec of
par of Bethia Jones, b 1751, d 1815, who m
Sept. 21, 1769, George Barber, b Dec. 21, 1743,
d July 10, 1832. A Rev sol from Medway.
Mass.— M. B. A.

10519. Jaques. — Wanted maiden name and
ances with dates of Hannah, who m Henry

Jaques, of Newbury, Mass., before 1783. This
m is not on record at Newbury, or Newbury-
port, Mass.

(a) FoLLANSBEE.^Wanted maiden name &
ances with dates of Martha, who m Amos
FoUansbee, of Newbury, before 1783. — F. E. J.

10520. Hall. — Wanted names of ch of John
Hall and his w Anne, dau of Robert and Anne
Meriwether Boiling, b Dec. 12, 1713. Corre-
spondence desired with any of the desc of
this m.— J. M. B.

MANUAL OF UNITED STATES

FOR THE INFORMATION

OF IMMIGRANTS

The Manual for Immigrants may now be
obtained in the English, Italian, Spanish and
Polish languages. The Yiddish and Hungarian
will soon be off the press.

The book is winning high praise from edu-
cators wherever it goes. A ruling of the
National Society allows chapters to have it
free of charge upon application through their
State Regents, if it is wanted for direct distribu-
tion to the immigrants. In this way the spirit
and purpose of our work will be accomplished
quite as well, perhaps, as at the ports of entry.

For text-book use, or for purposes other than
the above, a charge will be made as here-
tofore, vis:

Single copies 20 cents each

In lots of 25 or more 15 cents each

In lots of 100 or more 12 cents each

In lots of 1000 or more 10 cents each

This to apply to all languages.
Orders with money should be sent to the
Treasurer General, Memorial Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C.

Orders for free books should be addressed to
the State Regent, stating the purpose to give
it directly to the immigrant. The State Regent
will forward the order to the Corresponding
Secretary General.

State Regents are asked to keep a record of
all orders thus received and forwarded, and
to report same to Mrs. John L. Buel, Vice
Chairman in Charge of Immigrants' Manual,
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General Richard Butler Chapter (Butler,
Pa.) was organized by our former State Regent,
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, on February 19,
1920. This occasion was celebrated at the home
of the Regent, Mrs. Thomas Wharton Phil-
lips, Jr. with Mrs. Cook as guest of honor.
She made us a splendid address and presented
the Chapter with a gavel. We began with
twenty-seven charter and twenty-one organiz-
ing members. Under the inspiration of our
Regent, fifteen new members have been added
and more are coming in. Our county and city
are both named for General Butler and we
thought it most appropriate that our Chapter
should take that name also. Lafayette said of
him "When I want a thing well done, I send
for a Butler to do it."

Our officers are : Regent, Airs. T. W. Phillips,
Jr. ; First Vice Regent, Mrs. T. C. Campbell ;
Second Vice Regent, Miss Gertrude MacKinney ;
Registrar, Mrs. L. L. Doane ; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. T. H. Gillespie ; Corresponding-
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Christley ; Treasurer,
Mrs. W. H. Mateer ; Historian, Miss Helen
Heiner; Chaplain, Miss Rose McNees ; Director,
Mrs. Warren McCreery.

Our meetings are held monthly in our Library
Lecture Room, except social events which are
held in the homes of our members.

Flag Day and Tercentenary celebration were
observed with addresses by Dr. Roger Char-
nock of Butler and Dr. Samuel Semple of
Titusville. A beautiful flag was presented to
our post of the American Legion. A program
arranged by Mrs. H. W. Sudds on American-
ization was given for our foreign population
on July 4th. Essay prizes have been given in
the schools. Ten dollars contributed to Laura
Haines Coat Scholarship, also a per capita
contribution of sixty cents for the Manual,
Fountain and Painting Fund and of twenty-five
cents for the Harrison Memorial. The Chapter
also gave $14 toward a milk fund for foreign
children here. We have several subscribers to
the Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine.

Several graves of Revolutionary soldiers have
been located and will soon be marked by the
Chapter. A bronze tablet will be put on the

first school house in Butler, secured by the
Chapter for a Chapter house.

Our Chapter has always been represented by
delegates to both State and National Congresses.
We are young and have just begun to live as
a Chapter, but we have great ambition to do
our part in the broad policy outlined by
our Society.

Helen Graham Heiner,

Historian.

Covina Chapter (Covina, Cal), although
comparatively young in years and small in
numbers, is in a flourishing and harmonious
condition, and new members are being acquired
all the time.

The Chapter is always willing to accept all
suggestions and requests from the National
Society, and is anticipating much pleasure from
the visit of the President General to one of
their meetings, when she comes to this coast
in March.

The monthly meetings are well attended and
the programs, given by the members, are in-
teresting, instructive and well rendered. The
plans for the programs outlined by the National
Society, have been followed as far as possible.

During the war, the Chapter supported a

French orphan and was intrumental in having

several others taken by members and outsiders.

At Christmas time, as well as during the year,

the Chapter always remember those of our

"neighbors" who are more unfortunate than

we are. „ „

Harriet Head,

Historian.

Fort Rensselaer Chapter (Canajoharie, N.
Y. ) It is a long time since Fort Rensselaer
Chapter has reported to the Magazine. We now
have ninety-one members. Our meetings are
held the second Tuesday of each month at six
o'clock. A committee for each month serves
supper, then we have a social hour, followed
by our business session, and all business is
transacted by the whole Chapter. After this a
chairman for each month presents a program.
We have had most interesting historic and pa-
triotic plays, tableaux, talks and music.

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Our Chaplain, Mrs. Alonzo Geweye, who is
elected for life, is a real granddaughter and
we have been honored by having one of our
members, Mrs. B. Fredenburg Spraker serve
most efficiently as State Regent, 1915-1918.
It has been our pleasure to always meet our
National and State assessments and requests.

Have placed wire baskets in places along the
village streets, for waste paper, etc. that the
streets might be kept clean. The American
Creed, appropriately framed, and an American
flag have been placed in every school room in
this village and Palatine Bridge; also a printed
copy of rules to be observed in showing proper
respect to our colors when handling the flag.

For several years a prize of $5 has been
given in each of these schools to the scholar
writing the best essay on a patriotic subject.
The Chapter has furnished the Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine to the
village library, and has also donated to the same
a set of Sims' History, " The Frontiersmen of
New York." The Continental Road leading
from the Village to Otsego Lake has been
marked at this terminus by a drinking fountain
of Vermont Granite.

A flag and flag staff have been given the
local G.A.R. for their plot in the Canajoharie
Cemetery. Markers have been placed on the
graves of eight Revolutionary soldiers. A con-
crete base placed under the monument of Col.
John Brown, an iron fence placed around the
lot ; and a marker placed near the Stone Arabia
church to indicate that Colonel Brown and
Revolutionary soldiers are buried in the cemetery
back of the church.

Since 1917 when we adopted a French war
orphan, we have sent him a Christmas box
each year.

We have contributed for several years to the
American International College at Springfield,
Mass., to the Berry School, to the Live Oak
and also Tamassee School. During the War
we did much Red Cross work, contributed
toward and worked for Belgium, and bought
Liberty Bonds.

Have sent two books to the library at Memo-
rial Continental Hall and contributed money
for the New York State Room there; contrib-
uted toward furniture for Herkimer Home and
Schuyler Mansion.

Defrayed the expense of the graduating exer-
cises of our local health class and recently
entertained the members of our American Legion
Post, each member of the Post bringing one
guest with him, and after a short program of
music and speeches, which included two duets
by two small Italian boys, — some of our Ameri-
canization work — and the formal presentation to
the Post by the Chapter of a silk official ban-
ner of the Legion, dancing and refreshments

were enjoyed by our more than three hundred
guests. Some of our members assisted the Le-
gion by wrapping the gifts which the Legion
gave to every child in town at our Community
Christmas Tree. And the Chapter participated
in the Legion's Armistice Day Celebration and
parade by having a gold and white float, six
high cornucopias on the float were filled with
white chrysanthemums and from each of these
gold and purple streamers were attached to
the shoulders of the six boys who escorted the
float dressed in Continental uniforms. The
tableau on the float was " The Birth of the
Flag " from the painting by Weisgerber.

At our January meeting we had as our guests
Mrs. Charles White Nash, State Regent, and
Mrs. Charlotte Taylor Luckhurst, State Corre-
sponding Secretary, who gave us most interest-
ing and instructive talks.

We will continue the enthusiastic work of
our Chapter and trust the result will be worthy
of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mae Fritcher Bellinger,

Regent.
Okomanpado Chapter (Estherville, Iowa)
has seventy-eight members, and there were nine
regular meetings during 1920-1921. Flag Day,
1920, our Chapter and the C.A.R. enjoyed a
picnic at Okomanpado Lake. June 16th our
State Treasurer, Mrs. H. S. Greig, invited the
Chapter to meet Mrs. Mann, State Regent,
Mrs. Stiles, State Registrar, Mrs. Frisbee (now
State Regent), and Mrs. John Douglas. Jan-
uary 18, 1921, a reception was given our State
Regent, Mrs. F. E. Frisbee, at the home of
Mrs. F. J. White. Mrs. Frisbee gave a fine
talk on the subject, scope and activities of
the D.A.R.

Receptions for the instructors in our public
schools are given each year. We have adopted
the budget system. There are seventeen sub-
scriptions to the Daughters of the American
Rp:volution Magazine in the Chapter.

As has been our custom, prizes of $5 and $3
were given in the 7th and 8th grades for
patriotic essays last year. A prize was also
given in the high school for the best essay on
" Why My Parents Came to America " and was
won by a Jewish youth. This year, prizes were
given in the high school for essays on the
" Conservation of Natural Resources around
Estherville." June 16th, Homecoming Day,
wc had a fine float boosting Fort Defiance
State Park.

February 22, 1921, our Colonial tea and ball
were given at the Orleans Hotel. The C.A.R.
in Colonial costume danced the minuet and a
program of music and reading followed.

Mrs. F. H. Rhodes is the only Charter mem-
ber of the Chapter now living in Estherville,
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the seventeen years of our organization has
worked untiringly to bring the Chapter up to
the one hundred per cent, place it now holds.

The Chapter has been represented four times
at the Continental Congress at Washington,
twice by Airs. RJiodes and twice by Mrs. Greig,
who usually attend the State meetings also.
Ex-Regent bars have been presented to both

MRS. F. H. RHODES IN COLONIAL COSTUME AT THE BALL
GIVEN BY OKOMANPADO CHAPTER. ESTHERVILLE. IOWA

Mrs. Rhodes and Mrs. Greig. We have been
honored the past three years ; Mrs. Rhodes was
made Vice President of the State Service Star
Legion. Mrs. Greig filled the office of State
Treasurer with great credit. Two other mem-
bers, Mrs. Soeth and Mrs. Coon were delegates
to the Republican State Convention at Des
Moines. Mrs. Coon, of Estherville, Mrs.
Prouty, of Humboldt, and two men represented
our tenth congressional district at the National
Republican Convention in Chicago in 1920.

Each year our Chapter gives a moving pic-
ture of historical interest at the theatre to

which our fifteen hundred school children are
invited. During the war all our energies were
turned toward helping our boys overseas. We
gave three banquets to two hundred departing
soldiers and furnished them with comfort kits.
We sent a hundred glasses of jelly and boxes
of books to Fort Des Moines and Knoxville
hospitals. We bought a $350 Liberty Loan
Bond. Fifteen Christmas boxes costing $30
were sent overseas to our Estherville boys.
A lot was donated the Chapter which was sold
for $365 and a quilt brought $7.50; this money
was given to the Red Cross. Our Chapter
adopted two French orphans and one Serbian
orphan for two years. We made layettes and
other clothing for the European sufferers. We
also sent $25 to help rehabilitate Tilloloy,
France; $15 was sent as our part in placing
the painting. " The Convoy of Troopships
carrying American Soldiers to France," in the
Paris Art Gallery.

During 1920-1921 our Chapter has contrib-
uted to : Allied Relief, $25 ; International Col-
lege, $50; International College Christmas Gift,
$5 ; Mary H. S.Johnston Scholarship Tamassee
Mountain School, $5 ; Foundership Tamassee
Mountain School by Chapter, $100; by Mrs.
Greig in memory of her daughter, $25 ; bought
an Iowa D.A.R. Flag designed by Mrs. Dixie,
Gebhardt, $10; to Martha Berry School, $25.

Clothing and shoes and also money have been
sent to Dorothy Sharpe, Piney Woods and
Tamassee Industrial Schools.

Mrs. Rhodes is promoting a State Park to be
located at Estherville. Our Chapter has pledged
itself to buy two acres of ground to be donated
to the Park. We had charge of the Arbor
Day program and planted twelve hardwood
trees on the school play ground. We have all
but one or two of the D.A.R. Lineage Books ;
they are placed in the City Library.

Callie Bailey Letchford,

Historian.

Monongahela Valley Chapter (California,
Pa.) is one of the youngest proteges of Mrs.
A. W. Cook, having been organized by her on
February 28, 1920, shortly before her term of
office as State Regent expired and her election
as Vice President General. Miss Henrietta
Lilley was the Organizing Regent and the
organizing members numbered twenty-one. The
interest in this new Chapter grew apace and
by the time the charter closed in June, 1920,
there were sixty charter members. At the first
meeting in the fall of 1920, we were so fortu-
nate as to have as our guests our State Regent,
Mrs. Sparks, also members of the Great
Meadows and Andrew Lynn Chapters of Union-
town, and of the Washington County Chapter,
Washington, Pa.

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At the second meeting, a study of the causes
leading up to the Revolutionary War was begun,
later in the year taking up topics relative to
the war itself, which study is being continued
during the current year.

The social meetings of the year were a
banquet held at the Elks Club in Charleroi in
January and a charming outdoor gathering
Flag Day with our sister, Mrs. Mary H.
Crowthers, in Fredericktown, Pa. The story
of this red letter day is told by one of our
members in an attractive little jingle.

James Halstead, Sr., Chapter (Robinson,
111.) was organized March 26, 1913. Out of
respect to the oldest member. Airs. Caroline
Gertrude Halstead Jackson, the Chapter was
named for her ancestor.

We organized with sixteen charter mem-
bers. Mrs. Gertrude E. Maxwell, a daughter
of Mrs. Jackson, worked faithfully and to her
untiring efforts even to-day we owe more than
we can repay. In a small way we have tried to
show her how much we respect her and have
made her Honorary Regent for life. I have

lEMORlAL >TANU KRHCTKD BY IHE JAMES HALSTEAD SR. CHAPTER IN THE CEMETERY AT ROBINSON. ILL.

It gave us pleasure to contribute $10 to the
Tennessee Lincoln Memorial University and $12
to the support of the Armenian children.

At the Congress in April we were represented
by our Regent and three other members.

The current year has started under most
auspicious conditions. The membership has
increased to one hundred. Our attractive
Year-book invites us to a year that bids fair
to be a most satisfactory one. Our first " re-
search outing" on October 22, 1921, took us to
the historic Mingo Cemetery, where we browsed
all the afternoon locating the graves of Tom,
the tinker, and leaders in the famous Whiskey
Insurrection.

Anna Kknt Kingsley,

Historian.

been Regent for three terms and but for her
help we could never have accomplished what we
have. Mrs. Jackson left as members of the
Chapter another daughter, grand-daughter and
grand-daughter-in-law.

Through the efforts of the other daughter,
Mrs. Jessie Jackson Martin, ably assisted by
Mrs. ]Mabcl Clyde Morenous, a beautiful memo-
rial stand was erected in our old cemetery. It
is built of concrete, a platform of sixteen by
twenty feet, covered by a red tile roof supported
by four pillars at each corner with a seat run-
ning around three sides. Two bronze tablets
are on each of the two front pillars. One
tablet is dedicated to the 17 Revolutionary sol-
diers who lie buried in Crawford County, and
the other is in honor of the soldiers, sailors and

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marines who fought in all the other wars.
The tablets are beautiful and the location of
the platform ideal. The stand was dedicated
last Memorial Day.

We were such a small Chapter at the com-
mencement and no one seemed to know much
about us or what we were doing. Now we have
thirty-eight members with five more who are
proving up on their papers, and feel we are
of real importance. When we started to raise
money for our Memorial Stand the Chapter
pledged $300, the rest we received from lodges,
clubs and patriotic individuals.

It surprised us how people responded to our
appeals for money. Two of the largest dona-
tions were from the Elks, $200; the Masons,
$180; while several individuals gave fifty dol-
lars. Now no one dares to ask " Who are the
D.A.R.'s?" as many said to me, and "What
are you doing? " Our Stand cost over $1100.

We have paid our per capita tax on every
occasion, besides giving to local affairs. We
are working in the schools and recently pre-
sented a large Hag to the various rooms (eigh-
teen in number), distributed the Flag Code,
Creeds, etc. We are working on the Essay
Contest now; subject. The Pioneer Women of
Illinois, for which the State D.A.R. has
offered medals.

We have given to the Lincoln Circuit Marking
Association. We also presented to the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the Legion a handsome large flag.
Katherixe Brubaker NewliNj
Regent.

Donegal Chapter (Lancaster, Pa.). First
meeting held April 21, 1892, is the fourth oldest
Chapter in Pennsylvania and the fifteenth in
the United States. Was named Donegal for
the old Presbyterian Church Donegal, which
means " Fortress of the Stranger." We have
a membership of 119, having gained fifteen
members this year. Ten meetings are held
during the year, our regular meeting place being
the Women's Club ; occasionally we are enter-
tained by members at their homes.

We began the year by marking twelve graves
in the old Donegal Cemetery, exercises were
held there, and an address made by our Regent,
Mrs. J. G. Forney. A monument and plot of
ground marking the home of George Ross,
signer of the Declaration of Independence, has
been presented to Donegal Chapter by the heirs
of the Heimenz Estate. The Chapter has
paid the sixty cents per capita to the three
enterprises, $100 to Pennsylvania for New

Building at Washington, $60 to Armenian Re-
lief, $4.10 to Lincoln Memorial School of
Tennessee, two boxes of clothing sent to Cross-
nore School, N. C, $10 to Scott Harrison
Memorial Fund, $5 each for Martha Berry
and Hindeman Schools, $10 for prize essays in
Girls' High School, and one prize for County
High Schools, also 57 Block Certificates have
been sold for the new Ofiice Building
at Washington.

The red letter day of Donegal Chapter was on
Thursday, October 21st, honored as we had
never been before by having as our guests our
President General, Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, Vice President General and former
State Regent, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, His-
torian General, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,
ex- Vice President General, Mrs. William N.
Reynolds, Pennsylvania State Regent, Mrs.
Edwin Erie Sparks, and Connecticut State
Regent, Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel. Our Regent
entertained them at her home and some of the
social functions arranged for them were a
dinner at the Men's Club, a morning spent at
President Buchanan's home, a luncheon at noon
at our Country Club, followed by a reception
at the Iris Club for all members and guests. A
program had been arranged and our beloved
President General made a pleasing address, the
other National and State Officers greeted us
enthusiastically and made every member feel
that her individual talent was much needed to
make the National Society a success. After
this meeting the Regent entertained the visitors
at her home at dinner. The Chapter feels that
this meeting with National and State Officers
will be an inspiration and help to accomplish
many more patriotic duties.

Americanization and arousing patriotism have
been among our chief aims. We believe that
by training the young to love their country
and respect the Flag is a sure way. At our
December meeting we gave a Christmas Party
to 65 Italian children, sang patriotic songs, told
them stories, had refreshments and a Santa
Claus to give each one a gift. We have ordered
100 Italian Manuals and flower seeds which
will be distributed to each Italian family and
two prizes will be given, one by Regent and one
by the Chapter for the best kept back yard.

We have had a most successful year and
much credit is due our Regent, Mrs. Mary
Hanley Forney.

(Mrs.) Virginia Forney Johns Nissly,

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TIONAL'

Special Meeting, March 27, 1922

SPECIAL meeting of the National
Board of Management for the admis-
sion of members and authorization of
chapters was called to order by the
President General, Mrs. George May-
nard Minor, in the Board Room of
Memorial Continental Hall, Monday,
March 27, 1922, at 2.10 p.m.

The President General led the members in
reciting the Lord's Prayer, the Chaplain Gen-
eral not being present.

In the absence of Mrs. Yawger, the Corre-
sponding Secretary General was requested to
act as Recording Secretary General pro tern.

The following members responded to the roll
call: National Officers: Mrs. Minor, Mrs.
Morris, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs. Hanger, Miss
Strider, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. White; State Re-
gents: Mrs. St. Clair, Mrs. Young, Dr. Barrett.
Miss Strider read her report as follows :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report 1875 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,

Registrar General.

Miss Strider moved that the Secretary be
instructed to cast the ballot for the admission of
1875 applicants for membership. Seconded by
Mrs. White and carried. The Secretary pro
tern, announced the casting of the ballot and
the President General declared these 1875
applicants elected as members of the
National Society.

The Treasurer General reported applications
for reinstatement of 110 former members and
moved that the Secretary be instructed to cast
the ballot for the reinstatement of HO mem-
bers, they having complied with the require-
ments of the National By-laws. Seconded and
carried. The Secretary announced the casting
of the ballot and the President General declared
these former members reinstated. Mrs. Hunter
reported also 87 resignations, and the loss to the
Society through death of 166 members. The
Board rose in silent memory of these de-
parted members.

Mrs. Hanger then read her report.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report:

The following members at large are presented
for confirmation as Organizing Regents : Mrs.
Lula Whelchel Smith, Tallahassee, Fla. ; Mrs.
Nellie T. Hick, Eldorado, 111. ; Mrs. Ora Anna
Doyle, Clinton, Ind. ; Mrs. Kate Truman-Cofer-
Barker, Danville, Ind. ; Mrs. Sareita Harvey
Keppler, Elkhart, Ind. ; Miss Nellie A. Ewbank,
Guilford, Ind. ; Mrs. Carrie McMorris Trout-
man, Peru. Ind. ; Mrs. Maggie Drips Barnard,
Elkader, Iowa; Mrs. Floribel Bingley Bru-
bacher, Fonda, Iowa; Mrs. Grace Anna Ball
Dow, Midland, Mich. ; Mrs. Clara Walton
Marsh, Aikin, Minn. ; Mrs. Lucy Agnes Hill
Fenton, International Falls, Minn. ; Mrs.
Blanche LaRue Smith, Madison, Minn. ; Mrs.
Effie Wells Loucks, Pipestone, Minn. ; Mrs.
Maude C. Schilplin, St. Cloud, Minn. ; Mrs.
Carrie M. Howe Whitby, Clarence, Mo. ; Mrs.
Wallace Smith McDaniel, Poplar Bluff, Mo.;
Mrs. Myrl Hobson Douglass, Coleridge, Nebr. ;
Mrs. Mary Carleton Brummer, Lisbon, N. H. ;
Mrs. Tempe Whitehead Holt, Rocky Mount,
N. C. ; Mrs. Susie Barbour Jones, Winston-
Salem, N. C. ; Mrs. Susie Stratton Conyer
Miller, Henryetta, Okla. ; Mrs. Etta Rogers
Fluke, Shawnee, Okla.; Miss Ellie Roberts
Ray, Blairsville, Pa. ; Mrs. Leota Morgan
Berry, Fairmont, W. Va.

Through their respective State Regents the
reappointment of the following is requested:
Mrs. Genevieve Folger Webster Wolfram,
Des Plaines, 111.; Mrs. Anna M. Hicks,
Amelia, Ohio.

Authorization of the following chapters is
requested: Flagstaff, Arizona; Jerseyville,
Illinois; Laurens, Iowa; Plainwell and Ply-
mouth, Michigan; Brook Hill, Martinsville and
Radford, Virginia.

The State Regent of West Virginia requests
the disbandment of the John Chenowith
Chapter of Pennsboro, on account of not com-
plying with the rules of the National Society.

The following chapters have reported organ-
ization since the last Board meeting, and I now
ask for their confirmation: Chico at Chico and
Fresno at Fresno, Cal. ; Penelope Terry Abbe

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at Enfield, Conn. ; Gainesville at Gainesville and
Lake Wales at Lake Wales, Fla. ; Oliver
Morton at Gray, Georgia ; Anna at Anna, 111. ;
Margaret Winthrop at Battle Creek, Wayne
County at Corydon, and Martha Jordan at
Sutherland, Iowa ; Montcalm at Greenville,
Mich., and Amos Sturgis at Sturgis, Mich. ;
Winnebago at Caledonia, Minn. ; Anne Gary at
East Rockaway, N. Y. ; Jane Washington at
Fostoria, and George Slagle at Jamestown,
Ohio; Lieut. Asa Stevens at Standing Stone,
Penna. ; Martha Watson at Williston, S. C. ;
San Felipe Del Rio at Del Rio, Texas ; Nancy
Christian Fleming at Hollins and Jack Jouett at
Rio, Va. ; Martha Guthrie at Colfax. Wash. ;
Bee Line at Charles Town, Matthew French at
Princeton, and William Morris at Pratt on
Kanawha, W. Va.

The Fort Massac Chapter at Charleston, 111.,
wishes to change its name to Sally Lincoln.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Organizing Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The Registrar General here presented a sup-
plemental report as follows :

Supplemental Report of Registrar General

I have the honor to report 75 applications
presented to the Board, making a total of 1950.
Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,

Registrar General.
Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, that the Secretary be
instructed to cast the ballot for the admission
of 75 additional members. The Secretary pro
tern, announced the casting of the ballot, and
the President General declared these 75
applicants elected as members of the
National Society.

The motions were approved as read, and at
2.35 P.M. the meeting adjourned.

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Secretary pro tcm.

The National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, records
with deep sorrow the death on March 24, 1922, at Kansas City, Missouri, of
a former National Officer, Mrs. Henry L. Mann, Corresponding Secretary
General, 1903-4, and Vice President General in Charge of Organization
of Chapters, 1911-1914.

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President General

]Mrs. George AIaynard Mixor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, :Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

2272 Harvard Boulevard, Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, AIrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, IMrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

AIrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, AIrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N.C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place. Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. I.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1830 T St., Washington, D.C.
(Term of office expires 1925)
Miss Alice Louise ^McDuffee, AIrs. Williard T. Block,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich, 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Frank W. IMondell, ]Miss Annie Wallace,

2110 O St., N.W., Washington, D.C. Rochester, N. H.

Mrs. John La idea w Buel, Mrs. Howard H. McCall,

Litchfield, Conn. Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, 143 S. E. 2nd St., ^Miami, Fla.

Chaplain General

]\Irs. Selden p. Spencer,
2123 California St.. N. W., Washington, D.C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, ]\Irs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. ^Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,

Memorial Continental Hall.

Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White.

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1922-1923

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,
Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,

817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.
MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,

Aiiity.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.

MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. CLYDE C. DAWSON,
1211 Race St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,

235 N. Main St., Southington.
MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,
61 Seymour Ave., Derby.

DELAWARE

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,

Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E.., Washington, D. C.
MRS. JOHN M. BEAVERS,

1752 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

MRS. THEODORE STRAWN,
De Land.

GEORGIA

MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

106 Culver St., Macon.
MRS. JULIUS Y. TALMADGE,

1295 Prince Avenue, Athens.

HAWAII

MRS. N. L. SCOTT,

The Courtland Hotel, Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Second Ave., E. Twin Falls.
MRS. D. W. STANDROD,

648 N. Garfield Ave., Pocatello.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EUGENE CHUBBUCK,

Grand View Drive, Peoria.
MRS. VINTON EARL SISSON,
5456 Ferdinand St., Chicago.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,
1011 N. Penna St., Indianapolis.

MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW,
3128 Fairfield Ave., Ft. Wayne.

IOWA

MISS AMY GILBERT,
State Center, Iowa.

MRS. H. A. WHITE,
815 5th Ave., Clinton.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,

"Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. WILLIAM RODES,

152 E. High St., Lexington.
MRS. JOHN W. CHENAULT,

2217 Glexmary Ave., Louisville.

LOUISIANA

MRS. S. A. DICKSON,

1034 Jacobs St., Shreveport.
MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,
2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,

282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 Goff St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,
2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,
Pinehurst, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.
MRS. ADDISON DRAKE KENT,
622 State St., St. Joseph.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON

1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MISS HENRIETTA S. MITCHELL,

Jackson.
MRS. ROBERT SOMERVILLE,

Cleveland.

MISSOURI

MRS. PAUL D. KITT,

Chillicothe.
MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedalia.

MONTANA

MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

S14 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.
MRS. ADELPHUS B. KEITH,

418 S. Washington St., Butte.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

1731 L. St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH,

Chadron.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. LOKIX WEBSTER,

MRs'. LESLIE P. SNOW,

Rochester.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY D. FITTS,

448 Ridge St., Newark.
MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watchunq Ave., Plainfield.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. R. P. BARNES,

Albuquerque.
MRS. FRANCIS CUSHMAN WILSON,

BuENA Vista Road, Santa Fe.

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NEW YORK

I MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,
I 8 Lafayette St., Albany.

I MRS. CHARLES M. BULL.
I 269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPENCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TILLETT,

810 N. Tryon St., Charlotte.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

Valley City.
MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,

300 8th St., South Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. WILLIAM MAGEE WILSON,
1 Church and King Sts., Xenia. ,

MRS. JAMES HENRY ALLEN,
I 431 N. Detroit St., Kenton.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. H. H. McCLINTOCK,

903 Johnston Ave., Bartlesville.

I MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.
OREGON
MISS ANNE M. LANG,
115 W. 4th St., The Dalles.
MRS. BRUCE L. BOGART,
962 Pearl St., Eugene.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

HadstoNj Linden Ave., Pittsburgh.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westerly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,

4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN C. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,

Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL,

Sioux Falls.
MRS. VIRGINIA BARCLAY MOODY,
Huron.

TENNESSEE

MRS. LOGAN SEITS GILLENTINE,

Murfreesboro.
MRS. JOHN H. CANTRELL,
821 Vine St.^ Chattanooga.

TEXAS

MRS. WILLIAM D. GARLINGTON,

2701 Fairmount Ave., Dallas.
MRS. SAMUEL L. SEAY,
710 Polk St., Amarillo.

UTAH

MRS. JOHN EDWARD CARVER,

718 25th St., Ogden.
MRS. CLESSON S. KINNEY,

820 E. 4th South, Salt Lake City.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

MiDDLEBDRY.

MISS JENNIE VALENTINE,

Bennington.

VIRGINIA

DR. KATE WALLER BARRETT,

408 Duke St., Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,

911 Orchard Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER,

1804 15th Ave., Seattle.
MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,

724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.
MRS. W. H. CONAAVAY,

109 Virginia Ave., Fairmont.

WISCONSIN

MRS. GEORGE L. PARKER,

805 Court St., Janesville.
MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER,

Wisconsin Rapids.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Box 1070, Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CAROLINE E. McWILLIAMS HOLT,

744 A. Mabini, Manila, P. I.
MRS. ELAINE CHILDS ELSER,

600 M. H. DEL Pelar, Manila, P. I.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER,
MRS. DANIEL MANNING,

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,
MRS. WILLIAM GUMMING STORY,
MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MARY S. LOCKAVOOD.

Honorary Vice Presidents General

MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK, 1899. MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH, 1911.

MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1899. MRS. THEODORE C. BATES, 1913.

MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD, 1905. MRS. F. GAYLORD PUTNAM, 1913.

MRS. WILLIAM LINDSEY, 1906. MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.

MRS. HELEN M. BOYNTON, 1906. MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.

MRS. SARA T. KINNEY, 1910. MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.

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VOL. LVI, No. 7

JULY, 1922

WHOLE No. 369

DISCOVERY OF THE DECLARATION

OF INDEPENDENCE BY THE PEOPLE

OF THE UNITED STATES

By John C. Fitzpatrick, A.M. ' '

Assistant Chief, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

T seems incredible to tis in this
146th year of the Independence
of the United States of America,
that our Declaration of Inde-
pendence remained for half a
century a forgotten document to
the American people and that Thomas
Jefiferson did not realize, until near the
end of his life, that he had composed an
epochal paper. Yet the evidence is solidly
arrayed to this effect.

After the Declaration had played its
part in our Revolutionary struggle, it
sluml^ered in the archives of the Govern-
ment until it was brought to popular atten-
tion by the enterprise of a writing teacher
and a public controversy over the credit
for the honor of its first popular publi-
cation, between this professor of penman-
ship and a rival publisher. To contend
that the Declaration of Independence, one
of the world's great documents of liberty,
would have remained in unnoticed obscur-

ity but for Benjamin Owen Tyler would
be, of course, absurd. The rejuvenation
of an healthA' patriotism by the second war
with Great Britain (the War of 1812),
to which the final, blood-stirring victory
at New Orleans, contributed a sustaining
energy, created a state of mind in the
American people that made possible the
commercial success of the publishing ven-
ture of the pen-artist and that Tyler was
the first to popularize the Declaration by
a widespread publication should not
be forgotten.

The story of the writing of the Declara-
tion, how it was composed, adopted,
signed and " submitted to a candid
world " is too well known to the
Daughters of the American Revolution
to justify recounting here; but a part of
it may be retold for the sake of the con-
tinuity and completeness of this story.

On July 2, 1776, the Colonial delegates
in the Continental Congress absolved, by

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vote, the United Colonies from all alle-
giance to the British Crown and, on
July 4th, approved the draft of the form
of announcement of this action. Thomas
Jefferson's composition was the draft of
this form of announcement and had been
submitted to the Congress as the report
of the Committee of Five, to whom had
been entrusted the preparation of the
document. As adopted by Congress, this
report became the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and the last, rough draft of this
report, in the handwriting of Jefferson
and bearing certain changes in the hand-
writing of John Adams and Benjamin
Franklin, was preserved among Jeffer-
son's Papers. It was transferred, in this
year of 1922, from the Department of
State to the Library of Congress by order
of the President of the United States.

This precious paper was immediately
subjected to a searching and critical ex-
amination and all the physical facts
respecting it noted down. In the course
of this examination certain things hereto-
fore unnoticed, became apparent. The
most important of these is that Benjamin
Franklin had more to do with the
phraseology of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence than has been recognized up to
now. We will note these facts before
proceeding with the story of the discov-
ery of the Declaration by the people of
the United States, as they are facts
curiously interwoven with that discovery.

The rough draft of the Declaration,
the report of the Committee of I'^ive,
because it bears pen changes by Adams
and Franklin, is, presumably, the final
rough draft from which Jefferson says
he made a clean copy for submission to
Congress, it hears numerous alterations
and, in the margins, opposite seven of
these alterations. Jefferson has written the
names of Adams and Franklin, each time
with a little symbol, corres])on(ling to a

like symbol in the text as designating the
word or words written in by these two
men. But these marginal notes of identi-
fication by Jefferson zvcrc zvrittcn in many
years after 1776 and Jefferson's memory
in this was as untrustworthy as it has
been proven to be in many of his other
recollections respecting the Declaration.
He credits John Adams with two correc-
tions and Benjamin Franklin with five.
But Franklin should have been credited
with eleven changes in all and four of
these, hitherto unnoted, are of the
first importance.

In the very first line of this final, rough
draft. Benjamin Franklin struck the re-
sounding note that underlies our entire
governmental theory and welded together
Jefferson's rich phraseology as a hammer-
stroke upon a deep-toned bell welds
together all lesser notes in the vibrant air.
For Jefferson had written :

" When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for a people to dis-
solve the political bands." etc.
and Benjamin Franklin crossed out the
weak " a " and wrote " one." so that the
line reads to all the world :

" When in the course of human events
it becomes necessary for one people." etc.
And next. Jefferson, with too much doubt,
perhaps, of what the Congress would
really do. wrote :

" they should declare the causes which
impel them to threaten separation." and
Franklin smashed out the hesitant
" threaten " and wrote a lirni " the " in
its stead.

But the most ringing change of all
comes in that well-known phrase:

" We hold these truths to be." etc.
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The next change is still of high im-
portance. Jefferson wrote : " He has kept
among us in times of peace standing
armies & ships of war without our con-
sent," and Franklin, ever watchful of the
democracy he loved, changed this to:
"without the consent of our Legislatures."

The next heretofore unnoted change was
more a clarifying of idea than anything
else, but still it was the clear genius of a
master of language who could give his
every word a polished value. Jefferson
had written: "giving his assent to their
pretended acts of legislation " and Frank-
lin shifted this to read : " giving his assent
to their acts of pretended legislation."

The last unnoted change was in that
portion of Jefferson's draft which Con-
gress expunged, so it is relatively imma-
terial, however, Jefferson wrote : " future
ages will scarce believe that the hardiness
of one man adventured, within the short
compass of twelve years only," [and
what follows of Jefferson's idea is so
crossed over as to be indecipherable], but
Franklin's change was "to lay a foun-
dation so bold and undisguised for
tyranny." Jefferson recorrected Franklin
by crossing out the word "lay" and
rewriting " build " in its stead, so that the
finally corrected sentence read : " future
ages will scarce believe that the hardiness
of one man adventured, witliin the short
space of twelve years only, to l)uild a
foundation so broad and undisguised for
tyranny over a peo])le fostered & fixed
in principles of freedom."

How did Jefferson happen to remember
five of Franklin's changes and not the
other six ? ] low was it that other import-
ant details of the composition and signing
of that immortal paper could not be
remembered by bim? b»hn Adams was
equally forgetful. Thomas McKcan, a
signer, becanie (|ui(e confused in his re-
membrance and the real facts, so far as

obtainable, have been obtained by a
critical study, analysis and comparison of
the documentary evidence that has
survived. Argument and discussion,
recalling of events, attempts to remember
and a literature of controversy over the
drafting and signing of the Declaration
began, casually enough, in 1817 when
Joseph Delaplaine, of Philadelphia, in
writing a biographical sketch of Jefferson,
asked him certain questions about the
Declaration. Jefferson's reply shows that
even in 1817 he had not yet awakened to
what he had accomplished, for he dis-
missed the matter briefly by saying that
Adams and Franklin " each of them made
two or three short and verbal alterations
only, but even this is laying more stress
on mere composition than it merits; for
that alone was mine ; the sentiments were
of all America."

Two years later Samuel A. Welles
asked Jefferson's aid in the preparation of
a life of his grandfather, Samuel Adams,
and Jefferson's letters to Welles, giving
his recollections as to the Declaration, are
much at variance with the established
facts. Why Jefferson did not recognize
in 1776 the tremendous importance of his
composition may, in a measure, be due to
the severe criticism and rough treatment
his effort received on the floor of Con-
gress. Jefferson says : " during the de-
l)ate I was sitting near Dr. Franklin and
he observed I was writhing a little under
the acrimonious criticisms of some of its
parts; and it was on that occasion that. l)y
way of comfort, he told me the story of
John 1'hompson, the Hatter, and his new
sign." I Thompson had devised a new
signboard for his hat slio]) and his friends,
one after another, criticized the various
words thereon, and Thompson, following
each bit of a(l\ice, struck out one word
after another until nothing was left of the
origiiird com])osition except Thompson's

DISCOVERY OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE BY PEOPLE OF U. S. 393

name and the figure of a hat]. The
severe treatment Jefferson's draft received
seemed to have so injured his feehngs
that, after the Declaration was adopted,
he put his draft away and did not refer to
it or think about it again for nearly fifty
years. That none of the other men of
the Continental Congress of 1776 thought
any more about it than did Jefferson is
fairly plain from their inability, in after
years, to remember very much about
either the adoption or the signing. Like
many other great things done by our
Forefathers, the doing of them was the
important thing and, having done their
best, they did not pause to emulate the
classic example of Little Jack Horner on
extracting the plum. The Declaration
adopted, signed and published to the
world, was a thing done, for good or for
evil and the men of 1776 pressed on to
the accomplishment of the heavy tasks
still confronting them. That Jefferson,
Adams and others, competent to speak,
could remember in after years, very little
about the matter is good evidence that the
Declaration was viewed as a mere piece
of routine work of small consecjuence, as
compared with the vote of Independence
of July 2nd. Franklin died in 1790, be-
fore any of the later public interest had
been displayed in the Declaration, which
accounts for the fact that we have no
story, or statement from him regarding
it. John Adams placed all the emphasis
upon the passage of the resolution of
Independence on July 2nd and paid scant
attention to the Declaration itself except
to complain that the bells ringing far into
the night of the celebration of July 8th
kept him awake. With Jefferson it was
much the same, so far as his attention
to the Declaration was concerned. Any
pride of authorship he may have had in
his draft completely withered under the
criticisms of the Congress. He would

have gone to his grave without realizing
what he had accomplished, but for the
attention drawn to the Declaration by a
publisher's ciuarrel in 1818-19 and
Timothy Pickering's Fourth of July ora-
tion in 1823.

As early as 1810 a government clerk
by the name of William P. Gardner, who
was afterward U. S. Consul to Demerara,
conceived the idea of publishing a decora-
tive copy of the Declaration with fac-
simile signatures. He confided his plan
and idea to an engraver and tentative
sketches were made. In 1813 these ten-
tative sketches were submitted to Jeffer-
son for approval and his comment thereon
contains no word, or hint of a realization
of the place the Declaration was destined
to occupy in the mind and heart of the
world. The engraver, in whom Gardner
confided, carried the entire scheme to
John Binns, a publisher, in Philadelphia,
and Binns, in 1816, advertised his inten-
tion of publishing the Declaration in a
manner closely approximating Gardner's
plan ; but beyond this public announce-
ment he seems to have done nothing.

Benjamin Owen Tyler, removed from
New York City to Washington, in 1817,
and then saw, for the first time, the
Declaration of Independence. Being a
professional penman and an instructor of
writing, he was ever on the lookout for
material of a striking character with
which to display his skill. He asked for
and obtained permission to copy the
Declaration and make facsimiles of the
signatures. This copy he made, exactly
the size of the original. The text he
engrossed and enlarged, and ornamented
the important words, so that while not a
facsimile it was a most perfect and beauti-
ful specimen of ornamental lettering and
pen skill. The signatures he copied in
exact facsimile. Acting Secretary of
State, Richard Rush, certified September

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10, 1817, that the text was correctly copied
and that he had "examined the signatures
to each. Those executed by Mr. Tyler
are curiously exact imitations ; so much
so that it would be difficult if not impos-
sible for the closest scrutiny to distinguish
them, were it not for the hand of time,
from the originals." This copy Tyler had
engraved and published in 1818 and
Binns, who had been taking his time with
the Gardner idea, found himself fore-
stalled. He immediately published an
attack upon Tyler and upon Tyler's pub-
lication. Gardner joined forces with Tyler
and a publisher's war ensued in the public
prints. Despite his best efforts Binns did
not succeed in getting his Declaration on
the market until the next year. It was
on the same plan as to decorated text and
facsimile signatures as Tyler's, but where
Tyler displayed nothing but the text and
signatures, Binns enclosed the Declaration
in an elaborate ornamental chain made up
of the seals of the Thirteen original
States, surmounted by portraits of Wash-
ington, Hancock and Jefiferson, which
Tyler naively remarked, " do not orna-
ment the original any more than plates
did the Bible when first given to man."
Binns' seals were drawn by Thomas Sully
and his portraits were from paintings by
Stuart, Otis and Copley. John Quincy
Adams, then Secretary of State, certified
to the correctness of the copy of the text
and facsimiles of the signatures.

Tyler's publication of the Declaration
had met with great success; Binns' also
was not slow in selling and the adver-
tising they l)()th received from their con-
troversy in print aroused interest in the
Declaration as a document regardless of
its effect upon the fortunes of the riv;il
l)ublishers. 'Jliis interest stea(lil\- in-
creased and in 1823 Timothy Pickering
delivered a L^jurth of July oration at
Salem, Massacliusetts. in which, on the

authority of John Adams, he made sev-
eral statements regarding the Declaration
to which Jefferson took exception and
aired these exceptions in a long and
caustic letter to James Aladison, giving
the facts according to his, Jefferson's,
recollection : " Mr. Adams' memory has
led him into unquestionable error ; at the
age of 88, and 47 years after the trans-
actions of Independence, this is not
wonderful, nor should I, at the age of
SO, on the small advantage of that dif-
ference only, venture to oppose my
memory to his, were it not supported by
written notes, taken by myself, at the
moment and on the spot. . . . You have
seen the original paper, now in my hands,
with the corrections of Dr. Franklin and
Mr. Adams interlined in their own hand-
writings. Their alterations were two or
three only and merely verbal." These
" notes taken ... at the moment and on
the spot " have survived, but they do not
add anything to what has been gleaned
from a critical analysis of all the other
availaljle sources, for they merely state,
in less than thirty words, that Jefferson
drafted the Declaration and reported it to
Congress. The fact of the matter is
that when Jefferson, half a century after
the event, found the Declaration assum-
ing an importance he had never dreamed
it would, he was unwilling, apparently, to
admit that its composition was thought of
such minor conse(|uence in 1776 that he
had then failed to note the facts respecting
its creation and, in 1823, was also unwill-
ing to admit that he could not fully recall
tlieni. It must have been after ISP' and
l)rol)ab]y it was at the time of the 1823
controversy that jelTerson looked through
his papers for the (h'aft of the Declaration
and nia(k' the marginal notes thereon of
the l-'ianklin and Adams changes. At
that late day. forty-seven years after-
wards, Jefferson's failure to recognize

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all of Franklin's changes becomes meas-
urably explainable. That these marginal
notes were not made until many years
after 1776 is clear from the fact that the
draft, folded and filed away among
Jefferson's papers, had broken in one of
the folds from age. To remedy this
Jefferson pasted a narrow strip of paper,
vertically down the outer margin of the
first page to repair the break. There can
be no other reason than this for pasting
this strip at such a place, as there is no
writing under it and. after pasting this
bit of paper in place, Jefferson wrote two
of his marginal notes across it. This con-
dition effectually militates against any
theory that the marginal notes, identifying
the Adams and Franklin handwritings,
were made in 1776.

Had it not been for the patriotism
aroused by the successful War of 1812,
the enterprise and artistic skill of Benja-
min Owen Tyler in 1817 and Timothy
Pickering's oration in 1823. with the ensu-
ing public controversies from the last
two happenings, it is quite possible that
John Ouincy Adams, while Secretary of
State, might not have thought it worth
while to have an exact and official fac-
simile made of the entire Declaration of
Independence, signatures and all. This
he did in 1823 and this facsimile is the
only complete and exact facsimile that has
ever been made from the original Declara-
tion. Every other facsimile has been
made from one of these 1823 facsimiles or
its replica. The original plate of the 1823
reproduction is still in the custody of the
Department of State.

There seems to be no documentary
evidence available regarding the exact
process by which this 1823 facsimile was
made. Among the methods of reproduc-
tive copper-plate engraving then known
in the United States was a wet sheet
transfer from the original to be engraved.

Because of this there exists a tradition
that the ink upon the parchment was then
loosened and that the Declaration has been
fading ever since, until now it is barely
legible. This has not yet been proven,
however, and so many other factors enter
into the matter that it is not at all a con-
clusive explanation of the present physical
condition of the parchment. Richard
Rush's statement as to " the hand of
time " in his certificate to Tyler's fac-
simile signatures furnishes food for
thought as to the condition of the signa-
tures in 1817. As to the physical condition
of the Declaration at the present time, in
this year of 1922, it may be said that,
while greatly faded, it has faded almost
uniformly and the text, while difficult to
read is still fairly legible. Under certain
angles of light it is perfectly so. It is
the signatures that have suffered the most
and while the greater number of these
have almost disappeared, every one of
them can still be made out with the aid of
a good reading glass. It is quite doubtful
if all trace of any of them will ever com-
pletely vanish and until documentary or
other strong evidence is produced, it is
not quite reasonable to put the blame for
the present condition of the Declaration
upon the shoulders of the engraver of
1823. who was one of the best of the few
copper-plate engravers then in America.

Congress immediately assumed charge
of John Ouincy Adams' facsimile and,
by a resolution of May 26. 1824. directed
a very thorough distril)Ution, over the
entire country, of a total edition of 200
copies. Two copies each were to be given
to the surviving signers ( the two sent to
Jefferson were on parchment), to the
President of the United States, the Vice
President, to James Madison and to the
Marquis de Lafayette ; twenty copies were
allotted to Congress, twelve to the Govern-
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house, two to the Supreme Court room,
one to the Governor of each State, one
to each branch of each State legislature,
one to the Governor of each territory, one
to the legislative council of each territory
and the remainder to different universities
and colleges as the President of the
United States might direct. This judi-
ciously planned distribution which placed
a perfect reproduction of the Declaration
in the principal centres of the entire coun-
try completed, in a masterly and official
manner the work begun as a private
venture by Benjamin Owen Tyler half
a dozen years before.

The Centennial Exposition in Philadel-
phia, at which the original Declaration
was exhibited, inspired another wave of
reproduction by private publishers and
since 1876 our charter of American lib-
erty has been reproduced oftener in
facsimile and print than any other known
document. Some of these reproductions
are fearful and wonderful examples of
design and supposedly decorative embel-
lishment which tax the possibilities of the
printer's art to the limit. The reproduc-
tion of the Declaration in type has not

been confined entirely to America; its
appeal has ceased to be to America alone,
for its clarion note of liberty finds a
responsive echo in every corner of the
world to-day.

The Declaration of Independence was
composed for the single purpose of justi-
fying to the world the breaking away of
the Colonies from Great Britain. It was
designed to introduce, in the most per-
suasive and convincing form, the right
and justice of the adoption of Richard
Henry Lee's resolution of Independence.
It was a campaign document in world
politics, though much was hoped for, from
its argumentative strength, in the Colonies
themselves, for it drew the line sharply
between Patriot and Tory and forced
every one to take sides plainly for or
against Great Britain. It was intended
to put an end to vacillation and to make
the Colonial cause a clean-cut issue. How
well Jefferson performed this task and
fulfilled these intentions the world has
judged and no amount of intensive study
and critical comparison of historical fact
can ever take from him his rightful glory
of being the herald of American liberty.

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IN OHIO

By Clement Luther Martzolff
Department of History, Ohio University.

HE above caption carries with it
two surprises — the one is that
there should be a RevoUitionary
war site in Ohio ; the other, that
it should remain imniarked.
We have become so accus-
tomed to giving to our eastern sea-
board the preeminence in Revohitionary
affairs that we are prone to neglect those
events in the near west that possess the
same significance as did their companions
in the farther east.

This article is suggested and inspired
by the one appearing in the September,
1919, issue of the publication, " The
Mecklenberg Declaration of Independ-
ence," an interesting and a worthy
discussion of that important event.

One of the fundamentals which
students of history soon learn is that
great historic events do not happen in a
day — they are but the crystallizations of
numerous other events that have gone
on before.

Our Declaration of 1776 did not come
forth full-fledged on that Fourth of July
as did the fabled goddess from the brow
of Jove, but it represented the resultant
of many converging forces which had
been put into operation in the months
and years. The Mecklenberg Resolutions
belong to this category. So do the
Hanover Resolutions as they came from
the Presbyterians in Dauphin County,

Pa., June 4, 1774, — " in the event of
Great Britain attempting to enforce
unjust laws upon us by the strength
of arms, our cause we leave to Heaven
and our rifles." Similarly the fol-
lowing year the Scotch-Irish Presby-
terians at Hanna town, Westmoreland
County, that State, promulgated even a
stronger declaration.

In this class we also find the Fort
Cower Resolutions, which give to Ohio
a Revolutionary site and which has
remained unmarked and unknown with
the exception of a very few people.

The occasion for this Ohio Declaration
of Independence was that campaign into
the Ohio Indian country against the
Shawnees and their allies on the Scioto
plains in the autumn of 1774, commonly
known as Lord Dunmore's Expedition.
Lord Dunmore, or the Earl of Cower,
his other title, was the last royal governor
of Virginia. The menacing activities of
the Indians were responsible for the
fitting out of two armies, which made
their way to the Ohio River. One of
them, commanded by Ceneral Andrew
Lewis, was attacked but not defeated by
the Indians on October 10th, at Point
Pleasant on the Virginia side of the
Ohio River.

At the same time Covernor Dunmore
and his troops were on the north side
of the river some miles away, where he

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had established his camp and had named
it Fort Gower, in honor of himself.
Proceeding up the Hocking River, he met
the chieftains of the allied tribes and
concluded a peace with them. Marching
to Fort Gower, he began preparations for
the return of his troops into Virginia.

Now, here is where our Ohio " Pre-
lude " comes in. During the absence of
Dunmore's army in the Indian country,
couriers had arrived from the east
with the news that the first Continental
Congress had assembled in Philadelphia,
September 5, 1774, and had agreed upon
a declaration of rights. This evidently
was joyous news to these sons of Vir-
ginia, for immediately on its receipt,
November 5, 1774, six and one-half
months before the Mecklenberg event,
officers of the army had a meeting, the
record of which is here quoted from
official sources :

" Meeting of Officers Under Earl of Dun-
more.— .-Xt a meeting of the officers under the
command of his Excellency, the Right Honor-
able the Earl of Dunmore, convened at Fort
Gower, November 5, 1774, for the purpose of
considering the grievances of British America,
an officer present addressed the meeting in the
following words :

" ' Gentlemen : Having now concluded the
campaign, by the assistance of Providence,
with honor and advantage to the colony and
ourselves, it only remains that we should give
our country the strongest assurance that we
are ready, at all times, to the utmost of our
power, to maintain and defend her just rights
and privileges. We have lived about three
montiis in the woods witliout any intelligence
from lidston, or from the delegates at Phila-
delphia. It is i)ossible, from the groundless
reports of designing men, that our countrymen
may he jealous of the use of such a body would
make of arms in their hands at this critical
juncture, 'ihat \vc are a respectable body is
certain, when it is considered that we can live
weeks without bread or salt; that we can sleep
in the open air without any covering but that
of the canopy of Heaven; and that our men
can march and shoot with any in the known
world. Blessed with these talents, let us
solemnly engage to one anotlu-r, and our coun-

try in particular, that we will use them to no
purpose but for the honor and advantage
of America in general, and of Virginia in
particular. It behooves us, then, for the satis-
faction of our country, that we should give
them our real sentiments, by way of resolves,
at this very alarming crisis.'

" Whereupon the meeting made choice of a
committee to draw up and prepare resolves
for their consideration, who immediately with-
drew, and after some time spent therein,
reported that they had agreed to and prepared
the following resolves, which were read,
maturely considered, and agreed to, nemine
contradicoite. by the meeting, and ordered to
be published in the Virginia Gazette:

"Resoh'ed, That we will bear the most faith-
ful allegiance to His Majesty, King George the
Third, whilst His Majesty delights to reign
over a brave and free people ; that we will, at
the expense of life, and everything dear and
valuable, exert ourstlves in support of his
crown, and the dignity of the British Empire.
But as the love of liberty, and attachment to
the real interests and just rights of America
outweigh every other consideration, we resolve
that we will exert every power within us for
the defense of American liberty, and for the
support of her just rights and privileges; not
in any precipitate, riotous or tumultuous
manner, but when regularly called forth by
the unanimous voice of our countrymen.

" Resolved, That we entertain the greatest
respect for Flis Excellency, the Right Honor-
able Lord Dunmore, who commanded the
expedition against the Shawnees ; and who,
we are confident underwent the great fatigue
of this singular campaign from no other
motive than the true interest of this country.

" Signed by order and in behalf of the
whole corps.

Benj.^min .Ashbv, Clerk."

With this interesting episode. Lord
Dunmore's War ended. That it was a
part of the Revolutionary War is evident.
Without going into a discussion of that
phase of the matter, we need but quote
from "Dieodore Roosevelt in his U'in-
iihuj of the West, wherein he states that
this war "luged by .Americans for the
good of .Aint'rica, was the optMiing act
in the drama whereof the closing scene
was played at Yorktown."

The site of Fort Gower is within the
limits of a sleepy little village of less than
a hundred souls, at the confluence of the

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Hocking and Ohio Rivers, perhaps thirty
miles below Marietta. Few of the people
thereabout can locate where the stockade
once stood. Pioneers used to point out
where the second-growlh timber stood, as
it had taken the place of the larger trees
used in the construction of the palisades.
Occasionally the fiint-lock of a rifle or a
piece of broken sword might be turned
from its grave by the gardener's hoe —

reminders of the time when an English
Earl and his American army were en-
camped there, and where the former was
forcibly reminded that their campaign in
the forest had not been waged for the
good or glory of an English monarch, but
for American freedom and independence.
Surely such an historic spot should be
marked, to perpetuate the memory of
these brave sons of the Old Dominion.

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PRIZE WINNING PAPER ON INDIAN
LIFE, HISTORY AND IDEALS

By Myra H. Patch
Galesburg, 111.

^f/£ National Committee on Conservation and Thrift, Mrs. John Trigg Moss,
Chairman, in 1921 offered a prise of twenty- five dollars in gold to the D.A.R.
member sending in the best ten reasons why we should conserve and preserve " The
Ameriean Indian Life, Morals, Characteristics, Art and Traditions."

Forty-three papers were sent in and on April 2, 1921, forwarded to the American
Indian Institute at Wichita, Kansas, care of Mr. Henry Roe Cloud. Principal, who
^ appointed a committee to judge the papers. This committee azvardcd the prize to
Myra H. Patch, of Galesburg, III., a member of the Rebecca Parke Chapter. Honorable
mention zvas granted to the following contributors: Mrs. G. R. Chrissman, Warrensburg, Mo.;
Mrs. F. W. Gamble, Tzvin Falls, Idaho; and Miss Mamie McLees, East Radford, Va.
Mr. Cloud, in reporting the findings of his committee of judges, said: " The c.ramination of
the papers has been one of the most delightful tasks I have had in many a year."

Ten reasons why the American Indian Life,
Morals, Characteristics, Art and Traditions,
should be conserved and preserved :

1. As a Tardy Justice Toward the First

Americans.
Every true historian has striven to give all
peoples their due, but few have written in
commendation of the American Indians. They
were loyal, grateful and peace-loving as well
as treacherous, revengeful and war-like. They
have fought in every war of our nation and
not a few on the American side in the War for
Independence (H. H. Jackson). Indeed much
of the success of the Americans in the Revolu-
tion was due to the methods of warfare learned
from the Indians. In the Great War the large
number of Indians to volunteer and their ex-
cellent service was a matter of great satis-
faction tf) our government authorities.

2. To Raise the Standard of Pride in Their

Descendants.
How proudly do we of the White Race claim
descent from our ancestors ! With what pride
do we relate stories of their deeds ! Should
not the greatness of such Indians as Massasoit,
Logan (Tah-ga-jute), Red Jacket, Black Hawk
and many others be a source of gratification to
all descendants of Indians?

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3. In Recognition of Their Arts and Literature.

(a) The arts of pottery and weaving, in their
beauty of pigments and dyes are conceded to
be among the most artistic in the world.

(b) No other language is more full of pic-
turesque metaphor, vivid simile and concise ex-
pression. Oratory and story-telling were stud-
ied accomplishments. (Johnson's Encyclopedia;
Champlin — Schoolcraft. )

(c) Their myths, legends and folk stories.
in. beauty and interest, are at least the equal
of those of the Greeks. Teutons or British
Druids, and for flowery language no other
talcs can compare. (Gilmore.)

4. In Recognition of Their Music.

The music of the Indians is a distinct con-
tribution to the music of the world. Indeed it
is the purest aboriginal music that has come
down from the past. Indian themes are as
much the heritage of America as the music of
tile barbaric hordes of Russia is the heritage of
cultured Russia. One cannot live in the great
West without sensing it and thinking how it
would sound in rhythm and melody. The com-
poser feels the pulse of it in his contact with
the awesome canons, the snow-capped jieaks
and in the voiceless and beautiful solitudes of
the (ksert. (Cadman. )

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5. In Recognition of Their Characteristics.
Their fortitude, bravery and stoicism have

been fruitful themes of writers of America.
Storm, war, famine or ilhiess were met without
murmur or complaint. No movement of conse-
quence was taken without a ceremonial invoking
the help of the Great Spirit, and the Red Man
felt no ill will toward the Great Spirit when
misfortune came.

6. To Emphasize Our Nomenclature.

Our country would simply be a repetition of
the old countries without the individuality of
nomenclature derived from the aborigines.
What a source of interest to the student is
the meaning of such names as Niagara, Omaha,
Seattle, Tallahassee, Kentucky, Illinois. Missis-
sippi, Massachusetts, Dakota, Oklahoma and
Minnehaha ! What a distinction they confer
upon America !

7. Because of Foods, Dyes, Narcotics, Medi-

cines, etc., Obtained from the Indians.
To enumerate the plants used by the Indians
and by them given to the White Race is beyond
the knowledge of the layman. However, all
know the use of the potato, turkey, Indian corn,
squash, tomato, tobacco, tumeric, ochre, sumac,
nutgalls, catnip and licorice.

8. In Gratitude for Their Help to the Explorers

and Early Settlers of Our Country.
Not alone in Jamestown and Plymouth were
the early settlers dependent upon the Red Man
for sustenance and material aid ; but when
exploring parties were planned Indian guides
(often at the expense of their own lives, for
example, Sacajawea of the Lewis and Clark
Expedition) led the way over Indian trails.
Had it not been for the well-defined trails with
their camping grounds and watering places,
years would have elapsed before the remote

parts of our country could have bc'.n known
to the White Man.

9. To Awaken Interest in Forms of Life Native

to America.
Although reverencing with sentimental regard
the life of plants and animals native to Europe,
the White Race came to America, which teemed
with new forms of flora and fauna, and began
a ruthless destruction of native life. The Indian
had killed for food and clothing, or self-preser-
vation alone, believing the Great Spirit lived
in the surrounding life of the forests, fields
and streams. To see these " little brothers "
wantonly destroyed, gave the Red Man unspeak-
able sadness. " It seemed to him a dislocation
of the nice balance of nature, the destruction of
world symmetry, an awful thing." (Gilmore.)

10. In Recognition of Their Morals and

Religion.
In most of the tribes before the contaminating
influence of the Whites, the ideals of morals
and religion were of the purest. Their old
people, both men and women, were listened to
with deepest resp'^ct. Their children were well
taken care of and trained. They communed
with Nature, Nature's God and were cor.tent,
(Schoolcraft.)

Pope says :
" Lo ! the poor Indian whose untutored mind
Sees God in the cloud or hears Him in the wind.

To be. contents his natural desire."

Epilogue

•' That something of their appreciation, of
their love and reverence for the land and its
native life, something of their respect for its
sacred places and holy associations, may come
to us ; that we may the more worthily occupy
and more sympathetically enjoy our tenure of
this land." (M. R. Gilmore.)

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ARKANSAS

The Fourteenth annual State Conference
of the Arkansas Daughters of the American
Revolution convened in Fayetteville, the guest
of the Marion Chapter. The meetings were
held in the large auditorium of the State
University, February 22-23, 1922. Wednesday
A. M. the usual Board meeting was held. In the
afternoon the State oflficers, and Mrs. Reynolds,
of North Carolina, the distinguished guests,
were escorted by the pages to the platform, and
the conference was formally opened by the State
Regent, Mrs. Clarence S. Woodward. The
" Star Spangled Banner " and " The Salute to the
Flag " were given with heartfelt zest. The
invocation by Rev. H. L. Paisley was followed
by music by Henry Doughty Tovey.

The Chapter Regent being seriously ill. Miss
Vaulx, her representative, cordially welcomed
the Conference. Mrs. Harry C. Anderson re-
sponded for the Daughters. Greetings from
the U. of A. were given by President John C.
Futrall, Mrs. R. J. Reynolds, expressed her
greetings most graciously. Mrs. J. F. Wein-
mann. State President of the Daughters of 1812,
brought cordial greetings from that society.

The fine report of the State Regent was
received with enthusiasm, as were the reports
of the other State officers. Interesting talks on
Severance Tax " for Arkansas" by Dr. D. Y.
Thomas, and " The Helen Dunlap School " by
Rev. C. P. Parker followed. The reports of
the Regents showed active work among the
Chapters, notably in increased contributions to
the Helen Dunlap School, awarding of medals
for history essays, and the establishing of
libraries. The Conference voted to furnish and
maintain a D.A.R. room in our old State Cap-
itol, in Little Rock.

The social functions were well planned, and
perfect in detail. The artists of Fayetteville
delighted with music, songs and dancing.

The following officers were elected, viz:
State Regent, Mrs. A. M. Barrow; State Vice
Regent, Mrs. Harry C. Andenson ; Correspon-
ding Secretary, Mrs. Catherine Greer ; Recording
Secretary, Mrs, Allyn Cox; Treasurer, Mrs.
John F. Wcinmann; Registrar, Miss Marie
Lloyd; Parlimentarian, Mrs. R. N. Garrett;
Chaplain, Mrs. W. L. Dewoody ; Curator, Miss
Allie Bell Wadley; Librarian, Mrs. H. G.
Reed; Members of Advisory Board. Mrs. C. S.
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Woodward and Miss Clara Eno ; Mrs. S. P. j

Davis, was elected Honorary State Regent. '

(Mrs. H. C.) Mary Lumpkin Anderson, '

State Historian. j

OKLAHOMA I

The Thirteenth annual conference of the i

Oklahoma Daughters of the American Revolu- i

tion, met at Norman, Oklahoma, March 9,
1922, guests of Black Beaver Chapter. An
excutive board meeting was held on the after- I

noon of March 8th, in the assembly room of {

the Masonic Dormitory for Boys. !

After the meeting, the State Officers and I

other guests were entertained at dinner by Mrs.
Landt, Regent of Black Beaver Chapter, and
Mrs. Glenn, a member of the Chapter and also
State Chaplain. Afterward, a reception was
held for all visiting delegates at the University
Auditorium, and it was followed by an enter-
tainment given by the Girl's Glee Club. Presi-
dent Brooks, of the University, cordially w'el-
comed the Daughters to Norman.

The business sessions, which began at nine
A. M., March 9th, were most capably presided
over by our Regent, Mrs. H. H. McClintock
of Bartlesville. Nearly every Chapter in the
State was represented, and from their reports,
are doing a splendid work. The Oklahoma
Daughters of the American Revolution are
trying especially to accomplish the following :

First : To collect the authentic history of
our State, the Indian history and the lives of
our pioneers. We realize we have one of the
most interesting histories of any state in the
Union, but the Indian will soon be gone and
his history with him, unless something is done
to preserve it.

Second: Publish a pamphlet telling of the
many places of historical interest in tlu' State.

Third : To form some plan to help educate
indigent girls.

Fourth : To publish monthly a bulletin which
shall contain reports of tlie work ni the Chap-
ters in the State.

The Conference was entertaineil at lunchecn
by the Black P.eaver Chai)ter. The numbers
and their friends opened their homes to the
delegates and officers, and their cordial hos-
pitality will long be remembered by every
member of the Thirteenth Conference.
(Mrs. M. B.) Norma Nobi.e Downs.

Hisloriait.

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Saint Cliarles Cliapter (St. Charles, Mis-
souri ) , in cooperation witli the State Society,
D.A.R., on October 5, 1921, celebrated the one
hundredth anniversary of Statehood of Mis-
souri by having an old-fashioned barbecue and
picnic at Blanchette Park. After the dinner
they erected a memorial tablet upon the his-
torical site, Block Number 20, the most im-
portant unmarked location in the State, namely
the location of the headquarters of the two
commandants under Spanish Rule for the Dis-
trict of St. Charles — " Charles Tayon " and
" Louis Blanchette." It also marks the location
of the home of Louis Blanchette, the first set-
tler of St. Charles, who lived there from 1769
to 1793, the date of his death.

As early as ten-thirty a.m. representatives
from sister chapters — O'Fallan, Wentzville,
Montgomery City, St. Louis, Webster Groves,
and Kirkwood — began to arrive by train and
street car, and were met by committees of the
St. Charles Chapter with automobiles and
conducted to the park. A large number of St.
Charles friends also joined us and helped enjoy
the day by their interest and help in furnishing
automobiles to the Chapter for the transpor-
tation of the visitors and to them we are largely
indebted for many favors. The barbecued beef
and mutton furnished by the State Society and
sold at cost added very much to the sandwiches
sold by the boys of the American Legion for a
nominal sum and the coffee and ice cream, cakes
and pies furnished by the societies of the two
Presbyterian churches made the picnic dinner
all that could be desired.

Promptly at two o'clock p.m. the Transpor-
tation Committee had the line of automobiles
ready to start and all were seated and ready
to move in the procession to the location of
block Number 20, the point of supreme interest
to all. The Mayor of the town had the block
roped off and proclaimed a quarter day holiday,
so that all could attend. The school children
v/ere excused from all classes and marched in
a body to the place.

Mrs. Paul Kitt, State Regent, made the first
address. Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Vice Presi-
dent General from Missouri, then gave an
address explaining the purposes of the organi-

zation of the National Society, D.A.R., and
read the Charter given the Society by the
United States Government. Our motto, " For
love of Country, for service to the Country, for
loyalty to the Government, and the inculcating
of these principles in the children, native and
foreign born, and for the encouragement of the
study of American History," are sentiments
which every American woman should adopt.

Dr. J. L. Roemer, President of Lindenwood
College, followed with anecdotes of the hap-
penings of the first Legislature which convened
here in 1821. At the close of his speech, Mrs.
George Mcllhiney, Regent of the St. Charles
Chapter, stepped forward and unveiled the tablet
which Mrs. Moss proceeded to dedicate to the
coming generations " in the name of the State,
George Washington, Madame Duschene, Mrs.
George Sibley, and General Pershing, to the
honor and glory of America." The song " Mis-
souri, which was composed by Mrs. Juiia
Stevens Baker, a native Missourian, and is
expected to be adopted as our State song,
was well rendered by Mrs. Frank House of
St. Louis, the audience joining in the chorus
by request. The inscription on the bronze tablet
which is set in a large stone of Missouri red
granite, the donation of the St. Charles Chapter,
D.A.R., to the memorial celebration, reads
as follows :

1821 Missouri 1921

" Nor north, nor south, nor east, nor west
But part of each, of each the best."

Upon this block No. 20 was located the
Headquarters of the two Spanish Com-
mandants for the district of St. Charles

Louis Blanchette
Charles Tayon

This tablet also marks the location of
the dwelling where Louis Blanchette,
the first settler lived and died, 1769-
1793.

(Insignia)

Dedicated the fifth day of October
1921 by the Missouri State Society
Daughters of the American Revolution.
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After the singing of the " Star Spangled
Banner," led by a delegation of young ladies
from Lindenwood College, of which, it is inter-
esting to mention, our Chaplain General, Mrs.
Selden P. Spencer, is an alumna and is remem-
bered with pleasure, the benediction was pro-
nounced by the Rev. Frank Tucker of the
M. E. Church, South.

Mrs. Charles Woodson Wilson,

Historian.

Indiana County Chapter (Indiana, Pa.)
was organized July 4, 1919, in the Presbvterian

Mary E. Laughry; Historian, Mrs. R. A.
Thompson ; Chaplain, Mrs. M. C. Watson ;
Mrs. E. A. Grant, Mrs. B. H. Lichteberger,
Miss Hope Stewart.

These officers were unanimously reelected for
the next year.

A fine musical number was given by Mrs.
Ren Pollock and Mrs. Vernon Taylor. A social
hour with the serving of light refreshments
ended a pleasant day, and one long to
be remembered.

This Chapter has the honor and distinction
of having the largest number of organizing

SOME OK THE INDIANA COUNTY CHAPTER ME.MBERS

Church, with Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, State
Regent, and Mrs. Jesse W. Gary, Organizing
Regent, in charge.

In honor of the day, and the successful cul-
mination of our efforts, to secure a Chapter
here, the church was beautifully decorated willi
flags and flowers.

After singing the National anthem and other
patriotic songs, the new Chapter was duly
organized, and the officers were elected : Re-
gent, Mrs. Jesse W. Gary; 1st Vice Regent,
Miss Jane E. Leonard; 2nd Vice Regent. Mrs.
John L. Getty; 3rd Vice Regent, Mrs. S. W.
Guthrie; Recording Secretary, Miss Laura
Bash; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Mabri
Hazlctt; Publicity, Miss Kathleen Goodfellow ;
Registrar, Mrs. K. !•:. Lewis; Treasurer, Miss

members ever formed in the National Society,
the number being 101 organizing and 14 Charter
members, a fact of which we are justly proud.
Our present membership is 142.

During tlie past year Judge Telford gave a
line address at one of our afternoon meetings,
and Dr. !•". W. Hinitt, pastor of tiie Presby-
terian Church, invited the Chapter to attend a
special morning service prepared for the mem-
bers of the D.A.R. On July 5tii we celebrated
our first anniversary by having a picnic.

The Year-books have been interesting and
instructive, and the musical talent in our Chap-
ter has helped to make very pleasant meetings.

We have a good working Chapter, and during
tile two years have contributed as follows:
Near l-".ast Relief. $82.50; Block Certificates.

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$10; Scholarship Fund, $11.50; Tomassee
School, $10; Liberty Bonds, $25; Memorial
Fountain, etc., for foreigners, $95 ; Educational,
$1.50; total, $235.50.

Our second anniversary was spent in the pic-
turesque country home of Mrs. Graffius. Our
last meeting consisted of musical numbers
given by members of our Chapter, assisted
by the " Indiana's Ladies Chorus." The
beautiful Indian music by Cadman and Mc-
Dowel and others was thoroughly enjoyed by
our many guests.
(Mrs. R. a.) Josephine B. Thompson,

Historian.

Topeka Chapter (Topeka, Kan.) closed the
twenty-fifth year of its existence with 120
members and several papers pending. The
November meeting was a celebration of the
twenty-fifth birthday at the home of Mrs. John
R. Shelton, the former home of her mother,
Mrs. N. F. Handy, a charter member, where
many of the early meetings were held. The
honor guests were Mrs. George T. Guernsey,
State Regent; Mrs. A. H. Horton, of Kansas
City, the first Regent of the Chapter, and Mrs.
T. W. Harrison, of Kansas City, also a charter
member and former Regent. The program
consisted of musical numbers, a resume of the
work of the Chapter by the Historian, and
reminiscences by the early members. One of
the features of the afternoon was the cutting
of a large birthday cake decorated with twenty-
five candles.

Another outstanding feature of the year was
the Washington Birthday dinner given by Mrs.
F. C. Fox, Vice Regent of the Chapter. The
morning session was held at the home of the
hostess and dinner was served at a down-town
tea-room. Most of the guests came in colonial
costume and were seated at one long table
which was decorated with red, white and blue
candles and flags. Music was furnished by an
old-time fiddler, playing the old-time tunes.
An out-of-town guest was Miss Catherine
Campbell, of Ottawa, Vice President General
of Kansas.

On June 13, 1921, Topeka Chapter placed
a marker on the grave of Mrs. Margaret
Brown, its Real Daughter, at Camden, Ohio.

During the year we have given 1600 Ameri-
can Creeds to Boy Scouts, the State Industrial
School and to new citizens; also 150 catechisms
to those preparing for citi7.cnship.

The Chapter has given a $5 prize for the
best essay on local history to the English and
history classes of the grade schools and have
placed the Daughtehs ok the American Revo-

lution Magazine in the high school and
City Libraries.

We have the nucleus of an interesting collec-
tion of Revolutionary Relics which is housed
in the State Memorial Building in Topeka.

One feature of our naturalization work has
been two parties given at the Court House for
new citizens and their families at the time the
men are given their certificates. Through the
courtesy of the Court, this has been made an
evening affair and been preceded by speeches and
music. As the certificates were given out the
D.A.R. presented each family a silk flag. Re-
freshments were served to over 150, representing
59 families. The S.A.R. have assisted in this
work. The men have been ready to respond to
the speeches when given their citizenship.

Each committee has been given a meeting at
which its work has been presented. We are
completing a scholarship to Washburn College
toward which we gave $1000 in 1920 in memory
of our one Gold Star. We will complete the
year with a fresh desire to begin another twenty-
five years of service in patriotic devotion to
our United States of America.

Bessie Boughton,

Historian.

Waucoma Chapter (Waucoma, Iowa). The
unveiling of the bronze memorial tablet erected
to the memory of our soldiers who died over-
seas, took place on Sunday, October 23, 192L
The native boulder estimated to weigh about
three tons, whose flat surface was well adapted
to the placing of the bronze tablet, was secured
from a nearby farm and placed on the lot given
by the Cemetery Association to the Daughters.
The tablet — 16 by 20 inches — is of standard
bronze, and beside the inscription, bears the
insignia of the Society. The securing of this
memorial is due to the untiring efforts of the
Chapter Regent, Mrs. Etta L. T. Burnside, and
the chairman of the Memorial Committee, Mrs.
Dolly G. Webster.

At two o'clock the Daughters, preceded by
the band, left the Red Cross room and marched
to the cemetery. The unveiling brought out a
large and patriotic attendance and attestLCl to
the high honors paid by the people of Waucoma
and vicinity to the memory of our soldier dead.
The ceremonies were brief and impressive.
Music by the band. Invocation by Rev. W. H.
Gifford. Singing of " America " by the Chapter.

To the strains of " Nearer My God to Thee "
by the band, the flag was removed from the
boulder by Miss Helen Fox, daughter of Doctor
Fox, and held during the remainder of the
exercises by Miss Helene Bright, daughter of
the Vice Regent, Mrs. Nellie Bright.

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The beautiful bronze tablet bears the follow-
ing inscription :

MEMORIAL

Dedicated to Those Who Died in the
World War

Captain Walter H. Fox
Medical Corps, Base Hospital 85,

France.
Red Cross Balkan Commission, North-
ern Serbia.
1918-19.
Private Le Verne A. Belding
Headquarters Company, 102nd Infan-
try, 26th Division, Signal Battal-
lion, A.E.F.
1917-18.
Sergeant Lester L. Slagle
Company D, 102nd Infantry, 26th Divi-
sion, A.E.F.
1917-18.
Erected by Waucoma Chapter, Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution.
1920.

Those illustrious men of the Revolutionary
period by their wisdom, patriotism and sacrifices
established and transmitted to us this system
of free government, the richest inheritance ever
bequeathed to the sons and daughters of men.
To safeguard this priceless inheritance, Dr.
W. H. Fox, Le Verne A. Belding and Lester L.
Slagle gave their service and their lives.

The Chapter Regent, Mrs. Etta L. T. Burn-
side, paid a tribute to the three soldiers whose
names appear on the tablet, the first of its kind
to be erected in Iowa, and in presenting the
tablet to the town said:

" This beautiful memorial for our soldier
dead I am sure will inspire all who see it, and
to the Honorable Mayor and the village of
Waucoma I commit it \\ith reverence."

In his speech of acceptance, B. A. Webster,
Mayor pro ton., accepted the gift in behalf
of the people of Waucoma and thanked the
Daughters of the American Revolution for
placing the memorial, that in years to come
future generations may know that when the
call came our boys were ready.

Rev. W. H. Gifford, pastor of the Congre-
gational Church, was then presented and gave
an inspiring address. He paid a loving tribute
to the young men who offered their all upon
their country's altar, and said in closing : " So
long as this granite rock shall endure, so long
shall the story of what these men suffered and
accomplished be told to their praise."

The Recessional was given by the Chaplain
and the response by the Chapter.

The " Star Spangled Banner," by the band,
closed the exercises.

Addie M. Potter,

Historian.

Old Belfry Chapter (Boston, Mass.). Nine
years ago our Chapter took the name of Old
Belfry from the Old Belfry in Lexington
made famous in Revolutionary days. Mrs.
Edward E. Synge was the founder and first
Regent of the Chapter, and held that office for
seven years. At the first meeting a gavel was
presented to the Chapter made from wood
from the old Clark-Hancock house in Lexington
and suitably marked with inscription on a silver
ferule telling the fact, and with the name
of the founder.

The Old Belfry was built in 1761 and the
gift of the bell was presented to the town by
Isaac Stone, and a painting of Old Belfry, by
Walter Oilman Page, was presented to the
Chapter by Mrs. Charles Barnes, at that time
Vice President General for Massachusetts.

At the present time there are 70 members,
and under the guidance of our most efficient
Regent, Mrs. William Moss Morgan, of Brook-
line, the Chapter has been able to do much
philanthropic work. Contributions have been
given to the International College at Spring-
field, the Metropolitan Chapter of the Red
Cross, the Frances Willard Settlement, the
Hillside School for boys, the Martha Berry
School, Georgia; the Massachusetts Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the
Massachusetts Forestry Association, the Philip-
pine Scholarship Fund, and toward a bed in the
Children's Hospital in Boston, in the name of
the First Alarm Society, C.A.R. This society
has 22 members and is very active. Mrs.
Swartwout, of Brookline, is the senior president.

The meetings of Old Belfry are much en-
joyed. Fine programs are given, and at the
next regular meeting in March the play " Dolly
Madison " was given by one of the Chapter
members, Mrs. Walter Campbell Taylor.
Eva R. McFarland,

Historian.

Anne Wood Elderkin Chapter (Williman-
tic. Conn.) is seldom heard from through the
pages of the Magazine ; but that it is very
much alive is proven by the interest and enthu-
siasm manifested in the meetings, and the
various activities undertaken. Our first gather-
ing this year was a special meeting on
" Constitution Day," which was held at the
home of our Treasurer, Mrs. Fannie Tracy, in
the neighboring town of South Coventry.

The day was stormy, but a goodly number
braved the elements, and were delightfully en-
tertained. The house was decorated with flags
and flowers, one particular bouquet representing

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■" Old Glory " in red, white, and blue. Our
ex-Regent, Mrs. Alice T. Smith, read an
interesting paper on the Constitution, and the
Historian gave an account of the restoration
of the Jonathan Trumbull papers to the State
of Connecticut by the Massachusetts Historical
Society. The transfer was made last May, but
the official ceremonies occurred on Constitution
Day. After the program, refreshments were

" Dorothy Mansfield Arnold," the first wife of
Benedict Arnold. At the January meeting the
topic was, " A Talk on the Correct Use of
the Flag." The Historian read a paper, "A
History of Our Flag," which was much en-
joyed for two reasons: because of its merit
and because it was written several years ago by
a former member of the Chapter, Mrs. M. P.
Coolev. who now resides in New Haven. The

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served, and then many of the Daughters
availed themselves of the opportunity offered
by Mr. George Seymour, of New Haven, to
visit the birthplace of Nathan Hale, whose
grave is not far from the place of our meeting.
Mr. Seymour owns the home and has restored
the interior decorations to thoroughly colonial
times. 'i'he nicmixTS were grateful for the
opportunity afforded.

Our program this year has been an inter-
esting one. At our October meeting we were
entertained and instructed by Mr. George B.
Gilman, Chairman of the Americanization Work
in this city. The November meeting was guests'
afternoon, and a large number were present
and listened to an address by Mrs. W. F.
Alcorn, of New Haven. Her subject was

February meeting took the form of an informal
Washington-Lincoln tea. this being an annual
patriotic meeting.

The Chapter, through its Educational Com-
mittee, has placed in each school a poster of
the Constitution of the United States. Mrs.
I'Vank I.arrabee, Chairman of the Committee
for the I'rescrvation and Correct Use of the
Flag, has placed the rules for the same in the
various schools, the Y.M.C.A., etc. We have
given a .scholarship to the American Inter-
national College at Springfield, Mass., where
the young men and women are trained to go out
among the alien population teaching and help-
ing them to become good citizens.

We are very proud of our Real Daughter,
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eighty-three next July, although she looks much
younger. She is quite active and comes occa-
sionally to our meetings. Mrs. Avery's father
enlisted at the age of fourteen, and served three
years. She is said to be the youngest Real
Daughter in the organization.

We have assisted in Americanization work
locally and feel that our Chapter has accom-
plished something ; it is in a flourishing con-
dition and we have bright hopes for the future.

At every meeting a message from our beloved
President General is read, for whom we Con-
necticut Daughters feel a peculiar love, appre-
ciation and admiration.

EniTH M. LlNXOLN,

Historian.

Ottauquechee Chapter ( \\'oodstock, Vt. ) .
Our Chapter increases its membership each year
by several new names.

One of our meetings was made very interest-
ing by an exhibit of over 40 shawls. One of
the oldest shawls exhibited dating back to about
1775. Paper and song also about old shawls.
A tea was given September 17th by one of
•our members to commemorate the signing of
the Constitution. We have observed our pa-
triotic duty in locating and marking the graves
of Revolutionary soldiers.

We are studying the Historical Program for
1921-22 as mentioned in the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine. We have
two Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazines in the Chapter, besides its being
taken by several members.

One of our great pleasures was in being one
of the hostess Chapters to the Annual State
Conference. Annual contributions are made to
several schools, also to A.I.C. in Springfield,
Mass. For the sixth consecutive year Ottau-
quechee Chapter has a State Officer from its
membership, Mrs. F. H. Gillingham, the effi-
cient State Historian.

The Chapter was represented at the 30th
Continental Congress by our Regent and State
Historian. We also had the honor of having
our Regent represented in the character of Ann
Story in the Historical Living Pictures shown
at Memorial Continental Hall.

The buying of the Sayward House, built in
1807 for the accommodation of the members
of the legislature to preserve and use it for an
historical building, marks an epoch in the his-
tory of the Chapter. The teachers, with the
aid of pupils and citizens of the town, aided
most liberally in helping to raise the fund
for this purpose. Ella Barron Minor,

Historia)i.

Rebecca Cornell Chapter (Rahway, N. J.).
The season's first meeting was held October 10,
1921. An interesting talk on the Idealism of
Our F'orefathers was much enjoyed. Reports
of the State Conference were given at the No-
vember meeting. A paper was read on the
life of Rebecca Foote Howe, a resident of
W^oodbridge, N. J., during the Revolutionary
War. An interesting session was held in De-
cember when an impersonation of Martha
Washington was given in costume worn by
Dolly Madison. An account was given of the
work of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine. Delegates and alter-
nates were elected at our February meeting to
the Congress in W^ashington. A very enjoyable
musical was given by one of our members.
All meetings are well attended.

We have had a sale and card party for chari-
table purposes. For philanthropic and educa-
tional work we have donated toward the
Caroline Scott Harrison memorial, Oxford,
Ohio; the Wallace House, Somerville, N. J.;
American International College of Springfield,
Mass. ; also Felt's scholarship, American inter-
national College of Springfield, Mass. ; The
Philippine scholarship ; ten dollars pledged
yearly to the one attaining highest average in
classical course in Rahway High School.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine given to our library and a number
to shut-ins (one a member of our Chapter).
A clock was given to the Rahway Hospital.

We have twenty-six members, one transferred,
and lost one by death.

(Mrs. W. a.) Jennie S. Ransom,

Historian.

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EDITH ROBERTS RAMSBURGH

GENEALOGICAL EDITOR

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

ANSWERS

4936. Montgomery. — James Nelson Mont-
gomery, b Dec. 7, 1813 in Cincinnati went to
Texas abt 1836 and in 1840 m Catharine Pat-
terson of N. Y. a dau of Isaac and Amelia
Nash Patterson. Their ch were Wm. Nelson
Montgomery, Janet Ann, Mary Emily, Ellen
Amelia, James Watson, Wm. Owen, Francis
Montgomery, Isaac Owen and Travis. Dates
of b & m of James Nelson Montgomery were
copied from the family Bible. — Mrs Sarah
Bcrlct, 2017 Fannin Street, Houston, Texas.

6096. Frain. — In Bedford Co., Penna. His-
tory there is quite an extended account of the
capture of Rhoda Boyd by the Indians and
the descent from her was carried out through
the Frain family. This was previous to the
Rev War. This shows that the Frain data
is found in Southern Pa. and not in Va.—
Eleanor F. Gibson, Sheldon, Iowa.

10149. Adams-Davknport. — In the Adams gen
p. 89 is given the m of Abigail Adams (4) b
Chelmsford, Mass. dau of Samuel (3) 1653,
Lieut Thomas (2) Henry (1), to Paul Daven-
port, b Jan. 30, 1683, s of Charles and Waitstill
Smith Davenport of Dorchester. Prtui and .\I)i-
gail were m Tulv 26, 1709 and Iiad ch ^Iiigail,
b Feb. 2, 1710, Charles b July 2, 1717; m

Waitstill ; (not Miss Waitstill as given in

the cpiery) d Nov. 15, 1779; Mary b June 22,
1720; Samuel, Mar. 19, 1722, Paul, Nov. 16,
1724, d Apr. 12, IHOO, m July 1, 1747 Elizaluth
Frost of Canterlniry, who d Dec. 1799, age 7.v
Charles Davenport, Sr. and w Waitstill of Dor-
chester also had a dau Abigail who m Thomas
412

Adams (4), Samuel (3), Lieut Thomas (2)
and Henry (1). Brothers and sister of Paul
and Abigail. Thomas and Abigail Davenport
Adams had a dau Waitstill b in Canterbury
Mar. 23, 1717 a double cousin of Charles D.
b 1717 and who may possibly have been his w
especially as his w name is given as Waitstill

, and not Miss Waitstill. In vol. 48, p

435 of the Daughters of the American Rev-
olution Magazine is a reference to Capt.
Charles Davenport b Apr. 15, 1751, d Dec. 12.
1812, m in 1778, Elizabeth Taylor and had
Benjamin, Alexander, Sally, Charles, Ira, Bet-
sey, Ashley, Roxana and John R. Capt. Charles
was bur in Lowville, N. Y. — Mrs. Burton ./.
Crane. 517 West 10th St. Erie, Pa.

10162. LocKWooD. — Deacon Joseph Lockwood
was the father of Elizabeth Lockwood, b Mav
23, 1721, m Apr. 9, 1741, Nathan Hoyt. She
d in Norwalk, Conn. Nov. 23,. 1760 (grave-
stone). Ref. Gen. of Lockwood family. — Mrs.
IV. IT. Frisbee, Sheldon. Iowa.

10133. HvDK. — The corrected and revised
gen of the first four gen of Hydes dcsc from
.Samuel and Jonathan of Cambridge and New-
ton, Mass. as given in New England Historical
and Cicn. Register, for Apr., July and Oct.,
1917 straightens out the family of Jonathan
Hyde and his w Elizabeth Williams .-md may
answer this querv. Tonathan Hvde (3) ( Tona
(2), Jona (1)), b at Cambridge, Mar. 24, 1673
(1 at Canterbury, Comi. Sept. 7, 1743, ni at New-
ton Jan. 3, \('m, l-.lizalu'tb Williams, b 1678,
(Iriu of Isaac and Judith Hunt Cooper Williams.
She d at Canterbury, Dec. 26, 1771. This is
tile Jonathan confused with Jonathan (3) Job

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(2) and Samuel (1). They had 10 ch the
youngest of whom was John b Pomfret. Conn.
Jau. 21, 1721, d Jan. 8, 1765, m at Canterbury
Apr. 18, 1753 Mary Thompson. These dates
do not agree exactly with those given in the
query but this is the only John, s of a Jonathan
in the first four gen of the Mass. and
Canterbury Hydes. There is no Jonathan b
1707 according to this revised gen and no Wm.
b 1764.— Mrs. Burton A. Crane, 517 West 10th
St. Erie, Pa.

10181. Stevenson-Honeywell. — There is a
Stevenson gen of Newton, L. L down to a late
period. This work is primarily of Thomas
Stevenson and his desc but also gives t!-e line
of Edward, his cousin. The coat of arms of
the Stevenson's : — Three tiger heads on a bend
white. Crest : — a sheaf of grain. No motto.
Also consult Riker's Annals of Newtown The
two Stevensons were patentees of Newtown,
now Brooklyn, L. I. — John V. Betts, 324 East
Walnut., Ave., Merchantville, N. J.

10207. Prescott. — In the Rev period when
there were so many scattered through the
country who sympathized with the Mother
Country, it became necessary to adopt some
method by which it could be known which were
the friends and which the enemies of the cause
of Independence.

Accordingly Continental Congress made the
provision whereby all persons friendly to the
Cause of Liberty were obliged to associate and
sign an obligation to oppose by arms and
money the hostilities of the British. This obli-
gation was denominated the " Association Test."

Declaration " By reason of the above reso-
lution of the Honorable Continental Congress
and to show our determination in joining our
American brethren in defending the lives, liberty
and property of the inhabitants of the United
Colonies, we, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly
engage and promise that we will to the utmost
of our power, at the risk of our lives and for-
tunes, with arms, oppose the hostile proceed-
ings of the British fleets and armies against
the United American Colonies." Taken from
" Prescott Memorial " one signed was Jedediah
Prescott, who represented the town of Win-
throp, Maine in Mass. Legislature in 1781
when Maine belonged to that State. — Mrs.
O. F. IVcissgcrbcr. 1353 Carver Street,
Appleton, Wise.

10225. Sheppard. — A Methodist minister,

• Sheppard, m in N. C. (probably Iridell

Co.) Polly Shelton, sister of Mrs. Nancy Shel-
tnn Lawson Barkley. — Mrs. W. H. JJ^hitlcy,
Paris, Ky.

10227. Mead. — The pension application of
John Mead, soldier, Va. Line, gives his age
as 80 yrs in 1818 at which time his pension
was allowed. Ref. S.A.R. Year Book, 1896 p.
165. The Certificate number when obtained

from the War Dept. and forwarded to office
of Auditor for the Interior Dept. with request
for name of persons to whom arrears of pen-
sion were paid and date of last payment will
often bring date of death and name of widow
or sons. Write to Newcastle, Henry Co.. for
a copy of his will.— .1/;-^-. JV. H. Whitley,
Paris, Ky.

10236. Pettus. — From a newspaper article
purchased from Joel Munsell's Sons of South
Norwalk. " This very old family can be traced
from its first settler in Va. in 1640 to the
present time, their many desc being scattered
over a large portion of the union, both North
and South. The name is evidently formed
from the Norman Pettitt, Pettye, Petite, which
was the Saxon nickname for being of small
stature. But it underwent several changes, such
as Pettis, Pettits, and Pettus, each derived
from the same source, about the yr 1200.

The first of the name we have in Virginia
is Capt. Thomas Pettus, a grandson of Sir
John Pettus, of Norwich, Norfolk Coutry, Eng-
land, who came over in 1640. His s Col. Thomas
Pettus, settled at' James City county, being in
command of the Va. Mil. and a number of
the House of Burgesses. The first Capt.
Thomas Pettus was a member of the Va. Coun-
cil, under the King and proved to be a man of
great influence and integrity.

From these two Thomases were many of the
name who settled in the countries of Henrico,
Fluvanna, Caroline and Spotsylvania, where
records of them can be found. William Pettus,
Sr. lived in Spotsylvania from 1767 to 1799,
the yr. he d. His w was named Susanne,
and their ch were Wm. Pettus, Jr. who m
Lucy Waters ; Louisa, who m — Graves ; Hart ;
Joseph ; Overton Hart ; James and Susannah,
who m — Dillard. John Pettus set early in
Fluvanna. He is believed to have been a
grandson of Col. Thomas Pettus of James
City Co., His s John Jones Pettus m Alice
Taylor of Caroline, b 1790. He had a dau
also who m a Burgess and lived in Fluvanna.

Alice Taylor was a direct desc of Anthony
Winston (s of Isaac, the immigrant) b 1723,
who m Alice Taylor in 1747, dau of James
and Alice Taylor of Caroline, who was b there
1730. John Pettus and Alice (Taylor) his w,
moved to Ala. about 1811, where their eldest
s, Edmond Winston Pettus was b 1821. He
became a very prominent lawyer, was elected
Judge in 1855 until the Civil War, when he
entered the Confederate Army, serving until
its close, retiring as Brigadier General, after
which he was sent to the U. S. Senate, for
the session of 1897.

His bro John Jones Pettus, moved to Miss,
where he became a member of the Lesjisature
for several years, and then was twice elected as
Governor of the State.

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Dr. William Jerdone Pettus, of the U. S.
Navy and late of Washington, D. C. is also
a member of this distinguished family all of
whom can claim the same arms as those given
for Col. Thomas Pettus, of James City Co.
It would be of great historic interest if more
facts could be gathered concerning this wonder-
ful Col. Pettus, who lived during the stirring
scenes under the vacillating Gov. Berkeley, and
who no doubt participated in the events of the
so-called " Bacon's Rebellion". In furtherance
of this object we call upon any desc to send
us any facts connected with this family.

The coat of arms, as given for Sir John Pet-
tus. of Norfolk Co., England are thus described :

Arms-gules ; a fesse argent, between three
amnults, or,

Crest-A hammer erect, argent ; handle or,
(2) Out of a ducal Coronet, or a demi-lion,
argent, holding a broken spear, headed of the
first.— .1/m Rebecca W . Bryan, 105 FayetteviJle
St., VanBuren, Ark.

10259. GiBBS. — Giles Gibbs and his w
Catherine sailed from Plymouth, England in
the Mary and John Capt. John Saueb, arrived
Mass. Bay May 30, 1630. He d May 21, 1641,
Windsor, Conn. Catherine d Oct. 24, 1660.
Founders of Dorchester, Mass., May 30, 1630
and Windsore, Conn. 1635. Their ch were
Gregory, Jacob, Samuel, Benjamin and Sarah.
Samuel d Feb. 8, 1716, m Hepzibah Dibble,
Apr. 15, 1661, she was b 1638 and d 1698 at
Windsore, Conn. Had 10 ch 1st, Benjamin, b
1663, m Sept. 16, 1706, Abigail Marchell, b
Jan. 9, 1687, d Jan. 11. 1767. Their 2nd ch
Zebulon b Aug. 10, 1711, d Jan. 8, 1803, m
June 1733 Eunice Woodruff d Dec. 29, 1793.
Their 1st ch Wareham b May 4, 1734, m
Eunice Spencer Apr. 4, 1756 at Suffield. Conn,
and their 7th ch Sheldon was b Mar. 27, 1768.—
Mrs. Thomas Dalv, 410 Cherry St., Mt.
Carmcl, 111.

10228. Crockett.— James Crockett, 1750-1825
(s of John William and Esther Thompson
Crockett a Presbyterian minister to the Colonies
from Donegal Island, came to Penna. in 1732)
m in 1771 Mary dau of Samuel and Mary
Cox Drake. Their ch were Sarah b 1773, m
Thomas Herbert : James, m Miss Montgomery ;
Samuel m Nancy Craig; John, unmarried;
Wm. moved to Indiana ; Nathan m Polly Gra-
ham ; Stephen ; Abraham ; Ephriam ; Mary, m
James McGavock; Elizabeth m Lysander Mc-
Gavock; and Esther m Wm. Carver. James
Crockett sister, Anne Agnes, or Nancy
Agnes, m John Montgomery in 1753. If
you are a desc of David Crockett, this
may help you. In the " Dallas News "
of Feb. 19, 1922 is given a picture of a
monument of Elizabeth, w of David Crock-
ett, engraved with these words " Mrs. Elizabeth
Crockett, w of Uavid Crockett, b in Buncombe

Co. N. C. May 22, 1788 m David Crockett in
Lawrence Co., Tenn. 1815. Died in Johnson
Co. (now Hood Co., Texas), Jan. 31, 1860 age
82 yrs.'' His 2nd w was Elizabeth Patton, a
widow whose husband was a cousin. She came
to Texas with her youngest s, Rrbert P.
Crockett in 1854. She had 3 ch of her own
and 3 step ch of David Crockett's 1st m to
Miss Finley. — ]\Irs. C. P. Pitts, Coleman, Texas.

10298. Truesdell. — In records of Dedham,
Mass. is the m of Richard Truesdell and Mary
Fairebank, Feb. 24, 1696, and birth of dau
Elizabeth. Feb. 10. 1697. Quite probably the
father of your Richard m in 1723, especially
as there were so many migrations at that time
from Dedham, Roxbury, etc. to that part of
Conn.~Mrs. Burton A. Crane, 517 West 10th
St., Erie, Pa.

10349. BooNE. — Capt. Charles Merryman of
St. Paul's Parish, Balto. Co. Md. m Mary, dau
of Humphrey Boone who d 1728. — Mrs. ff. T.
Saul. 3423 16th St.. Washington, D. C.

10393. Easley.- — Millington Easley, evidently
m Anne Gowen, sister of Capt. John Gowen,
Rev sol of Upper S. C. The will of Wm.
Gowen is on record at Spartansburg and men-
tions ch Jchn and Anne, executors son John
and Millington Easley. Aso will of John
Gowen reported at Spartansburg, devises land
adjoining that of Anne Easley.

10413. MooRE. — All the information asked
for may be found in Landrum's History of
Spartansburg Co., S. C. They set near Spar-
tansburg and some of the desc of Charles Moore
are now living on the original grant of land at
Moore's Station near the town of Spartans-
burg.— Miss WiUic Jl'yatt, 15 Virginia Ave..
Alontgomery, Ala.

10413. (c) Orr.— William Orr, b London-
derry, Ireland, June 6, 1736 d 1820 was bur at
Maysville, Ky. m in Penna. probably Cumber-
land Co. Feb. 6, 1762 Catherine Smith. By
this m he had 6 sons and 6 dau the latest date
of b being 1781. No date is known of Catherine
Smith Orr's d or of a second m. Wm. Orr
was a sol in Casper Wetzel's Co., Cumberland
Co., Mil, 1778 and Ensign in Lieut Col. Adam
Hublcy's Co. Penna. Line. Also a ranger.
Was in the battles of Paoli, Gennantown
and Brandywine. — Mrs. Eleanor F. Gihsoii.
Sheldon, Iowa.

McCord.— In Airs. Clardy's .ild book it says
" Johanas McCord A. D. 1734. He and his
family landed Aug. 17, 1734 at Newcastle, Pa.
He was 49 yrs. of age and his w Isabel was
36. His s, Wm. was 5 yrs and 9 mo and
James was 2 yrs and 9 mo Joseph McCord
was b Feb. 8, 1735. John McCord was b in
the colonv of \'a. Sept. 5. 1738. Agnes b Dec.
21. 1740." Benjamin b \74^.—^rrs. T. Sheldon.
44(i7 T.indcl Blvd., St. Louis, Mo.

KMli. Maki NIK.— There seem to have been

GENEALCGICAL DEPARTMENT

415

several families of Mariner who were among
the early settlers of the Colonies and were
probably branches of the same family. In the
Commisioners Report of Boston is the record
of the b of Sarah, dau of John and Sarah
Mariner in 1731. William Mariner m Jan. 21,
\7Zl, Abigail Wells and had recorded at Col-
chester, Conn, the names of the following ch :
Abigail, b 1724; Ebenezer, b 1726; Rachel, 1729;
Sarah, 1729; Asa, 1732; Ephriam, 1735; Grace.
1737. According to the History of Dorchester
Co., Md. by Elias Jones, the Mariner family,
probably French Huguenots, set in Dorchester
Co., Aid. prior to 1655. — Mrs. C. E. Evans,
Rolla. Mo.

10460. Sanborn. — Lieutenant John Sanborn,
b 1620 in England came to America in 1632
with his grandfather Stephen Bachieler a min-
ister. He m 1st, Mary, dau of Robert Tuck
of Gorlston, Suffold and Hampton, N. H. She
d Dec. 30, 1668. He m 2nd, Margaret Page
Moulton, widow of Wm. Moulton, and dau
of Robert Page of Ormsby, Norfolk and
Hampton, N. H. His s, Capt. Jonathan San-
born in Hampton May 25, 1672 lived in King-
ston, where he was a leading man, m Elizabeth
dau of Capt. Samuel Sherburne of Hampton,
whose s Henry m a sister of the 1st Gov.
Wentworth and became a Provincal Councellor.
He d June 20, 1741 his will dated Jan. 4, 1741
mentions w Elizabeth and gives sons Samuel
and Jonathan all his lands and gives 10 shillings
each to his ch Elizabeth, Acha. Alargaret, Love,
Sarah and Mary. Elizabeth b 1692 m 1st,
Apr. 4, 1714, John Ladd of Kingston; m 2nd,
Thomas Webster.

The Sanborn gen carries very interesting
accounts of the Sanborns in England and also
a sketch of the Rev. Stephen Bachieler and his
reasons for coming to America. — Claudia Dcs
Vergers, 116 Evans St., Bainbridge, Ga.

QUERIES

10521. Winston. — Wm Winston reached Va.
1666 d 1702. His s Anthony's will dated 1717.
Anthonv (2) s Anthony (3) had s Anthonv
(4) b 1720 and d 1787 left Hanover County
Va. and set in Franklin County N. C. in 1750.
Will prob 1787. His s John (5) m Edie
Arnold and had ch Anthony, Thomas, Closes,
Nathan, Isaac, George. Thomas (6) b 1780
m Gilly Weathers their dau Charity b 1815
d 1847 m Wm. Kittrell Peace s of John Peace
who came to Grandville Co., N. C. from Va.
1713. Wanted Rev rec of John Winston and
John Peace also gen of John Peace and n
and dates of his w. Wanted also gen of
Samuel Peace who m Charity Parham b 1771
d 1859 Tabs Creek Grandville County, N. C.
Charity Parham's father John said to have
belonged to Green's Army any assistance
will be appreciated.

(a) Robert.— Wanted gen of Wm. B. Roberts
m Harriet Cashone in Brunswick Co., Va,
in 1826, his bros were John, Daniel, Joshua,
Joseph and sis Elizabeth and Annie. Was his
mother Annie Strinner called Pollv? His
father d bet 1800 and 1826 and his mother m
a Wilson nr Petersburgh, Va.

(b) Evans. — Robert Evans supposed to have-
fought in Rev from Va. Llad s Joseph went
to S. C. Robert Evans b abt 1744 m Sarah.
Would like to correspond with anyone having
Evans" data of Va., S. C. or Tenn.— J. H. L.

10522. Lines-Lyons. — Wanted par and Rev
rec of father of Elizabeth Lines b 1796 in
Bergen Co., N. J. d 1853 in Fairfield Co.,
Ohio. March, 1817 Abraham Winter b 1787
Lancaster Co., Pa.

(a) Rice. — Wanted dates of b, m and d
and n of ch of David Rice b Hanover Co., Va.
m Miss Howlett.

(b) Clark. — Wanted dates of b, m and d
and Rev rec of John Clark b near Willmington
Del. m Margaret. Their dau Jeannette b 1771
m Thomas Rawlings, 1793.

(c) Sargent. — Wanted par with dates of
Ann Sargent Baltimore Md. who m Samuel
Phillips b Fairfax Co., Va.

(d) Hamner. — Wanted dates and Rev rec
of Samuel Hamner of Albemarle Co., who d
1817 m Elizabeth Morris their s Samuel b 1763
was a Col. in the War of 1812,— E. C. R.

10523. Holmes.— John Holmes b 1707 prob
Woodstock, Conn, m Lois Kempton 1733 at
Plymouth, Mass., d 1776 Brooklyn, ch Lois b
1734 d 1736 Marcy, John, Nathanial, Lois 2nd
who m Nathaniel Knowles, Alargaret and Ruth.
Wanted any data of John Holmes fam par-
ticularly of his dau Lois who m Nathaniel
Knowles both d at Barrington, Nova Scotia. —
G. I. B.

10524. Edwards. — Wanted names of w and
ch with dates of Nathaniel Edwards of Water-
town, Conn., Capt. in the Rev. Was Dr.
Joseph Edwards b Conn, d Lisle N. Y.
1830 his s?

(a) Frost. — Wanted gen of Susanah Frost
d Watertown Conn. 1802 age 44 w of Dr.
Joseph Edwards.

(b) Roberts. — Wanted proof of ser in Col-
onial Wars and date of m of John Roberts b
1727 R. I. d Manchester, Vt. 1796 m Susanah
Mayhew 1748 dau of Gov. Thomas Mayhew
of Nantuckett.— J. E. W.

10525. Bean.— Wanted Rev rec of Moses
Bean who came to the U. S. from Scotland
and registered at N. C. 1765 or of his s John
Bean who m Rachel McFarland.

(a) Yargon. — Wanted Rev rec of Jarrctt
Fletcher Yargon who settled in Chapel Hill,
N. C. m Amelia Patterson. — J. S. K.

10526. Homes. — Wanted gen and date and
place of b of Capt. John Homes who m Hannah

416

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dau of Col. John and Elizabeth Simpson Jones
of Hopkinton, Mass. July 13 1747. He d Sept.
22, 1805 abt 85 years old. Buried in Hopkinton,
Mass.— E. R. R.

10527. McCoLLisTER. — Wanted par and place
of b of Robert McCollister b Dec. 14, 1775
prob in Dorchester Co., Md. Wanted also
date of his m to Mary Harper b Sept. 10, 1779
d Sept. 27, 1852. Would like to corr-
espond with anyone having information of
these families.

10528. Ray.— Wanted par of Rev sol Thomas
Ray of N. C. who d 1830 and also of his w
Elizabeth or Betsy Pearce. — M. L

10529. Ford. — Wanted par of Frederick Adams
Ford of Dinwiddle County Va. b 1791 he
lived for many years at Ford Station in that
county. He m Malvurt Thorton in Amelia Co.,
Virginia, June 23, 1818 she was the dau of Col.
Sterling Thornton. Any data of the Ford
family will be appreciated. — M. F. S.

10530. Clark. — Wanted gen of Jessie Clark b
1756 Lee, Mass. Intention of m to Sarah Foot,
April 6, 1778. He d Groton, N. Y. 1836.— M. L.

10531. HiCKOx. — Wanted par of Sarah Hic-
kox b 1770.— m Moses Rich in 1785 at
Williamstown, Alass.

(a) Hadley. — Wanted par of Ebenezer Had-
ley of Westford, Mass. who m Abigail Spauld-
ing, at Chelmesford, Mass. in 1753. Did he or
his s Jessie have Rev rec. — I. B. H.

10532. JxjDD. — Wanted dates of b and d and
Rev rec of L. Nathan Judd of Conn, also of
his father Capt. Wm. Judd.

(a) Wanted dates and Rev rec of Capt.
Thomas Parmele of Conn.

(b) Williams. — Wanted dates of Samuel
Williams of Groton, Conn, who served as
Lciut. 10th Co. of Continentals.— H. F. M.

10533. Ashe. — Wanted par and christian

name of Ash who came to Kentucky from

Tcnn., and m Susan Logston near Leitchfield,
Kentucky about 1812. She is supposed to be
either his third or fourth w. Their ch were
Elizabeth ; Lydia Anne who m John Mcbille
Heycraft; Nelson who joined the gold seekers
to California in 1849.— E. H.

10534. RiNGLE. — Wanted any information of
the desc of Mathias Ringle or of the sol who
made up Northhampton Co., Pennsylvania Mil,
Capt. George Groff; Col. George ITubner.—
K. S. L.

10535. Mason. — Wanted any information con-
cerning David Mason and his w Isabella Teague
of Va. and S. C. Did Col. David Mason of
Sussex Co., Va. have a s named Tol)? —
A. V. D. P.

10536. TiiokPi:.— Wanted par nf Henry
Tlu.ri.e I> Dec. 12, 1760 Princess Ann Co., Va.

m Priscilla Harris of Va. removed to Nash Co.,
N. C. in 1796 had twelve ch. Did he or his
father have Rev rec.

(a) Harris. — Wanted par and Rev rec of
father of Priscilla Harris b April 12, 1765 in
Va. possibly Princess Ann Co., who m Henry
Thorpe. — C. T. J.

10537. OzMUN-OsMUN-OsMAN. — Abraham
and John Ozmun came from Orange Co., to
Thompkins Co., in 1793 or later. Abraham
was b at Smith's Cobe, Cornwall 1764 and
John in 1771. Their father is said to have
been wounded in battle, taken prisoner and d
in old sugar warehouse, N. Y. Can anyone
give me the name of this man. Israel and
Ezekiel Osman signed Association Test in
Cornwall. The family came from Suffolk
Co., to Orange before 1764. Wanted any
information of this famiy. — A. L. O.

10538. HARRisoN.^Wanted names of ch of
Benjamin Harrison and also Wm. Henry Har-
rison wanted also the date of b and m of
Samuel Fitz-Randolph, who m Sally or Sarah
Harrison.— M. F. R. P.

10539. Cronemiller. — Martin Cronemiller b
1762 d 1838. Wanted names of his w and ch
with their dates. The record may be found in
Cumberland Co., Pa. in which Perry was a
part up to 1820, Their s Martin lived in Ashland
Co., Ohio. Wanted his dates and n of w.
Would like to correspond with any of his desc.

(a) Marietta. — John Marietta living near
Harpers Ferry, Md. abt 1800 had a s John Jr.,
b 1799 m at Yellow Creek, Ohio, Margaret
Mason. Would like information regarding
these families.

(b) HuTCHiNS. — Wanted name of w and
dates of Amos Hutchins b Dumbarton, N. H.
abt 1755 d 1845 Ashtubula Co., Ohio. He had
lived previously in Conneaut Township, Craw-
ford Co. — E. F. G.

10540. Jones. — Wanted par of Jchn Jones,
whose dau Martha m Thomas Short. Ir. in
Amelia Co., Va. Nov. 19, 1787. Wanted also
par of Thomas Short, Jr.

(a) Scott. — Wanted par of Wm. Scott and
maiden name of his w Deborah, who lived in
Columbia Co., Ga. in 1825.

(b) Reese. — Wanted par of Hugh Reese
who lived in Columbia Co., Ga. in 1827. He m
.secondly in Warren Co., Ga. 1794 Elizabeth
Newsom. Wanted her par also. From what
Co., did Hugh Reese serve in the Rev. —
J. F. L.

10541. YouNGBi.oon. — Wanted any information
of the Youngblood family. Joseph Youngl)lood
lived in ()rangel)urgh District, S. C. 1790.
Had two sons. Rev rec of family requested.
— G. M. L.

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NATIONAL-BOARD-OF
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Regular Meeting, April 15, 1922

REGULAR meeting of the National
Board of Management was called to
order by the President General, Mrs.
George Maynard Minor, in the Board
Room of Memorial Continental Hall,
on Saturday, April 15, 1922, at

10.10 A.M.

The Chaplain General opened with prayer,
the members joining in the Lord's Prayer.

Mrs. Yawger not yet having arrived, Mrs.
Buel nominated Mrs. White, Curator General,
a.i Recording Secretary General pro tern for
this meeting until the arrival of Mrs. Yaivger.
This was seconded by Miss Temple and carried.

The roll was called by Mrs. White, the fol-
lowing members being recorded present :
National Officers: Mrs. Minor, Miss Serpell,
Mrs. Sherrerd, Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Mrs.
Bahnsen, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Whit-
man, Mrs. McCleary, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Schoent-
^en, Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Chenault, Miss Campbell,
Mrs. Calder, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs.
Elliott, Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs. Hunter,
Miss Coltrane, Miss Wilson, Mrs. Ellison, Mrs.
White, State Regents: Mrs. Robinson, Mrs.
Smith, Mrs. Woodward, Mrs. Harshbarger,
Mrs. Hayden, Mrs. Buel, Mrs. St. Clair, Mrs.
Sewell, Mrs. Chubbuck, Mrs. Perkins, Mrs.
Frisbee, Mrs. Guernsey. Mrs. Arnold, Miss
Merrick, Mrs. Denmead, Mrs. Shumway, Miss
McDufifee, Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs. Wynn, Mrs.
Charles F. Spencer, Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Fitts,
Mrs. Nash, Mrs. W. O. Spencer, Mrs. Young,
Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. McClintock, Mrs. Sparks,
Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Cain, Mrs. Hopkins, Miss
Temple, Mrs. McFarland, Mrs. Stewart, Dr.
Barrett, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Heavner, Mrs. Hart-
man, Mrs. Brooks; State Vice Regent:
Mrs Martin.

The President General stated that she had
not prepared a report for the Board as
she would give her report on Monday to
the Congress.

Miss Strider read her report as follows :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President (ieneral and Members of the
National Board of Management :
Six hundred and twenty-nine applications pre-
sented to the Board and 714 supplemental papers
verified; 1343 total number of papers verified.
Permits is.sued for 645 insignias, 523 ances-
tral bars and 600 recognition pins.
418

Papers examined and not yet approved : 858
originals and 712 supplemental.

Papers returned unverified: 122 originals,
93 supplementals.

Five hundred and eighty-five new records
verified.

Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,

Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, that the Secretary be
instructed to cast the ballot for the admission
of 629 applicants for membership. The Re-
cording Secretary General pro tern announced
the casting of the ballot and the President Gen-
eral declared the 629 applicants members of the
National Society.

Mrs. Hanger reported the death of former
Organizing Secretary General Mrs. Henry L.
Mann and moved that a letter of sympathy he
sent to Dr. Henry L. Mann because of the death
of Mrs. Mann, former Organizing Secretary
General. Seconded by Mrs. Bahnsen and Mrs.
Cook and carried.

While waiting for the Treasurer General,
who was busy with her duties as Chairman of
Credential Committee, the Historian General
read her report as follows :

Report of Historian General

Madam President General. Fellow Officers and
Members of the National Board of
Management :
The quarterly report of your Historian Gen-
eral is a very short one. The outline of work
planned for this office is ready for you. In its
behalf I wish to say two years ago I began
writing accredited historians for suggestions
for something concrete upon which to build our
research work, realizing that the opinions of
those who have made history a life study arc
far superior to any suggestions of mine. There
were many valuable suggestions received. An
article prepared by Dr. George N. Fuller,
Secretary of the Michigan Historical Commis-
sion so fully covered the work of their organ-
ization that I made a careful study of the
article, arranging it in outline form to be
used as a guide. This outline was submitted
to Dr. Fuller and approved by him ; I now give
it to you as an incentive for definite and con-
structive work. Knowing that it is nothing on

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419

which the Board has to pass, I shall not read it,
but I want each member of this Board to have
a copy, so that she may help push historical
work in her state.

Since my last report the following volumes
of War Service Records have been sent in :
Missouri, 4 volumes ; Iowa, 5 ; New Jersey, 3 ;
Delaware, 1 : New York, 13 : Washington, 2 ;
Wisconsin, 2, and two extra volumes for South
Carolina ; Ohio, 4 ; total. 41 volumes. We now
have a definite idea of the work being done in
all except three states, who to date have made
no reply.

In compiling my yearly report and studying
the reports of my three Vice Chairmen and the
reports of the State Historians, the growth of
our work in its far-reaching influence and in-
creased enthusiasm seem almost unbelievable,
and it therefore gives me much happiness to
speak in praise of these able co-workers and of
the splendid progress they have made.
Respectfully submitted.

Jexx Wixslow Coltrane.

Historian General.

There being no objections, the report was
accepted.

Miss Wilson then gave the following report :

Report of Reporter General to Smithsonian
Institution

Madam President General, Members of the
National Board of Management :

Your Reporter General's year's work closed
with the year and her report was presented at
the February Board meeting. Her work on
the next report to the Smithsonian Institution
does not begin until the close of our coming
session of Congress ; so that she has no further
report of work accomplished to make at
this time.

In connection with the coming report to the
Smithsonian Institution, I wish to emphasize
what I said at the meeting of the State Regents
last evening.

Our great difficulty in getting reports is due
to the fact that the out-going State Regent or
Historian leaves no data for her successor to
use in making her first report to the Reporter
General for the Smithsonian Report. The first
report of a new State officer naturally covers
the work accomplished during the last year of
her predecessor's term of office and if the out-
going State officer has left no data, the task of
the incoming officer is difficult, and the report
is apt to suffer in consequence. Will you not,
therefore, as your term of office expires, pass
on to your successor a record kept either by
card catalogue, or otherwise, summarizing the
work accomplished by the chapters during your
last year in office.

The discussion with the State Regents last
evening indicated that it is advisable that each
State Historian's reports to the Reporter Gen-
eral should be submitted to the State Regent and
be checked up, and this will be done this year.

The financial report called for on the blanks
sent to the State Historians has been so im-
perfect and incomplete that the reports from
the states could not be combined to make a
report as a whole, and only items from this
financial statement could be used. Even these
items have sometimes been found incorrect, due
to the fact the items included money contrib-
uted for a longer period than the report
calls for.

It should be borne in mind that these reports
to the Smithsonian Institution cover a period
from March 1st to March 1st of each year.

The report for which you will receive blanks
soon after the close of our coming Congress,
must cover the period, March 1, 1921, to March
1, 1922.

Respectfully submitted,

Lillian M. Wilson,
Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Hunter read her report as follows:

Report of Treasurer General '

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management:

I herewith submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from February 1,
1922, to March 31, 1922.

CURRENT FUND

Balance in Bank at last report, January 31. 1922.

$95,653.19

receipts
Annual dues, $16,031; initiation fees, $12,220; supplemental fees, $1011;
certificates, $2; copying lineage, $4.26; creed cards, $44.88; D.A.R.
Reports, $18.88; die of Insignia, $.60; directory. $3.40; duplicate
papers and lists, $231.25; exchange, $1.50; hand books, $5.50; Immi-
grants' Manual, sale of copies, $206.47; index to Library books,
$4.01; interest, $340; interest. Life Membership fund, $2.12;

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Lineage, $1200.03; Magazine — subscriptions, $3305.30; single copies,
$47.51; advertisements, $1535; printing minutes of National Board,
$5000; proceedings, $3.75; remembrance books, $1.10; rent from
slides, $19.74; ribbon, $15.49; rosettes, $.25; sale of paper, $4.45;
slot machine, $2.15; telephone, $33.11; index to Lineage books, $5;
Auditorium events, $1100; refund, Expenses Limitation of Arma-
ment Conference, $554.01.

Total receipts 42,953.76

$138,606.95 I

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Refunds: annual dues, $776; initiation fees, $79; supplemental fees, %33. $888.00

President General: clerical service, $314.50; hotel and traveling expenses,

$678.66 ; postage, $33.50 ; telegrams, $37.09 1,063.75

Organizing Secretary General : clerical service, $696.81 ; engrossing,

$6; postage, $20; telegrams, $.35; envelopes, files and paper, $17.. 740.16

Recording Secretary General: clerical service, $406.41; lists, $10.10;

telegram and expressage, $1.79 418.30

'Certificates: clerical service, $258.52; certificates, $200; engrossing,

- $184.20; tubes and paper, $183.46; postage, $160 986.18

Corresponding Secretary General: clerical service, $270.57; application

blanks, paper and envelopes, $656.30 ; postage, $43 969.87

Registrar General : clerical service, $2890.87 ; binding records, $60 ;

postage, $70; scales, $5 3,025.87

Treasurer General : clerical service, $2952.75 ; blanks, books, ledger
. sheets, labels, receipts and paper, $385.15; rent of safe deposit

box, $10 3,347.90

Historian General: clerical service, $453.12; expressage, $3.66 456.78

Reporter General: clerical service, $45.11; proof reading and indexing,

$100; postage, $2.95 148.06

Librarian General: clerical service, $408.76; accessions, $7.50; binding

books, $24; cards, envelopes and basket, $11.83; postage and ex-

pressage, $8.05

460.14

Curator General : clerical service, $211.77; postage, $2; cleaning museum

article, $1 214.77

General Office: clerical service, $483.40; messenger service, $80.30;
postage and stamped envelopes, $401.20; supplies, $669.47; carfare,
expressage, adjusting typewriters, $8.39; newspaper clippings, $1.28;
proposed Amendments, $44; flowers and wreaths, '$33; hotel and

traveling expenses. Parliamentarian, $72.35 1,793.39

Committees: Building and Grounds— clerical service, $10; Finance-
clerical service, $20; Historical and Literary Reciprocity— clerical
service, $50; Liquidation and Endowment — engrossing, $15.30; post-
age, $11; National Old Trails Road— circulars, $25.60; Patriotic
Education— circulars, $93.75; postage, $6.27; telegram, $1.29;

Patriotic Lectures and Slides— slides, $2.10; postage, $12.38 247.69

Expense Continental Hall: employees pay roll, $1587.50; electric cur-
rent and gas, $445.90; ice and towel surface, $31.02; cleaning cur-
tains, $49.25; inspection and elevator repairs, $17.91; expressage,

$1.81 ; supplies, $242.44 2,375.83

Printing machine expense: printer, $80; supply contract, $98 1/8.00

Magazine : Committee— clerical service, $237.51 ; books, cards, envelopes
and ncjtices, $38.22; postage, $130.80; Editor— salary, $400; postage,
$11.75; articles and photos, $126; Genealogical Editor— salary, $100;
Printing and mailing January-March issues, $8333.13; cuts, $387.96;

index, $56.45 9,821.82

Auditing accounts 300.00

Auditorium events 3/ 1.8U

D.A.R. Reports : 200 copies Vol. 24 12.98

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Directory — refund 1 00

Duplicate papers — refund 1 00

Furniture and Fixtures : 3 typewriters, $250.25 ; 2 lamps, $20 270.25

Lineage: 800 copies Vol. 59, $1843; postage, $92.10; refunds, $7.90.... 1,943^00

Remembrance books : clerical service 50.00

Ribbon 10.50

Stationery 222.20

State Regents" postage 78.50

Support of Real Daughters 320.00

Telephone 116.15

Thirty-first Congress : Credential Committee : clerical service, $322.53 ;

paper, $13.03; postage, $9.25; House Committee: telegram, ^.77;

Program Committee: clerical service, $18; paper, $9.76; postage, $1 ;

Transportation Committee : certificates, $24 398.34

Transferred to Magazine account, by order of the 28th Congress 5,000.00

Total disbursements

Loaned to Permanent Fund, by order of the National Board of Manage-
ment

Balance

PERMANENT FUND
Balance in Bank at last report, January 31, 1922

RECEIPTS

Charters $80.00

Administration Building contributions 2.362.50

Continental Hall contributions 6,168.55

Liberty Loan contributions and interest 1,110.43

Liquidation and Endowment Fund 676.10

Commission on Recognition pins 81.45

Interest 7.94

Total receipts

Borrowed from Current Fund

36.232.23

$102,374.72

60,000.00

$42,374.72

$30,944.18

10,486.97
60,000.00

$101,431.15

DISBURSEMENTS

Notes Payable $60,000.00

Interest .". 90.00

Interest — Manson estate 53.94

Revenue stamps 75.20

Furnishings, Board Room 44.92

Filing case. Library 45.55

Bronze markers on doors • 70.50

Continental Hall contribution refunded Manson estate 7,000.00

Total disbursements

Balance

Petty Cash Fund

67,380.11

$34,051.04

$500.00

422 DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REV^OLUTION MAGAZIXE

SPECIAL FUNDS

LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Balance, January 31, 1922 $366.24

Receipts 100.00

$466.24
Disbursements — U. S. Liberty Bonds 450.67

Balance 15.5"

immigrants' manual

Balance, January 31, 1922 $6,599.22

Receipts 2,671.59

Balance 9,270.81

PAINTING — CONVOY OF TROOPSHIPS

Balance, January 31, 1922 $4,216.61

Receipts 1,326.32

$5,542.93
Disbursement — refunded Mississippi 3.00

Balance 5,539.93

PILGRIM mothers' MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN

Balance, January 31. 1922 $16,852.00

Receipts 3,802.24

$20,654.24
Disbursement — refunded Mississippi 7.50

Balance 20.646.74

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

Receipts $23,080.46

Disbursements 23,080.46

PHILIPPINE SCHOLARSHIP ENHOWMEXT

Balance, January 31, 1922 $473.54

Receipts 783.08

Interest 11 .6<)

$1,268.31
Disbursements — L'. S. Liberty Bonds 1,251.13

Balaiice , 17.18

PKESKRVATIO.N (IF HISTOUU SI'OTS

Balance, January 31. 1922 $121.00

Disbursements 36.00

Balance 85.00

OLD TRAILS ROAD

Receipts .$340,35

Disliursemcnts 340.35

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RELIEF SERVICE

Balance, January 31. 1922
Receipts

Disbursements

Balance

Total Special Funds

$166.00
1.268.70

$1,434.70
1.073.85

360.8:

$35,936.08

RECAPITULATION

Receipts Disbursements Bal. 3-31-22

Current $95,653.19

Permanent 30,944.18

$42,953.76
70,486.97

100.00

2,671.59

1,326.32

3,802.24

23,080.46

794.77

340.35
1,268.70

$96,232.23
67,380.11

450.67

3.00

7.50

23,080.46

1,251.13

36.00

340.35

1.073.85

$42,374.72
34,051.04

Petty Cash 500.00

500.00

Life Membership 366.24

15.57
9.270.81

Painting 4,216.61

Pilgrim Mothers' Memorial Fountain 16,852.00

Patriotic Education

Philippine Scholarship 473.54

Preservation of Historical Spots 121.00

Old Trails Road

Relief Service 166.00

5.539.93
20.646.74

17.18
85.00

360.85

Totals $155,891.98

$146,825.16

$189,855.30

$112,861.84

DISPOSITION OF FUNDS

Balance, National Metropolitan Bank

Petty Cash ( in Treasurer General's office)

. $112,361.84
500.00

Total

. SI 12.861.84

INVESTMENTS

Permanent Fund Liberty Bonds ....

. $100,000.00

2.314.84

1.000.00

9.450.00

650.00

Permanent Fund — Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Bond
Philippine Scholarship Fund Liberty Bonds

Life Membership — Liberty Bonds

$113,414.84

INDEBTEDNESS

National Metropolitan Bank— by order of the 29th Continental Congress $116,000.00

Respectfully,

(Mrs. Livingston L.) Lillian A. Hunter,

Treasurer General.

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Mrs. White, as Chairman of Finance Com-
mittee, read the report of that Committee.

Report of Finance Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
During the months of February and March,
vouchers amounting to $122,716.17 were ap-
proved by the Chairman of the Finance Com-
mittee. Of this amount, $23,080.46 represents
contributions received for Patriotic Education,
and $1,073.85 for Relief Work.

Other large expenditures were for :

Clerical service $10,088.63

Magazine 9,821.82

Employees of Hall 1,830.00

Postage 1,019.85

Lineage Book (Vol. 59) 1,843.00

Support of Real Daughters 320.00

Notes Payable, Administration Build-
ing 60,000.00

Miscellaneous, as itemized in report

of Treasurer General 13,638.56

Respectfully submitted,
(Mks. George W.) Louise C. White,

Chainnan.

Miss Coltrane, Chairman, read the report of
the Auditing Committee.

Report of Auditing Committee
Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:
The Auditing Committee has met regularly
for the purpose of comparing the report of
the Treasurer and the audit thereof by the
American Audit Company. The accounts
audited up to and including March 31, 1922,
have agreed, and have been placed on file with
the Recording Secretary General.
Respectfully submitted,

Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Chairman.
Moved by Mrs. Calder, seconded by Mrs.
Morris, and carried, that the Auditor's report,
carryinci the Treasurer General's report,
he accepted.

Mrs. Hanger read her report as Organizing
Secretary (Iineral.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National I'xiard fif Management:
I have \\\v Imnni- to suiimit the following:
The following niiini)ers at large are pre-
sented for confirmation as Organizing Regents:
Mrs. Eva Pike Rowley, New Smyrna, Fla. ;
Mrs. Evcretta Bass Ludberg, Moscow, Ida. ;
Mrs. Gertrude M. Cook, Lebanon, Ind. ; Mrs.

Sarah Eliza White Roe, Mishawaka, Ind. ; Mrs.
Grace J. De Yoe, Wellington, Kan. ; Airs.
Delpha Peek Algyer, Tracy, Minn. ; Mrs.
Emma Ryker MacDonnell, Windsor, Mo. ; Miss
Mary Augusta Stone, Cambridge, Ohio ; Airs.
Grace Cheney Lozier, Elyria, Ohio ; Miss Besse

Miss

Mrs.
Mrs.

have

Airs

Vir-

Mrs.

Ada

111.;

Mrs.

Ind.;

Mrs.

C. Patterson, McConnelsville, Ohio ;
Katherine L. Owens, Alanchester, Ohio ;
Helen Butler Rausch, A^Iarysville, Ohio :
Adaline Klar, Uhrichsville, Ohio.

The following Organizing Regencies
expired by time limitation :

Aliss Lilian Rector, Mena, Ark.
ginia Boyd Henry, Hope, Ark. ;
Dunaway Caldwell, Carbondale,
Marie Almond Fairfield, Angola,
Lorah M. Gates, Homer, Ind.; Mrs. Alargaret
Sheffield Kehoe Morgan, Clay Center, Kan. ;
Airs. Juliet Pettijohn Denious, Dodge City, Kan.;
Aliss Katherine Wright, Liberal, Kan.; Airs.
Alartica Byrnes Huffman, Bemidja, Alinn.; Airs.
M. Catherine F. Muschany, Doniphan, Mo.

Through their respective State Regents the
reappointment of the following is requested :

Airs. Virginia Boyd Henry, Hope, Ark. ; Airs.
Anna Fentress Smead, Camden, Ark. ; Airs.
Rebecca Dobbs Sharp, Red Bluff, Calif.; Airs.
Ada Dunaway Caldwell, Carbondale, 111. ; Airs.
Lourah M. Gates, Homer, Ind. ; Mrs. Margaret
Sheffield Kehoe Alorgan, Clay Center, Kan.;
Airs. Juliet Pettijohn Denious, Dodge City,
Kan. ; Aliss Katherine Wright, Liberal, Kan. ;
Airs. Nellie Maria Alerritt, Milton, Mass. ; Airs.
Alartica Byrnes Huffman, Bemidja, Alinn.; Airs.
AI. Catherine F. Aluschany, Doniphan, AIo.

The State Regent of Iowa requests the dis-
bandment of the Nehemiah Letts Chapter of
Letts Iowa. This request is made because of
the fact that the Chapter has not paid State
dues for three years and all communications
from State Regent remain unanswered.

The following chapters have reported organ-
ization since the last Board meeting :

Old Marion of Jeffersonville, Ga. ; Chapter
at McPherson, Kan.; Brig. Gen. Rezin Beall,
of Laurel, Md. ; Jeremiah Jenckes, of Harbor
Beach, Mich.; John Alden, of Alidland, Alich. ;
Niagara Falls, of Niagara Falls, N. Y. ;
Shenandoah, la., of Shenandoah, la. ; South-
ampton Colony, of Southampton, N. Y. ; Henry
l'"ield, of Calvert, Texas; Chapter at Alexia,
'l\xas; l-'lizabelh Bixln-, of P.urton ( \'ashon
Island), Wash.

Charters
fied, 27.

Perniits
is.sned, 84
issued, 4.

9; Organizing Regents noti-

or Regents
perniits foi

-Kegents
Keiients"

bars
bars

Respect fullv
(;. W.\i.i..\CK W.")

.nlunitted.
Lrcv Ci.M.T H.\N(.er,

Ordaiiicimi Secretary (ieneral.

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The report was accepted without objections.

Mrs. Ellison gave her report as Librarian
General, with the permission of the Board
omitting the reading of the list of books.

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The following list gives the volumes which
have been received in the Librarj- since the
February Board meeting :

Those received during the week of Congress
will be recorded in the Librarian General's re-
port on April 24, 1922. It is necessary to report
in this way as these gifts are included in the
donations counted from Congress to Congress,
not printed in the Proceedings, but are given
in reports of regular Board meetings in
our Magazine.

BOOKS

Alabama

The Queens of American Societt/. E. F. Ellet. 1867.
From J. H. Johnson, Andrew Jackson Chapter.

History Stories of Alabama. P. L. Matthews. 1920.
From Minnie Miller, Andrew Jackson Chapter.

California

San Diego Yesterdays. 1921. From San Diego
Chapter.

The Early Days of Santa Barbara, California. W. A.
Hawley. 1920. From Santa Barbara Chapter.

The following five volumes from La Puerta de
Oro Chapter :

The Grrat Diamond Hoax and Other Incidents in the
Life of Asbury Harpending. J. H. Wilklns.

The Mother of California. A. W. North. 1908.

History of the Donner Party. C. F. McGlashan.

Yosemife and Its High Sierra. 3. H. Williams.

A Backward Glance at Eighty. C. A. Murdock.
1921. From Alice H. Beers.

The Spinners' Book of Fiction. 1907. From Susanne
R. Patch.

Starr King in California. W. D. Simonds. . From
Emily L. Miller.

The following- 2 volumes and photo of first census
in California from Mrs. Gustave Dresel :

The Tahquitch Maiden. P. E. Spaulding.

The March of Portola. E. J. Molera. 1909.

History of California: The Spanish Period. C. E.
Chapman. 1921. From Mrs. F. W. McFarland.

Los Angeles and Environs. J. M. Guinn. 2 Vols.
1907. From Grace Pease, through Eschscholtzia Chapter.

Nine volumes of Historical Society of Southern
California.

California Romantic and Beautiful. G. AV. James.
Last ten volumes from Oneonta Park Chapter.

Connecticut

History of the Old Town of Derby. S. Orcutt. 1880.
From Mrs. Noyes C. Baldwin.

Life of President Edwards. 1832. From Mrs. Frank
A. Monson.

History of Ancient Westbury and Present U'atertown.
From Sarah Whitman Trumbull Chapter.

District of Columbia

The following nine volumes from American Liberty
Chapter :

General George Washington's Will. E. R. Holbrook.

Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington.
G. W. P. Custis. 1859.

'irgini-a. P. Slaughter.

The War of Independence. J. Fiske. 1894.

Washington and His Generals. J. T. Headlev. 2
\ols. 1864.

.471 Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch
Highlanders in America. J. P. MacLean. 1900.

LlH of Emigrant MinL^tcrs to America, 1690-1811.
G. Fothergill. 1904.

An Old Xfw Engand Town. F. S. Child. 1895.
From Our Flag Chapter.

The Pound and Kester Families. J. E. Hunt, 1904.
From Deborah Knapp Chapter.

Chronicles of Georgetown. D. C. from 17.',1 to 7S78.
R. P. Jackson. From Isabel S. Polkinhorn through Our
Flag Chapter.

Genealogy of the Hapgood Famili/. 1898. From
Lucy Holcombe Chapter.

McCarthys in Early American History. M. J. O'Brien.
1921. From A'ictory CTiapter.

Index to Volume 2 of North Carolina Historical and
Genealogical Register. 1922. Compiled and presented
by Mrs. G. M. Brumbaugh.

Georgia

The following four volumes from Lachlan Mcintosh
Chapter :

History of the State of Xew York. J. R. Brodhead.
1871. Vol. 2.

Letters of Benjamin Hawkins, 1796-1S06. 1916.

Calendar Colonial Documents of Neiu York. J. R.
Brodhead. 1845.

The Wilson Family. J. H. Nelson. 1911.

The following 2 volumes from Mrs. Asa T. Buttrill:

Memoirs of Andrew Jackson. 1819. S. P. Waldo.

History of South Carolina. 1840. W. G. Simms.

Genealogy of the Name and Family of Hunt. W. L. G.
Hunt. 1860. From Major General' Samuel Elbert
Chapter.

Idaho

.1/.!/ Four Years in German}/. J. W. Gerard. 1917.
From Mrs. H. W. Stone.

Illinois

The following ten volumes presented through St.nto
Librarian, Miss Effie Epler :

History of Kane County, III. R. W. and F. Joslyn.
2 Vols. 1908. From Mrs. Fannie H. Peffers.

The following 3 volumes from the Illinois State
Societv, D. A. R. :

History of Lake County, III. J. J. Halsev. 1912.

Records of the Olden Time. S. Ellsworth. 1880.

Pioneers of Menard and Ma.wn Counties. T. G.
Onstot. 1902.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Henry County,
III. 1885. From Geneseo Chapter.

The Making of Illinois. Irwin F. Mather. 1921.
From the author.

Augusta's Story. 1922. Compiled and presented by
Martha Board Chapter.

The following 2 volumes from the Springfield Chapter :

Personal Recollections of Abraham Lincoln. H. B.
Rankin. 1916.

Looking Back. E. B. Searcy. 1921.

History of Livingston County, III. 1878. From Mrs.
Lj-ra B. Olin.

Portrait and Biographical Album of Jo Daviess
County. III. 1889. From Priscilla Mullens Chapter.

The Honor Book of Sangamon County, Illinois, 1917-
1919. From Springfield Chapter.

Iowa

A History of Story County, Iowa. 1887. W. G.
.\llen. From Sun Dial Chapter.

History of Page County, Iowa. E. Miller. 1876.
From Waubonsie Chapter.

A Prairie Rose. B. E. Bush. 1910. From John
Stanton Chapter.

Past and Present of Calhoun County. Iowa. B. E.
Stonebraker. 2 Vols. 1915. From Charlotte Stevenson
through Mary Osborne Chapter.

Kansas

The Annals of Kansas. D. \V. Wilder. 1875. From
Mrs. R. W. Neale.

The following 2 volumes from Mrs. S. H. Kilgore:

426

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Narrative of My Captiviti/ Among the Sioux Indians.
F. Kelly. 1871.

Sabre Strokes of the Pennsylvania Dragoons in the
War of 1861-65. T. F. Dornblaser. 1884.

The following 2 volumes from Molly Foster Berry
Chapter :

The Why of Fort Scott. 1921. M. L. Barlow.

Early Days of Fort Scott. C. W. Goodlander. 1900.

History of Wyandotte County, Kansas. 2 Vols. P. W.
Morsan. 1911. From James Ross Chapter.

Story of the First Baptist Church, Atchison. Kansas.
1897. W. C. Challiss. From Mrs. John A. Martin.

Maine

The following; five volumes from Mrs. C. B. Porter:

Proceedings of the Bangor Historical Society, in),-l<tl5.
1916.

Fiftieth Anniversary of the Banrjor Historical Societi/.
1914.

Life and Work of Oren B. Chencij. E. B. Chenev.
1907.

General Catalogue of Bates College. 1915.

General Catalogue of Colby College. 1920.

History of Norridgewock. W. Allen. 1849. From
Mrs. A. J. Weston.

Sketch of the Town of Vinalhaven. 1900. From
Lady Knox Chapter.

History of Farmington, Maine. F. G. Butler. 1885.
From Colonial Daughters Chapter.

The following 2 volumes from Col. Dummer Sewall
Chapter:

Historical Dates of the Town and City of Bath.
L. P. Lcmont. 1874.

History of Bath and Environs. P. M. Reed. 1894.

York Deeds. 19 Vols. Presented bv the Maine
D. A. R.

New Gloucester Centennial. T. H. Haskell. 1875.
From Mary Dillingham Chapter.

Makvlaxd

Biographical Sketch of Capt. Michael Cresap. 1826.
J. J. .Jacob. P'rom Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter.

A Colonial Governor in Maryland. Ladv Edgar.
1912. From Mrs. Charles T. Marsden.

Massachusetts

The following four volumes from Prudence Wright
Chapter:

These two, gift of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Heald.

Pilgrims of Boston and Their Descendants. T.
Bridgman. 1856.

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe. T. M.
Harris. 1841.

These two, gift of Annette S. Merrill.

The Pioneer Preacher. W. H. Milburn.

The Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont.
J. Bigelow. 1856.

The Providence Plantations for 250 Years. W. A.
Greene. 1886. From Mrs. John B. Richards.

Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times. C. C.
Coffin. 189."). From Mrs. Marv T. L. Gross.

Histon/ of Spencer. Mass..' Inclvdino a Sketch of
Leicester. From Mrs. R. W. Barnes.

The following 2 volumes from Old Oak Chapter:

The Life of Patrick Henry. W. Wirt. 1836.

History and Description of New England. A. J.
Coolidge and J. B. Mansfield. 1860.

History of Nantucket, Ma.is. 18.35. O. Macv. From
\atifh Chapter.

The following two volumes from Old Boston Chapter:

Ilishini nf Xniihirlel. W. C. Macv.

Jlislon/ nf Milln,!. .1/«;.M., from 161,0 to 1887.

Ilistnni „i Ilardnlrk. Mass. L. R. Paige. ISS:!.
Fn.in Haruiah Winthrop Chapter.

Ilriidford's History of -riimolh riantatlun.-' 1901.
Fn.ni Mcistoii Tea Party Chiiptrr.

History of Dracut, ;V(/.v.s. S. R. Coburn. 1922.
From Old Bay State Cliaptcr.

History of North Brookfield, Mass. 3. H. Temple.
1887. From Major Peter Harwood Chapter.

The following twenty-two volumes from Mercy
Wiirren Chapter.

The following 16, gift of Mrs. Frank Metcalf:

History of the Town of Ledyard. Conn. 19l»I.
J. Avery.

Little Pil'/rimar/es Anion,/ Old \r,r lunihnid Inns.
M. C. Crawford. 1907.

Historical Collections of Massachusetts. J. W. Barber.
1839.

Captivity and Sufferings of Zadock Steele. Z. Steele.
1908.

History of Haverhill, N. H. 1888. J. Bittinger.

Early Northampton. 1914.

Sketches of Old Inhabitants of Springfield. C. W.
Chapin. 1893.

Gazetteer of Hampshire Countii, Mass. W. B. Gav.
1887.

Incidents in White Mountain History. B. G. Willev.
1856.

Lives of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence.
C. A. Goodrich. 1832.

Indian Deeds of Hampden Counti/. H. A. Wright.
1905.

Washinqton and His Generals. J. T. Headlev. 2
Vols. 1847.

Women of the American Revolution. E. F. Ellet.
Vol. 1. 1900.

The Dutch Founding of New York. T. A. Janvier.
1903.

The Mohawk Valley. W. M. Reid. 1904.

The following six volumes from Mrs. Edith Scott
Magna.

Poems, Dramatic and Miscellaneous. M. Warren.

Imerican Revolution. E. F. Ellet.
Mass. J. R. Trumbull.

Women of the
3 Vols. 1902.

History of Northampto
2 Vols. 1902.

Walks and Talks about Historic Boston. A. W. Mann.
1917. From Old South Chapter.

The following two volumes Faneuil Hall Chapter.

The Ancestral Dictionary. J. O. Austin.

Genealogies of Some Old Families of Concord, Mass.
C. E. Porter. 1887.

Genealogy of the Descendants of Edward Colburn or
Coburn. 1913. G. A. Goodon and S. R. Coburn. From
Lydia Darrah Chapter.

Certain Comeoverers. 2 Vols. 1912. H. H. Crapo.
From the author through Mrs. James L. Hammond.

The Descendants of Arthur Gary of Roxhury, Mass.
L. Brainerd. From Johanna Aspinwall Chapter.

Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Coloni-
sation in America. 1903. From Old Newburv Chapter.

History of Plainfield, Mass. From Col". Timothv
Bigelow Chapter.

Michigan
County Souvenir. 1901.

Frn

Mrs. W. n.

Calhou
Cortright.

The following two volumes presented b\- Sojihie de
Mar.sac Canipau Chapter:

The Greatest American, Alexander Hamilton. A. H.
Vanderbert. 1921.

Famous Colonial Houses. P. Hollister. 1921.

History of Washtenaw County, Mich. From Ypsilanti
Patriotic Service League through Mrs. P. R. Cleaiy.

The following two volumes from General Richardson
Chanter:

History of Oakland County, .Michigan. L. H. Everts.
1877.

Biographical Album of Oakland County, Mich. 1890.

The following two volumes from Mrs. George Smith of
Algonquin Chapter:

History of Michigan. L. T. Hemans. 1907.

History of Benton Harbor. J. Pender. 1915.

The Story of a Pioneer. A. H. Shaw. 1915. From
Jtrs. T. M. McFarland through Lucy Wolcott Barnuni
Chapter.

Gratiot County, Michigan, Hiitorical Bioqraphical and
Statistical. W. D. Tucker. 1913. From .lean Torrence
Chapter.

Eight books and four pamphlets by Michigan authors
and eleven miscellaneous pamphlets "presented by Mrs.
Cleaiw, were received for the Michigan Room.

•:soT.

W. R. Weill.
2 Vols. K.

The following three volumes from M

Women of the American Revolutioi
Kllet.

Poems. Philip Freneau. 1790.

The following two volumes from St. .Viithon
Chapter:

The Story of .Minne.wla. E. 1 ». Parsons. 19

The Story of Mitineaiyoli.i. K. 1 1. Parsons. 1!

Railisson the Voyayeur. L. \. Long. 1914.
Mrs. Marshall H. Coolidge.

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The following lo volumes received through the Minne-
sota State Librarian, Mrs. D. C. Bennett :

Minnesota Historical Collections. 12 Vols.

Annals of the Swedes on the Delaware. Rev. J. C.
Clav. 1914.

Mammals of Minnesota. C. L. Herrick. 1892.

Iron Ores of Minnesota. N. H. and H. V. Winchell.

D. A. R. of Minn<;sota Year Book, 1922. From the
Minnesota Daughters.

Mississippi

owins two \-o!um('s

Shuk-ho-ta Tom-a-ha

The f.)
Cluipter.

Histoni of Mississippi. M. B. Fant and J. C. Fant.
1921.

History of Columbus, Mississippi. W. L. Lipscomb.
1909.

The following: three volumes from Natchez Chapter.

Our Hiunlred Years with "Old Trinity" Church.
C. Stirtenriith. 1922.

Jhi- Cradir of Mississippi Methodism. J. B. Cain.

Old and New Natchez, 1700 to ISfTT. S. Power. 1897.

History of .l/mAMiwoi. M. B. and J. C. Fant. 1920.
From Mrs. James MeCaskill.

The following three volumes presented through David
Reese Cliapter :

Hutorical Cataloaue of the University of Missis,sippi.
1910. Gift of Mr. I."^ B. Orr.

Recollrctions of Mississippi and Mississippians.
R. Davis. 1S91. Gift of Dr. .\fred Hume.

Mississippi lis a Province. Territoni and State.
.7. F. H. Claiborne. 1880. Gift of the Library of the
University of Mississippi.

Missouri

The following two volumes from Dorcas Richardson
Cliapter :

Histoni of Grimdi/ Countu, Missouri. J. E. Ford.
1908.

History of Grundy County, Mis.muri. 1881.

The following two volumes presented by Mrs. L. R.
Vincent:

Missouri's Hall of Fame. F. C. Shoemaker. 1921.

Commercial and Architectural St. Louis. 1888.

A Tour of St. Louis J. A. Dacus and J. \V. BueL
From Mrs. W. E. Hayes.

Hi iir,ilii,,iriil Gleanings of Siggins and Other Penn-
sylniiilii Finnilles. 1918. Compiled and presented by
Mrs. Kiiiina Siyoins White.

MOXTANJ

nerican Genealogist ,
1900. J. Munsell.

a Catalogue
From Mrs.

j/ Family
Kate H.

New Hampshire

Descindants of the Twin Brothers John and Benjamin
Wood. 1902. J. A. Wood. From Mrs. George W.
Hunt.

H'lstoni of Lancaster. New Hampshire. A. N. Somers.
1899. Ruth Page Chapter.

Early History of New Hamp.'ihire and Vermont.
F. Chase. 18.56.' From Samuel Ashlev Chapter.

Histeini of the Town of Haverhill, N. H. W. F.
Whitchor.' 1919. From Coosuck. Hannah Morrill
WhitcluT and Haverhill Chapters.

New Jersey

Ame

History of the Burr Farnil.
1S78. From Bergen Chapter.

First History of Bayonne, N. -J. R. P White
1904. From Major Joseph Bloomfield Chapter.
Histoni of Presbyterian Church in Trenti
J. Hall. "18.59. From Mrs. John Moses.

Histoni of Presbyterian Church in Trenti.
J. Hall. 1912. From Mrs. C. E. Murray.

C. B. Todd.

b.

.V. J.

New Mexico

The Delight Makers. A. F. Bandelier. 1918.
Lew Wallace Chapter.

Histoni of New Mexico. L. B. Prince. 1914.
Jacob Beiniet Chapter.

Spanish Archives of New Me.rico. 2 Vols.
From Mrs. Reed HoUoman.

N. J.

From
From
1914.

New York

Life of General Lniayette. 1S49. W. Cutter. From
Frances Ingalls.

Directory of the Villm/e of Wayland. N. Y. 1901.
From Mrs. G. H. Stannarivis.

Genealogy of SniiiU'l chirk. Sr., and His De.'icendants.
E. W. Clark. Is<.>-1. Fmni Mrs. Florence Menges.

Re-Union and History of Pompey, N. R. 187.5. From
Fayette^•ille Chapter.

Pioneer Days and Later Times in Corning and
Vicinity, 17S9-1H20. 1920. From Corning- Chapter.

The following eighteen vohnnes from New York City
Chapter through one of its members.

Manuals of the City of New York. 10 Vols.

John Watts de Pc'yster. 2 Vols. 1908.

Life of George Washington. E. Evertt. 1860.

Sketches of Distinauished American Naval Heroes in
the Revolution. S. P. Waldo. 1823.

Famous Families of New York. M. A. Hamm. 2
Vols. 1902.

Histoni of the Citi/ of New York. M. J. Lamb. 2
Vols. 1877.

The follov.'ing eleven volumes from Mary Washington
Colonial Chapter.

Prominen.t Families of New York. 1897. L. H.
Weeks. Gift of Mrs. James E. Pope.

A History of Lono L^land. P. Ross. 3 Vols. 1903.
Gift of Mrs. George W. Smith.

The following five volumes gift of Mrs. George P.
Lawton :

Year Book of the S. A. R. in New York. 1909.

General Register of Societii of Colonial Wars. 1899-
1911. 3 Vols.

Register of the Cnlnninl Dnwes of New York. 1901.

The following t\v., vnhiiii,.s -ifl of Mrs. M. Merriman:

Merriman Reiuiimi mnl Hen, hUhhi. 1914.

True Stoni of (ieonie Wash ini/ton. E. S. Brooks.
189.5.

Westchester Counfii, N. Y., Durimi the .Imeriean
Revolution. H. B." Dawson. 1886. From Anne
Hutchinson Chapter.

North Carolina

The following two volumes from William Gaston
Chapter:

Women of the South in War Times. M. P. Andrews.
1920.

Our Kin. L. M. Hoffman. 1915.

The following two \olumes from Mrs. Thomas McGee:

Histoni of Wayne Count}/. N. C.

Hitfori/ of the 119th Infantn/, 60th Brigade, 30th
Division, U. S. A. 1919.

Ohio

The following 4 volumes from Urbana Chapter:

History of Champaign County, Ohio. 1881.

.4 Centennial History of Champaign County, Ohio.

Historical Collections of Ohi
2 Vols.

H. Howe. 1907

Recollections of the Whitman Mas.mcre. M. J. S.
Delaney. From Oregon Lewis and Clark Chapter.

Pennsylvania

Historu of Huntingdon County, Pa. M. S. Lytle.
1876. From Mrs. A. P. Silverthorn through Standing
Stone Chapter.

Market Street, Philadelphia. J. Jackson. 1918.
From Germantown Chapter.

Rhode Island

Biography. Vol.

1920.

Encyclopedia of Amer
From Clara H. Jenekes.

The following six volumes from Mrs. Charles R.
Blaekmar, Junior.

Annals of Centerdale in the Town of North Providenct,
R. I., 1636-1909. F. C. Angell.

Collections of the Rhode Island Historical Society.
Vol. 3. 1835.

History of Rhode Island and Newport. 18o3. E.
Peterson.

The Life and Times of Tho7nas Wilson Dorr. U.
King. 1859. „. „

Annals of the Town of Providence. 1843. ^\ . R.
Staples.

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A Short History of Rhode Island. G. W. Greene.
1877.

Our French Allies. E. M. Stone. 1847. From Mrs.
Edwin Hall.

South Carolina

S. C.

The following five volumes from Zena Pa^e,
State Librarian :

Malting of South Carolina. H. A. White. 1914.

Life of Francis Marion,. W. G. Simms. 1860.

Romance of Lower Carolina. C. I. Walker.

Hvitory of the South Carolina College. M. LaBorde.

Life and Times of C. G. Memminger. H. D. Capers.
1893.

Tennessee

The American Remmhrancer, and Universal Tablet
of Memory. J. Hardie. 1795. From Miss Rosalind
Ewing.

Vermont

History of Vermont. 4 Vols. W. H. Crockett.
From Green Mountain Chapter.

Rhymes of Vermont Rural Life.
From Thomas Chittenden Chapter.

The Enqland and Holland of the Pilgrims. H. M.
Dexter and M. Dexter. 1905. From Ann Story Chapter.

The following three volumes from Bennington Chapter:

The Old Meeting House of Bennington, Vt. Rev.
I. Jennings. Gift of Mrs. Delia A. Sibley.

Sallie Blue Bonnet. W. R. Conover. 1911. Gitt
of Mrs. W. H. Bradford. , ^ t.

Sketches of Historic Bennington. J. V . and C. K.
Merrill. 1898. Gift of Miss Jennie A. Valentine.

Animls of Brattlrboro, 1681-1895. M. R. Cabot.
1921. From Brattleboro Chapter.

D. L. Cady. 192.2.

Washington

Spokane and the Inland Empire. 3 Vols. K. W.
Durham. 1912. From Esther Reid Chapter.

The following ten volumes from Mrs. S. D. h.
Penrose, State Librarian: c. , d

Register of the V/ashington State Society, S. A. R.

Marcus Whitman, Pathfinder and Patriot. M. Eells.
1919.

History of Wa.thington. 5 Vols.
Snowden.

History of the Puf/ct Sound Co'i
W. F. Pro.sser. 1903.

History of the State of Washington.
1893.

History of the State of Washington.
1909. From Mrs. Ella M. Bredes.

1909. C. A.
•try. 2 Vols.

H. K. Hines.

E. S. Meany.

Memoir of Philippe Maton Wiltser and His Descend-
s. J. Wiltsee. 1908. From Mrs. Joseph Lindsay.

Personal Recollections of Pio;
1920. From Cheyenne Chapter.

Life. L. Voorhees.

OTHER SOURCES

Register of the Washington State Society, S. A. R.
1922. From Mr. W. B. IBcals.

History of Minnesota. Vol. 1. W. W. Folwell.
1912. From Minnesota Historical Society.

History of the San Francisco Committ'c of Vigilance
of m>l. "M. F. Williams. 1921. From La Puerta Del
Oro Chapter.

The Pavers of Thomas Ruffin. J. G. Hamilton.
1920. From North Carolina Historical Commission.

The Underwood Families of America. L. M. Under-
wood. 2 Vols. 1913.

The Bevier Family. K. Bevier. 1910.

The Munson Record. M. A. Munson. 2 Vols. 1890.

The Cogsu'clls in America. E. O. Janicson. 1884.

Boardman Genealogy, 1525-1825. C. Goldthwaite.
1895.

Henry Burt of Sprini/flehl and Some of His Descend-
ants. H. M. and S. W. Burt. 1893.

Reed-Read Lineage from HiCO-l'JO'.l. E. R. AVright.
1909.

Wakeman Genealogy, 1630-1899. R. P. Wakeman.
1900.

Barcroft Family Records. E. T. Runk. 1910.

The Armistead Family, 16S5-1910. V. A. Garber.
1910.

The Kinq Family of Suffield, Connecticut. C. H.
King. 1908.

History of Thomas Canfield and of Matthew Canfield.
F. A. Canfield.

Anthony Coombs and His Descendants. W. C. Coombs.
1913.

Descendants of John Alexander. J. E. Alexander.
1878.

Genealogy of the Child, Childs and Childc. Families.

E. Child. 1881.

Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families. 2 Vols.
O. and T. F. Swift. 1888.

Genealogy of the Cornell Family. Rev. J. Cornell.
1902.

Genealogy of the Descendants of Henry Kingsbury.

F. H. Kingsbury and M. K. Talcott. 1905.

Genealogy of the Knoicltons of England and America.
C. H. Stocking. 1897.

Lineage Book, N. S. D. A. R. 1921.

The Southern Highlander and His Homeland.
Campbell. 1921. Received through the Daughters of
the Amkrican Revolution Magazine

1921.

R.

D.

\\ S. D.

Received through
Vols. 57 and 58.

A. R. 1920-1921.

A. R. 1921-1922.

Compiled

San Diego Yesterdays.
Historian-General's Office.

Lineage Book, N. S. D.
(2 copies each.)

Chapter Year Books \.
Three Vols.

Chapter Year Books
Four Vols.

Pension Papers. Vols. 44, 55, 56 and 57.
in office of Registrar General.

New Hampshire Pension Records. Vols. 17, 18, 19,
20 and 21.

National Genealogical Society Quarterly. Vols. 7-9.

Neu) Jersey Historical Society Proceedings. 1921.
Vol. 6.

iVfw York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
1921. Vol. 52.

South Carolina Historical Magazine. 1921. Vol. 22.

Virginia Magazine. 1921. Vol. 29.

Wiiliam. and Mary College Quarterly. 1921. 2nd
serie.s, Vol. 1.

Register Kentucky State Historical Society. Vol. 19.

Sprague's Journal of Maine History. 1921. Vol. 9.

Maryland Historical Magazine. Vol. 16.

New Ennland Historical and Gemaloqical Rroistcr.
1921. Vol. '75.

PAMPHLETS

Connecticut

HMoric Litchfield, 1721-1907. A. T. Bulkeley. 1907.
From Mrs. Frank A. Monson.

Anecitors and Descendants of Henry (Shults) Church.
Compiled and presented by Mrs. Charles II. Lyman.

Georgia
ihon. Patriot and The Wilson Doctrine.

James

L. H. Alexander. From Lachlan Mcintosh Chapter.

History of Thomas County, Go. W. I. Mclntyrc.
From Miss Mamie Merrill.

History of Thomas County. Ga. W. I. Mclntyre.
From Mrs. Sidney J. Jones.

Illinois

Tlie followiiiir three from Springfield Chapter.

Wedding of the First White Couple. C. P. Kane.
1906.

Illinois, An Ilislorieal Resume. H. H. Bancroft.
191S.

Our First .luiirirnn. Abraham Lincoln. II. B.
R:mkiii. llll.',.

SAS

H. L. Nelson.
W.

History of the Matthew Frank Family
1921. From Mrs. S. II. Kilgore.

The following three pamphlets from Mrs. Ld
Bi.\lcr :

Kansas Women in Literature. N. G. Barker. 1915.

Year Book of First .Methodist Episcopal Church.
T. E. Chandler. 1910.

Our Yesterdays. 1915. .\. L. Ingalls. From Mrs.
John James Ingalls.

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Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society.
1922. From Miss Margaret Thomas.

North Carolina

Three newspapers dated 1832, 1837 and 1839. From
Mrs. Ralph Van Landingham.

The following two pamphlets from Mrs. C. B. Porter:

The Penohscots. C. A. Dillingham.

Formative Period in Colby's History. C. P. Shipman.
1912.

Souvenir of Historic Kingfield, 1S16-1916, and three
clippings from Mrs. Abel .1. Hunnewell.

Maryland
Year Book of Historical Society of Harford County,
Ud. 1899. From Governor William Paca Chapter

Massachusetts

Historical Articles from the New England Maga-
zine. From Mrs. Gary in the name of Tea Rock Chapter.

A Collection of White Pine Magazines. C. C. Tallman.
Twelve numbers. From Mrs. Arthur 1). Ropes.

Memoir of Hon. Robert Hooper. 3. H. Sheppard.
1868. From Lucy C. Sweet.

The following five pamphlets from Faneuil Hall
Chapter :

Beginnings of the Revolution in New Hampshire.
H. M. Barker. 1903.

Neiv Hampshire in the Battle of Bunker Hill. 11. M.
Barker. 1903.

Genealogical Magazine. One number. 1905.

Annual Reunion of School District No. 5.

Inscriptions in the old Cemeteries in Peterborough,

N. n.

Michigan
Brief History of Detroit in '49. G. B. Gatlin.
1921. From Fort Ponchartrain Chapter.

Sketch of Trenton, Missouri. From Carrie Rogers
Clark.

Montana

The following tliree pamphlets from Mrs. Kate
H. Fogarty.

Genealogy of the Chandler Fa7nily. 1903. A. M.
Pickford.

Descendants of William Palmer of Watertown, Mass.,
and Hampton, N. H. W. L. Palmer.

The Derbys of Salem, Ma.^s. 1908. R. E. Peabody.

New Hampshire

The following seven pamphlets from Molly Aiken
Chapter through Mrs. Mary Hurlin.

David Garvey Goodell.

Sketch of the Lafayette Artillery Company. 1904.
J. A. Woodward.

Bicentennial of the Birth of Joseph Hastings, Ob-
served at Suffield, Connecticut.

Semi-Centcnnial of the First Baptist Church at
Rockland, Mass. 1904. Rev. B. H. Lane.

Descendants of Robert Cunningham. Three numbers.

The following two from Mrs. George W. Hunt.

Soldiers' Monument Dedication, Stoddard, N. H.

Historical Sketch Delivered by Francis A. Badger.
1905.

New York

History of Cohocton, N. Y. 1916. W. A. Field and
J. L. Waugh. From Mrs. G. H. Stannarius.

Souvenir Book of Fayetteville. 1921. From Fayette-
ville Chapter.

The following tv?o pamphlets from New York City
Chapter through a member:

Yorkshire as the Homo of the Washingtons. W.
Newsome.

Sermon Preached in Boston by Dr. Caiman.

Homer Academy Centennial Jubilee. From Mrs.
Raymond Wells and Mrs. A. L. Smith.

History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Cortand, N. Y. 1921. From Mrs. Elizabeth Doubleday.

War Register of Society of Coloni-al Dames of N. Y.,
1917-1918. 1921. From Mrs. George P. Lawton.

Four newspapers dated 1799, 1801, 1826 and 1833
from Mrs. Chester C. Darby.

Earhi History of Woodstock. W. D. Sibley and J.
Chamljerlain. From Urbana Oi:ipter.

Battle Hjimns of the Wards. G. McClurg. From
Mrs. Edwiii A. Hall.

South Carolina

The following five pamphlets from Miss Zena Payne,
South Carolina State Librarian :

Four Decades of Early Edgefield, S. C.
John Adam Treutlen of South Carolina.
Old Days in Laurens.
Major Andrew Hamilton.
Wherein South Carolina Led.

Vermont

The following four pamphlets from Mrs. Clara Perkins:
Centennial Memorial of Windsor, Vermont. 1876.
History of First Congregational Church in Windsor,
Vt. 1898.

The Old Constitution House Association.

The Vermont Constitution and the Constitution House.

Virginia

Newspaper containing List of Revolutionary Soldiers
from Bedford, Virginia. From Mrs. George P. Parker.

Historic Periods of Fredericksburg, 1608-1S61. Com-
piled and presented by Mrs. Vivian M. Fleming. 1921.

OTHER SOURCES

Historical Markers in Indiana. 1922. From Indi-
ana Historical Commission.

Family Tree of William Hersey of Hingham, Mass.
(Chart.) From Mrs. E. M. Bentley.

Roster of the Society, Sons of the Revolution in
California. 1922. From the Society.

MANUSCRIPTS

California
Odi\ Mrs. M. A. Wills.

Connecticut

The Old Stanton House and Surroundings. Compiled
and presented by Mrs. Effie S. Cramer.

District of Columbia

Leaves From the Family Bible of Olive Thompson.
American Liberty Chapter.

Descendants of Capt. Samuel and Agnes {Kay)
Rrid. Samuel Reid Chapter.

Massachusetts
Barre Cemetery Records. Mount Grace Chapter.

Michigan
Records of Old Quaker Cemetery and the Power
Family. Compiled and presented by Philip Livingston
Chapter.

Minnesota
The followmg two Mrs. M. H. Moss of St. Paul
Chapter :

Biographical Sketch of Andrew Palmes.
Reprint of The Massachusetts Sun.

New York
Family Records of Emma Gates Shadduck and Mary
Shadduck Haynes. Mrs. Chester C. Darby.

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Fainily Records of Caleb Ward. Compiled and
presented b.v Miss Laura B. Yetman of Abraham Cole
Chapter.

North Carolixa
Four old manuscripts, Mrs. Ralph Van Laiidingham.

PERIODICALS

Annals of Iowa. July, 1921.

Children of the American Revolution Mar/azine.
March.

County Court Note Book. March.

Essex Institute. April.

Iowa Journal of History and Polities. January.

Louisiana Historical Quarterly. October, 1920.

Maryland Historical Magazine. March.

Michigan Historical Magazine. January.

Missouri Historical Review. January.

National Genealogical Quarterly. October, 1921,
January, 1922.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
January.

Neivport Historical Society Bulletin. January.

News Letter, N. S. U. S. Daughters of 1812. March.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
April.

New York Public Library Bulletin. January and
February.

New York State Historical Association Quarterly
Journal. July.

Palimpsest. February.

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Maga-
zine. July.

Sprague's Journal of Maine History. No. 1, Vol. 10.

Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Maga-
zine. January.

William and Mary College Quarterly. January.

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine.
March and April.

The above list comprises 370 books, 81 pamph-
lets, 25 periodicals, and 13 manuscripts.
Respectfully submitted,

Annie C. Ellison,
Librarian General.
Report accepted.

Mrs. White read her report as Curator Gen-
eral as follows :

Report of Curator General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report the following
accessions in the Museum, since the Board
meeting of February 8, 1922 :

CoNNi'XTicuT : Musket, carried by Capt.
Ambrose Slopcr in 1776, presented by Mrs.
Julia Sloper Orr, of Hannah Woodruff Chap-
ter. Loaded cane and sword used by Capt.
Adam Livingston, during the Revolutionary
War and by his son, Levi Lewis Livingston,
during the Civil War; the sword is over 200
years old. Both presented by Mrs. Lillian
Livingston Terry, through Miss Mary T. Hub-
bard, Chairman of the Revolutionary Relics
Committee. Old Manu.scripts (5) ; Legal
documents : a " Summons " on David Jones to
appear in a damage suit before Richard Pitkin,
Justice of the Peace, February 2, 1790; a
promissdry note, signed by Richard Pitkin, in
1769; an "Order" for "part of a hogshead of
rum," 1770; a lease for land (payable in labor)
between Peter Hurlbut and Margin Woodrow,

dated September 23. 1772; a "bill" from
Richard Pitkin, receipted by Uriah Cass, dated
1788; all presented by Mrs. Mar}- Cone Jenney.
Oxford Parish Chapter. Snuff box. owned by
Matthew Smith, a Minute Man, East Haddon ;
ivory bead receptacle ; German silver exten-
sion bow spectacles and letter from Sally
White's Repository, dated February 16. 1801,
presented by Mrs. Mary E. Williams, Oxford
Parish Chapter. Letter from Dolly Madison to
Miss Van Ness, dated June 10, '39. presented
by Mrs. Raj-mond, of Hannah Woodruff Chap-
ter, through Mrs. Bissell. The ground on which
Memorial Continental Hall stands was part oi'
the estate of the Van Ness family.

District of Columbia : Picture of Lt.
Churchill Gibbs, a Revolutionary soldier, pre-
sented by Mrs. John B. Dowd, Keystone Chap-
ter. Twelve pieces of Old Chelsea, formerly
the property of donor's grandmother, Sibella
Poppleton Cargill, and one brown lustre pitcher,
relic of this same ancestor, all presented by
Mrs. Mary H. Yorks, Regent, Martha Wash-
ington Chapter. Busk carved corset stay, used
for front of corset in Colonial days, presented
by Miss Marian White, Louise Adams Chapter.
Signature of George II of England, presented
by Mrs. Florence Hills Barnes, Deborah Knapp
Chapter. One china pitcher, presented by
Mrs. Sylvanus Johnson, Regent, E Pluribus
Unum Chapter.

Georgia : Staffordshire china pitcher, pre-
sented by Mrs. Asa Buttrill, A\'illiam Mc-
intosh Chapter.

Illinois: Continental money, issued in 1776.
owned by Benjamin Mclntire, presented by Mrs.
Mary T. Newcomer, Shadrach Bond Chapter.
Cannon ball, from Schooner Royal Sa7'a(ic.
Benedict Arnold's flagship, sunk off Valcour
Island in 1776, presented by Mrs. W. S.
Williams, Regent Fort Dearborn Chapter.
Silver teaspoon, I)elonged to Belinda Ranvey
Lum, great-grandnK)ther of donor, presented by
Mrs. Hattie A. Keith, Louis Joliel Chapter.
Rug, hooked, made by Molly Stark, wife ol
General Stark, and presented as wedding gift to
his niece, Molly Lothrop, 1773, gift of Mrs.
Belle Case, Louis Joliet Chapter. Stocking,
made by Mrs. Sarah Benjamin, a nurse in tlu-
Revolutionary War, who also picked, carded,
spun and wove the wool. She lived to be 11.^
years old; donor's great-grandmother. Pre-
sented by Mrs. Lucy Mai)es Kidder, Puritan and
Cavalier Chapter.

Maine: Snuff box, carried through Revo-
lutionary War. presented by Miss Ksther
Wilson, Racliel Farnsworth Holden Chapter.
Cream pitcher, lustre iiand around top, presented
by Mrs. Helen S. Colcord, Klizalieth Wads-
worth Chapter. Hair bracelet with brilliant
clasp and mourning brooch, presented by Mrs.
F. E. Lowell, Elizabeth Wadsworth Chapter.

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Massachusetts: Flint-lock musket, pre-
sented by Miss Bernice M. Weld. Peace
Party Chapter.

Michigan: Cup and saucer, used at break-
fast table October 22. 1789, during General
Washington's visit to the home of William
Scott, of Palmer, Mass., presented by Miss
Alinnie Louise Converse, Isabella Chapter.

Mississippi : Wedding pants of Lewis Col-
lins, born December 10. 1673. Cloth was
woven and made by his mother. Presented by
the family of Mrs. Charlotte Kilgore Wardlaw.
Oxford, Miss.

Missouri: Twenty-seven old coins, collected
by Asa Dearborn Gove, of Vermont, donor's
great-grandfather, presented by Mrs. Amanda
Gove Stone White and Miss Eliza Stone
through Mrs. W. N. Andrews. Old French
geography, printed in 1783, in Lyons, France.
Belonged to donor's ancestor ; presented by
Miss Caroline Hale Plumb, Joplin, Mo., through
Mrs. W. N. Andrews.

New Hampshire: Silver teaspoon, initials
" A. L." Owned by Anna Wheeler Lunt, of
Epping, N. H., whose father was one of the
officials of the General Court, 1776; presented
by Miss Silvia Alice Sanborn, Sally Plumer
Chapter. Deed, dated February 5, 1789, signed
by Josiah Bartlett, as a witness, and as Justice
of the Peace. Josiah Bartlett was a signer of
the Declaration of Independence. Presented by
Mrs. Charles C. Abbott. State Chairman, for
Sally Plumer Chapter.

New York : Silver watch, " Bull's Eye,"
made in 1750-1800, presented by Mrs. Charles
W. Nash, Gansevoort Chapter. Lustre mug,
wedding present to Elizabeth Severn ; shape of
small goblet, bordered in many colors ; presented
by Mrs. Helen Birdsall Brown, Tianderah
Chapter. Souvenir ("barrel") from Royal
Savage. Benedict Arnold's flagship. Presented
by Mrs. Daniel Folger Barker, of Saranac
Chapter. Two medals and coin, dated 1790,
1786 and 1807. Coin of George III. Presented
b} Mrs. George T. King, Irondequoit Chapter.
Two brown bone buttons, from the coat last
worn by Mrs. Mary Ball Washington. General
Washington's mother. Buttons are mounted in
case, with gilt inscription on inside of lid.
Presented by Miss Martha Hill McFarland.
Ondawa-Cambridge Chapter.

Pennsylvania: Block of Buttonwood, from
a tree near Shikellemy's grave. Shikellemy was
a friendly Indian, and his grave is located at
Ft. Augusta. Pa. Presented by Mrs. Laura J.
Rohrback, Ft. Augusta (Pa.) Chapter. Pewter
whale oil lamp and pewter sand box, both pre-
sented by Mrs. Emeline Sellard Leavitt. 88
years old, oldest D.A.R. in the State ; elected
Chaplain for life of Bradford Chapter. Sent
through Mrs. Jennie F. Swayze, Registrar,
Bradford Chapter. Two deeds, dated 1757 and

1770, bearing names of Jonathan Barber, John
Adams, and Jonathan Remington, 1757, and
David Smith and Moses Bliss, 1770. Presented
by Mrs. Nellie Adams Ballard, Os-co-hu
Chapter. Large Colonial silver spoon, in mem-
ory of donor's mother, whose ancestor. Joseph
Spaulding. fought at Bunker Hill. Presented
by Mrs. Fanny Maxwell Long, Os-co-hu Chap-
ter. EjDur pieces of Continental money. 1776
and 1779; given in memory of her Revolution-
ary ancestor, Solomon Morse, by Mrs. Adeline
Morse Long, Os-co-hu Chapter. Buckskin
purse, comb, and silk handkerchief, owned by
Patrick Henry, given in memory of donor's
ancestor, her great-great-grandfather, Patrick
Henry, by Miss Ruth Peck, Os-co-hu Chapter.
Pewter tea pot used by Nathaniel Allen, Revo-
lutionary ancestor of the donor, Mrs. Nellie
Allen Cole, Os-co-hu Chapter. Silver-bowed
spectacles, presented by Mrs. Lucella Kenyon
Ballard, a descendant of Israel Putnam, through
Os-co-hu Chapter. Two beaded bags, one
brown and white, the other, white background
with gayly colored flowers ; one bears on the
silver clasp the name of the first owner, "A. N.
Evans, 1750"; presented by Mrs. Mary Bowas,
Jacob Stroud Chapter. Silver ladle used by
John and Margaret Huy, donor's great-grand-
father, and presented by Miss Clara L. Young.
Independence Hall Chapter.

Rhode Island: Sewing bird, belonged to
Sarah N. Littlefield, the donor's great-grand-
mother, presented by Mrs. Edwin A. Hall.
Phebe Greene Ward Chapter. Carved tortoise
shell high-backed com.b, presented by Mrs.
Caroline Dexter Kelly. Gaspee Chapter.

Tennxessee : Piece of silk dress, worn dur-
ing the Revolution, at King's Birthnight Ball, at
Lord Dunmore's Palace, Williamsburg, Va..
presented by Mrs. C. A. Stockley, Hermi-
tage Chapter.

Vermont : Hand-made sickle, presented by
Miss Flora A. H. Griswold. of Ascutney Chap-
ter. Sun-dried brick, from fireplace of Ann
Story's second house, built in Salisbury. Pre-
sented by Miss Flora A. H. Griswold, Ascut-
ney Chapter.

Virginia : Dutch cap, owned by Janneke
Phoenix Krum (wife of Hendrick), the great-
grandmother of donor, Mrs. Thomas Smythe
WalHs, Francis Wallis Chapter. (Date, 1777.)
Spy glass, owned by Charles Alexander, of Pres-
ton. Va., donor's ancestor, presented in memory
of her mother, Mrs. Susan Pearson Alexander
Calvert, by Miss Helen Chapman Calvert,
Mount Vernon Chapter.

One hundred and ten articles.

Respectfully submitted,

Louise C. White.

Chairman.

Report accepted.

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Mrs. Elliott read her report as Corresponding
Secretary General as follows :

Report of Corresponding Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The following is a brief report of the work
•done in the office of the Corresponding Secre-
iary General during the months of February
and March :

Eleven hundred and fifty-three letters have
^ieen received, of which ten hundred and thirty-
five replies have been sent out.

Supplies sent out consisted of : Application
T^lanks, 16,069 ; leaflets, " How to Become a
Member," 1385 ; leaflets of General Information,
1322; Constitutions, 2138; transfer cards, 743.

The number of Manuals for Immigrants
-which were sent out from this office during the
last two months was 23,183; of which 12,395
were of the English edition, 1908 Spanish and
8880 Italian.

A copy of the Proposed Amendments to the
Constitution and By-laws, which will be acted
upon at the coming Congress, was mailed within
the prescribed time to every Chapter Regent and
to the members of the National Board
-of Management.

The January issue of the Remembrance
Eook was also sent from my office.
Respectfully submitted,

Lily Tyson Elliott,
Corresponding Secretary General.

There being no objections, the report
Avas accepted.

The following recommendations of the Execu-
tive Committee were then read by the Recording
Secretary General pro tern:

Report of Executive Committee

That Caldwell be instructed not to make or
sell Chapter bars or pins for State or Chapter
'Officers for any purpose not now authorized by
the National Society.

That two typewriters be purchased, one for
the secretary to the President General and one
for the office of the Historian General, to cost
respectively $92.25 and $74.75.

The purchase of a new rug for the stage and
runners for the aisles at a cost of $982.32, the
same to be paid for out of the wear-and-
tcar account.

Tiiat table furnishings be purchased for the
•clerks' lunch room at a cost not to exceed $35.

The purchase of runners for the outside steps.

The acceptance, with regret, of the resig-
nation of Miss Bliss, as of February 1st.

That the resignation of Miss Hall be accepted
with regret, and the rule requiring two weeks'
notice be waived, and since failing health made
it necessary for her to exceed by two days the

annual and sick leave due her, that her resig-
nation be accepted as of xApril 1st.

That the Misses Helen Abraham, Margaret
Madigan, Olga Storz, and Myrtle Campbell be
transferred from the temporary roll to the
permanent roll in the office of the Regis-
trar General.

The acceptance of the report of the Execu-
tive Committee as given to-day, moved by Mrs.
Morris, seconded by Mrs. Bahnsen, and carried.

Mrs. Nash stated that every member of the
Board had received an invitation from the State
Regents to luncheon in the Banquet Hall, where
the State Regents would be happy to entertain
the National Officers and their guests. The
President General, on behalf of the National
Officers, accepted the invitation of the
State Regents.

Mrs. Hanger read her report as Chairman of
Building and Grounds Committee.

Report of Building and Grounds Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:
The Building and Grounds Committee begs
leave to submit its final report for the year
ending April 15, 1922.

Since our last report the Government has re-
conditioned our Auditorium and to-day it is in
the same good order as before housing the
Plenary Sessions of the Conference on Limita-
tion of Armaments. The preparation of our
Auditorium and its reconditioning was directly
under the supervision of Commander H. D.
Rouzer, U. S. N., appointed by the Government
for this work. Commander Rouzer gave largely
of his personal interest in seeing that our Audi-
torium was in every way restored to the con-
dition in which the Government found it and
your Committee recommends that Commander
Rouzer be sent a vote of thanks and apprecia-
tion from this Board.

It would seem timely to say in this report
that an itemized statement was rendered the
Government each month by your Chairman of
Building and Grounds, of the expenses incurred,
such as coal, electricity, extra labor for pre-
paring the Auditorium for sessions and cleaning
afterward, also the care of the offices used. I
also wish to state that the National Society
received no monetary compensation in any way
for the use of the Hall.

The following gifts have been received
and accepted :

A very beautiful crystal chandelier has been
presented by the Mount Vernon Chapter for the
Virginia room ; this chandelier was made after
a design prepared by Mr. Harris, a member of
the Art Committee, and has i)een hung in the
Virginia room.

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man Rice Chapter of the District of Columbia,
" The first Prayer offered in Congress." This
has been received subject to the approval of
the Art Committee. Miss Mechlin, Chairman,
being out of the city, it has been impossible
to have it passed upon.

A framed copy of the " Mayflower
Compact," presented by Mrs. Charles C.
Worthington.

A vase from Little Rock Chapter, Little
Rock, Arkansas.

The following books for the Michigan room,
the gift of Anne Frisby Fitzhugh Chapter :
" Farm Rliymes," " Among the Night People,"
" Michigan State Grange Song Collection,"
" Sketch of the Life of Judge Isaac Marston "
and from the Big Rapids Chapter " The Story
of a Pioneer."

New curtains and hangings have been ordered
by the State of Delaware for the Dela-
ware room.

The following purchases have been authorized
by the Executive Committee :

A typewriter for the Secretary to the Presi-
dent General and one for the office of the
Historian General.

A rug for the platform and aisles of the
Auditorium.

New china and plated silverware for the
clerks' lunch room.

A cocoa matting runner and matting covering
for the outside front steps.

In February the Auditorium was used for the
meetings of the American Bar Association ; in
March by the State Conference of the District
of Columbia and the Convention of the
Rotary Clubs.

Through the courtesy of the President Gen-
eral, the evening of April 28th has been re-
served for the League of Women Voters, in
May the American Federation of Arts, and in
June the Washington College of Law.

Our entire building has been cleaned and
put in order, our grounds cared for and the
general repair of the building attended to with-
out additional help. Incident to Congress week
the extra telephones with coin boxes have been
installed — a telephone operator engaged — the
new sound-proof doors to the Auditorium have
been made and placed and the awning on the
South Portico put up. Each room has had its
spring cleaning and your Committee feels
that Memorial Continental Hall is in excel-
lent running order and in readiness for the
31st Congress.

Note. — There is a correction to be made in
my report of February 8th concerning the table
used during the Conference on Limitation of
Armaments on which the treaties were signed.
The correction is : that the table used for the
signing of the treaties was not the one in the

office of the Curator General, but the one
presented to the National Society by Miss Cora
Millward, for many years our Congressional
Stenographer, and used by the stenographers
on the platform at the Congress.
Respectfully submitted,

Lucy Galt H.\nger,
Chain}ian, Building and Grounds Committee.

Following the reading of the report, Mrs.
White stated that the Curator General's desk
was used by the Secretariat General of the
Conference, Mr. Garrett, at every plenary ses-
sion. The report was accepted with the adop-
tion of the recommendation that a vote of
thanks be sent Commander Rouzer.

The President General stated that there had
been some controversy about the proposed
amendment to the Constitution and called on
the Registrar General to explain to the Board.
Miss Strider said that because of numerous in-
quiries received in her office showing the amend-
ment had not been clearly understood, she had
placed the whole matter in the hands of the
counsel of the National Society and he had sug-
gested a substitute for the amendment pro-
posed and endorsed by the Board. This
substitute, which had also received the approval
of General Robert, was in strict accordance with
what the National Society had always required.

SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT FOR ARTICLE III

" Any woman is eligible for membership in
the National Society of the Daughters of the
American Revolution, who is of the age of
eighteen years, and is descended from a man or
woman who, with unfailing loyalty to the cause-
of American Independence, served as a sailor,
or as a soldier or civil officer in one of the
several Colonies or States, or in the United
Colonies or States, or as a recognized patriot,
or rendered material aid thereto ; provided the
applicant is personally acceptable to the Society."

Moved by Mrs. Bahnsen, seconded by Mrs.
Morris, that this Board endorse this motion as
a substitute for the one presented at the Feb-
ruary meeting. Carried.

The Recording Secretary General pro tcm read
the report of the Chairman of Printing
Committee.

Report of Printing Committee

Madam President General and National Officers :
Your Chairman reports the approval of all
requests for routine printing requested by
National Officers and Chairmen of Committees.
Nearly all of this work has been done on our
own press under the supervision of the Superin-
tendent. The proposed amendments, the Lin-
eage Books, an emergency order for application
blanks and the information leaflets for the
present Congress being practically all of the

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work placed with outside firms since the last
meeting of the Board. The Lineage Books
being placed at a reduction of fifty cents per
page over the last order.

Respectfully submitted,

Grace M. Peirce.

Cliainiiaii.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Guernsey, Chairman of Administration
Building Committee, reported briefly, stating
that her full report would be given to Congress.

Mrs. Morris, Chairman of Committee on
Historic Spots, again urged the members to
work for Yorktown, stating that she had pic-
tures showing men at work with horse and
plow levelling the ramparts in some sections of
Yorktown, and unless action was soon taken
to make this a National Park there would
be nothing left to preserve. Mrs. Morris
said that the War Department had ordered the
survey made so that the most important places
on the battle ground might be found. The verbal
report was accepted.

The President General referred to the follow-
ing resolution that had been sent to the Board
from Nebraska which contained suggestions
which she felt were based on lack of under-
standing of the National significance of the
Society, and which contained also an unjust
criticism of one of the offices and therefore
should be answered.

" Whereas, The numerous assessments which
have been made upon the Chapters of the
Daughters of the American Revolution of
Nebraska by the National Society have become
very burdensome to some of the smaller chap-
ters, as well as objectionable to the larger
ones, and,

Whereas, These assessments are a detriment
to the state organizations, since they arc a con-
tributing cause to the disbandment of weak-
chapters, and.

Whereas, These assessments are hard to col-
lect from the non-resident members making it
necessary for this money to be taken from the
Chapter treasuries or for a larger assessment
to be levied on local members, and,

Whereas, The annual income of the National
Society is so great from regular sources that
these assessments do not seem to be really neces-
sary, that these special funds, while for very
legitimate purposes, deplete the treasuries of the
state chapters and render it impossible for the
chapters to accomplish local work which would
be a credit, not only to the chapters, but
also to the National Society, y.)ur rommit-
tcc therefore.

Recommends that the Twentietli Annual Con-
ference of the Daughters of the American
Revolution of Nebraska suggests to the National
pKiard 111' .ManagineiU tliat the chapters be re-

lieved of these assessments, and that a copy of
this recommendation be sent to all members of
the National Board of Management.

Moved, seconded and carried, March 16, 1922,
at Lexington, Neb.

Whereas. The office of the Registrar Genera]
is so slow in examining and returning the appli-
cation for membership papers to the Chapter
Registrar, and.

Whereas, The office of the Registrar General
in accepting and rejecting papers does not add
any additional data which they may have in the
office, to the application papers, as other
patriotic organizations do, thereby retarding
the progress of genealogical research which is
the basis of our National Society, and,

IVhereas. The office of the Registrar General
in rejecting papers does not always explain to
the applicants the cause for rejection,

Therefore, Your Committee recommends that
the Twentieth Annual Conference of the
Daughters of the American Revolution of Ne-
braska suggest to the Registrar General that she
attempt to expedite the examining and returning
of the paper of the applicant; that she instruct
her office force to supply any additional data
that they may have at their command and that
in rejecting papers they explain to the applicant
the cause therefor ; that a copy of these sugges-
tions be sent to every member of the National
Board of Management."

In regard to the national aspect of the work
of the National Society, the President General
made the following statement in reply :

In reply to these resolutions from the State
Conference of Nebraska relative to the so-called
" assessments " upon the chapters for our
Society's patroitic work such as the Manual,
Fountain and Painting and other national ob-
jects, it is proper to say that the Nebraska
Daughters appear to be under a very grave
misconception of the fundamental character of
our organization. We are a National Society
first and foremost. The chapters are them-
selves the National Society. They should take
a loyal interest and pride in what the Society
does nationally. If they do not, they are not
true to thcmsek'cs. State and local work are
very important and necessary, but the national
objects come first. The National Society has
never recognized " State organizations " or
State societies as separate entities within our
National organization.

Morever, the annual dues of $2 are the
National .Society's dues (see N.S.D.A.R. By-
laws ) and tiie National Society allon's a chap-
ter to keep $1 of them. Chapters arc under
a moral obligation to meet National Society
appeals for contributions out of this dollar,
which the Natii)nal Society gives them. In
additicin lo this dollar the National Society

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By-laws provide that " a chapter may by its
own By-laws provide for additional dues for its
ozi'ii use." (See Article IX, Section 15.) Or
a chapter may earn additional money by gving
entertainments, etc. It is not necessary, in fact
it is a very unwise custom, to " collect " from
members in the manner complained of in
the resolutions.

Meet national quotas with the National So-
ciety's dollar ; these are in the nature of first
obligations which chapters are morally bound to
take care of first. These quotas are not
" assessments " as charged in the resolutions.
They are voluntary contributions which loyally
interested members and chapters will meet
insofar as they can.

Again, it is not true as stated in the resolu-
tions that the " annual income of the Society
is so great from regular sources that these
assessments do not seem to be necessary." The
National Society has no funds whatsoever that
can be applied to such special objects of
patriotic effort. Its income can only take care
of its expenses, such as the maintenance of
Continental Hall and the work of the National
offices with their big staff of clerks, etc., which
serve the members in various capacities.

It would seem as if the Nebraska Daughters
would not have passed such a resolution had
they thoroughly understood the national charac-
ter of our great Society of which each Chapter
is a little working group. For further infor-
mation on this subject, the State Conference
Committee on Resolutions of which Miss Mabel
Lindly is chairman is referred to the Message
of the President General in the January, 1921,
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine.

Our national work and character are
things to be proud of and bring prestige to
every member.

Moved by Mrs. McCleary, seconded by Mrs.
Heath, and carried, tliat the suggested reply of
the President General to Nebraska's letter be
adopted by the National Board and sent to
Nebraska as the reply of the National Board.
After further discussion it was moved by
Doctor Barrett, seconded by Miss Temple, and
carried, that the reply of the President General
to the Nebraska State Conference be sent to
each Chapter Regent, State Regent, and
National Officer.

In regard to the criticism contained in the
resolutions. Miss Strider stated :

In view of the resolutions adopted at the
Twentieth Annual Conference of the Daughters
of the American Revolution of Nebraska your
Registrar General desires to present the fol-
lowing facts :

First : In regard to the slow examination and
return of application papers j'our attention is

called to the record of the office during the
year just passed when 12,515 application papers
have been verified, more than ever before in
one year in the history of the Society. During
this time 3254 supplemental papers have been
verified, making a total of 15,769 records veri-
fied, on an average of a little more than 50
records for every working day in the year.

All complete papers have been promptly veri-
fied, while incomplete ones have been held until
the official signatures and genealogical data
could be procured through correspondence, often
requiring several letters before final disposition
of the papers could be made. The entire time
of one clerk is consumed in returning papers
for the required signatures.

As Chapter Registrars should be well ac-
quainted with the requirements for applications,
through the circular letter of instructions sent
from the Registrar General's office, they could
expedite the verification of papers by seeing to
their proper completion before forwarding to
headquarters, thereby saving much correspond-
ence and vexatious delays. The examination
of application papers takes precedence over that
of supplemental in continuance of established
policy. Obviously the Society's growth is of
first importance.

Second : Complaint is made that genealogical
data is not added to papers to facilitate their
verification. Dates are added by authority of
a board ruling. No other information is added
as the data on the paper of an individual is
confidential information placed there to prove
her own eligibility for membership in this So-
ciety. The papers filed in our archives are only
accessible to those filing them and those to
whom they accord written permission to view
or receive copies of them ; also to Chapter
Registrars when needed to complete their files.

If information should be taken from one
paper and placed upon another, it would be
equivalent to opening our files. Daughters
generally wish their records held in inviolate
confidence, to do otherwise would not only
reverse long-established rules, but it would be
unfair to give information which has been pro-
cured at the expense of personal labor or
money for professional genealogical research
work. It would break faith with those who
have placed their private records with us
with the understanding that they were
securely guarded.

Third : In regard to the fact that papers are
rejected without the statement of cause.
When possible we do explain the reasons in
detail for the return of papers, but in many
instances to do so would be to reveal facts from
the papers of others which would be unfair ;
so the simple statement is made that " the ser-
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been credited to another man of the same name."

Moved by Mrs. Frisbee, seconded by Mrs.
McCIeary, and carried, that the anszvcr as given
by Miss Strider he endorsed and sent to the
Nebraska Daughters.

Mrs. Stewart requested permission for the
incorporation of Ottauquechee Chapter in order
that they might own their own chapter house.
Moved by Mrs. Guernsey, seconded by Mrs.
Harris and carried, thai the request of the State
Regent of Vermont that Ottauquechee Chapter
be given permission to incorporate in order to
own their chapter house be granted.

Mrs. Robinson asked that the Alabama
Daughters be permitted to incorporate for the
purpose of holding property. Moved by Mrs.
Bahnsen, seconded by Mrs. Chubbuck, and car-
ried, that the request of the State Regent of
Alabama to incorporate be allowed.

Mrs. McFarland presented the request of
the Jane Douglas Chapter of Dallas, Texas, for
permission to incorporate. Moved by Miss
Temple, seconded by Mrs. Heavner and car-
ried, that the Jane Douglas Chapter of
Dallas, Texas, be incorporated in order to
acquire property.

Recess taken for luncheon at 1 p.m.

The afternoon session called to order at 2.35.

The President General read the resolution
adopted by the New York State Conference,
which had been sent to the members of the
National Board of Management.

Whereas, The capacity of Memorial Conti-
nental Hall is inadequate to seat the present
representation to Continental Congress, and that
representation is increasing rapidly, and,

Whereas, The New York State delegation is
the greatest sufferer from that condition, having
the largest delegation, and

Whereas, There is no possibility of seating
the entire delegation of the Society, leaving no
seats for alternates and members who should
have that privilege, and

Whereas, Many contributors to Memorial
Continental Hall and purchasers of land adjoin-
ing supposed that this condition was to be
relieved, and now find that the plans only in-
crease the office facilities, and will so occupy
the only available land that future auditorium
extension would be forever prohibited, therefore,

Be it Rcsohed, That the New York State
Conference in convention assembled respectfully
requests the National Board of Management,
N.S.D.A.R., to offer .some plan for meeting the
aforesaid condition or else reconsider their pres-
ent building plans liefore it is too late.

The President General then read tiie follow-
ing statement :

Before you take action on these resolutions
addressed to you by the New York State Con-

ference, your President General thinks it proper
to state that at the time they were adopted,
October 21, 1921, it was obviously too late for
the National Board " to reconsider their present
building plans " as these plans had been accepted
by the last Congress when they were on exhibi-
tion all through the week, the architects had
been engaged and contracts entered into, the
cornerstone had been laid and the building
had been nearly half erected.

It is also proper to point out first, that there
is no record to be found of a larger auditorium
having ever been contemplated in connection
with our office building or the purchase of land ;
and secondly, that it is not true that the office
building so occupies the only available land that
future auditorium extension would be forever
prohibited, for there is a large vacant space
between the rear of the Hall and the office build-
ing on which such an extension could be erected
if desired.

There is nothing to hinder the Society from
considering such an extension, but many things
would have to be taken into consideration before
entering upon such a project. Among these are
the financial cost, and whether or not an exten-
sion would injure the architectural beauty or
strength of the Hall or destroy its practicability
for the purposes of a debating body like
the Congress.

Your President General has consulted with
the architect of the Administration building in
regard to such an extension. He tells her it can
be done by extending the western wall into the
open space between the Hall and the Adminis-
tration building, and by making lesser altera-
tions in the interior, but that the small number
of seats that would be gained in this way would
not be worth the very grave risk of ruining the
architectural beauty of the Hall, or impairing
its strength, safety or present excellent acoustic
properties ; nor would it be worth the excessive
cost involved in such an undertaking.

Mrs. Nash stated on behalf of the New York
members that the resolution had not been offered
in any spirit of criticism but as a matter that
would have, sooner or later, to be taken up by
the National Society. The explanation was
made by Mrs. Guernsey, as Chairman of the
Administration Building Committee, that the
resolution adopted by Congress specified only the
erection of an office building and under that
motion it would have been impossible to do
anything to enlarge the auditorium in Memorial
Continental Hall, and therefore she moved that
the answer prepared by the President Ceneral
in answer to the resolutions adopted by the
State Conference of Nczv York be sent. Sec-
onded by Mrs. White and carried.

The question being asked why the Iniinigrants*
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of entry, as originally planned, the President
General explained that the Commissioner of
Immigration pointed out that the sole and only
thought of those coming to these shores was
to land as soon as possible and meet their
friends, and that this was true even of those
detained at Ellis Island, and if the Manuals
were given out there as conditions were at that
time, they would simply be wasted ; that there
were more intelligent methods of distributing
them, which had been adopted, and others were
developing every day. Doctor Barrett suggested
interesting the Chairmen of Immigration in
the International Council of Women so that
the information contained in the Manuals might
be given through these women to the immigrants
in their respective countries. Mrs. Buel, as
Chairman in charge of the Manual, told of the
demand for the book among various organiza-
tions, so that the question was not one of dis-
tribution but of money to finance the new
editions necessary to keep the successful work
going. After further discussion, in which many
of the members took part, and it appearing that
it was the concensus of opinion among the mem-
bers of the Board that some means of financing
future editions of the Manual should be sug-
gested to Congress in order that the publication
of the Manual might be continued, it was moved
by Mrs. Harshbarger, seconded by Mrs. Buel,
and carried, that the Board endorse tlie continua-
tion of the Manual Fund and ask each State to
make a contribution at the rale of 25 cents per
capita for each member of a chapter in thai
State for future financing of the Manual.

The Treasurer General reported that since the
last meeting the National • Society had lost
through death 143 members. The President
General spoke of two ex-National Officers
among those listed : Mrs. Mann, former Organ-
izing Secretary General, and Miss Gillett, for-
mer Librarian General, and one whom the mem-
bers attending the Congress would greatly miss.
Miss May P. Duncanson, who had had charge
of the seating arrangements for many Con-
gresses ; members of the Board who had passed
away since the last Congress were Mrs. Thomas
Keely, State Vice Regent of Colorado, and Mrs.
Samuel M. Council, State Regent of Delaware.
The Board rose in silent memory of these
deceased members.

Mrs. Hunter reported also that since the last
meeting 42 members had resigned and 56 former
members, having complied with the Constitu-
tional requirements, had asked to be reinstated.
Moved by Mrs. Hunter, seconded and carried,
that the Secretary be instructed to cast the
ballot for the reinstatement of 59 members. The
Recording Secretary General pro tern announced
the casting of the ballot and the President Gen-

eral declared these 59 reinstated as members of
the National Society.

Miss Strider presented a supplementary report
as follows :
Supplementary Report of Registrar General

I have the honor to report 161 applications
presented to the Board, making a total of 790.
Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,

Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Miss
Wilson, and carried, that the Secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the admission of
161 applicants for membership. Mrs. White
announced the casting of the ballot and the
President General declared these 161 applicants
members of the National Society.

Mrs. Harris spoke of manuscript she had
for a booklet on the work of the Sons of the
Republic which was compiled by one of the
directors in that work based on an experience
of five years, which would prove very helpful if
it could be printed; the cost would be $15 for
one thousand copies.

Moved by Mrs. Cook, seconded and carried,
that permission be granted to have one thousand
copies of this booklet on Sons of the Republic
printed at a cost of $15.

The President General announced that each
and every state so desiring could take a tribute
of flowers to place on the grave of the Unknown
Soldier on Tuesday afternoon when the cere-
monies outlined in the program would be carried
out. Mrs. Hanger gave the message from the
florist as to the price and the suggested size.
Mrs. White, as Chairman of Program Commit-
tee, explained that it was necessary to procure
special permission to have the privilege of laying
these wreaths upon the sarcophagus, and gave
further details of the arrangements that had
been made for the ceremonies at Arlington.

Mrs. Morris moved that a vote of thanks be
given to Miss Strider by the National Board for
the fine work she has done during the year.
Seconded by Mrs. Sparks and carried by
rising vote.

The President General spoke of the splendid
self-sacrificing service given by all the National
Officers and of the excellent work of the Chair-
men of National Committees. To the members
of the Board who were attending their last meet-
ing the President General expressed her
appreciation of their helpfulness and cooperation
on the Board, her regret that they were leaving,
and her belief that they would go back to their
states with a greater interest in and love for
the Society.

A hearty vote of thanks by the National
Board to State Regents for their delightful
luncheon was moved by Mrs. White, seconded

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by Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Hanger and Mrs.
Smith, and carried.

The minutes were read by the Recording
Secretary General pro tern, and, on motion duly
seconded, the Board adjourned at 4.30 p.m.
Louise C. White,
Recording Secretary General pro tem.

Regular Meeting, April 24, J 922

A regular meeting of the National Board of
Management was called to order by the Presi-
dent General, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, in
the Board Room of Memorial Continental Hall,
on A-Ionday, April 24, 1922, at 10.10 a.m.

The Chaplain General opened with prayer,
the members joining in the Lord's Prayer.

The President General stated that Mrs.
Yawger was not able to be present and asked
that a Recording Secretary General pro tern be
named by the Board. Moved by Mrs. Hunter,
seconded by Mrs. Spencer, and carried, that Mrs.
George IV. White act as Secretary pro tem.

The oath of office was administered by the
Chaplain General to the newly elected State
Regents. The President General welcomed the
new members to the Board and urged that they
attend as many meetings of the Board as pos-
sible in order that the National Society might
have their influence and their help.

The roll was called by the Recording Secre-
tary General pro tem, the following members
being reported present: National Officers: Mrs.
Minor, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Whit-
man, Mrs. McCleary, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Schocnt-
gen, Mrs. Moss, Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Holden, Mrs.
Chenault, Miss Campbell, Mrs. Hodgkins, Miss
McDuffee, Mrs. Mondell, Mrs. Buel, Mrs. Block,
Miss Wallace, Airs. McCall, Mrs. Sewell, Mrs.
Spencer, Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs.
Hunter, Miss Coltrane, Miss Wilson, Mrs.
Ellison, Mrs. White. State Regents: Mrs.
Robinson, Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Barrow, Mrs.
Stookey, Mrs. Haydcn, Mrs. Bisseli, Miss Todd,
Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Craig, Mrs. Akerman, Mrs.
Chubbuck, Mrs. Perkins, Miss Gilbert, Mrs.
Rodes, Mrs. Dickson, Miss Merrick, Mrs. Den-
mead, Mrs. Shumway, Mrs. Seydel, Mrs.
Coolidge, Mrs. Martin, Mrs. Charles F. Spencer,
Mrs. Webster, Mrs. Fitts, Mrs. Nash, Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Sparks, Mrs. Cain,
Mrs. Gillentine, Mrs. Stewart, Dr. Barrett,
Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Brooks. State Vice Regent:
Mrs. Conaway.

Mrs. Moss reporltd tliat the State Regent of
Missouri, Mrs. Kitt, was quite ill. Moved by
Mrs. Cook, seconded by Mrs. Whitman, Mrs.
Hodgkins, Mrs. Hanger, and carried, that a
tncssage of love and sympathy he sent to Mrs.
Kitt, State Regent of Missouri, upon her ill-
ness, and 7(.'ishiufi for her a speedy reco^'ery.

Mis. P.uel statid tliat Mrs. Ilarshbarger,

former State Regent of California, had re-
ceived word of the death of her husband, and
moved that a vote of sympathy be sent to Mrs.
Harshbarger, ex-State Regent of California,
on the death of her husband. Seconded by Airs.
Hunter and Miss Coltrane and carried.

Mrs. Nash reported the death of the delegate
from New York who had suffered a paralytic
stroke during the Congress, and moved that a
letter of sympathy be sent to (Mrs. Hanford)
the daughter of Mrs. Babcock, member of the
Neiv York delegation at the 31st Continental
Congress, zvho died in IVashington, April 22nd.
This was seconded by Mrs. Morris and carried.

The President General stated that she had no
report to make, having just presented to Con-
gress everything that needed to be acted on.
She referred to her thrilling experience of the
day before in the fire at the Willard Hotel,
which she shared with many of the other mem-
bers of the Board, and expressed her great
thankfulness that there had been no casualties or
any great financial loss to the members.

Miss Strider presented the following report :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Alembers of
the National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report 155 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emm.\ T. Strider,

Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Miss
Wilson, and carried, that the Secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the admission of
155 applicants for membership in the Society.
Airs. White announced the casting of the ballot,
and the President General declared these 155
applicants members of the National Society.

The Treasurer General presented a list of
former memliers to be reinstated and moved
that 16 former iiicinhers hai'ing complied zi'ith
the requirements of our Constitution be rein-
stated and that the Secretary be instructed to
cast the ballot for these 16 )nembers. Seconded
by Aliss Coltrane and carried. The Recording
Secretary General pro tem announced the cast-
ing of the ballot, and the President General
declared these former members reinstated in the
National Scjciety.

Mrs. Hanger read her report as Organizing
Secretary General as follows:

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President (ieneral and Alembers of the
National Board of Management:
Tln-ougii the former State Regent of C)ret;on.
Mrs. Keating, Airs, luhel Todd Hays' appoint-
ment at Tillamook is presented for confirmation.

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The following Organizing Regencies have ex-
pired by time limitation : Miss May Lyndel
Harvey, Council Grove, Kan.; Mrs. Grace
Williams Fisher, East Liverpool, Ohio.

The State Regent of Kansas requests the
reappointment of Miss May Lyndel Harvey,
Council Grove, Kan.

The following chapters have reported organ-
ization since the last Board meeting : " Polly
Welton," of Paullina, Iowa : " Sully Hill." of
Devils Lake, N. D. : and " Charles Carroll of
Carrollton," Sedro-Woolley, Wash.

The State Regent of Massachusetts requests
the location of the Humphrey and Sprague
Chapter he changed from Braintree to Swamp-
scott, Mass.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
OiyaJiicing Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The Treasurer General made a statement of
the amounts that had been handed in during the
week of Congress, which was accepted without
objection. The discussion following the reading
of this statement brought out the fact that
thousands of dollars are contributed direct by
members of the Society and chapters to various
funds and schools and do not go on the books
of the Treasurer General, and neither the
National Society nor the chapters, therefore,
got credit for these am.ounts on the books of
the Society or in its official publications.

Miss Coltrane moved tliat the Auditing Coni-
viittee be empon'cred to renctv the yearly con-
tract with (he American Audit Co)npany. Sec-
onded by Mrs. Ellison and carried.

Mrs. Ellison presented her report as Librarian
General, reading only the totals.

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management ;

It is a pleasure to report that during the
week of Congress great interest was shown in
the Library and that many valuable gifts were
received. These added volumes will make the
number for the year closed over 1000, including
War Records.

The list for the week follows :

BOOKS
Connecticut

Two Centuries of Xew Miljord, Conn. 1907. From
Roger .Sherman Chapter.

District of Colljidia

Life of John Marshall. Vols. 3 and 4. A. J.
Beveridge. From Wendell Wolfe Chapter.

President Washington's Diaries, 1791 to 179f) J A.
Hoskins. 1921. From Mrs. Goodwin D. Ellsworth.

History of .VUiini and Dade Coimli/. Ftorula. E. V.
Blackman. 1921.

History of Valkii Forae. H. Woodman. 1921.
From Everglades Chapter.

Iowa

The following three vohimes from Frances Shaw
Chapter.

Discipline of the Yearli) Meeting of the Friends.
1S06.

The Mountaineer. 1813.

The Death of Abel. Gessiier. 1807.

LotIISIAX.\

Historti of Louisiana. A. Fortier. Fuur Vols. 190-1
Gift of Mrs. T. D. Stewart, State Librarian.

Historii of the .-imeriean Revolution. Two Vols.
1822. From Mrs. Anne Wade Sheriff in memory of her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Johns S. Wood.

Hiitorv of Wa.'ihim/ton County, Md. T. J. C. Williams.
1906. From Washington Custis Chapter.

Bool- Plate for Maryland Books. Gift of State.

Massachusetts

The following three volumes from Mrs. .lohn Gill.

Life Scenes in the Old Xorth State. A. 0. W.
1S66.

Historical Gazetteer of .Massachusett.i. J. Snofford.
1S60.

Compend of .Militarii Instructions. E. W. Stone.
1857.

History of Xan tucket. O. Macy. 1880. From
Boston Tea Party Chapter.

History of Milton, .Mass., 1GJ,0 to 1887 A. K. Teele.
From Mrs. William A. Baxter in name of Boston Tea
Party Chapter.

The following six volumes from Col. Loammie
Baldwin Chapter.

Historical and Descriptive Sketch of U'oburn. 1885.

Life of Sergeant I. W. Ambler. 1883.

Massachusetts Register, 1858.

Richardson Memorial. 3. A. Vinton. 1876.

My Story of the War. Mary A. Livermore. 1893.

Men and Times of the Revolution. W. C. Watson.
1S57.

Sir Humfrey Gylberte and His Enterprise of Coloni-
zation in .imerica. 1903. From Old Newbury " Chapter.

MlCHIOAX

The two following volumes from Mrs. Electa S.
Chandler :

La Fold and Euridice. W. A. Engle. 1893.

Poems. \V. A. Engle. 1883.

.Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections. 24 Vols.
Gift of Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Chapter.

Missouri

.innals of St. Louis. F. L. Billon. 1SS6. From
Mrs. Wallace Delafield.

Annals of St. Louis in its Territorial Dai)s. F. L.
Billon. 18SS. From Mrs. John N. Booth.

State of .Missouri. W. Williams. 1904. From Mrs.
James H. McCabe.

New Jersey

The following six volumes presented by Essex Chapter.
First two, gift of Mrs. Hood.

History of the First Church of Orange, X. J.
J. Hoyt. 1860.

Xev; Jersey and the Rebellion. J. Y. Foster. 1868.

Following four, gift of Mrs. Yardley.

Hi.itory of the Oranges m Essex County, X. J.
S. Wickes. 1892.

History of Xewark, X. J. J. Atkinson. 1878.

History of the Presbyterian Church in Trenton, X. J.
J. Hall. 1859.

Lieut. William Barton of Morris County, X. J., and
His Descendants. W. E. Barton. 1900.

Centennial Anniversary of the To<rn of Cambridge
.Smart and Noble. 1874. From Helena M. Wright.

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The following two volumes from New York State
Conference.

Graves of Revolutionary Soldiers Buried in New
York. 1921.

Bible Records of New York State. 1921.

Glenville, N. Y., Church Records. From Beukendall
Chapter.

Records of Christ Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
IT. W. Reynolds. 2 Vols. From Mahwenawasigh
Chapter.

Ohio

Dr. Henry Skilton and His Descendants. J. D.
Skilton. 1921. From Catherine Amanda Skilton through
Sally l)e Forest Chapter.

Pennsylvania

Atdl a7id Martin Genealoay. W. F. Aull. 1920.
From Miss Mary I. Stille.

Rhol/e Island

Manual of Rhode Island, 1921-1922. J. F. Parker.
From Mrs. Richard Jackson Barker.

VEP.ilONT

Ethan Allen and the Green-Mountain Heroes of '76.
H W. Be Puy. 1853. From Seth Warner Chapter.

Poems in Prose. S. H. Bliss. 1920. Marquis de
Lafayette Chapter.

Annals of Brattleboro, Vermont, 1681-1895. M. R.
Cabot. 1922. Volume 2. From Brattleboro Chapter.

Virginia
History of the Kagy Relationship in America, 1715
to 1900. F. Keagy. 1899. Gift of Hampton Chapter.

West Virginia
Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia. C. F.
Randolph. 1905. From Lowther Fitz-Randolph Chapter.

Wisconsin
Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Congregational
Church, Janesville. 1895. M. Frances Edwards.

OTHER SOURCES
Perry's of Rhode Island and Tales of Silver Creek.
C. B. Perrv. 1913.

Sherman Genealogy. T. T. Sherman. 1920.
Lyon Memorial. Three Vols. 1905-1907.

PAMPHLETS

District op Columbia

Historical Directory of the District of Columbia.
1922. From Special Historical Directory Committee.

History of Ephraim and Joseph McDowell. L. F.
Perdue, 1912. From Wendell Wolfe Chapter.

Illinois
The Torchbearers. Presented by Mrs. Luther Derwent,
Mrs. Stanlev Plummer, Mrs. F. H. Moffatt, and Mrs.
W. E. Hinchcliff, of Rockford Chapter.

New Jersey
Local History of Camden, N. J. L. F. Fisler. 1858.
Gift of Mrs. George F. Bassett.

MANUSCRIPTS

Minnesota
Manuscript Family Records and photostats of Bible
Records. Gift of Mrs. Marshall ll. Coolidge, State
Regent, and Miss K. M. Knowlcs.

Report approved.

Mr.s. White read her report as Curator Gen-
eral as follows :

Report of Curator General
Madam President General and Members of the
National I'oard of Management:
I have the honor to report the following
accessions in the Museum since the Board meet-
ing of April 15, 1922:

Alabama: Coin of George III, dated 1797,

brought to the U. S. in 1833 by James Noble,
great-grandfather of the donor. Also coin
of Carlus IV, dated 1795, presented by Mrs.
Grace Noble Robinson, Christopher Gadsden
Chapter, State Regent of Alabama.

Connecticut: Powder horn of historic in-
terest in the Todd family ; relic of Thaddeus
Todd, born 1757; served through several im-
portant battles of the " Continental Line " from
1777 through the Revolution; presented by Mrs.
Addie M. Kelly, Eve Lear Chapter, through
Mrs. F. A. Monson. Scarlet camlet cloak, wed-
ding garment of Abigail Smith who married
Peleg Lewis, January 27, 1782; embroidered
workbag, which belonged to Sarah Ann Geer. of
Griswold, Conn. ; needle case, belonged to Mary
Geer Denison, 1759, and booklet, given Mary
Ann Gallup ; all presented by Miss Lucy Geer,
Faith Trumbull Chapter.

District of Columbia : Rush-bottom chair,
facsimile reproduction of one brought over in
the Mayflozver by John Carver, first Governor
of Plymouth Colony ; ivory thimble, used by
Mrs. Zilphia Chace Teal ; small china box, in-
scribed " Thou Art Lovely & True " ; also
property of Mrs. Zilphia Chace Teal ; fine cot-
ton lace-trimmed night cap, worn by Mrs.
Zilphia Chace Teal, ancestor of donor ; photo-
graph of portrait of Mary Washington, mother
of General George Washington ; Ulster Coioity
Gaacttc, dated January 4, 1800, containing notice
of Washington's death ; all the above presented
by Mrs. Sarah Chace Guss, Continental Dames
Chapter; pair of earrings, worn by Mrs. Zilphia
Chace Teal, presented by her great grand-
niece, Miss Maybell A. Brooks, Continental
Dames Chapter ; arm chair, for the Museum,
presented by Miss Katherine Barlow, Dolly
Madison Chapter, in memory of her sister.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Barlow; donor, 1st Cura-
tor General, N.S.D.A.R.

Georgia: Silver watch, engraved "Mrs.
Annie Nelson Evans," date, 1797; presented by
Mrs. Max E. Land, Pulaski Chapter ; letter
from Nehimiah Tilton, Major in the Revolu-
tionary War, to grandmother of donor, Mrs.
J. F. Fleming, Hawkinsville Chapter.

Illinois: Little trunk brought from France
in 1789 by Nicholas Jarrot; used by him to hold
gold, which was measured by "scoopsful";
presented by Mrs. Maria E. Sibley, Polly Sum-
ner Chapter. Shawl, presented in memory of
donor's ancestors, Ebenezer and Elizabeth
Emerson Little, married 1799; presented by Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Clements Hutchinson, George
Rogers Clark Chapter. Spiral-stemmed glass
goI)let, in memory of same ancestors, by Mrs.
Mary Elizabeth Clements Hutchinson, George
Rogers Clark Chapter. Large silver tablespoon,
wedding silver of donor's great grandparents,
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presented by Mrs. Martha Bird Olmsted,
Priscilla Mullins Chapter.

Iowa : Chopping knife, made by blacksmith in
pre-Revolutionary times, and in continuous use
in the family now represented by F. S. McGee,
the donor, Iowa City, Iowa. Knife, used by
Col. Jonathan McGee, Revolutionary soldier,
Massachusetts, 1777; presented by his grandson,
Francis S. McGee, Iowa City, Iowa. Rutland
Herald or Vermont Mercury, published Decem-
ber 8, 1794, belonged to Nathaniel Ladd, who
served in the Revolutionary War and was
great grandfather of the donor, Mrs. Hattie D.
Bullard, Martha Washington Chapter. Silver
tablespoon, 125 years old, initials " C. H. C" ;
belonged to donor's great grandmother, Lydia
Hurd Chapin, presented by Mrs. A. S. Elder,
Martha Washington Chapter. Piece of linen,
about 140 years old, spun and woven by donor's
great-great-grandmother, Ann Thurston, born
1762; presented by Mrs. A. S. Elder, Martha
Washington Chapter. Silver teaspoon, from
" Hope Chest " of Hannah Hollingsworth,
great-grandmother of the donor. Miss Sarah
Wood, Frances Shaw Chapter. Home spun
table linen, also from " Hope Chest " of Hannah
Hollingsworth ; presented by Miss Sarah Wood,
Frances Shaw Chapter. Knife and fork, bone
handle, 140 years old, owned by John Row Hill,
Elliot, Maine ; presented by Mrs. David Algyer,
Martha Washington Chapter. Knee buckles,
worn by Sylvanus Allen, of Deerfield, Mass..
grandfather of donor, Mr. Francis S. McGee,
Iowa City, Iowa.

Kansas : Quaint little pamphlet, " Old Age " ;
presented by Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey.
Independence Chapter.

Maryland : Needle case, property of Maria
Cresap, used before her marriage to Luther
Martin in 1783 ; presented by Mrs. Anna Leavitt
Cresap, Peggy Stewart Tea Party Chapter, in
memory of her husband. Lt. Com. James C.
Cresap, one of the founders of the S.A.R.

Massachusetts : Autographed manuscripts
of all the Presidents of the United States, from
Washington to Harding, handsomely bound ;
presented by Col. Walter Scott, through his
daughter, Mrs. Edith Scott Magna, Regent,
Alercy Warren Chapter. Sixty-eight manu-
scripts, 12 pieces of Continental currency, and
1 portfolio of manuscripts and portraits, for
the Edith Scott Alagna Collection of Manu-
scripts ; presented by Mrs. Edith Scott Magna,
Regent, Mercy Warren Chapter. Commission
to James Foster, 1st Lieut. 5th Co., 2nd Reg.
Massachusetts, signed by John Hancock. July 1,
1781 ; presented by a descendant of James
Foster, Miss Madeline Foster, Lydia Partridge
Whiting Chapter. Silver lustre bowl, pre-
sented by Mrs. Rose Carlisle Collier, Minute
Men Chapter.

Missouri: Historic Old Bell brought to Vir-
ginia in 1680, and was in constant use until
after the Civil War by a descendant of the
Buford family, of Virginia. Presented by Mrs.
Ida Bryan Eastman, Olive Prindle Chapter.

New Jersey : Pair Sardonyx earrings, pre-
sented by Miss Harriet Kirby, Ann Whitall
Chapter ; through Mrs. C. R. Ogden.

New York : Old pewter trencher, presented
by Mrs. Fred Menges, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
High back tortoise-shell comb, worn by great-
grandmother of the donor, in 1775-1821. Large
bead bag, containing small bead purse. Shoul-
der shawl, relic of Jane Higbie. born 1775,
daughter of Aaron Higbie, Revolutionary ances-
tor of the donor. Miss Elizabeth Berry, of
Saghtekoos Chapter. Harding Blue Gem, first
stone named in honor of the President of the
United States, symbol of Liberty ; presented by
Mrs. Charles H. Layng, Battle Pass Chapter,
Brooklyn, N. Y. Sampler made in 1819 by
Frances Tyson, in her 11th year, mother of
donor ; bead necklace, made by Frances Tyson ;
beadbag, made by Mrs. Isaac Tyson, mother of
Frances, and also little snuff box, in form of
shoe, inlaid with pearl, belonged to Isaac Tyson,
grandfather of the donor ; presented by Mrs.
Emma A. Greely Merritt Chester, Fort Wash-
ington Chapter. Fifty-five rare manuscripts,
numbered 17 to 71 inclusive, for the Amelia
Day Campbell collection (1 to 16 having been
given last year) ; presented by Miss Amelia
Day Campbell, New York City Chapter.

Ohio : Whale oil lamp, old iron bracket style ;
presented by Mrs. H. S. Williston, through
Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Vice President
General, Ohio.

Pennsylvania : Diamond-studded watch,
legacy from Mrs. Edith Darlington Ammon,
bequeathed to the D.A.R. Twenty-seven pieces
of Continental money, presented by Miss Mary
O'Hara Darlington, Pittsburgh Chapter, Pa.
Old snuff box, dated 1789; owned by James
Brotherton, great-grandfather of the donor,
Mrs. Isaac C. Vincent, Independence Hall
Chapter. Sampler, worked by Sarah, youngest
daughter of Col. Wm. Cooke, made in 1787;
presented by Miss Elsie Hawley Field, Peter
Muhlenberg Chapter. Bull's eye watch, of the
Montgomery family, also gold extension bowed
spectacles and case, bearing name of P. Enyard
on bow ; presented by Mrs. Edith Montgomery
Neall, Peter Aluhlenberg Chapter. Old New
England doll, presented by Mrs. Marcellin C.
Adams, Regent, Pittsburgh Chapter. Covered
dish, made in Villeroy Hoch, in honor of donor's
ancestor, Samuel Hoch, of Oley, Berks Co., Pa.,
who settled there in 1727; presented by Mrs.
Samuel Shope, Regent, Dr. Benjamin Rush
Chapter. Gold compote, golden wedding gift to
Mr. and Mrs. Joel J. Bailey, both children of

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the Revolution; presented by their niece, Mrs.
Henry Horton, Philadelphia Chapter.

Tennessee: Teaspoon made of silver, paid
Captain John MacKenzie's widow as a pension
for the services of her gallant husband, known
as " The Big Virginia Captain " ; presented
through Mrs. Gray, David Craig Chapter.
Revolutionary flint lock gun, in memory of
donor's great-grandfather, Major Herndon
Haralson, who used it through many Revolu-
tionary battles ; presented by Mr. Clyde
Haralson, through David Craig Chapter.

Washington : Quarto edition, " Genevan or
Breeches Bible," first Bible divided into verses.
and containing quaint readings ; also bound col-
lection of rare autographs and portraits of
European rulers and American patriots of the
Revolutionary period; both presented by Mrs.
Wm. S. Walker, Lady Sterling Chapter, State
Regent of Washington.

West Virginia : Ridgeway willow hot water
plate, 200 years old; presented by Mrs. Clark
W. Heavner, Elizabeth Zane Chapter, State
Regent of West Virginia.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. George W.) Louise C. White,
Curator General.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman of Building and
Grounds Committee, reported that during the
Congress the State of Wisconsin had been given
the privilege of having for their State Room in
Memorial Continental Hall the rooms now
occupied by the Superintendent, and Rhode
Island had been allowed to take the room now
occupied by the Editor.

The President General nominated for mem-
bers of the Executive Committee the same per-
sons who composed it last year, except that
Miss Strider would take the place of Miss
Coltrane, it being desirable to have on the
Committee women who lived in Washington, the
committee, therefore, to consist of the follow-
ing: Mrs. Buel, Mrs. Ellison, Mrs. Hanger,
Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Spencer, Miss Strider, Mrs.
White, the President General and Recording
Secretary General serving on the Committee by
virtue of their office. There being no objec-
tion, the President General stated the women
mentioned would act on the Executive Commit-
tee for the coming year. Moved by Mrs.
Hanger, seconded by Mrs. White, and carried,
that the Executive Committee be authorized to
perform such duties of the Board bein'cen its
meetings as the Executive Committee may from
time to time deem expedient.

Mrs. Buel referred to the report made by
iier at the Congress as Vice Chairman in Charge
of the Immigrants' Manual in which she stated
that the National Society was indebted to the
Polish Minister for his cooperation and moved
that a vote of thanks be sent from this meetiiuj

of the National Board of Management to Prince
Lubormirski of the Polish Legation for his
kind cooperation in the zt'ork of translati)ig
our Manual for Immigrants into Polish. This
was seconded by Mrs. Harris and carried.

Mrs. Harris showed a loose leaf binder which
she was preparing for her successor by filling
it with bulletins and other literature relating to
the work done by her, and expressed the wish
that all State Chairmen would do something of
that kind to hand down to their successors so
that the women assuming the work would be
able to build up where their predecessors left
off instead of having to start at the beginning.
With the idea of helping future State Chairmen
to understand what had been done in the way
of patriotic education and to serve as a guide,
Mrs. Harris stated that she desired permission
to prepare an additional report for the Pro-
ceedings of which reprints might be made to be
given those who wished information on the
subject and moved that the National Chairman
of Patriotic Education be permitted to prepare
an additional report for the Proceedings and
tliat 1000 reprints be furnished her for distribu-
tion to State Chairmen. This was seconded by
Mrs. McCleary and carried. Mrs. Harris re-
ferred also to a request of Mrs. Roe for per-
mission to have reprinted at her expense the
prize essay on the American Indian in a little
folder. Moved by Mrs. Heath, seconded by
Mrs. Sparks, and carried, that permission be
gi-c'cn Mrs. Roe to have the Prize Essay on
" The Indian" printed in pamphlet form at no
expense to the National Society, the consent of
the author having been obtained. Miss McDuffee
asked that the privilege be given her to verify
tiie figures given in her report in connection
with Americanization which is to appear in
the Proceedings, and to expand that report.
With the understanding that the corrections
made would be indicated and in the fuller report
there would be no recommendations or anything
committing the Congress to any action which
had not been taken, the motion of Airs.
C!uil)buck, seconded by Mrs. Heath, that the
roiuesl of Miss McDuffee, that she be allozi'ed
to print (.' supplemeulary report on Americaniza-
tion in the Troceedings he granted, was put
and carried.

Mrs. Moss brought up tiie (lucstion of her
report on Conservation and riinll lor the past
year, referring to the fact tiiat the 30th Con-
gress having endorsed the Government Thrift
program, slie iiad delayed preparing the outline
oi work lor JKr State Chairmen until siie could
.net from tlie L'nite<i States Treasury the plan
of work they wislied carried out. .Vfter being
promised from week to week tiiis program
would be furnislied she was finally informed
that the Government had witlulrawn the plan
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had then at that late date to get out her instruc-
tions to State Chairmen for the other phases of
conservation and thrift activities. While the
question of the work of the National State
Committees was before the Board, the following
resolution was presented by Mrs. Nash, who
moved its adoption :

Resolution that National Chairman work be
presented first of year and report dates be
made uniform.

Whereas, plans for work from the various
Chairmen of National Committees are sent to
State Chairmen at intervals throughout the
year, too late for presentation at fall meetings
of State Conferences, frequently too late for a
possible carrying out of suggested plans by
chapters, and often reaching State Chairmen
only a few weeks in advance of a requested
report of such activities from chapters ; and

Whereas, Chairmen of National Committees
ask for reports from State Chairmen by various
dates preceding Continental Congress, greatly
confusing work within the State, and

Whereas, It is believed that cooperation be-
tween National and State Chairmen would tend
to improve results for national policies in chap-
ters, both in activities and reports ; therefore
be it

Resolved, That Chairmen of National Com-
mittees be requested to send suggestions and
plans to State Chairmen during the month of
October and as early in that month as possible,
and that March 15th be adopted as the
date on which all State reports shall reach
National Chairmen.

The motion to adopt the resolution, seconded
by Mrs. Sparks, and after some discussion car-
ried. The President General pointed out that
•each Chapter if it wished to receive credit for
the work it has done, it must get its report
to its State Chairman in time, and the State
Chairman if the State is to be credited with its
work must get her report to the National Chair-
man within the specified time ; also, in order to
properly carry out this resolution, it would
be necessary for the State Regents to send in
very promptly their appointments of State
Chairmen in order that the lists may be com-
plete and sent to the National Chairmen. In
reply to the question as to whether reprints
might be furnished the various State Chairmen
for use in their work the President General
stated that each National Chairman by notifying
the Recording Secretary General during the
early part of the summer before the Proceedings
went to press, could secure any number up to
two hundred reprints of her Congress report.
A copy of the Proceedings of Congress was
sent every Chapter, care of its Regent, so that
the Chapter Chairmen had the opportunity of
xeading the Congress reports.

A letter was read from the Omaha chapter
stating that its representatives had opposed the
resolution adopted by the Nebraska State Con-
ference and renewing its pledge of loyalty to
the National Board. The State Regent of
Nebraska expressed her own personal regrets
that her State Conference in the resolutions
adopted should have made any criticism of the
conduct of the Registrar General's office, from
which she had always received helpful co-
operation and ready assistance, and while she
could not speak for her State she was personally
very sorry that this reference, especially to the
one office that did such wonderful work, should
have gone out while she was State Regent
of Nebraska.

A letter was read from the Chairman of
Hospitality Committee for Tea Room during
the 31st Congress reporting a balance over all
expense of $100.50 for which she enclosed a
check. On motion of Mrs. Heath, numerously
seconded, a rising vote of thanks zvas given
to Mrs. Earnest and Iter Committee.

The President General referred to the reso-
lution of the 31st Congress, that the matter of
the proposed gift of the Rosa Bonheur home in
France to the N.S.D.A.R. by Miss Anna
Klumpke be referred to the National Board of
Management for further consideration, and
stated that the matter was not a question that
needed to be settled at once, but it was well
for the members of the Board to bear it in
mind and discuss it. If the National Society
were to undertake the project the interest and
cooperation of other organizations might be
requested. The President General gave some
further details as they had come to her in
correspondence with Miss Klumpke, explaining
that the matter would have to be looked into
thoroughly as to its practical side. Moved by
Mrs. Cook, seconded by Mrs. Whitman, and
carried, that the President General appoint a
Committee to get all the practical facts that tuc
need to knozv ivith regard to the offer of the
Rosa Bonheur Chateau to the N.S.D.A.R. to
report to the National Board of Management at
its earliest opportunity.

The Treasurer General moved that Volumes
11-42 of the Lineage Book be sold at $3 per
volume, that Volumes 42-54 zvhen the supply
is decreased to 100 volumes be sold at the same
price, $3 per volume. Seconded by Miss Col-
trane and carried.

Mrs. Hunter announced that word had been
received that the bill to exempt the rest of the
land back of the hall had been reported out of
Committee, but had not yet been passed upon
by the United States Congress.

Airs. Coolidge spoke of a memorial for women
in France to be a part of the Joffre Institute, to
be called in honor of Foch, for which there

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had already been raised in Minnesota $475,
and the committee would like to circularize the
other states in regard to this worthy project.
Moved by Miss McDuffee, seconded by Mrs.
Whitman, and carried, that Minnesota be
granted permission to circularise the chapters
in other states in behalf of the girls' vocational
annex to the Joffre Institute.

The Treasurer General requested that all
members of the Board, Vice Presidents General
as well as State Regents, get to the chapters in
their states the information contained in the
amendments to the By-laws, especially the one
with regard to dropped members having to pay
the initiation fee to be reinstated, and also the
effect of the amendment regarding transfers.

The President General announced that she
had taken advantage of the fact that the Par-
liamentarian was still in the city and had re-
quested her to be present at the meeting of
the Board.

Mrs. Hanger stated that a matter regarding
the claims for charter membership of two mem-
bers had been before her for some time, and
notwithstanding she had consulted with the
Registrar General, had found it impossible to
arrive at a satisfactory settlement and she there-
fore moved that the President General be re-
quested to appoint a committee of three to look
into the claims of two members of our Society
regarding their charter membership. This
Committee to report their findings, with reconi-
viendations, to the Executive Committee. This
was seconded by Miss Strider and carried.

Miss Todd brought the inquiry from the
Delaware State Conference as to whether it was
incumbent on the State to again repair the
ceiling, the State having twice painted the
room and repaired the ceiling because of the
damage caused by the leaking roof. The Presi-
dent General stated that the Board having voted
to put on a new roof some time during the sum-
mer, there would no longer be the trouble there
had been for some years past. Mrs. Hanger,
as Chairman of Building and Grounds Com-
mittee, stated that it was the intent of that
Committee to ask each State whose room was
damaged to redecorate their room when the new
roof had been put on.

The following letter was read by Mrs. Fills,
who reciuested that the Board grant thu permis-
sion for the sale of the book.

" As there is a constant demand by visitors
for information concerning the wood-work and
furniture in the New Jersey Room in Memorial
Continental Hall, at the request of our Vice
] 'resident General, Mrs. William D. Sherrerd,
the Ann Whitall Chapter, Woodbury, N. J.,
has published a pamphlet compiled by Miss
Ellen L. Matlock, who was the originator <>t tlu'
idea of the plans for this room. We llurefdrr

beg permission to have these pamphlets placed
on sale in the glass case in the lobby of Memo-
rial Continental Hall. After the usual commis-
sion of ten per cent, has been deducted by your
committee in charge, the balance of the proceeds
are to be used toward the finishing of the win-
dows in the New Jersey Room, in Memorial
Continental Hall.

Respectfully submitted,

Altha M. Summerill,
Chairman of JJludozv Comniittcc for N. J.

Room."

Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman of Building and
Grounds Committee, stated that the matter had
been brought to her Committee, which approved
the request, feeling that this was not a special
favor to New Jersey inasmuch as that was the
only room in the Hall that was unique and all
the states shared in appreciation of its historical
value. Moved by Mrs. Young, seconded by
Mrs. Moss, and carried, that the request of the
Nezv Jersey Regent for publication and sale of
the History of the N'ezv Jersey Room in Memo-
rial Continental Hall be granted.

Mrs. Hunter called the attention of the Board
to one of the amendments to the By-laws pro-
viding that chapters delinquent for State dues
could not be represented at the Continental
Congress and stated that the Treasurer General
had no record of the payment by chapters of
State dues, therefore she moved that the State
Treasurers notify the Credential Committee by
March 1st if they have any delinquent chapters.
This was seconded by Mrs. White and carried.

Mrs. Heath requested permission for the sale
by a member of the Society of a little play or
historical pageant, to be published in a little
leaflet, which was used in North Carolina and
calls for which had come from other states, the
proceeds from the sale of which went to a
scholarship maintained in a patriotic school. No
formal action was taken, the President General
expressing her opinion that the member could
sell this booklet to chapters in other cities
or states.

Dr. Barrett spoke of the desire of the
Daughters of Virginia to preserve Kenmore,
the home of Betty Washington at Fredericks-
burg, in which effort they wished to enlist
the interest and help of other members of
the National Society. Moved by Mrs. Heath,
seconded by Mrs. Coolidge, and carried, that
the Virginia D.A.R. be allozved to circularize
the states in the interest of Kenmore. the his-
toric home of Betty Washington.

Mrs. White read the minutes of the meeting,
and on motion, duly seconded, tiie Board
adjourned at 2.05 p.m.

Louise C. Whitk.
Recording Secretary General pro tew.

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NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
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President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor.

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

1412 Victoria Ave.. Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83cl St., New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N.C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1830 T St., Washington, D.C.
(Term of office expires 1925)
Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, Mrs. Williard T. Block,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Annie Wallace,

Newcastle, Wyoming. Rochester, N. H.

Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, Mrs. Howard H. McCall,

Litchfield, Conn. Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Everest G. Sew^ell, 143 S. E. 2nd St., Miami, Fla.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D.C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,

Memorial Continental Hall.

Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1922-1923

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Wai.not St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

BisnEE.
MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,

Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,

817 W. .5tii Ave., Pine Bi.uff.
MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,

Amity.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY.

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.
MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. CLYDE C. DAWSON,
1211 Race St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,

235 N. Main St., Southington.
MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,
61 Seymour Ave., Derby.

DELAWARE

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,

Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 .0th St., N. E., Washington, D. C.
MRS. JOHN M. BEAVERS,

1752 Columbia Road, Washington, D. C.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

MRS. THEODORE STRAWN,
De Land.

GEORGIA

MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

IOC Culver St., Macon.
MRS. JULIUS Y. TALMADGE,
1295 Prince Avenue, Athens.

HAWAII

IRS. N. L. SCOTT,
The Courtland Hotel, Honolulu.

MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Second Ate., E. Twin Falls.
MRS. 1). W. STANDROD,

048 N. (UiriitLD Ave., Pocatello.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. ElUnCNE CHUBBUCK,

(iuAND Vh;w Drive, Peoria.
MRS. VINTON EARL SISSON,

545C Ferdinand St., Chicago.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,

]011 N. Penna St., Indianapolis.
MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW,

3128 Fairfield Ave., Ft. Wayne.

IOWA

MISS AMY (JILBERT,

State Center, Iowa.
MRS. II. A. WHITE,
815 5tii Ave., Clinton.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,
"Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. WILLIAM RODES,

152 E. High St., Lexington.
MRS. JOHN W. CHENAULT,

2217 Glexmart Ave., Louisville.

LOUISIANA

MRS. S. A. DICKSON,

1034 Jacobs St., Shreveport.
MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,
2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,
282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 GoFF St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,

2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bei.levue Ave., Me i, rose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,

Pinehurst, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.
MRS. ADDISON DRAKE KENT,
622 State St., St. Joseph.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

litiKi Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON

1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MISS HENRIETTA S. MITCHELL,

Jackson.
MRS. ROBERT SOMERVILLE,

Cleveland.

MISSOURI

MI!S. PAUL D. KITT,

ClIII.MCOTllE.

MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedai.ia.

MONTANA

MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

SI 4 S. Central Ave., Bo/.emajj.
MRS. ADELPHUS B. KEITH,

41 S S. Washington St., Bitte.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

1731 L. St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH,

Chadiion.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MKs, I.OKIX WF.BSTICU,

MUS. l.KSLIK P. SNOW,

!!(>( HESTER.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY D. FITTS,

44,s Kiiiii; St., Newark.
MRS. ClIAHLES R. BANKS,

13(is Wat( HUNG Ave., Plainfield.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. |{. P. BARNES,

.Al.lHljI'ElllJUK.

MRS. FRANCIS CUSHMAN WILSON,
Buena Vista Road, Sante Fe.

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NEW YORK

MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,

8 Lafayette St., Albany.
MRS. CHARLES M. BULL.
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPEXCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TILLETT,

810 N. Tryon St., Charlotte.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

Valley City.
MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,

300 8th St., South Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. WILLIAM MAGEE WILSON,
Church and King Sts., Xenia.

MRS. JAMES HENRY ALLEN,
431 N. Detroit St., Kenton.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. H. H. McCLINTOCK,

903 Johnston Ave., Bartlesville.
MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

OREGON

MISS ANNE M. LANG,

115 W. 4th St., The Dalles.
MRS. BRUCE L. BOGART,

962 Pearl St., Eugene.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston^ Linden Ave., Pittsdurgh.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westekly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,
4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN C. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,
Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL,

Siou.x Falls.
MRS. VIRGINIA BARCLAY MOODY,

Huron.

TENNESSEE

MRS. LOGAN SEITS GILLENTINE,

MURFREESBOnO.

MRS. JOHN H. CANTRELL,
821 Vine St., Chattanooga.

TEXAS

MRS. WILLIAM D. GARLINGTON,

2701 Fairmount Ave., Dallas.
MRS. SAMUEL L. SEAY,

710 Polk St., Amarillo.

UTAH

MRS. JOHN EDWARD CARVER,

718 2.5th St., Ogden.
MRS. CLESSON S. KINNEY,

820 E. 4t?i South, Salt Lake City.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

MlDDLEPURY.

MISS JENNIE VALENTINE,

BENNIN<iTOS.

VIRGINIA

DR. KATE WALLER BARRETT,

408 Duke St., Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,

911 Orchard Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER,

1804 15th Ave., Seattle.
MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,

724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.
MRS. W. H. CONAWAY,

109 Virginia Ave., Fairmont.

WISCONSIN

MRS. GEORGE L. PARKER,

805 Court St., Janesville.
MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER,
Wisconsin Rapids.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Box 1070. Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CAROLINE E. McWILLIAMS HOLT.

744 A. Mabini, Manila, P. I.
MRS. ELAINE GUILDS ELSER,

600 M. H. del Pelar, Manila, P. I.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. JOHN W. FO.STER,
MRS. DANIEL MANNING,

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,
MRS. WILLIAM GUMMING STORY,
MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD.

MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK, 1899.
MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1899.
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD, 1905.
MRS. WILLIAM LINDSEY, 1906.
MRS. HELEN M. BOYNTON, 1906.
MRS. SARA T. KINNEY, 1910.

Honorary Vice Presidents General

MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH, 1911.

MRS. THEODORE C. BATES, 1913.

MRS. F. GAYLORD PUTNAM, 1913.

MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.

MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.

5IRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.

MRS. GEORGE M. STERNBERG, 1917.

J. E. Caldwell & Co.

JEWELRY— SILVER— STATIONERY

Official Jewelers and Stationers N .S. D. A. R.

MAKERS of jewelry, gold ware,
silverware, stationery, trophies,
medals, bronze memorials.

Importers of pearls, and other precious
stones; watches and clocks; Chinese por-
celains and carved hardstones; antique
English silverware and Sheffield plate;
English china; leather goods, canes and
umbrellas; opera glasses and binoculars;
Chinese lamps and shades; ostrich feather
fans, etc.

J. E. Caldwell & Co. reset and modernize
old jewelery, submitting sketches for
approval before proceeding with the work.

They design cards of Personal Greeting for
Christmas, the New Year and the various
anniversary days. Also book plates and
heraldic indications.

All Correspondence Receives the Prompt
Attention of Experts

PHILADELPHIA

AUGUST, 1922

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Distinguished South Carolinians in the St. AIemin Collection

OF Miniatures 45]^

By Dolores Boisfeuilett Colquitt

Sketch of Mrs. Mary Parke McFerson Foster 458

A Message from the President General 460

State Conferences 462

Work of the Chapters 464

Genealogical Department 474

A Page in Heraldry 483

Announcement of Historical Programs for 1922 484

Honor Roll of the D. A. R. Magazine 485

National Board of Management —

Regular Meeting of 486

Official List of 507

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VOL. LVr, No. 8

AUGUST, 1922

WHOLE No. 3 60

DISTINGUISHED SOUTH CAROLINIANS IN THE
ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES

By Dolores Boisfeuillet Colquitt

HE vogue of St. ^lemin's min-
iatures at the commencement of
the past century is disclosed by
the vast number of persons of
rank and fortune who " sat " for
this artist during his wander-
ings from New York to Savannah. In
South Carolina he portrayed besides
others, Izards, Pinkneys and Calhouns —
imperishable names stamped on the scroll
of American patriots.

Ralph Izard, whose portrait miniature
appears in the St. Alemin collection at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
was the son of the Honorable Ralph
Izard, member of Congress and United
States Senator, born near Charleston,
South Carolina, in 1741. He was edu-
cated in England at Cambridge Uni-
versity, and after returning to his native
State, often visited New York, and it was
there that he wooed and married Alice
De Lacy, niece of Governor De Lacy, of
New York.

In order to gratify his literary and
artistic taste, he went to live in London
and enjoyed the society of distinguished

men. Mrs. Izard's portrait was at this
time painted by Gainsborough, and during
a visit at Rome, Copely painted the double
portrait of Mr. and Mrs. Izard which
now hangs in the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts.

" Returning to England during the
strained relations with the American Col-
onies, Ralph Izard strove to avert the
conflict, but finding all efiforts vain, retired
with his family to Paris." While plan-
ning to return to America he was
appointed in 1776 by Congress, Commis-
sioner to Tuscany, but was delayed at
Paris by aiding in securing funds for
ships of war. " This delay and con-
troversies with Franklin and Deane led
to his recall, but when his explanatory
dispatches were received. Congress ap-
proved his course."

He was back in America in 1780 and
enjoying the confidence of Washington.
He was instrumental in securing the ap-
pointment of General Nathanael Greene
to the Southern Army. Soon after
this Ralph Izard was chosen dele-
gate to Congress from South Carolina.

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^^'hen peace was established he re-
turned to his native State to devote his
time to the restoration of his property,
which " had been under confiscation and
was in a deplorable state of ruin." He
died at his mansion in Charleston in 1804.

His son, Ralph Izard, whom St. Memin
has portrayed, was born in Charleston,
1784, and was one of the midshipmen sent
by Decatur to recapture the frigate
PhiladclpJiia in the harbor of Tripoli. He
married in 1808, Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas Middleton, of the " Oaks," and
his second wife was Eliza Lucas, daughter

^ yjf^^'^ ■

ANUREW HAZELHUKSl

of General Charles Cotesworth Pinkney.
The Pinkneys were of English des-
cent, three branches of which established
themselves in America — in New York,
Maryland and South Carolina. William
Pinkney, of Maryland, jurist, statesman
and diplomat, added distinction to the
name contemporaneously with the
brothers. General Thomas Pinkney and
General Charles Cotesworth Pinkney, of
South Carolina. These two were sons of
Charles Pinkney, " commonly known as
Chief Justice Pinkney, a man of great
integrity and considerable eminence under

ROBERT HAZELHURST

the Provincial Government." He was a
son of Thomas Pinkney and Mary Cotes-
worth, who established the family in
South Carolina, locating at Charleston.

Charles Cotesworth Pinkney, author of
the famous utterance: " Millions for
defense, but not one cent for tribute,"
was a general in the American Revolution,
and on the return of peace resumed the
practice of law for which he had been
educated in England. In 1796 President
Washington appointed him Minister to

ALEXANDER BARON. JR.

SOUTH CAROLINIANS IN ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES 453

ALEXANDER BARON

France. He married Sarah, daughter of
Henry Middleton, the second President
of Congress, whose son Arthur Middleton
was a Signer of the Declaration of
Independence.

The similarity in the careers of
the two brothers is remarkable. Thomas
Pinkney was also educated in England,
returned to South Carolina and became
a general in the American Revolution.
After peace he became Governor of his
State, and in 1792 was appointed Minister
to the Court of St. James, and later,

Minister Extraordinary to his Catholic
Majesty at Madrid. Again he entered the
military field when in 1812 President
Madison appointed him to command the
Southern Army. He had also been hon-
ored by being nominated for Vice
President on the ticket with John Adams.
General Charles Cotesworth Pinkney
and General Thomas Pinkney were re-
spectively, third and fourth Presidents
General of the Society of the Cincinnati.
General Washington and Alexander
Hamilton having l)een the first and second.

HENRY HALL

JOHN TAYLOR

The last time the two brothers ap-
peared in public together was when
Lafayette visited Charleston in 1825.
These brothers dressed in their full regi-
mentals as generals and the ribbon of the
Cincinnati, were warmly embraced in the
French manner on the streets of Charles-
ton during a halt in the procession of
welcome to the distinguished visitor.

James Calhoun in the St. Memin col-
lection immediately calls to mind John
Caldwell Calhoun, one of America's
greatest orators, whose voice echoed in
the halls of Congress in the famous
Calhoun-Webster debates and whose
death occurred " after a final speech on

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nullification." It is here interesting to
recall that he died at the " Old Capitol "
(125 First Street, N. E., Washington),
which at the time of this writing " comes
to its future as a New Capitol — the head-
quarters of the Woman's National party,"
destined to play another great part in the
political affairs of the Nation.

Among the Calhoun brothers who
came to South Carolina and founded
" Calhoun's Settlement " in 1756, was
Patrick Calhoun, who held high positions
under the Colonial and new government.
Famous in his era in the debate of law.

JAMES CALHOUN

he has transmitted his oratorical charac-
teristics to many of his descendants,
especially to his son, the above mentioned
Charles Caldwell Calhoun, and to his
grandson. Honorable John Temple
Graves, noted orator of the present day.

Patrick Calhoun's nephew, William
Calhoun, married Rebecca Tonnyliill in
1768, and it is their son, James Calhoun,
who appears in the St. Memin miniatures.
He married Elizal)eth Dabney and had a
number of children.

Drayton is another distinguished frunil\-
of which St. Memin has portrayed a

CAPTAIN CHARLES PINRNEY

member — Captain Charles Drayton. An
old document, yet in existence, gives an
interesting description of the uniform
recommended for the volunteer company
of 1775 organized by Captain Charles
Drayton, of Revolutionary fame, in South
Carolina. It reads thus : " Scarlet French
Frock Coats — with white Lappels, Collars
& Cuffs with white Buttons & white waist-
coat & Breeches ; to wear Buckskin and
Black Garters . . . The officers by way
of distinction to wear Silver Epaulets — a

JOHN LEWIS (;ERVA1S

SOUTH CAROLINIANS IN ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES 455

JOHN LEWIS f;ER\'AlS. JR.

Silver Girdle & Loop & Button in their
hats — to have Silver Gorgets on which
be engraved in a circle an armed hand
holding a drawn sword — round which a
motto Ef Deus omnipotcns — The privates
to wear military cocked hats with
Cockades."

Among other patriots of this family
was William Henry Drayton, born 1742
at Drayton Hall, on Ashley River, South
Carolina. He died at Philadelphia in
1779. He had been educated in England
in com])any with the Pinkney brothers.
At the time of the American Revolution

he was a member of the Council of
Safety in his State and became its
president, and was president of the Pro-
vincial Congress in 1775, and later
Chief Justice of South Carolina. In 1778
he was elected delegate to the Continental
Congress, where he continued until his
death. To him is attributed the design
of one side of the great Seal of the State
of South Carolina.

His only son John, born 1766, educated
at Princeton and in England, was Gov-
ernor of South Carolina in 1800, and

CAPTAIN RALPH IZARD

MRS. JOHN DRAYTON

U. S. Judge in 1812. He married Mary
Tidyman, daughter of Dr. Philip Tidy-
man, on November 6, 1794.

Plenry Hall and Andrew Hazlehurst
a])pear in the collection of St. Memin
miniatures. Henry Hall, a merchant of
Charleston, was a son or grandson of
Honorable George Abbott Hall, whose
daughter married Robert Hazlehurst, a
prominent merchant of the same city
and Philadelphia.

Robert Hazlehurst and his brother
Isaac, natives of Manchester, England,
came to America just prior to the Ameri-
can Revolution and located at Philadel-
phia. They became engaged in mercantile

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pursuits and amassed considerable wealth,
and were associated with Robert Morris
in financing the Revolution. There are
many of the descendants of these two
brothers living in Philadelphia, South
Carolina and Georgia.

Robert Hazlehurst's home in Charles-
ton is yet in existence and has recently
been remodelled. Another of his resi-
dences was on Daniels Island, in St.
Thomas' Parish. " It contained mahogany
floors as well as doors, mahogany beams,

GOV. JOHN DRAYTON

closets and paneling, which dated from
the days when he traded with the
West Indies."

The father-in-law of Robert Hazlehurst,
Honorable George Abbott Hall, had been
among the prisoners whom the British
confined at Saint Augustine for a year
after the capture of Charleston, and on
his release, he went with other prisoners
to Philadelphia.

In the St. Memin collection appear the
miniatures of John Lewis Gervais and his
son, John Lewis Gervais, junior. The
father was a native of Germany and died
in Qiarleston in 1798. His wife was
Mary Sinclair. He was a member of the

THEODORE GOURDIN

Continental Congress and served on an
important committee to which letters were
referred from the United States repre-
sentatives abroad. He numbered among
his most intimate friends and companions
Colonel Henry Laurens, the cele-
brated patriot.

John Taylor in the St. Memin collec-
tion, United States Senator and Governor
of South Carolina, was a member of the
Taylor family upon whose plantation the
greater part of Columbia, the State Capi-
tal, is built. The owner of the plantation,

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SOUTH CAROLINIANS IN ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES

45/

Thomas Taylor, was a member of the
Provincial Congress of South Carolina in
1775, colonel of militia in 1780, and mem-
ber of the State Convention which adopted
the Constitution of the United States.
He died in 1833, in his ninety-first year.

Theodore Gourdin in the St. Memin
collection, planter, of Pineville, St.
Stephen's Parish, Member of Congress in
1813, was a descendant of Louis Gervais,
a Huguenot who fled from Artois, in

France, and settled on the Santee River
in South Carolina, in 1685. He died in
1716, and a tablet erected to his memory is
to be seen in the quaint old Huguenot
church of the parish.

Two noted physicians of Charleston in
the St. Memin collection are Alexander
Baron and his son. The father was born
in Scotland, 1745, and was educated at
Edinburgh. He died in 1819 at Charles-
ton, after a long residence in that city.

ORGANIZATION OF EARLY CHAPTERS

in the
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution

Chapter

City

State

Date of Or

ganization

" Chicago "

Chicago

Illinois

March

20, 1891

" Atlanta "

Atlanta

Georgia

April

15. 1891

" Nova Csesarea "

Newark

New Jersey

April

15.1891

" New York City "

New York

New York

April

19, 1891

" Wyoming Valley "

Wilkes Rarre

Pennsylvania

May

1,1891

" Pittsburgh "

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

June

10. 1891

" Xavier "

Rome

Georgia

"lulv

15, 1891

" St. Paul •'

St. Paul

Minnesota

Oct.

14, 1891

" Lexington "

Lexington

Kentucky

Oct.

1891

" Sequoia "

San Francisco

California

Dec.

10, 1891

" Bristol "

Bristol

Rhode Island

Dec.

17, 1891

" Western Reserve "

Cleveland

Ohio

Dec.

19, 1891

SKETCH OF
MRS. MARY PARKE McFERSON FOSTER

Third President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution

RS. MARY PARKE McFERSON
FOSTER, widow of John Watson
Foster, who was one of America's
most distinguished diplomats, died at
her home in Washington, D. C, on
June 18, 1922. She was eighty-one
years of age and had been in ill health
for the past four months. With her at the time
of her death were her daughters, Mrs. Allen
M. Dulles and Mrs. Lansing, wife of Hen.
Robert Lansing, Secretary of State vmder
President Woodrow Wilson. Following the
funeral services on the 19th at the family
residence the body was taken to Evansville,
Indiana, for interment.

Mrs. Foster was born in Salem, Indiana, on
August 14, 1840. She was married to General
Foster in 1859. General Foster had a long
and brilliant career. He served with the Union
forces throughout the Civil War, during which
he earned the title of general. From 1892 to
1893 he served under President Harrison as
Secretary of State, and later served as United
States envoy to Mexico, Russia, and Spain. He
was the author of many books on diplomacy.
Mrs. Foster was a charter member of the
Daughters of the American Revolution, her
national number having been 185. She was
admitted to membership at the meeting of the
National Board of Management on February 14,
1891, and evinced a deep interest in the develop-
ment of the Society. At the fourth Continental
Congress in 1895 she was elected President
General and served for one year, refusing
reelection. Subsequent to that she had occupied
the office of Vice President General. It was
(luring Mrs. Foster's administration that the
charter, signed by Grovcr Cleveland, Pres-
ident of the United States; .A.dlai E. Stevenson,

Vice President ; Thomas B. Reed, Speaker of
the House of Representatives; and Richard
Olney, Secretary of State, was granted to
the National Society.

Mrs. Foster came of distinguished ancestry.
She was a direct descendent of John Reade
(1598-1685) of Rehobeth, Mass., who came
to America with the great fleet in 1630, and
whose name was third on the list of Rehobeth
purchasers; of Captain Thomas White (1599-
1679). Deputy to Massachusetts General
Court, also of his son, Captain Ebenezer White
of Weymouth; of Robert Taft (1640-1725)
one of the Braintree men who formed the
settlement of Mendon, Massachusetts, (1667),
and of Captain Taft of Uxbridge; of Thomas
Emerson and his wife, Elizabeth Brewster of
Ipswich ; of Deacon Nicholas Phillips of Wey-
mouth (1640) ; of William Browne who came
to America in 1686 and settled in Leiscester,
and many others.

Her revolutionary ancestors included Captain
Silas Clark, Corporal Daniel Reade, and others.
After the death of her father, the Reverend
Alexander McFerson in 1845, Mrs. Foster's
mother. Mrs. Eliza J. Reade McFerson, be-
came the Principal of Female Seminaries at
Bloomington, Indiana and Glendale, Ohio. Two
of the latter's brothers were physicians and one
a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ohio.

In 1896 at the close of her administration.
Mrs. Foster was elected Honorary President
General of The Daughters of the American
Revolution for life. She later served on many
imjiortant Congressional Committees. She
always retained her interest in the organiza-
tion and was proud of its development into
a Society of national scope and influence.

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MRS. JOHN W. FOSTER

PRESIDENT GENERAL, NATIONAL SOCIETY DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1895-1896.
DIED IN WASHINGTON, SUNDAY, JUNE 18, 1922

A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

LTHOUGH August is vacation time
for many, nevertheless the hum of
politics is growing louder and louder
as November elections draw near.
Primaries are already being held in
many states. The candidates you are
to be asked to vote for are being
chosen. Are you as patriotic women and
voters taking part in their selection? I feel
this is a very pertinent question and one which
every loyal American voter who reads this Mag-
azine should ask of her, or his, own conscience
— for men among our readers are many.

As an organization the Daughters of the
American Revolution do not and should not
take sides in politics, but it is preeminently the
duty of every Daughter as an individual to
affiliate with the party of her choice and throw
her vote and active influence into the scale for
good, loyal and honest candidates. The kind
of candidates who run for seats in the United
States Congress depends upon each one of you,
severally and individually doing your civic duty,
and being alive to your civic responsibility.

I feel this to be so important a thing in our
great democracy that I want to reiterate in
this connection what I said to the Thirty-first
Congress last April, because our democracy is
being threatened by a very real danger which
as Daughters and citizens it is our duty to
help counteract.

This danger is the slacker voter, both male
and female. There are startling statistics re-
vealed by the last census, which show that
millions of eligible voters in this country are
too indifferent to go to the polls. Out of
54,521,832 eligible voters, 27,763,966 did not
take the trouble to cast their vote — over one-
half of our electorate, in other words, failed
in this most sacred duty of citizenship, and of
this failure, the women must bear their full
share of responsibility. Is it any wonder that
politics are corrupt, that selfish and cowardly
men are in office all over this country for what
they can get out of it? How many dare not
do the right thing for fear of losing votes? Is
it any wonder that we face the disheartening
spectacle of political cowards cringing under
the whip of powerful groups demanding legis-
lation under threat of loss of votes if it is
refused? This political fear in high places is
the curse of our country, but whose fault is it?
If 27,000,000 voters care so little who govern
them that they voluntarily renounce the price-
less privilege of self-governing mankind, they
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have the kind of rulers they deserve. What
will be the end of our democracy if our citizens
are so careless of this great duty and moral
obligation of the ballot?

The price of free democracy is loyal, intel-
ligent service in the primaries and at the polls.
Put up clean, honest, fearless men for office
and then go and vote for them. Clearly this is
your duty and privilege; loyalty to Home and
Country demands it. Can the country which
our forefathers founded on the principles of
self-government endure if its citizens are civic
slackers ? I cannot believe but that public
conscience will awaken, will be shocked into
animation by this startling revelation of the
census — will set itself to rectify this appalling
evil. Remember, we women are one-half of
the citzens of this Republic. We must help in
this awakening. In every community Daughters
of the American Revolution will here find a
wide field of service. How dare we attempt to
teach good citizenship to the foreigner if we
are not good and faithful citizens ourselves?
Let us be found among the intelligent, loyal
and constant voters everywhere in our own
communities, setting an example of good
citizenship. Let us put courageous men in
office — men who are not afraid to refuse to
put the base dollar-mark on patriotism; who
are not afraid to stand for the right because
it is right ; who are not afraid of the soldier
vote or the Irish vote or the German vote or
the labor vote, or the farmer vote, or any other
bloc of votes, but dare to serve the best inter-
ests of the whole country, whatever happens
to them.

Do we want the kind of men who are now
hurrying home from Congress bent on mending
their political fences instead of staying at their
desks and attending to the duties they v/ere
elected to perform, thus putting their own
selfish interests ahead of their country's?

There is also a trend in our political affairs
which we may well watch with deep concern.
To cope with it, demands that only loyal
Americans be sent to Congress. Denuncia-
tions of the Supreme Court and other radical
speeches by legislators in high places, and move-
ments toward all kinds of radically dangerous
amendments to our country's constitution are
becoming all too common. To combat these
conditions is the need of the hour. Never
before has our country so sorely needed the
service in public office, and especially in Con-
gress, of the sane, conservative and unquestion-

A MES.SAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

461

ably loyal American, who understands, respects
and upholds the Constitution and the system
of government of which it is the foundation.
There is an element of turbulent unrest in this
country which will lead to revolution unless the
masses of the people hold steadily to the prin-
ciples of government on which our country is
built up, and are determined that only those who
uphold these principles shall represent them.

I could go into detail about the revolutionary
assaults being made on otir institutions in
speeches or proposed amendments were there
space, but you need only read the newspapers
to learn of the dangers to which I refer.

Our constitution is the bed-rock of our
liberties; it should not be subject to easy
change; it should not contain what belongs
only to statutory law; it should not be cor-
rupted into an instrument for favoring one
class of our people more than another; it should
not be corrupted into being a reformatory for
the promotion of everybody's pet reform; it
should not be made the instrument of its own
destruction which would be the result of estab-
lishing a Congressional veto over Supreme
Court decisions such as is now being clamored
for by certain circles in organized labor.

All these things and many more are being
urged by labor organizations and women's
organizations and are the entering wedges of
revolutionary changes that would overturn the
liberty we enjoy.

I speak especially now to the women. Do
not be misled by these things, but bend all
your efforts toward electing those to Congress
who will also be too sane and too American in
heart and soul to be misled. On the character
of our next United States Congress much de-
pends for national safety and preparedness
against all dangers at home and abroad.

Don't be a civic slacker in these dangerous
days, but do your full duty as a citizen in the
primaries and at the polls. Each and every
one of you is needed there. Next month I
shall speak of our more specific D. A. R.
concerns; but this message concerns every
loyal American woman, and more than all it
concerns her who prides herself on being a
Daughter of the American Revolution— a
daughter of the founders— and all that this
means of loyal service to our country.

After my message went to press there
occurred that appalling instance of revolution-
ary lawlessness in Herron, Illinois, which paints
the truth of its warning in lurid colors. In the
midst of our civilized land, non-union men were
massacred in cold blood with Bolshevistic
savagery for merely exercising the right of
every human being to work and earn an honest
living in peace and safety. This, it seems, is
not in accord with the greedy and tyrannical
law of unionism, which, when it will not work
itself, lays down the law that no one else
shall work on the job; it violated "union law,"
therefore in the eyes of unionism it gave suffi-
cient reason for union men to violate the Con-
stitution of the Nation, and commit a deed that
puts Hun warfare or Russian Bolshevism to
shame. The most shocking thing about it was
the callous indifference of public officials
presumably elected as guardians of the law,
to say nothing of their open sympathy with the
law-breakers ; and equally shocking is the
apparently apathy of the inhabitants of Herron
and of Williamson County, who seem to have
no realizing sense of the iniquity of this deed
of horror which has brought disgrace not alone
upon their own community but upon the whole
nation. What becomes of our Constitution if
men can be thus massacred while a community
looks calmly on, and then after a farcical " in-
vestigation " lays all the blame onto the vic-
tims ? What becomes of the " right to life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness " guaran-
teed by that Constitution if men are not free
to work in safety? Union law has been put
above the Constitution and thus far no one has
been brought to justice, and no attempt to do
it has even been made.

A more terrible illustration of political
cowardice cringing before the power of organ-
ized groups, or deliberately sympathizing with
their lawlessness, can hardly be imagined. Does
it need any further appeal to all citizens, both
men and women, to see to it that only the
courageous, the patriotic and the law-abiding
are put in office in every community as well
as in Congress?

We are looking to Illinois to vindicate law
and order and uphold the Constitution of the
state and nation. If it does not, the whole
country should rise in indignant protest.
AxNE Rogers Minor,
President General.

CALIFORNIA

The Fourteenth Annual State Conference of
the Daughters of the American Revolution of
California was held March 9th and 10th in the
ballroom of the Alexandria Hotel in Los
Angeles. It was an interesting and instructive
conference, particularly so, as the President
General, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, and
other National Officers were present. California,
far in the west, appreciates the personal con-
tact with the National Officers and we hope
for more frequent visits. Mrs. Minor was not
able to attend the opening session on account
of illness, but attended during part of the
session the subsequent day.

The National Officers present were : Vice
President General, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook;
Vice President General, Mrs. Cassius C. Cot-
tle; Treasurer General, Mrs. Livingstone Hun-
ter ; Historian General, Miss Jenn Winslow
Coltrane ; Chairman International Relations,
Mrs. William N. Reynolds ; Chairman House
Committee, Memorial Continental Hall, Miss
Katherine Nettleton : Miss Dorothy Hunter
was also present as a member of Mrs.
Minor's party.

Of the fifty-five chapters in California,
forty-six sent representatives. The State
Officers present were : State Regent, Mrs. O.
H. Harshbarger; State Vice Regent, Mrs.
Lyman Polk Stookey ; State Recording Sec-
retary, Mrs. Allen Haines Vance; State
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Ivy Perkins
Cerkel ; Treasurer, Mrs. E. K. Roberts ; Audi-
tor, North, Mrs. K. L. Evans ; Auditor, South,
Mrs. O. P. Burdg; State Historian, Mrs.
William P. Nye; State Chaplain, Mrs. Charles
W. Carter; State Librarian, Mrs. Charles Booth.

Mrs. Cassius Cottle, our Vice President Gen-
eral from California, welcomed the visiting
Daughters, Mrs. Allen Haines Vance, State Rec-
ording Secretary, responding. Greetings were
brought from the Daughters of Founders and
Patriots by Mrs. James W. Johnson ; from the
Daughters of 1812 by Mrs. H. E. Bartlett ; and
from the Children of the American Revolution
by Mrs. George W. McCoy.

The addresses of the National Officers were
interesting and instructive. During the noon
intermissions, Mrs. Hunter gave interesting in-
462

formal talks to the chapter treasurers ; Miss Col-
trane to the chapter historians ; and Mrs. Rey-
nolds to the chairmen of International Relations.

The State Regent, Mrs. O. H. Harshbarger,
gave a gratifying report of a successful year's
work. She reported 2556 members in Cali-
fornia affiliated with chapters and 449 members
at large. There are at present fifty-five chapters
in the State — six organized during the year —
Bakersfield, Fresno, Sacramento, Chico, Red
Bluff, and Pacific Grove. There are four in
the process of formation — South San Fran-
cisco, Orland, University of California Campus,
and Eureka. California is 100 per cent, in all
National work and has a clear balance sheet
in state work.

The state chairmen and chapter regents gave
interesting reports of active work in all lines of
Daughters of the American Revolution endeavor.

The benefits of the work of Americanization
in the Albion Street School, in Los Angeles,
carried on by the Daughters of the southern
part of the state, were examplified by the
appearance on the program of the Women's
Chorus from that school. This work among
the women of the foreign colonies is to be
highly commended.

The chapters from the Northern District
sent down a fine exhibit of garments made
by the Children of the Paul Revere School of
San Francisco. Tamalpais Chapter, assisted by
Sequoia and La Puerta de Ora Chapters send
members weekly to the Paul Revere School to
teach the children sewing and at the same time,
inculcate American principles in the hearts
and minds of these little citizens of foreign
born parents. Mrs. Carrie Humphreys, Chair-
man of Patriotic Education of Tamalpais
Chapter has had the classes in charge during
the past year. The garments displayed were
a credit to teachers and pupils.

San Diego Chapter brought to the Conference
sample layettes which the San Diego daughters
are making for the families of ex-service men.
San Diego Chapter has also published an inter-
esting history " San Diego's Yesterdays."

The State Chaplain, Mrs. Charles W. Carter,
gave a touching tribute to the 28 Daughters
of California who have died during the year
and a special tribute was paid to two of our
past State Regents, Mrs. Frederick Jewell Laird

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463

and Mrs. Isaac Newton Chapman who died
during the year.

Mrs. H. A. Atwood's touching appeal for
the American Indian resuhed in the Conference
adopting a resolution instituting an " Indian
Welfare " Committee.

A resolution was also adopted recommending
that the chapters in California take steps to
see that Washington's Birthday be observed as
a school holiday. The California State School
law leaves this matter to the discretion of local
School Boards and some Boards have seen fit
to eliminate the holiday. An effort will be
made to amend the law and make the
observance compulsory.

Previous to the official opening, the National
and State Officers were entertained by Los
Angeles Chapter — at the Wilshire Country
Club ; Eschscholtzia Chapter — at the Ebell
Club House, by Hollywood Chapter — at the
Hollywood Women's Club ; and by Cabrillo
Chapter at the home of Mrs. Bent, after a
peep into " Movie Land."

The official opening of the conference was a
dinner at the Alexandria Hotel attended by
over 450 daughters and guests. The drive to
Mission Inn, where the guests were entertained
at luncheon by the members of Aurantia and
Rubideaux Chapters of Riverside, was enjoyed
by all. From Riverside, the guests motored to

Claremont, dining with the chapter to which
Miss Helen Wing new State Recording Secre-
tary belongs, Claremont Chapter, and from there
on to San Gabriel to witness the Mission Play,
a portrayal of the founding, rise, and decline
of the Calfornia missions."

The State Officers elected at the conference
were as follows : Regent, Mrs. Lyman B.
Stookey; Vice Regent, Mrs. Allen Haines
Vance ; Recording Secretary, Miss Helen Wing ;
Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. J. F. Kent;
Treasurer, Mrs. H. E. Bean; Auditor, North,
Mrs. Francis Gray; Auditor, South, Mrs. Jesse
Shreve; Historian, Mrs. Cornelia Tibbits ;
Chaplain, Mrs. John W. Hoyt ; Director, South,
Mrs. Charles B. Booth; Librarian, Mrs. Mary
L. Norton.

The State Regent, Mrs. O. H. Harshbarger,
carried an interesting progani to a close,
presiding with dignity, and grace.

At the close of the conference, the daughters
made a pilgrimage to Victory Memorial
Grove, where the chapters of Southern Cali-
fornia have erected a monument to our dear
ones who made the supreme sacrifice during the
World War. There on the hilltop, overlooking
the mountains and the sea, we dedicated our-
selves anew to " Home and Country" — " that
these honored dead shall not have died in vain."
Mrs. Allen Haines Vance,

Recording Secretary.

The National Society, Daughters of the /Vmerican Revolution,
records with deep sorrow the death at Plymouth, Massachusetts, on
July 15, 1922, of Miss Grace M. Pierce. Registrar General, 1909. 1910,
1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, and Genealogist of the National
Society since 1918.

WORKofiKc CHAPTERS

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Chapter Reports must be Typewritten EDITOR.

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Shadrack Bond Chapter (Carthage, 111.).
In April, 1921, was celebrated the 25th anni-
versary of the organization of this Chapter.
At the meeting, which was held in the home
of the charter member, Mrs. Julia E. Ferris,
a resume of the history of the Chapter was
given by two charter members, Mrs. Laura J.
Miller Noyes and Mrs. Ellen L. Carey Mack.
As a part of the celebration, the Regent announ-
ced that a Library Fund of $200 had been
raised, the interest of which should be used to
buy books for the city Library; that a scholar-
ship loan of $50 in Carthage College, in
honor of founder and first regent, Mrs. Laura
J. Miller Noyes, had been established. Tea
was served, and a beautiful birthday cake with
inscription " D.A.R. 1896-1921." The Chap-
ter was represented at the Washington
convention. On Decoration Day, a bronze
tablet commemorating the speaking of Stephen
A. Douglas in Carthage on October 11, 1858,
was placed on the south side of the Court House.
The Chapter promoted the sale of poppies for
the American Legion ; assisted in the observance
of American Education Work in the Public
Schools; purchased for the city library the H.
G. Wells History, Modern Democracy by James
Bryce, a subscription for the National Geo-
graphic Magazine, gave prizes in public schools
and local Academy for excellence in study of
American History, and purchased Lineage
books to complete file. Program of year con-
sisted of study and display of old photographs,
old china, clothing, books, etc. All pledges
for state or national projects have been met.
Mary L. Tressler Newcomer,

Wauseon Chapter (Wauseon, O.). In her
report to the 22nd Annual Ohio Conference,
D.A.R., Our Regent reported a membership of
54, 17 of whom are non-resident members. As
a means of raising funds we use the mite box
system. Over $67 was raised by this method,
half of which amount was sent to the Schauffler
School and the remaining half was divided
equally between the Hinman and Berry Schools.
The Chapter gave a gold medal to the high
school student of American history having the
highest average grade. Clippings and booklets
of historical interest were sent to the Librarian
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General and several pieces of old china were
sent to the National Museum. The china was
donated by Mr. George Green, whose wife, now
deceased, was a charter member of our Chapter.
Several bound " Journals of American History"
a gift of Mr. Green, were placed in the
Wauseon Public Library, also the Daughters
OF the American Revolution Magazine was
placed in the Library as usual. Unbound vol-
umes of the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine were bound and added
to the library's book racks.
(Mrs. W. H.) Florence Spring Maddox.

Polly Sumner Chapter (Quincy, 111.). Chap-
ter Day, January 14th, was an unusually pleasant
occasion for Polly Sumner Chapter, D.A.R.,
when the Regent, Mrs. Homer W. Jackson
and members of the Chapter, entertained at
luncheon in the Hotel Quincy.

Roll call was answered in group arrangement,
six leaders calling upon the individual members
for an account of their part in the development
of a plan for increasing the Chapter's funds.
Many and amusing were the ways and means
employed and it was found that Mrs. Alaria E.
Sibley, although the oldest member of the
Chapter, had made the largest sum by selling
dainty handkerchiefs which she herself had
hemstitched, which sum was generously doubled
by Mrs. Grant M. Curtis, who had suggested
the plan.

After the serving of the five-course menu,
toasts were given by the group leaders, as
follows : D.A.R. Literature, Mrs. John A. Con-
nery; Historical Interests of the D.A.R., Mrs.
S. W. Eldred; Importance of D.A.R., Social
Activity, Mrs. Don Hoover ; Flowers for our
Shut-ins, Mrs. Joseph Trescher ; Our Chapter,
Mrs. Edward Donahue ; Where Our Money
Goes, Mrs. L. R. Hazell.

The forty-one members and guests were re-
ceived by Mrs. Jackson, who is serving her
second year as Regent of the Chapter, assisted
by Miss Gertrude Pease and Mrs. J. G. Fore-
man, First and Second Vice Regents.

Ona S. Connerv,
Magazine Committee,
Ada S. Peter.
Secretary.

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Deborah Franklin Chapter (Atlantic, Iowa),
has finished its second year of work under
the capable leadership of our Regent, Mrs.
Katharine Williams. There have been ten
regular meetings and one special meeting with
an average attendance of eighteen.

The membership has been increased by six
members : — Mrs. Ella Limpus, Mrs. Sallie
Johnson, Mrs. Ruth Griffith ; Mrs. Byrde Day,
Mrs. Florence Barnett and Miss Mary Curry.
Miss Hedges and Miss Fribble became mem-
bers at large.

Two history pins were secured and awarded
to the two pupils having the highest averages
in eighth grade history. The recipients were
Ronnold Lee with 98 per cent, average and
Edward Cunningham 97.11 per cent. During
the year $10 was sent to the Martha Berry
School in Georgia, also $10 and two barrels
of clothing were sent to the Piney Woods School
in Mississippi. The Chapter purchased ten
copies of the Manual, which are to be given
to those becoming citizens of our country.

During the year two Social affairs were
held, a picnic with Mrs. Miller at the Noyer
home, October 10, 1921, and a luncheon with
Miss Mary Nichols, May 8, 1922, at which time
the annual election occurred with the following
results : Regent, Mrs. Lucinda McGeehon ; Vice
Regent, Mrs. Cornelia Shrauger ; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Mabel Whitney ; Corresponding
Secretary, Mrs. Anna Nichols ; Treasurer, Mrs.
Lizette Niles ; Registrar, Mrs. Etta Musson ;
Chaplain, Mrs. Carrie Townsend ; Historian,
Miss Anna Henderson. Board of Directors;
Mrs. Katherine Williams, Mrs. Adda Whitmore,
Mrs. Augusta Allender.

The program for the year was under the head
of the " Women in American History" and
many interesting papers were read, some of
them being accounts of the pioneer women
belonging to the families of Chapter members.
(Mrs. T. H.) Mabel T. Whitney,

Secretary.

Namaqua Chapter (Loveland, Colo.). On
February 28, 1922, a goodly number of the
members of Namaqua Chapter, gathered at the
high school for the regular assembly period.
The Regent, Mrs. R. H. Oviatt, presided, in
her usual dignified manner during the following
program, which had been planned by the
patriotic committee :

Song-" America" High School.

Soprano Solo The Flag Mrs. Roy Buck.

Reading — "Maria L. Sanford's Apos-
trophe to the Flag .... Mrs. Paul Ferguson.

Presentation of the American's Creed

Mrs. G. W. Foster.

Song — " America the Beautiful,"

Girls Glee Club.

A copy of the American's Creed had been

given to each one present and all, with uplifted
right hands, joined in repeating it.

(Mrs. S. E.) M.'\rg.'\ret Rensh.\w,

Press Correspondent.

Daniel Morgan Chapter (Gaffney, S. C).
under the regency of Miss Mayme Jefferies,
has done a wonderful work during the past
two years. We have eight founderships to
Tomassee Alountain School ; one being dedi-
cated to our deceased mem.bers ; to this school
we have sent more than a hundred books ; also
sheets, pillow-cases, towels, spreads and pigs
for the farm. We have given $50 each year
to contingent fund, besides small donations ;
$5 a year to Georgetown School ; to the South
Carolina room in Memorial Continental Hall
we gave the 50 cents per capita, making $29.50.
To the State Historian for filing, we sent 27
World War records of our soldier boys.

For two years we have been working for
a tablet in memory of our Cherokee County
soldiers, who lost their lives in the World War.
On Tuesday, May 23, 1922, marked by solemn
ceremony the tablet was unveiled. The cere-
mony took place in front of the Carnegie Free
Library where the Tablet occupies the north-
ern facade.

Near the front were mothers and fathers of
a number of the heroes for whom the service
was held ; further back were a dozen Con-
federate Veterans, with some of the American
Legion in uniform. There are 51 names on
the tablet, 36 White and 15 Colored. Dr. Lee
Davis Lodge, President of Limestone College,
gave a most stirring address. The flags cov-
ering the tablet were drawn by Landrum Proc-
tor, 12 year old son Lewis Proctor, whose
name is one of the 51 appearing on the Tablet.
Following the unveiling. Miss Mayme Jefferies,
Regent of the Chapter, Presented the tablet and
was responded to by R. A. Jones, Mayor of
the city; prayer by Rev. .A. L. Gunter ; roll
call of the dead was made by S. C. Littlejohn.
The ceremony was concluded by Jay Sarratt
sounding " taps." Bouquets of flowers were
placed beneath the tablet by little girls of the
C. A. R. Chapter. The Memorial Committee
were Mrs. W. J. Wilkins, Chairman, Mrs. Pratt
Pierson, Mrs. B. R. Brown, Mrs. Charles
Hames, Mrs. H. M. Brown and Miss Mayme
Jeffries, Regent ex-ofificio. Lights automatically
arranged will make the names visible at night.

We are proud of our tablet, proud of our
work and proud of our Chapter.

Mrs. Pratt Scott Pierson,

Historian.

Muskingum Chapter (Zanesville, O.). The
Chapter observed Flag Day with American-
ization exercises in the John Mclntire Childrens'
Home. It bears the name of this pioneer pat-
ron, John Mclntire. Following our program,

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which consisted of music, addresses on The
Boy Scouts, the Stars and Stripes, etc., the
child beneficiaries entertained the audience by
singing patriotic songs, and going through a
Flag Drill.

In response to the appeal of our President
General, Mrs. Minor, through the pages of
the Society Magazine, for celebration of Con-
stitution Day by the Daughters and public
generally, a member. Miss Roe, invited the
ladies of Muskingum Chapter and other guests
to spend this anniversary day, September 17th, at
her summer cottage. A picnic lunch was
served. The afternoon program had been
arranged by the hostess who presided during
its rendering. The Constitution of the United
States and Amendments were read in full,
likewise a comprehensive paper written for the
occasion by Miss Mitchell on the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia in 1781.

During the year three new members have
been received and four transferred, leaving our
present membership fifty.

Muskingum Chapter contributed to the fol-
lowing causes : Schauffler Americanization
School, Annette Phelps Lincoln Memorial,
Guernsey Scholarship, Local Day Nursery,
Welfare Organization, Salvation Army, Local
Americanization School, Berry Mountain School,
the Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial Fund,
and placed the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine in our public library.
Alice Dorsey Stevenson.

Historian.

Waterloo Chapter (Waterloo, Iowa) was
organized in 1898, but the charter was granted
in 192L Americanization has been the keynote
of the meetings throughout the year. Ten
meetings of the Chapter and eleven meetings
of the Board of Management have been held,
with the Regent presiding.

Our honored State Regent, Mrs. Frederick
E. Frisbee, who was a guest of the Regent on
December 10, 1921, was honored by the Chapter
at luncheon and dinner at Mrs. Cecil Bickley's
home, followed by a regular meeting, at which
Mrs. Frisbee gave a delightful address.

At the Regent's home in Highland, on June
22nd, Mrs. Currence Van B. Brown, grand-
daughter of the Revolution, also a member of
Waterloo Chapter, was honored by a rose
luncheon in memory of her seventy-seventh
birthday.

We have a membership of seventy, with thir-
teen new members having been admitted this
year, nine working on papers and eight sets of
papers pending.

Washington's Birthday was celebrated by a
luncheon and program which included the
" American's Creed " and sketches of " Wash-

ington's Farewell Address." Flag Day, a picnic
for members and families. The Pilgrim Ter-
centenary was observed on November 12, 1920,
by appropriate program. Held " Apple Blossom
Tea and Musical " in May for Daughters and
friends at home of Mrs. F. G. Weston.

The following gifts have been made by the
Chapter to charity and Patriotic Education
Work : $100 Foundership Scholarship Enroll-
ment, Tomassee, S. C. ; $25 to International
College, Springfield, Mass. ; Christmas gifts of
$.S to the same College ; Immigrant's Manual,
Picture to France and Fountain Fund $35, the
Regent and granddaughter each contributing
$5; Near East Relief $5, auto fund $5,
for flowers $22.50; Christmas box Hindeman
school $20.

The Chapter is credited with twenty-two
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine subscriptions, a copy of which is on
file in the East Side Library. Mrs. F. E.
Frisbee, State Regent, presented to Waterloo
Chapter at the Twenty-second Annual Confer-
ence of Iowa, a prize of $5 for having the
largest per cent, of Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Magazine subscriptions for 50
members or over. The Chapter has the honor
of having the State Chairman of Magazine
Committee, Mrs. George W. DeWald. chosen
from their members and has used her best
efforts to put Iowa " Over the Top" Mrs.
DeWald also serves on the National Committee
of Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine.

The Chapter sent petitions, signed by Chapter
members with a copy of Iowa banner enclosed to
State representatives and senators urging them
to use influence to have Mrs. Dixie Cornell
Gebhardt's design of the Iowa emblem, made
the official emblem of Iowa. Also sent like
petition to State Regent in regard to making
the fortifications of Yorktown, Va., a National
Park. The Chapter placed one dozen posters
of U. S. Constitutions in public places and 200
" American's Creed," some in " Francis Grout
School," named for diseased members and
others among the new colored section of city.
Sent fourteen military records to State His-
torian, and one manuscript to State Reci-
procity Committee.

The Regent attended Iowa Board meeting at
Dcs Moines in September, also the Iowa Confer-
ence at Grinnell.

Our Budget is 100 per cent, and we thoroughly
enjoy it. Was 100 per cent, in Tilloloy fund
last year. Waterloo Chapter has placed in
City Library, vols. 2-12; 8-34 inclusive of
D.A.R. lineage books, and taken the initiative
in assisting to complete tlie files to date.

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The year has been a very successful one in
every respect and the local treasury shows a
splendid balance for next year.
(Mrs. George W.) Nellie Jones DeWald,

Regent.

Sarah Piatt Decker Chapter (Durango,
Colorado). On May 10, 1921, at the home of
Mrs. W. S. Pickerill, the following officers
were reelected by acclamation for the year
1921-1922: Regent, Mrs. W. H. Searcy; Vice
Regent, Miss Eulalie Pulliam ; Secretary-Treas-
urer, Mrs. W. S. Pickerill ; Registrar, Mrs.
K. A. Gagg ; Historian, Mrs. Cyrus Bush ;
Chaplain, Mrs. M. E. Skagg.

The first meeting of the year was held Sep-
tember 30, 1921, at the home of Mrs. W. N.
Searcy, Chapter Regent, when we were honored
with the official visit of our State Regent,
Mrs. H. R. Hayden.

On November 8th, Mrs. Gagg was hostess to
our Chapter, at which time it w^as reported that
Mrs. J. H. Crum had been accepted by the
National Society. Just prior to this time Miss
Ruth Searcy had also been accepted by the
National Society, thus making two new mem-
bers for our Chapter.

A regular meeting was held January 10, 1922,
with Mrs. W. S. Pickerill. At this meeting it
was reported that Lineage books Nos. 55, 56, 57
had been bought, that letters had been written
to members of Congress urging the passage of
the Towner-Sterling Educational Bill, that one
hundred copies of " A Catechism of the Con-
stitution " were bought to be given to newly
naturalized citizens. Some of these were also
used in the schools, as well as a large number
of the " Flag Code " which were presented by
the Chapter. Two prizes of $15 and $10, re-
spectively, were decided upon, to be given to the
high school pupils making the highest averages
in American history. It was decided to make
this an annual event.

On March 14th, at a regular meeting with
Mrs. Skaggs, resolutions concerning restrictions
of immigration were offered by Mrs. W. N.
Searcy. These were adopted and copies sent
to each Colorado Chapter Regent, the State
Regent, and to the Colorado congressmen at
Wasliington, as well as to the chairman of the
Committee on Resolutions, a copy of which is
appended hereto. At this meeting it was de-
cided to send Mrs. Gagg as our delegate to the
State Conference at Denver.

At the meeting held with Mrs. Cyrus Bush,
April 11th, interest centred around the report
from the State Conference by Mrs. K. A. Gagg.
This report was excellent and ably given. The
State Regent's report, stating that the resolu-
tions, relative to the Limitation of Immigration,

were read at the State Conference, and accepted,
was received enthusiastically.

With a gift of $10 we decided to send no
more donations to our French orphan after this
year. W^e voted to give a large flag to the
junior high school, to be used in their assembly
room. One of our members. Miss Eulalie
Pulliam, has given an excellent lecture and
demonstration to the seventh and eighth grades,
this year, on the proper use of the flag.

At this meeting our Regent, Mrs. Searcy an-
nounced the marriage of her daughter. Miss
Ruth, who is our newest member, to Mr. Alfred
Dudley Ironside, at London, England.

On May 9, 1922, our last meeting of the year
was held with Mrs. Coppinger, when the fol-
lowing officers were elected : Regent, Mrs. W.
N. Searcy ; Vice Regent, Miss Eulalie Pulliam ;
Secretary, Mrs. Josie Crum ; Treasurer, Mrs.
Belle Pickerill; Registrar, Mrs. K. A. Gagg;
Historian, Mrs. Cyrus Bush; Chaplain, Mrs.
Harry Fry.

The Historian and Registrar's annual reports
were read and accepted. It was decided at this
meeting to give " Treasure Island " at the Gem
Theatre May 23rd, to raise funds for the His-
tory prizes offered by this organization.

Sarah Piatt Decker Chapter has a member-
ship of twenty, four members having been
transferred and two new ones received into the
Chapter during the year. There are only eight
active members, but these have worked faith-
fully and enthusiastically ; submitting many able
papers on Americanization, immigration, and
historical subjects.

In addition the Chapter has assisted the State
Historical and Natural History Society in secur-
ing soldiers' questionnaires.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. Cyrus) Lily Thomas Bush,

Historian. 1921-1922.
General Ebenezer Learned Chapter (Ox-
ford, Mass.). The Annual meeting was held
May, 1st, with Mrs. A. F. Putnam. The
following officers were elected by ballot.

Regent ; Mrs. Lulu R. Fletcher ; Vice Regent ;
Miss Laura Shepardson; Registrar; Miss Alice
Brady ; Treasurer ; Mrs. Nellie M. Gallup ;
Corresponding Secretary ; Mrs. Ruth Dagget ;
Historian and Librarian; Miss G. M. Wheel-
ock; Board of Management; Mrs. S. E. S.
Read ; Press correspondence ; Mrs. N. M. Gallup.
Our membership is 56. One real grand-
daughter, and 3 associate members. The usual
number of meetings have been held during
the year. We have had speakers and papers
on educational topics. The Chapter is raising
a fund to repair an old milestone in town,
erected in 1771.

Georgianna M. Wheelock,

Historian.

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Henry Downs Chapter (Waco, Texas) was
organized December 5, 1901, with fourteen
charter members. The membership is now
sixty-six, twenty-three being non-resident,
eleven new members were welcomed the past
year, and a number of appHcations await the
approval of the National Board.

During the World War the Chapter took its
place in Red Cross and other War work. Much
faithful work was done at Camp McArthur for
the Recreational Canteen, Base Hospital and
Soldiers' Library work. A donation for the
French village of Tilloloy was also made and
Liberty Bonds bought. The work of the Chap-
ter shows deep interest and enthusiasm. One
of the gold and two of the silver D.A.R. His-
tory medals were given in high school and

DECORATED CAR OF THE HENRY DOWNS CHAPTER IN
THE CITIZENSHIP DAY PARADE IN WACO, TEXAS

the two grammar schools, for the highest aver-
age in U. S. History. We have placed the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine in the grammar schools.

Twenty-five Honor Roll blanks were filled
out for relatives of members and sent to our
State Historian.

Twenty- four of our members are subscribers
to our Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine; we hope to have twice that
number soon.

Mrs. B. D. Orgain was our delegate to the
State Conference in San Antonio and was
elected to the office of State Chaplain.

Our Regent, Mrs. C. W. Cotton, and Mrs.
C. N. Smith were our delegates to the 30th
Continental Congress in Washington in April.
Our Chapter meets in the homes of members
the second Thursday of each month from Oc-
tober to April inclusive. A social afifair always
marks the May session, each member having
the privilege of inviting three guests.

Citizenship day, July 4th, was publicly ob-
served by organized clubs and societies of the
city taking part in a parade of decorated cars,
among them a D.A.R. car. A patriotic pro-
gram, in which different nationalities featured,
was given on the veranda of the beautiful
Municipal Club House.

We are keeping a scrap-book of the Chapter's
activities, which will in time become a valuable
history of the work of the Chapter.

A delightful event in Chapter annals was the
tea at the Waco Boating and Fishing Club last
May. Reports from delegates to Washington
were enjoyed by all. A delightful program of
music and readings, followed by refreshments,
closed our year's work.

(Mrs. J. D.) Ida Hill Conger,
Historian.

Emporia Chapter (Emporia, Kan.). The
•general topic of study for the year has been
" The Spirit of America" and interesting papers
and talks have been given at each meeting. We
have held three social meetings during the
year. Washington's birthday anniversary was
celebrated with a Colonial Tea at the City
Y.W.C.A. — a dramatic and musical program was
given and the Chapter members, dressed in
colonial costumes, acted as hostesses.

Americanization work among the Mexicans
in Emporia has been continued successfully.
The Social Service Club of the College of
Emporia has had classes for the Mexican boys

and girls the work being financed by

Emporia Chapter.

We have placed a bronze marker on the
building which marks the site of the first
public building of Emporia. Our historian,
Mrs. L. C. Wooster, has a well planned pro-
gram for compiling local history and records.

Alarch 6th, our State Regent, Mrs. George
Thacher Guernsey visited our Chapter and gave
an interesting talk on the work of the National
Society, and how Kansas has met the need
for Americanization.

With the six new members, Emporia Chapter
has a membership of 72. We have twenty
Lineage books and will purchase more before
the close of the year. We sent $50 to the
Navy Club in New York to help the Kansas
Women's Club equip dormitories for the Kan-
sas Navy boys in New York. Our Regent,
Miss Jane Atwood, has been reelected for the
ensuing year.

Adelaide Morse,

Thronateeska Chapter (Albany, Ga.). The
enrollment of the Chapter shows a membership

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of ninety-five. Eleven new members were re-
ceived during the year, with three papers more
pending in Washington, and four in course of
preparation. One member transferred to Tampa,
Florida, and one resigned. Twenty-one mem-
bers reside out of Albany. We have two life
members. We have the grand-daughter of a
real daughter, as a member of our Chapter,
and as she possesses the gold spoon, we regard
it as one of our Chapter treasures.

MRS. R. G. RILEY. REGENT OF THRONATEESKA CHAPTER
OF ALBANY. GA.

One of our members, Mrs. Evelyn Page
Carter Wooten, has inherited valuable letters
received by her ancestor, Thomas Nelson, from
General Washington, Thomas Jefferson and
LaFayette. She has been offered several thou-
sand dollars for these collections, but to her
they are above price.

Monthly meetings, always opened with the
Lord's Prayer, followed by "America," have
been held at the homes of the members, where
" business, pleasure and patriotism " held full
sway. Members of the Chapter are members of
the Red Cross. Members of Thronateeska
Chapter, who are also U.D.C.'s contributed

jellies and preserves to a box for Confeder-
ate Veterans.

The Revolutionary Reader, compiled by Mrs.
Sophie Lee Foster, was presented to the pupil
in Senior Class High School making best grade
in American history, and has also been offered
for this year's work. The Flag Code and copies
of the Constitution were placed in all white and
colored schools in 1919. We have thirty-four
Lineage Books on file at Carnegie Library, also
a copy of " Roster of Revolutionary
Soldiers of Georgia " compiled by
Lucian Knight.

Thronateeska Chapter has a com-
mittee to assist in night school at the
cotton mill, and also to collect books
for a library for use of mill oper-
atives. Our second Vice Regent,
Mrs. W. E. Rowsey, is chairman of
the Educational Committee of
Americanization Society for the
Second District. Our Honorary
Regent, Mrs. John Randolph White-
head, is State Chairman of
Patriotic Songs.

All historical days have been ap-
propriately celebrated. On Flag
Day, June 14, 1920, there was an
election of officers at the home of the
Regent, Mrs. John Randolph White-
head, who presented the newly elected
Regent with the Chapter Regent's Pin.
The retiring State Regent, Mrs.
James S. Wood, and the State Cor-
responding Secretary, Mrs. Augusta
Woods Dubose, on their return from
the 22nd State Conference at Moul-
trie, honored Albany D.A.R. with a
visit, and were entertained at a dinner
and tea at the home of the Regent,
Mrs. John Randolph Whitehead.

The State Conference of 1920 held
at Moultrie elected our ex-Regent,
Mrs. Sidney J. Jones, to the high
oi^ce of State Librarian. Our State
Regent, Mrs. Max E. Land, con-
ferred an honor on Thronateeska
Chapter by appointing Miss Janie Eatman as
Page to National Congress.

The printing of " The History of Dougherty
County " has been submitted to the publishers
and will be printed at a cost of $1600 per one
thousand copies. Anyone desiring copies of
same, please communicate with Mrs. Sidney J.
Jones or Mrs. John Randolph Whitehead,
Albany, Ga.

The Chapter's financial report for the year
is as follows: Miscellaneous, $6.70; Book Fund,
$4; Roster of Georgia Revolutionary Soldiers,
$3.15; Guernsey Scholarship, $10; Printing let-
ters from soldiers in World War, $7.50;

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Georgia Bay Fund, $25; Manual Fund, $22.75;
National Dues, $89; State Conference Dues,
$14; Mrs. Minor's Fund for Memorial Fountain
and Oil Painting, $32.90 ; Meadow Garden Fund,
$5; European Relief Fund for Starving Chil-
dren of Europe by members of Chapter, $80.75 ;
Boy Scouts Fund by members of Chapter, $10;
Memorial Scholarship Fund, Athens, Ga., $20.
Total balance in treasury, $100 Liberty Bond.
Lucv T. Pond,

Historian.

General Henry Dearborn Chapter (Chi-
cago) was organized February 12, 1914,
and chartered April 19, 1914, with fifty-
seven members. The present member-
ship is 264.

Our regular meetings are held on
the fourth Tuesday of each month,
October to May, with celebration of
Flag Day in June.

Following an opening reception to
the members, October 25th last, our
new Regent, Mrs. William L. Patti-
son, gave an address of welcome,
outlining the objects of the Society,
with service as the keynote, for the
common good of the country. Her
words were an inspiration; closing
with this sentence : "America is suffer-
ing from the lack of National unity.
The supreme duty of our organization
is to get in touch with American life
at all points, and to give it direction,
unification and interpretation."

The program was given by Mrs.
Ruth Llewellyn Baird, in song recital,
representing in music and costume
four periods of American life.

November 5th, a reception and tea,
given at the Chicago Historical Lib-
rary, proved an interesting and en-
joyable affair.

On November 22nd, Air. Harry F.
Atwood, Publicist, addressed us on
" The Constitution, Our Safeguard."

The social event of the year is the
annual " White Breakfast " in Decem-
ber. The occasion last year was on December
13th, at the Drake Hotel, with an attendance
of 276. The honorary guests were Mrs. Frank
W. Bahnson, Vice President General ; Mrs. H.
Eugene Chubbuck, State Regent, and Mr. Frank
Bacon, leading actor in " Lightnin'."

The program was as follows :

Invocation by Reverend Ezra Allen Van
Nuys; a short talk by Mr. Bacon; an address
by Dr. Charles Zueblin, of Boston, on " Pilgrim,
Puritan and Patriot " ; music by the Benson
Trio, and a group of songs by Madame
Hannah Butler.

The work of the Chapter is being carried on

as suggested by the National Society and by
our State Regent. We have contributed to the
funds for the Immigrants' Manual ; the foun-
tain at Plymouth; the marine painting pre-
sented to France ; and the work at Tilloloy, our
full quota.

Support of the New American Shop was
approved by the State Conference and a tax
of ten cents per capita in Illinois levied. This
shop is located on the 14th floor of the Stevens
Building in Chicago, and is an Exchange for
the sale of hand work done by women of for-
eign birth. The marking of the Circuit

lENKRAI. Hi:\KY DEARBORN FOR WHOM (
DEARBORN CHAPTER. IS NAMED

FROM THE PAI^•TI^

ORir.IN.\L IN THE ART

traveled by Lincoln was also approved, with a
tax of thirty cents per capita. These assess-
ments have been paid.

Our Americanization Committee is interested
in the work of the Shop and in the teaching
of English to foreign women, for which a
special primer is used. Two ceremonies have
been held in Federal courts, when ex-service
men received their final naturalization papers,
a small flag of silk being presented to each.
Framed copies of the Constitution have been
presented, with fitting ceremony, to one of the
city schools, attended by children of foreign
parentage, and one to the Simond's Manufac-

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turing Company of Chicago. Nine memorial
trees have been planted along the Lincoln High-
way in Illinois in memory of sons of members.
On our last Flag Day, a flag was presented to
Immanuel Baptist Church.

Contributions the past year were as follows :
Hindman Settlement School, $735 ; Tomassee
School, in honor of Lida Eastman Torbet,
Organizing Regent, $300; Philippine School,
$10; Patriotic Art, 11.75; New America Shop.
$20.30; Near East Relief, $102; State and
National Special Funds, S276.

Our work this year will be along the same
lines. Already a sum of $415 has been raised
by the Ways and Means Committee for scholar-
ships in the Mountain schools. The teaching
of foreign women and the support of the New
America Shop will be continued. No Chapter
has more loyal and harmonious workers than
has the General Henry Dearborn.

The Magazine chairman reports sixty sub-
scribers to the Magazine, and the Magazine
placed on file in the Chicago Public and John
Crerar Libraries.
(Mrs. Charles P.) Renette E. Dawley,

Historia)i.

Stephen Bennett Chapter (Fairmont, Neb.).
It is again my privilege as well as pleasure to
submit an abbreviated sketch of my Chapter's
activities to the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine for which I cherish the
highest regard and in which I maintain the
deepest interest, since much of my time has
been devoted to the augmentation of Nebraska's
subscription list, having received the appoint-
ment of State Chairman of the Magazine
Committee for 1921-1923.

Subscription : — Our Chapter, this year, rec-
ords ten subscriptions to the Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine, three
of which are five year subscriptions.

Members : — • We register but twenty-five
members, death having visited our ranks since
the last report and removed from our midst
another member.

Programs : — " Historical Dates."

Prize Essay Contest. Eighth Grade Prize Con-
test: Subject: The Yellowstone National Park,
Prizes: 1st prize, $3; 2nd prize, $2; 3rd
prize, $1.

Free Lecture : — " Nebraska Bountiful." with
stereopticon views, given under the auspices of
our Chapter.

Chapter's dues and per capita taxes : — All
necessitated dues and taxes have been paid.

Representatives at State Conference. Lexing-
ton, Nebraska, March 14-16, 1922. Miss Mary
B. Badger, Regent; Mrs. Geo. A. Williams, Vice
Regent. Miss Roxy V. Ammerman, Historian;
also State Chairman of Magazine Committee

and Chairman of Credentials Committee dur-
ing Conference.

C.A.R. The Historian received the appoint-
ment of Organizing President of the Children
of the American Revolution at Fairmont, thirty-
six eligibles have been located, but on account
of the various ages, mostly juniors, the organ-
ization of a Society has not as yet been perfected.
Roxv V. Am merman,

Historian.

Louisa St. Clair Chapter (Detioit, Mich.).
It is a long time since this Chapter has sent
a report to the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine, but its members have
been neither idle nor indifferent to the obli-
gations imposed upon them by the needs of
their great cosmopolitan city.

During the World War they took a prominent
part in the various " drives " and other activi-
ties. The first centre for Red Cross instruction
in Detroit was at Newberry House where
classes were conducted under the direction of
members of this Chapter. In addition a " Knit-
ting Unit " was organized, so that more knitters
could be secured to make the articles needed
for the crew of the gunboat O'Brien, the
Chapter's special assignment. Before long, the
Red Cross took over the task of supplying
the men in regular service, but mean-
while requests came for yarn to be used in
making garments for relatives and friends who
were leaving for the training camps. So the
Knitting Unit continued to function, selling
yarn to all comers at wholesale prices and
keeping the storeroom ready for the demands
which were constantly being made upon it.

The War being over, this Chapter, like the
National Society, turned to Americanization as
the great need of the hour. Its special plan is
the organization of cottage industries among
the foreign women of Detroit, following the
methods which the United States Government
adopted with the native women of the Philip-
pine Islands. By meeting them singly or in
groups, with the love of handiwork which every
normal woman has, as a basis, a friendly feel-
ing is established between these new Americans
and those whose ancestors were the immigrants
of their day.

A shop is maintained for the sale of these
articles. It occupies a room conveniently
located in one of the most important women's
club buildings in the city. Its business card
reads : " This shop is opened by Louisa St.
Clair Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution for patriot reasons, purely, where
the New American Citizens can easily find a
market for their handizvork among Older
American Citizens, and ivhcre they may meet

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each other. Come in to see us." Often, only
a suggestion is needed to remove a woman's
work from the " impossible " class to that
wherein she becomes an actual producer, con-
tributing something of value to the community.
One incident may serve as an example : A Bel-
gian woman brought in some centrepieces,
beautifully done but which were rendered un-
salable by borders of uneven, carelessly worked
scallops. She could not speak English and was
told through her husband, who acted as inter-
preter, that she must make an earnest effort
to learn. Instructions were then given her as
to how to make the scallops and properly finish
the edges of her centrepieces. She listened and
expressed her surprise that the Americans
wanted such care shown. She knew how to do
what was required and had been accustomed
to taking great pains with her work but thought
that in America all that was expected was that
the work be done quickly — never mind hoiv!

Through the cooperation of the Superintend-
ent of the Detroit Public Schools and the
Superintendent of English in the grades, Louisa
St. Clair Chapter was, last spring, enabled to
conduct a Prize Essay contest, which is to be
made an annual affair. About 1800 children
wrote essays on subjects dealing with the
colonial or revolutionary periods of American
history. An especially designed bronze button
was given for the best essay in each of the
competing schools and a gold medal to the
winner in the final contest. The prize winners
from the several schools delivered their essays
before an audience of their parents and friends
and Chapter members in the auditorium of
Central High School, after which the medal
was presented to the victor by Mrs. Jared W.
Finney, the Chapter Regent.

Louisa St. Clair deems herself fortunate in
having had as her guest during these years the
two Presidents General and a number of other
officers, national and state. With her sister,
Fort Pontchartrain Chapter, she recently enter-
tained the Michigan State Conference. She is
doing her part in all the varied activities of the
National Society, both at home and abroad, and
is trying to be in spirit what she is, historically,
the big sister in the Michigan family.

Gracie Brainerd Krum,

Historian.

Shreveport Chapter (Shreveport, La.) has
enjoyed a steady growth since its organization
in October, 1908, and has an enrollment of
eighty members, representing a gain of eleven
during the year just ended, with applications
for a number of others pending.

The year 1921-22 has been one of more than
ordinary activity. The meetings have been ex-

cellently attended and a general increase in
interest has been manifested. A study course
of American History from its earliest inception
through the epochal decades that followed has
been pursued to advantage. The work of
Shreveport Chapter for the past year has been
Patriotic Education and Americanization.

Books to the amount of $80, pertaining to
these subjects, were donated to the library of a
local college for boys ; two awards of $5 each
were given to students in the public schools for
the highest grades in the study of Louisiana
history, copies of the American's Creed were
given to a Boy Scout troop on February 8th, the
Twelfth Anniversary of the birth of that organ-
ization, by the Regent of the Chapter with the
offer of an award of a $5 gold piece for the
best recitation of the Creed at the last meeting
of the season.

Contributions of clothing and literature have
been donated both by the Chapter and by indi-
vidual members to the Southern Mountain
School children ; also $5 was sent to Tam-
assee School in South Carolina and a similar
amount to the Martha Berry School of Georgia,
both past beneficiaries of Shreveport Chapter.
April 19th Patriot's Day, was celebrated by
the presentation of a flag and standard to the
Junior High School of this city as a gift from
the Chapter. A bronze tablet on the concrete
base of the standard, bears an inscription as to
the donor of the flag and the occasion
commemorated.

It is a matter of pleasure and pride to the
Chapter that one of its prominent members
teaches and assists in conducting a night school
maintained by the government, for the instruc-
tion of foreigners. The Immigrant's Manuals,
obtained through the National Society for the
use of this teacher, have been of much help
to her. The foreign element is small in north-
ern Lousiana as compared with the southern
part and its port of entry at New Orleans, but
Shreveport Chapter is keenly alive to the duty
of instilling patriotism in the hearts of these
children of our adoption.

Customary contributions to local charitable
and public welfare associations have been met,
prominent among which was a large Christmas
hamper of fruit, candies, and other sweet-
meats, approximating an expenditure of $25
sent to the Louisiana Training School for Boys.
One of the outstanding features of the year's
work is the compilation of 33 War Service
Records of the World War. A handsomely
bound copy of these records was presented to
the Chapter by their historian.

Armistice Day, Washington's Birthday. Flag
Day and Memorial Day, have been observed

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473

by the Chapter, the last mentioned in conjunction
with the local post of the American Legion.

This Chapter has the distinction of having
two of its members upon the stafif of active
state officers and a third serving as Honorary
State Regent.

Shreveport Chapter in the fourteen years of

its existence has responded with all loyalty to
appeals and assessments local, state and national,
and goes on record as having met its quota in
full for all work put forward by the
National Society.
(Mrs. W. H.) Adelaide Abxey Scandl.vnd,

Historian.

$400 IN PRIZES TO STATES SECURING
D.A.R. MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

The Committee, Mrs. Charles White
Nash, Chairman, appointed to handle the
Colonel A\'alter Scott One Thousand Dol-
lar Prize Fund, has awarded $400 to he
used in prizes to increase the circulation
of the National Society's official puhlica-
tion — the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine.

Four prizes will be awarded to the
states securing the greatest number of
subscriptions in proportion to their mem-
bership. The states have been arranged
in four groups, thusly :

1st group — states having a member-
ship of over 5000 — New York, Pennsyl-
vania, Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio,
Connecticut, Missouri, Iowa. Prize
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shire, Kansas, Nebraska. Prize offered
—$100.00.

3rd group — states having a member-
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ginia, Kentucky, Washington, Minnesota,
North Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama,
Rhode Island, Maryland, Oklahoma, and
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Florida, Arkansas, Montana, South
Dakota, Louisiana, Idaho, North Dakota,
\\ yoming, Utah, New Mexico, Delaware,
Arizona, Hawaii, Orient, Phillippine Is-
lands, Cuba, and Nevada. Prize offered
—$75.00.

The contest ivill conimeuce on July
ij, ip22, and close on December ?/, i()22.

All subscriptions received by the
Treasurer General, N.S.D.A.R., Memor-
ial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C,
will be credited in this contest to each
state from which they come. Subscrip-
tions can be sent through State magazine
chairmen, chapter magazine chairmen, or
by members direct to the Treasurer
General. Do not delay.

We have set as a goal 25,000 subscrib-
ers by 1923 !

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National Chairman,
D.A.R. Magazine Committee.

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ANSWERS

4330. Shelton. — Crispin Shelton, Sr., b Apr.
1, 1713 s of Ralph and Mary Shelton (Christ
Church Parish Register) was no doubt the first
of the name to go to Pittsylvania Co., Va. as
he had a grant of land in that part of Halifax
before Pittsylvania was formed. Abraham, his
s m 1760 Chloe Robertson and the opinion that
he m 2nd, 1762 Elizabeth Shepherd is erroneous.
His will proved 1789 mentions w Chloe, ch
Lettie, Anne, Jane, Abraham, Crispin, William,
Tavenor, Frederick, Meacon and Robertson.
This will as well as that of Chloe is on record
in Pittsylvania. The will of Mary, mother of
Crispin, who afterward m a Mr. Clock is there
also. Crispin Jr., m Susannah Irby. — Mrs.
James C. Lewis, 1632 Franklin St., Denver, Colo.

6533. Galpin. — Cothran's Ancient Woodbury,
vol. 1, p. 544. Benjamin Galpin and his w
Rebecca came from Stratford to Woodbury
about 1680. He d 1731 and his w 1743. Their
ch were Elizabeth, bapt Mar. 1683; Martha
bapt Apr. 1685, m Dr. Ebcnezer Warner, 1708;
Benjamin bapt May, 1687, d Feb. 3, 1705;
Rebecca bapt Nov. 1689; Joseph bapt Apr. 1693;
Sarah bapt Feb. 1696 or 7. m 1718 David
Mitchel; Rachael bapt Sept. 16. 1699; Samuel
bapt Apr. 6, 1703 and Thankful bapt Oct. 18,
1706. m Timothy Turrcll. Samuel, 1703 m

Ruth , he d 1789 and his w d Nov. 13, 1745.

Their ch were Benjamin, l)apt .'\ug. 24, 1729 m
Esther Bronson. Sept. 5. 1757; Sanniel b July
18, 1732 d young; Stephen b Oct. 17.?4. m 1st,
474

Esther Culver, Nov. 8, 1753, 2nd Lydia ;

Samuel b Jan. 8, 1738 m Abia Wheeler; Moses

b 1740 m 1st , 2nd Hannah Gregory, Jan.

8. 1767; Ruth bapt Nov. 7. 1743. Children of
Samuel and Abia Wheeler Galpin were Samuel
Asa b Nov. 2, 1757, d young ; Anne bapt Oct.
28, 1769; Samuel b May 3, 1761; Selleck b
May 13, 1762, d young; Abraham b Nov. 1,
1764; Curtis b Nov. 1. 1767; Selleck b May 13,
1772; Nathan b Tune 29, 1773 and Samuel Asa
bapt Nov. 3, 1777. Vol. 1, p. 777. Capt.
Ebenezer Downs Co., Aug. 1757 for the relief
of Ft. Wm. Henry near Lake George. They
were gone about 3 weeks. Samuel Galpin b
1739 would have been 19 yrs old, or his father
b 1703 would have been 54. Vol. 1, p. 781.
Rev sol Joseph and Stephen Galpin and Samuel
who d in the army. — If. Cordelia Fuller, 11
Star Ave., Dunbury, Conn.

7715. Martin. — I have inf regarding the
Martins of Ky. and would like to get in touch
with M. H. A.— Mrs. J. L. Tucker. 407 N.
Main St., Salem, Ind.

7792. Lynch.— John Haywood Hicks, b 1802
in Chatham Co. N. C. m Sarah Clark Lynch
and had ch Eliza; Mary Virginia; Anna Ter-
rell; John; James Haywood; Malcolm Lan
caster; Christopher and Charles Anselm. — Mrs.
J. H. Daggett, Mariana, Ark.

8837. FiNDLV. — Alexander Findly served in
Rev from Washington Co., Pa. He was b in
Ireland 1759 and m Nancy Carson about 1788.
It is not known whether she was his first or
second wife. I lis eldest s Wm. is supjwsed to

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have come to America with his father when
only a small ch. William's s Alexander, had
by his 2nd w Nancy Williams, Margot, who
ni Adam Dinsmore ; Russell, Mary, Nancy,
Hugh, Carson, Jane, Samuel and Elizabeth. —
Gertrude Marshall, 89 W. Main St., North-
east, Pa.

8843. Gage. — The first election at Pittstown,
Apr. 1789 elected George Gage Poormaster
(not Postmaster) see History of Rensselaer Co.
Pittstown. Later 1792, Postmaster. The
reason for running this lineage out to the
first family was because of another George Gage
of the " Wm. Gage Family," b at Freetown,
Mass. removed to Ferrisburgh, Addison Co. Vt.
enlisted at Danby, 1777 as a Rev sol and there
was much trouble in making the distinction.
This George Gage 4, was the s of Thomas (3),
Benjamin (2), Thomas (1). Thomas (1) Gage
m Joanna Knight and he was the one who took
the " Oath of Fidelitie " with 22 others at Yar-
mouth, Mass. in 1657. He was assessed at the
rate of 2 L. 6. 9. He was the head of the
family of Gage at Yarmouth, and his sons, John,
Henry and William were all killed in King
Phillips War. Another s Adam m but died
s. p. Thomas (1) Gage d between June 30,
and July 17, 1695. His will was approved and
allowed Aug. 5, 1695. His ch were a s who d
in infancy; John; Wm. ; and Henry (all killed
in King Phillip's War) Thomas, b 1656: d
Aug. 13, 1707; Benjamin b 1643, d May 12.
1708; Adam d 1691; Moses b 1668, d June
30. 1748. Benjamin (2) Gage (1643-1708) m
Elizabeth Lombard, b June, 1663, dau of Jabez
Lombard b 1641 and his w Sarah Derby whom
he m Dec. 1, 1660. Children of Benjamin and
Elizabeth L. Gage were John, who m Alary
Tuppet ; Mathew m Hannah Thorpe ; Ebenea-
ser m Dorcas Crowell ; Thomas m Rebecca
Rider ; Joanna m Samuel Merchant ; Thomas
Gage m Rebecca Rider, Oct. 13, 1726, she d
Dec. 5, 1759 in Southeast, Dutchess Co.. N. Y.
Their ch b in Yarmouth were Elihu, b Feb.
17, 1727; Anthony, b Mar. 16, 1728; Moses
Apr. 9, 1732; Ebeneazer Aug. 3, 1734; Johanna
May 2, 1738; and George Julv 9, 1740, d Alav
4, 1806; and Mark d Apr. IS15.— Mrs. Olive
H. H. Lash, 349 Brunson Ave., Benton
Harbor, Mich.

8878. Smith.— John Curlee, Rev sol b 1761 d
1812 m Mary Baker, 1781. Their ch were
Elizabeth, Tabitha ; Cullen, Sr. ; and Calvin ;
and 2nd, Burton Smith and had ch. They
Anne, who m 1st, Noah Smith and had 3 ch
lived in Tipton Co., Tenn after leaving Ruth-
erford Co., John Curlee the father of Anne d in
Rutherford Co., Tenn. Record also states that
Anne Curlee was the 2nd w of Burton Smith.
— Mrs. Shelby Curlee, Buckingham, St.
Louis, Mo.

8923. P.\RKS.— Hugh Parks, settled upon Back
Creek about 1753 where the sixth generation is
still living. He was b Oct. 9, 1716, d Nov. 4,
1780. A tombstone in Coddle Creek gives
Hugh Parks' d on Nov. 4, 1780 age 66, prob-
ably the same. His w is said to have been
Margaret Gouny b Jan. 15, 1716 in Ireland.
Their ch were Anne, b Jan. 16, 1744; Jane, b
Mar. 5. 1746; John b Feb. 26, 1751; Hugh b
Aug. 23, 1756. Margaret Parks' will probated
1788 mentions sons, John, and Hugh and dau
Jean and Margaret, also James Reid. I suppose
she is the w of the above Hugh Sr. John
Park's tombstone has 2 lions rampant, three
swords and a hand grasping a crescent with
date of his d. May 21, 1795, age 44. The
back of the stone has a full moon face and
a remarkable inscription. His will made May
16, 1795 gives w as Jean, daus Margaret, Mary
and Jean, all under age and s Hugh. His
bro Hugh Parks is one of the executors. The
will of Jane Parks, probated 1834 mentions
Hugh and Elizabeth Parks and Margaret Gra-
ham. (Presume that this Margaret Parks is
the one who m David Graham in 1799.) Mrs.
Molly Elliott, Rural Free Delivery, Charlotte,
N. C. is collecting Parks data and may be able
to help you.— Mrs. M. G. McCubbin, 419 S.
Main Street, Salisbury, N. C.

8969. Mitchell-McCartney. — Martha Brown
who m Lieut., Col. David Mitchell was the dau
of Robert Brown who came from England
about 1740 settled in Chester Co., Pa. and re-
moved from thence to the place owned by
Robert Mitchell's heirs above Newport, Perry
Co., Pa., then Cumberland Co., in 1760. He
also took up the tract adjoining on Big Buffalo
Creek, which was surveyed in pursuance of a
warrant dated Apr. 6, 1763. Robert Brown had
ch Martha who m David Mitchell, the father
of Robert, one of the first Commissioners, and
of Wm. B. the first prothonotary ; Roger ; John
who went to Ky. ; Mathew ; Mary who m —
Hately and went to the French Creek settle-
ment ; Elizabeth who m Boggs ; Margaret who

m J. Guthrie ; and Grace who m Henry Bull
and was the mother of Col. Robert Bull who
was killed at Chippewa. — Miss Carrie A. Brciv-
sfer. 719 S. Broad St., Mankato, Minn.

10056. VaxSchaack.— Class Arent Van-
Schaack was the ances of the VanSchaack's
in America. He lived in Albany where his
sons were b. Dominicus in 1667; Arent in
1676; Toureus and Emanuel. Emanuel was
the father of Cornelius VanSchaack who
was the owner of a sloop and a fur trader
and possessor of large tracts of land.
This Cornelius was the father of the
eminent Peter VanSchaack. Cornelius w
was Lydia Van Dyke, a dau of Hendrick
\'an Dyke, and a gr dau of the Albany

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Schuylers. Cornelius and Lydia VanSchaack
have the following ch Margaretta, bapt Sept.
21, 1728; Maria bapt May 27, 1731; Henry
bapt Feb. 18, 1733; Cornelius bapt Aug. 15,
1734; David bapt 1736; Jannetje bapt 1739 and
Peter bapt, 1747. Maria (1731) m Jacobus
(James) Roosevelt, ances of Theodore Roose-
velt. Ref.-Edward A. Collier's History of
Kinderburgh, N. Y. p. 1(X) and 101 and 367-
368.— .1/rj. Lilla J. Roney, 596 Riverside
Drive, N. Y. City, N. Y.

10026. Buckingham-Hosmer.-Griswold.—
The Buckingham book contains much of the
Buckingham gen history of the name, etc.
Thomas Buckingham came from England
to Boston, June 26, 1636. In 1638 sailed
for New Haven, Conn, and removed to
Milford in 1639. He d 1657. Children

of Thomas and Hannah were Hannah

b 1632 in England; Daniel, b 1636 in
England ; Samuel bapt June 30, 1640, Milford ;
Mary bapt Mar. 27, 1643, Milford; Rev.
Thomas bapt Nov. 8, 1646, Milford, m 1st,
Hester Hosmer, (dau of Thomas of Hartford)
Sept. 20, 1666 by whom he had 9 ch she d
June 3, 1702 and he m again Aug. 10, 1703
Mary Hooker (widow of Samuel Hooker of
Farmington s of Rev. Thomas Hooker of Hart-
ford and the eldest dau of Capt. Thomas
Willet of Swanzey, Mass.) The ch of Thomas
and Hester were b Jan. 10, 1668, m Samuel
Beman; Thomas, b Sept. 29, 1670, m Margaret
Griswold; Daniel b Oct. 3, 1672, m Sarah Lee;
Rev. Stephen b Sept. 4, 1675 m Sarah Hooker;
Samuel b May 26, 1678 d June 20, 1678;
Samuel 2nd b July 24, 1679 d Jan. 25, 1684;
Hezekiah b June 21, 1682 m Sarah Lay; Temp-
erence b Jan. 6, 1684 m John Kirtland ; Anne
b Aug. 2, 1687 m Samuel Doty. An abstract
of the will of Rev. Thomas Buckingham of
Saybrook leaves his gr dau Hester Beaumont
(possibly the same as Beman) 20 L. in money.
Names adult gr ch Thomas, Hester ; Anne, and
Mary to whom 4 shillings is left and " to all
the rest of his gr ch 20 shillings apiece. Thomas
and Daniel were appointed e.xecutors. Daniel
b 1672 and his w Sarah Lee had ch Sarah b Sept.
21, 1695 m Nathaniel Parker; Daniel b Apr. 9,
1698. m Lydia Lord; Hester b Apr. 16, 1701
m Andrew Lord ; Stephen b Aug. 4, 1703 m
Elizabeth Sherwood and Anne b Oct. 11, 1705
d age 19; Temperance b 1708 m Jonathan
Butler. Thomas Buckingham, Jr., b 1670 m
Margaret Griswold. In the will of their second
s, Samuel of Lebanon (who was b Sept. 26,
1694 and d unmarried) are mentioned his
nephew Wm. Buckingham and his beloved bro
Buckingham (Thomas undoubtedly) his bro
Joseph Buckingham ; his uncle Jedediah Buck-
ingham; the heirs of his sister Sarah Crocker;
and his sisters Margaret Johnson and Mary

Huntington, and appoints Wm. Buckingham and
Jededia Buckingham his executors. There is
no mention of Rev ser of the sons of Daniel
Buckingham and Lydia Lord and the only
lines given from there on are for the desc of
Stephen and Elizabeth Sherwood Buckingham,
whose ch were Solomon b Feb. 1, 1731 ; Temp-
erance b Jan. 14. 1733 m Solomon Sherwood;
Daniel b Aug. 21, 1735; Anne b July 3, 1737
m Albert Sherwood ; Rachel b 1739 m Gershom

Gilbert, no ch ; Elizabeth m Stackhouse ; and

Ebenezer b Nov. 1, 1748 m Esther Bradley.
Isaac Buckingham b 1772 came from Green
Co. near Davistown, Pa. to 111. in 1832, prob-
ably a bro of Wm. Buckingham who lived in
Hamilton Co., Ohio before 1836. In the Buck-
ingham book it mentions desc of Ambrose W.
Buckingham in the State of Pa. I would be
very glad to correspond and work with anyone
who is following out these lines. — Mrs. D. G.
Buckingham, 617 N. 37th St., E. St. Louis, 111.

10065. Hatch.— The Hatch Gen. Society, 112
N. Main St., Salt Lake City, Utah is preparing
a complete book of the Hatch family in America.
They will probably be able to help you on the
John Hatch line.— Mrs. G. H. Nelson, 414 E.
Main Street, Jefferson City, Mo.

10099. Lewis. — Joseph Lewis was m to Anne
Porter on Mar. 16, 1777 by the Rev. Wm.
Douglas of St. James, Wortham Parish, Gooch-
land Co., Va. The record of this m appears
in the Register which Parson Douglas kept for
many years. Should like to corres with any
desc who knows the name of this Joseph Lewis
Jr., paternal grandmother. — Rev. D. L. Anccll,
D. D., Mahan School, Yangchow, China.

10127. Little. — Joseph Little was not b in
Sudbury. Family tradition says he was b in
Scotland or England, but he was probably b
in Mass. Deed record at Sudbury, \'t. Sanford
Kingsbury and Thomas Stearns, both of Clear-
mont, Cheshin and State of N. H. for the sum
of 300 pounds deed to Joseph Little Gentleman,
of Springfield, County of Windsor, State of
Vt. land in Sudbury, Co. of Rutland, State
of Vt. Deed, May 10, 1790. Then there are
deed records at Springfield showing that he
owned a large estate there which he deeded
away about this time. There are deeds at
Sudbury showing he deeded land to his sons,
Joseph, Abijah, Rufus and others. There is also
record of one dau Asenath Little b at Spring-
field, Vt., May 8, 1770. Tombstone records
at Sudbury: Joseph Little d May 29, 1817. age
85 yrs. Susannah, w of Joseph Little d Apr. 12.
1822 age 83 yrs. Capt. Joseph Little was one of
the original grantees of Springfield, Weathers-
ford, and Sudbury, when it was granted to
the State of N. H. by the State of Vt., 1761.
This fact would bring into his possession a
great tract of land in these towns. This was

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signed by Otis G. Hammond N. H. Historical
Society, By Town Clerk of Springfield, Vt.,
the land records show Joseph Little sold land
in Springfield July 26, 1784, also on May 10,
179L He is described as Joseph Little, Gentle-
man of Springfield, and in the history of
Springfield it says that he was the only one
of the original Proprietors to settle in Spring-
field, as these proprietors lived mostly in
Northampton, Mass. Joseph Little kept a tavern
on the Crown Point Road and the first town
meeting was held at his house. His s Joseph
Weatherbee Little b 1765 in Springfield d at Sud-
bury Nov. 10, 1821. His w was Penlope and their
1st ch b 1789 and the last Feb. 26, 1801. Rufus
Marshall Little was b Springfield Vt., July 9,
1772 and d in Richmond Township, Crawford
Co., Pa., Nov. 12, 1854, and is bur in Hatch
cemetery. He m 1st, a sister of John G. Good-
well of Vt., and some of their ch were Harvey ;

Lavina who m Canfield; Susan m Wm.

Hunter ; and Millie. Then Rufus Marshall
Little m 2nd Eunice Brown of Orwell, Vt. who
was b Apr. 13, 1788, d Feb. 1874. Their ch
were Samuel Brown, b Sudbury Vt., Dec. 24,
1810, d N. Y., Aug. 27, 1847; Sophia E. b

Dec. 28, 1815, m Holbrook, lived at Titus-

ville. Pa.; Anna b July, 1817, m Wm. Kinney
of Erie Co., Pa.; Samantha L. b Feb. 3, 1815 d
1816 in Vt., Joseph Marshall, b Dec. 4, 1819
m 1st, Cornelia Thrall and 2nd Nellie Dunn
of Meadville, Pa.; Lavinia b May 30, 1822 m

Asel ; James Rufus b West Haven, Vt.

Jan. 21, 1825, m Mary E. Pond of Poultney,
Vt; and 2nd Matilde Parem of Crawford Co.,
Pa. Rufus Marshall Little emigrated from
Vt. to Pa. in 1826 and brought his family with
him. Most of this is Bible record. Joseph
Little (1) of Springfield and Sudbury Vt.,
also of N. H. service in Rev War as Lieut,
and Capt. Ref. Vt. Rev. Rolls. He was a sol
in the Colonial Army before the Rev and
appears on court records as Capt. Joseph
Little, Gentleman. — Gertrude Marshall, North-
east, Pa.

10214. TuRPiN. — Children of Horatio Turpin
of Va. are Edward Augusta b Jan. 8, 1804;
Thomas Jefferson b Jan. 12, 1807 d Oct. 1820;
William b Oct. 21, 1805 d Nov. 12, 1805; Philip
Osborn b Oct. 1, 1808; Wm. Henry b Apr. 16,
1810: Peter Field, b July 18, 1812, d Dec. 5.
1827; Horatio Harris b Jan. 10, 1815; Mary
Elizabeth James b May 23, 1817; Powhatan
Virginius Americus b Feb. 12, 1819; Harriet
Caroline Matilda m June 19, 1821 d Sept. 3,
1846 ; Thomas Jeffereson b June 5, 1823 d May
14, 1907; Anna Cornelia b Oct. 3, 1825. Write
to Mrs. Sally Chambers, Warsaw, Ky. for in-
formation of the marriage of Mary Elizabeth
Turpin. The names of these ch are found in
the old Turpin Bible which was given to Thomas

Jefferson Turpin by his grandmother, Mary
Bancroft in \833.~Mrs. C. R. McNabb, 934
Columbia Ave., Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

10219. Ford.— John Ford, b 1750 d 1834 en-
listed 1778 and ser as ensign in 3rd N. C.
regt was taken prisoner at Charleston, 1780.
He was b in N. C. and d at Commerce, Ky.
Married Rachel Spencer 1770. Children,
Rachel, Richard, Nancy. Would like to know
names of his other ch. Nancy m Charles Robert-
son in Va. and lived nr Clarksburg. — Mrs. J.
O. Cheairo, 410 S. Olympia St., Tulsa, Okla.

10259. GiBBs. — Write to Francis B. Culver,
2203 N. Charles St., Baltimore Md., who can
furnish full data relative to the ances of
Sheldon Gibbs.

10279. Blair.— The N. E. Blair book con-
tains mention of a John Blair who declared
intention of marriage with Anne Bortwell Dec.
23, 1780. No further account is given of this
man who was a s of Lieut. James Blair (w
name unknown) James was the s of Robert and
Isabella Rankin Blair. He lived at Rutland,

Mass. Millwright. Reed's History of Rutland

says " Lieut. James Blair was a useful and
active citizen during and after the War." He
was one of the Alarm Men in 1776. Settled in
Rutland before 1746 when he bought land from
Jonas Clark of Boston. — Dr. E. M. H. Moore,
1708 Race St., Phila., Pa.

10281. Shelton-Sheppard. — The will of
Henry Shelton prob. Albemarle Co. Va. 1799
mentions s Wm., s Arthur, dau Mary Isabel
and 2 deceased ch Susannah and Sarah, w of
Thomas White. Ten others not named. Another
Henry Shelton, sea capt whose house was on
the James river m Nancy Flowers whose bro
George lived across the river from the Shel-
ton house. Acccording to Henry Shelton's gr
dau now 96 yrs old he had 3 ch. Nancy Shelton
b Jan. 17, 1785 m 1st, Anthony Lawson, 2nd
Wm. Barkley in N. C. ; Charles Wesley b Aug.
10, 1791 m 1st unknown, 2nd Dorcas Colbain

Smith, N. C. : Mary, or Polly Shelton m

Sheppard, a Methodist preacher. I had thought
that sea capt meant a naval service, but am
inclined to believe he was a mariner by occu-
pation.—.1/;-.?. W. H. Whitley, 252 Vine St.,
Paris, Ky.

10312. Hall. — Lyman Hall, the Signei, d
Oct. 19, 1790 in the 67th yr of his age. He
m 1st, Abigail, dau of Thaddeus Burr of
Wallingford, Conn., May, 1752 and she d July,
1753. He m 2nd, before 1757, Mary Osborne
and removed to Dorchester, S. C. and later to
Sunbury, Ga. One ref says he d 1790 in his
60th yr but his epitaph gives 67th. His
only s d before 1790, only ch of Lyman
Hall and 2nd w. Ref. "Green's Pioneer
Mothers of America." pp. 275, 278—
Miss E. May Christy, Silver Creek, N. Y.

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10285. Clark-Jack. — Please Communicate
with me. Wm. Clark (b 1735 d about 1815)
m Margaret Owens. He was the s of Daniel
Clark of Md., moved thence to Bedford Co.,
Pa. (then Cumberland) in 1758. Lived on
Dennings Creek. His ch were James ; Wm : John
Owens ; Rev. Daniel ; Rev. Stephen ; Samuel ;
Mary m 1st, Hill, 2nd, McCoy; Elizabeth Ank-
rem ; Margaret Gordon ; Rachel Sappington.
As the name of the w of Wm. 3rd is unknown.
I am not sure this is your line, but think it is.
John Owens Clark, bro of Wm. m Mary Blair,
sister of Alexander Blair of Blair's Mill, Bour-
bon Nicholas Co., Ky. He d in Ohio. Rev
ser in the Clark Co., probably in Cumberland
Co., This Clark branch said to be early Colon-
ial in Md.— Dr. E. M. H. Moore, 1708 Race St.,
Phila., Pa.

10307. Cochran. — The Bard family History

contains a note on John Cochran (w

Baird) but has dau Eleanor m Joseph Junkin
(error) John's sister Eleanor m Joseph Junkin
(data from desc) Bard book says John Coch-
ran was s of Wm. Cochran of Carrollsburg,
Aid. 1699-1785. and w Sarah 1702-1771. Coch-
ran mms. (Presbyterian Historical Soc. in
Phila.) indicates Wm. w Sarah was a distant
cousin named Cochran. William Cochran of
Carrollsburg set first in Delaware, moved at an
early date to Md. John Cochran prob b in
America. His father b 1699 prob too old for
Rev War ser. (c) Penna. Gen. Contain a
record of the Rowan family. — Dr. E. M. H.
Moors, 1708 Race St., Philadelphia, Pa.

10314. Felton. — Lieut. Nathaniel Felton b
about 1615 came from England to America in
1633 and set in Salem, Alass., where he lived
72 yrs. He m Mary Skclton dau of Rev Samuel,
the first minister of Salem. He made a voyage
to England in 1634 and returned 1635, in 1636 he
was given 20 acres of land. 1643 he sold to Wm.
Brown Sr. "the lott south east of Rev. Wm.
Skclton's lott with an old house upon it." In
1645 he set nr Felton Hill, Salem, the part
afterward called Danvers, and now Peabody.
He said in 1700 he had lived there 55 years.
1655 he was a juryman. 1676-1679, 1683 grand
juryman, 1657 constable. Also chosen ensign,
and 1681 Lieut. He was witness to many wills,
dei'ds, agreements, etc. The Rev. Dr. Felt,
author of "Annals of Salem" .says he was a
man of good faith and judgment and was
fri(|uently called to give his testimony al)out
litigated estates. Mrs. Mary Skelton I'eltoii d
May 8. 1701, age about 75 yrs. His will dated
Oct. 3, 1703 proved I7nr. mentions ch John;
Nathaniel; Eli/abeth ;i widow; Ruth and Han-
nah. I lis ch were John h 1645, ni 1670, Marv
Tompkins; Rtith bapt Oct. 29, 1648, m James
Houlton of Salem; M;,ry bapt Apr. 6, 1651, d
young; I-:iizab(lli h M,,,-. IX, 1652. m Tliom.is

Watkins ; Nathaniel bapt Aug. 28, 1654 d
young. Nathaniel b Aug. 15, 1655, m Anne
Home sometimes spelled Orne ; Mary b Jan.
15, 1657; Hannah bapt June 20, 1663 m 1684
Samuel Endicott ; Susannah bapt Mar. 29, 1665.
Mary Skelton Felton came to Salem in 1629
when she was abt 3 yrs old. Ebeneazer Felton
gr s of Lieut. Nathaniel and 5 sons were
among the first settlers of New Salem, Mass.
in 1740. — Ref :-The Felton Family by Cyrus
Felton. " Ances. of Lydia Foster." by J. E.
Movrh.— Mrs. John W. Eairing, 307 East Ot-
toman St., Greenburgh, Pa.

10315. Porter. — The Porter Gen. says Gen.
Closes Porter, father of Benjamin was b in Dan-
vers, Mass. Mar. 26, 1756. (The house he was b
in is still standing having been occupied by
Zerubbabel Rea 1715, 1739 by Benjamin Porter,
his sons Gen. Moses and Zerubbabel.) d.
Cambridge, Mass. Apr. 14, 1892, unmarried. I
copy from the History of Danvers " Gen.
western frontier and superintended the line of
the officers of the Rev Army distinguished him-
self at Bunker Hill. Was under Washington
through the War; wounded after the battle of
Brandywine in the fight on the banks of the
Delaware. Was in the ser many yrs on the
western frontier and superintended and line of
surveys for fortifications along the coast of
Maine and Mass. He was actively engaged in
the War of 1812 at various places, being at the
taking of Ft. George and commanding at
Niagara, where he held the rank of Brig. Gen.
in the winter of 1813 he accomplished a march
from Niagara to New Orleans in 5 mo. through
a trackless wilderness and accompanied Wilkin-
son's Expedition against Montreal in 1814. and
was stationed at Norfolk until the close of the
War. All his life in the ser of country. Longer
than any officer of his grade and won the
confidence and admiration of all as an able
courageous soldier and high disciplinarian."
There were several other Porters who
settled in Mass. and Conn, before 1650 and
others who came over after 1800. — Mrs.
/[■;;/. /.. Srhopi^r. 602 S. 3rd Ave.. Boze-
nian, Mont.

10340. Pkotzman.— Whereas the State of Pa.
did grant two patents of land to John Protz-
man, one for 353 acres, the other for .V acres
both dated Aw. 1. 1704 ♦ * *. J.^lin Protzman
did convey 350 acres ***(,, David Martin in
Mav 1794 * * * and the said John Protzman

lid bv

St wi

empower his executors

to sell the rem.iinder of bis land * * * The
.ibove land was on the Welsh Run. Franklin
Co., Pa. Look at the Court Hou.sc. Hagers-
town, Md. for Protzni.m Wills and Records. —
Mrs. C. I'. EcmU-icIc, Mercersbm-g, Pa.

10374. P.isiixK.i.i.. — The name of Daniel
P.nshncll apjiears in the indexes of M.inuscript

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Material from the town of Hartland, and can
be found in the Conn. State Library by writing
to George S. Godard, State Librarian of Conn.
—Miss Harriet Bushnell, Bath, N. Y.

10440. Woodford.— The Wm. Woodford's of
Va. have become sadly confused. Gen. Wm.
Woodford did not m a dau of Lord Howe as
Howe was not a married man : but possibly
did m a relative of Lord Howe. It seems
probable that this Wm. Woodford served in
the Rev as a sol according to records in hand.
Also that Wm. Woodford who m Hannah Moss
may have been his s. The latter Wm. was
an only s, according to family traditions, so he
could not have been a s of Gen. Wm. Woodford
who belonged to Caroline Co., and whose mar-
riages and ch are known, and whose heir-at-
law, John, obtained a large grant of land in
Ky. on the record of his father's ser. — Miss
Kate S. Curry, 1020 Monroe St., N. W.,
Washington, D. C.

HosMER. — Page 466 Savage's Gen. Diction-
ary of new England gives the following :
James Hosmer of Concord came in the Eliza-
beth from London 1635 age 28 with w Anne,
age 27, dau Mary 2; Anne 3 mo. and two
maid servants. He was of Hawkhurst in Kent
Co. He had ch b in this country, James, 1637;
John 1639; Mary Jan. 10, 1641 d 1642; 2nd w
Alice had sons Stephen b Nov. 27, 1642 ; Hannah
1644 and Mary 1646; 3rd w Mary or Ellen d
Mar. 3, 1665. He was freeman 1637 and d
Feb. 7, 1685. His dau Mary m Thomas Smith
of Concord. Their s James m Oct. 13, 1658.

QUERIES

10542. Weatherbee-Howe. — Wanted par of
Elizabeth Weatherbee or Witherby who m
Abraham Howe of Marlboro, Mass. Nov. 25,
1793. She was b Dec. 15, 1776 and d Aug.
28, 1853. Had she Rev ances.

(a) Clark. — Wanted gen of Experience
Clark who m Josiah Wheelock at Mendon,
Mass. Jan. 6, 1748.

(b) Darling. — Wanted par and dates of
Elizabeth Darling who m Obediah Wheelock
in 1705 at Mendon, or Medfield, Mass.

(c) Daby. — Wanted par of Hannah Daby
b Nov. 21, 1746, d Oct. 28, 1821, m Lemuel
Farnsworth in Harvard, Mass. Jan. 12, 1768.

(d) Toby. — Wanted par and dates of Sus-
annah Toby of Sandwich, Mass. who m Samuel
Barrows of Plymouth, Nov. 21, 1723.

(e) Lewis-Pressey. — Wanted gen and dates
of both Benjamin C. Lewis and his w Charlotte
Langdon Pressey. . They were m June 10, 1824
both of Waterville, Maine. I. F. T.

10543. Terrell. — Wanted to corres with desc
of Edmund Terrell and his w Margaret Willis.

She was the d of Col. Harry and Mildred
Washington Willis.— G. M. J.

10544. Sherwood. — Wanted name of w of
Jeremiah Sherwood of Dutchess Co., N. Y.
who was a sol in the Rev. Had he other ch
besides Isaac and Betsey? He sold his farm
in Dutchess Co., 1784 and in the census of
1790 is given as being m and having 2 ch and
2 others living in his family. Wanted his
par.— L. W. M.

10545. Hunter. — Wanted any data in regard
to the family of Helen Hunter who m Isaac

Randolph. Also of Hunter who m Sarah

Duryea, who was the m other of Abraham
Hunter and of Helen Hunter who m the s of
James Fitts Randolph.— M. F. R. P.

10546. Weekes.— Wanted par and birth place
of Joseph Weekes b Feb. 20, 1764. Had bros
Amos and Obidiah, who m Margaretha dau of
Carl Traver at Rhinebeck, Dutchess Co., N. Y.
Sept. 12, 1788. Removed to Alburgh, Vt. and
from thence to Rouses Point.

(a) Nichols. — Wanted birth place and gen
of Mary or Polly Nichols b Sept. 1, 1771, m
about 1790, Andrew Oliver at Orwell Vt.

(b) Oliver.— Wanted Rev rec of Robert
Oliver who m Lydia Gray of Pelham. Sept.
13, 1759. Had sons, Robert, Andrew, Daniel
and Clark b Athol, Mass. and removed to
Orwell, Vt.— C. L. B.

10547. Wood. — Wanted ances of Uriah Wood

b Dec. 1754, d 1826 m Bigelow, July 15,

1778. Lived in Vt.. then in N. Y. immigrated
to Ohio with Satine and Bigelow families at
an early date.

(a) Phillips. — Wanted par of Arthur M.
Phillips who lived in Carlisle, Pa. before 1807.
Father believed to have been killed in Rev. —
A. W. C.

10548. Walton.— Was Robert Walton b abt
1759 of Louisa, Co., Va. a Rev sol? His w

was Keziah -. Wanted any inf of desc of

Jesse Walton of Amelia Co., Va. and of George
Walton b 1737 b Elizabeth Jennings, and
went to Va.

(a) Sims. — Wanted any inf of the families
of George, John and Mathew Sims all of Han-
over Co., Va.

(b) Hester.— Agnes Hester of Hanover or
New Kent Co., Va. m Simeon Walton of Han-
over Co., and lived for a time in Amelia Co.,
Wanted her par.

(c) Anderson. — James and Elizabeth Ander-
son lived in Amelia Co., James d about 1770.
Their ch were James, Henry, Charles, John,
Elizabeth, Mary, Mason and Frances. Charles
m Lucy Stokes. Was he a sol in the Rev?
What was the origin of the the family. —
W. H. B.

10549. Boyer. — Wanted information concern-
ing Henry Boyer b 1756 d Mar. 7, 1799 and is

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bur in Alex. Va. Wanted the exact date of his
b and names and dates of his w and ch. —
E. W. F.

10550. McWhorter. — Wanted inf concerning
Thomas McWorter who came from Scotland
prior to the French and Indian war and settled
in N. J. Wanted also name of his w. Their ch
were Gilbert, Hugh and Mary who m Wm.
Buchannon. Whom did Gilbert m? Wanted also
ances and place of birth of Kezia Tyler b abt
1750, the w of Hugh McWhorter.

10551. Pearce.— Wanted par of Elizabeth
Pearce b in N. J. 1781 d Shelby Co., Ind. 1825
m Alexander Van Pelt. Was her father a
Rev sol?

(a) Stafford-Leach. — Wanted par of James
Stafford b in Va. and m Mary Leach of Md.
Wanted her par also. Were there Rev rec in
either family? — M. M. M.

10552. Rice. — Wanted Rev rec of Josia Rice
and of his s Buckminster Rice and ances of
Abigail Howe who m Buckminster Rice.—
L. H. J.

10553. Maddux-Ellis. — Wanted ances of
Joshua Maddux and also of Sallie Ellis, his
w both natives of Ga. living there about 1775.
Joshua Maddux immigrated from Ga. to N. C,
Tenn. and Ky. finally settling at the end of
his journey near Carlyle, 111. Steven Ellis,
probably the father of Sallie was a native of
Mecklenburg Co., Va. — R. E. D.

10554. Terrell. — Would like to corres with
desc of Orvil s of Joel Terrell, b 1803 m
Ermina Kilpatrick. — A. E. G.

10555. RusH-LocKWOOD. — Wanted Rev rec of
Martin Rush b Nov. 10, 1732. His s Daniel
or Martin b 1761 m Abigail Lockwood b 1769.
Did Abigail Lockwood's father have Rev rec?
Have complete Bible rec of Rush family but do
not know where they lived. Probably Penna,
N. Y. or Va.— J. M. T.

10556. Hargrove-Page. — Wanted gen, Rev rec
and all dates of Reuben Hargrove and his two
wives. He m secondly, Mildred Page of Va.
and moved from Buncombe Co., N. C. to
Montgomery Co., Ga. before 1800. His sons
were Laban, Reuben, Morgan, Hardy Hiram
and Lemuel (1st m) Zachariah, Branscome and
Kinchcn W. (2nd m) Wanted name of Reuben
Hargrove's 1st w and Hardy Hiram's three
wives. He was living in Houston Co., Ga.
1849.— J. M. H.

10557. Chandler. — Wanted maiden name and

all data regarding Lucretia who m 1st Elms

and 2nd, Chandler. Her dau m Samuel

Cooper abt 1820.

(a) Seward. — Wanted name of Ohidiah
Seward's w who lived on Long Island in 1741.
Had dau Elizabeth & Mehitable. Did Obidiah
have Rev rec.

(b) Cooper. — Were Wm., Nathanial and Sam-
uel Cooper of Long Island and Saratoga, bros?
Would like to corres with their desc. — C. C. J.

10558. Robinson. — Wanted Rev rec of Ham-
ilton Robinson who enlisted from Ohio or from
Ky.— V. B. H.

10559. Wyllis-Wyllys. — Wanted name of w
of James Wyllis of Mansfield Conn, b Apr. 21.
1731, d Feb. 2, 1818. Children, James; Wm.
b 1754 m Sarah Bennett; John m Olive Root;
Polly m Asa Convers ; Miriam; Olive b Hor-
ace Fletcher. — C. C. H.

10560. Dye-Rogers-Hoxie.— Wanted Rev
rec of John and Richard Dye, Thomas Rogers
and Stephen Hoxie. John Dye lived in Rich-
mond Twp, Wash. Co., R. I. in 1790, m Thank-
ful Potter in 1756. Had ch Samuel Richard,
Tohn. Daniel and Michael. Son Richard b Oct.
18, 1760 d 1854 in Richmond Twp. m 1782
Zurriah Rogers dau of Thomas b 1733 and his
w Elizabeth Hoxie whom he m in 1763 in Rich-
mond, R. I. Stephen Hovie m Elizabeth Kenyon
dau of John. Feb. 27, 1734 or 1735. Was in
Richmond, R. I., 1774. Wanted date and place
of his b & d. Would like to corres with anyone
interested in these lines. — D. F.

10561. Smith. — Wanted ances of Anne
Smith b Feb. 20, 1755 and m Daniel Trigg, Jan.
30. 1777. Was her Father Guy Smith of Bedford
Co., Va.— D. A. P.

10562. Roderick-Landis. — Henry Roderick b

1821 in Southern Pa. was the s of Roderick

and - — — Landis. The Landis family of which
Henry Roderick is a desc immigrated from
Va. to Pa. abt 1800. Henry Roderick m Mary
Greenlee. Lived for a time in Fayette Co., Pa.
near Uniontown, Moving to Southern Wise,
abt 1850. Wanted Roderick and Landis gen
and Rev rec of either family. — A. D. L.

10563. Cropsey. — Wanted name and dates of
w of Isaac Cropsey of N. Y. probably Dutchess
Co., who was b 1719 and d Mar. 27, 1781. Did
he have Rev rec.

(a) Underbill. — Did Nathaniel Underhill of
White Plains, Westchester Co., N. Y. have Rev
rec. His w was Abigail Lispcnard. Wanted
dates of both.— M. P. D.

10564. Cole.— Wanted ances of Mary Cole
who m Simeon Ballow in Smithfield, R. I.
Apr. 1, 1762. They lived there until his d. She
d in Charlcstown, N. H. Nov. 22, 1827.

(a) Fish. — Wanted ances of James Fish who
was b Rehobeth, Mass. Also of his w Hannah
(Case ?) who was from Shrewsbury, Vt.
He d in 1832 age 65. They settled in Langdon,
N. H. Ix;t 1790 and 1800 where they arc bur.

(b) Ballow-Sayles.— Wanted the dates of
I) & d of Abraham Ballow who m Mary Sayles,
Mar. 3, 1739. She was b Apr. 22, 1721, where

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did she die? They Hved in Smithfield, R. L? —
E. M. F. L.

10565. Berry-Lutz-Bierly. — Wanted dates
of b, m and d of Peter Berry a Rev sol of
Lancaster Co., Pa. and of his w Margaret
Kublings. Their ch were Jacob, Peter, Henry,
Conrad, Philip, John, Nicholas, Barbara, Mar-
garet, Catherine and Christina. Did Peter Jr. m
Lizzie, dau of Anthony and Anne Warner
Bierly, Who were their ch? Wanted par of
both Peter Berry b 1782 and his w Elizabeth
Lutz b 1786.

(a) Cox-Reed. — Wanted par of Nancy or
Sarah Cox b June 4, 1800 Middletown, Ohio,
who m about 1820 nr Dayton, Ohio, Abraham
s of Brewster and Sarah Rogers Reed of Ame-
lia, Dutchess Co., N. Y. Reed gen also desired.

(b) Martin. — Wanted Christian name and

dates of Martin and w Margaret who

lived in Western Va. Their ch were Wm.,
John, James, Charles, Margaret, Polly, Nancy
and Catherine b 1800 m George Smith. Their
dau Lovisa b Dec. 4, 1819 m 1836 David Croc-
kett. Family moved to Butler Co., Ohio
and Indiana.

(c) Crockett. — Wm. Crockett m Mrs. Nancy
Moss. Their ch were David Perry, Asher,
Elizabeth, Polly, Matilda. David, b Jan. 19,
1812 d 1855 m 1836 Lovisa Smith of Indiana.
Family came from Tenn. to Ind. David named
for his uncle David Crockett of Alama fame.
Would like proof of this. Also par and dates
of Wm. Crockett and his w.— J. B. B.

10566. Wilcox. — Wanted names of ch of
Edward and Tamsen Wilcox who m abt 1700
and lived in Westerly, R. I. Also of Edward
and Dinah Wilcox m abt 1715. Who were the
par of Samuel Wilcox b abt 1720 m 1741 Anne
Carpenter in West Greenwich.

(a) Wakeman. — Wanted ch with their m
of Lieut. Laban Wakeman b in Providence, R. I.
1754, d 1795 m 1786 Esther Eddy.

(b) VanVleit. — Dirck Jansen VanVleit b
abt 1664 m Anne Andriessen and had Arie b
1686 who m Grietje Masten in 1711. Wanted
other ch of Dirck VanVliet and their marriages.

(c) Morris. — Wanted par with dates of Abi-
gail Morris who m John Frissell Nov. 10, 1726
at Woodstock, Conn. Wanted also their ch.

(d) Barthlomew. — Wanted par and dates
of Abigail Barthlomew who m Joseph Frissell
in 1691 at Woodstock, Conn. — B. A. C.

10567. Haskins. — Wanted par, maiden name
and dates of Betsey or Elizabeth w and widow
of Wm. Haskins who was b in New Salem,
Mass. 1766 and d Shutesbury, Mass. May 19,
1808.— L. W. S.

10568. Fuller.— Wanted par of Wm. and
Benj. Fuller who came from Vt. about 1809
with a load of horses to New Haven, Conn.
Benj. b Jan. 26, 1789 remainded in New Haven.

William went to Ohio, m and d there. These
bros were orphans and reared by an Aunt
Sallie.— E. D. L.

10569. Floyd. — Wanted par and dates of
Margaret Floyd who m John Carney a Rev
sol who ser in Capt. John Peyton Harrison's
Co., 2nd Va. Regt.

(a) Harrison. — Wanted par of Nancy
Harrison who m Wm. Tuggle a Rev sol in 9th
Va. Regt of foot. Also ser in Capt. Curtis
Kendall's Co., 1st Va., Regt. of foot. Tra-
dition says she was a dau of a bro of Benj.
Harrison the signer. Wanted any information
regarding her.— J. G. H. N.

10570. Pitt.— Oliver Cromwell Pitt came from
England prior to 1795. 1st rec. I have been
able to find of him is that he owned a large
tract of land in Readfield, Me, in which was
the Pitt Tavern, in 1795 when Me. was a
province of Mass. From what place in England
did he come. Did he have any connection with
Wm. Pitt, England's Prime Minister?

(a) NooPER. — Wanted ances and place and date
of b of Joshua Nooper who m in Portsmouth,
N. H. Dec. 16, 1798 Sallie Traleton. His oldest
ch was b there in 1799, after which he removed
to Castine, Me. He was a cabinet maker and
raised a family of 18 ch. I find a statement
that he was b in Portsmouth, England, 1777.
Can this be verified?— M. F. B. S.

10571. Ranson. — Wanted par of James Ran-
son who m Jan. 1, 1821 in N. Y. City, Sophia
More Abbott dau of Samuel.

(a) Hill. — Wanted par of Margaret Hill who
m 1806 in N. Y. City Samuel Patterson of
Conn. She was b Jan. 2, 1791. Her sister
Helen Hill m Col. Charles Cotesworth Pinkney
of S. C— E. H. V. V.

10572. Eskridge. — Wanted par of Lieut.
George Eskridge who d in Grayson Co., Ky.
Aug. 18, 1827. Wanted also names of their ch
and Rev rec of his father. — C. M. E.

10573. Dunham-Campbell. — Wanted ch of
Hezekiah Dunham and Elizabeth Campbell who
were m at New Brunswick, N. J. (Christ
Church) Oct. 26, 1769. Did he have a bro
Francis and sister Delilah? Wanted par of
Elizabeth Campbell. Wanted also ances of Sarah
Townsend the w of Wm. Hull of Culpepper
Co., Va. who emigrated to Licking Co., Ohio
abt 1809. Wanted also ances of Wm. Hull's
mother Margaret Glover. Sarah Fox b 1794 d
1879 m Wm. McLean of Warren Co., Ohio.
She had a sister Margaret who m Moses B.
Corwin in 1811 and lived in Urbana, Ohio.
Their mother was Mary Brand or Brandon
of Miami Co., Ohio and tradition says their
father came to Cincinnati about 1790 when that
town was called Losantiville. Wanted ances on
both lines.— S. S. D.

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10574. Harrison-Herbert.— Charles Harrison
bro of Benj. the signer b 1744 d 1775 m Mary
Herbert. Wanted his Rev rec and names of
his sons. — M. C. T.

10575. Honeywell-Crawford.— Enoch Honey-
well (s of Samuel) b Apr. 9, 1725 d in Bedford,
Westchester Co., N. Y. Sept. 11, 1813. His s
Wm. b Sept. 29, 1757 in Bedford d Oct. 17, 1831
in Summerhill. Cayauga Co., N. Y. m Elizabeth
Crawford b 1764 in Sommers Town, N. Y.
d 1811, dau of David Crawford who d in
Sommers Town, N. Y. age 80 yrs. Wanted
Honeywell and Crawford Rev rec— H. H. F.

10576. Johnson.— Wanted ances with Rev
rec of Rebecca Johnson b Guilford Co., N. C.
about 1800, m Joseph Perry Hockett (a Quaker)
in Guilford Co.. about 1820. They emigrated to
Parke Co., Ind. in 1831.— H. H. F.

10577. Turner.— Wanted names of ch and
rec of their marriages of Jacob Turner, Capt
Sth Reg. N. C. Line. Elizabeth Turner m
Daniel Bryan who was b 1758, d 1842. Wanted
Turner gen with any rec of Rev ser.

(a) Cartmill-Cartnal. — Alary Anne Cart-
mill b 1795 d 1857 m 1811 Lewis Bryan.
Wanted her gen and any rec of Rev ser. —
M. E. T.

10578. Clark.— Wanted par of Rebecca
Clark who m Timothy Culver a Sgt. in Cont.
Army from Conn.

(a) Coaxes. — Wanted par and Rev rec of
father of Hannah Coates who m Amasa Culver
in 1800, said Amasa being s of Rev sol. — E. C.

10579. Cupp. — Wanted any inf concerning
Rosina Cupp of Tcnn. who m Joseph McGuire
and moved to Miss, abt 1800.— H. McG. Y.

10580. Stallcup. — Wanted par and any inf
of Mark Hardin Stallcup who lived in Lexing-
ton, Ky. and fought in the War of 1812. He
was in the Battle of the Thames under Gen.
Isaac Shelby from Ky.— L. C.

10581. Caldwell. — Wanted Rev rec of David
s of John Caldwell of Lunenburg Co., Va.

(a) Pile. — Want to corres with anyone
having inf regarding Eliza Pile of Va. who m
Wm. s of John Caldwell, Aug. 15, 1802.

(b) Patteson. — Wanted gen of Charles
Patteson of Va. Was he a Rev sol? His s
Jonathan b 1797 m Matilda gr dau of
John Caldwell.

(c) DeGraffenreid. — Wanted gen of the De-
GrafFcnreid family of N. C. They wore Swiss
emigrants. Kegina DeGraffenreid m Charles
Patteson. Was her father a Rev Sol.

(d) Baker. — Correspondence desired with
any one interested in the Raker family of Md.
Was the Baker home in Calvert Co., Md. -
When did Francis Baker Jr. m Nancy Davis,
and where? Was she an Aunt of Jefferson
Davis?— M. McL.

10582. Dull.— John Dull was a sol in Capt.
Rundois Co., Northampton Co., Flying Camp,
1776. Ref. Pa Archives 3rd Series, vol. 23, p.
455 and 5th Series, vol. 8. p. 538. John Dull
resided in Somerset Co.. Pa., at the time of his
death and is bur at Centerville, that Co. He
was b May 20, 1753 d Nov. 20, 1835 m
Elizabeth Putman b Jan. 22, 1752 d Oct. 22,
1843 (Rec. from tombstones). Wanted place
of b and res at time of enlistment. — H. E. W.

10583. Johnson.— Wanted par and Rev rec
of father of Jesse Johnson b 1800 in Penna.
m Jane Harvey 1823. The name of Jesse's
bros and sister were John, Wm., Robert, James,
Samuel, and Nancy. Would like to corres
with anyone having this inf.— W. H. Q.

10584. WvATT.— Wanted par of Thomas H.
Wyatt of Lynchburg, Va. who d in Madison,
Ga. 1844 age 35. In his will he mentions bros
Benj. H. Wyatt of Campbell Co., Va. and John
Wyatt of Richmond Co.. Va. and a sister
Nancy Wyatt Mitchell, of Mo. Would like
to corres with their desc.

10585. Mason. — Wanted gen and any inf of
John Mason of Va. b 1745, m Anne Shirley
in 1768 and d 1831, Mt. Sterling. Ky.— W. E. B.

10586. Calvert. — Wanted names of ch of
Reuben Calvert who d 1778 Pr. Wm. Co., Va.
Adm. report mentions " 2 youngest ch." Deed
1794 mentions " Thomas s and heir at law of
said Reuben Calvert, deceased.'' — E. F. O. G.

10587. Thomas.— Wanted par of Charles
Thomas b Sept. 28, 1776 d Mar. 2, 1859, m
Sarah Barrett, Apr. 18, 1801. Did his father
have Rev rec? — N. M. C.

10588. Kenyon. — Wanted all data and par of
Thomas Kenyon who m Amy Brown and at
one time lived in Schoharie Co., N. Y. Had
at least one son b there Henry B., who was b
Dec. 24, 1800, and m Betsey Brown of Nor-
wich, N. Y. Tradition says that Henry's
mother and w were related. Betsey was the
dau of Hczikiah Brown. Henry Kenyon was
a Baptist minister. The ch of Thomas Kenyon
were Grovncr, Francis, Henry, Amy Brown
Metcalfe, Nancy who m Dr. Pettingale.
Wanted ances of Thomas Kenyon and Amy
Brown and places and dates of b and d. — C. B. B.

10589. Greenlee. — Did Samuel Greenlee who
m Mary Paxton have Rev rec? And was he a
bro of Robert ? Was l-Llizabeth Dunlap who m
Robert Greenlee a dau of Lieut., Col. Dunlap
of Cumberland Co? — V. E. D.

10590. EwiNC— Was Charles Ewing who
enlisted in Capt. Gross Scruggs' Co., Sth Va.
Rcgt. Feb. 6, 1776 and was reported dead Jan.,
1777 the father of Charles Ewing who en-
listed at the same time and ser as a fifer and
wagoner in the same Co.? Wanted Ewing
gen.— C. P.

S ^age in
^eralbrp

Conducted by
Edith Roberts Ramsburgh

Drawings by
Zoe Lee H. Anderson

38flUtum

WHARTON

The Wharton family is of great antiquity
in England. During the reign of Edward I,
one of its members married the heiress of
Hastings, and their descendents therefore,
claim a royal line from the Plantagenets.

The Wharton estate was situated upon the
Eden River and in 1409 Henry Wharton of
Eden married the daughter of Sir Thomas
Musgrave. Their son married the daughter of
Sir Thomas Lowther, thereby leaving to their
descendants the royal blood from Edward II
and the De Toeneys, whose lineage can be
traced to Eric King of the Goths in Scandinavia
living in the time of Serue, great, grandfather
of Abraham, 761 B. C.

Sir Thomas Wharton, in the reign of
Henry VHI, was Governor of town and Castle
of Carlisle, and for his gallant services against
the Scots was knighted 1545, Baron Wharton.

It is a singular coincidence that after the
Whartons had gained their principal honors in
wars against the Scots at that time, five cent-
uries later their descendants should be united
in America by the marriage of Joseph Barton
to the grand-daughter of Ann Wharton.

Philip VI, Lord of Wharton created Duke
1718, had son Sir George who succeeded to the
Barony and was a subscriber to the Virginia
Company. One of his sons married the
daughter of Sir Henry Lee, the ancestor of the
Lees of Virginia.

Sir Thomas Wharton, Sir George's young-
est son immigrated to America in 1685, and be-
came the Founder of the Wharton family in
this country, many of whom have been dis-
tinguished in its history.

BALDWIN

Baldwin in early Norman French, was a
designative term meaning chief-keeper of the
royal staghounds. Other authorities give the
meaning of Baldwin as " bold in battle."

One of the best known royal Bandouvins
or Baldwins in 862, he then being the hered-
itary chief-forester of Harlebeck, in Flanders,
was created Count of Flanders and later Count
of Artois by his father-in-law, Charles le
Hardi, King of the Franks to whose daughter
Judith, he was third husband.

This Baldwin I, Count of Flanders was the
son of Odvacre, the son of Enguerand, the son
of Lyderick.

Their son Balwin II, Count of Flanders,
married Aelfthryth, daughter of Judith's step-
son Alfred, and through this marriage the
English Kings, since the Conqueror trace their
descendants from Alfred the Great and Charl-
emagne and also through this Judith to the
Guelphs. The grandson of Judith and Baldwin
I, Count of Flanders followed the Crusade
and inherited the throne of Jerusalem.

Richard Baldwin of Dunbridge, England
1552, married Ellen Apoke, and his great grand-
son, Nathaniel Baldwin of Cholesbury, England,
immigrated to America 1639, and married Joana
Westcoat, widow. Their son Samuel, born in
Fairfield, Connecticut, 1665 married Abagail,
daughter of John, Sr., and Marie Bruen
Baldwin. Through Marie Bruen the family can
be traced in the male line to 1200, and it con-
nects through marriage with all the royal lines
of Europe to the time of William the Con-
queror. Several of the ancestors were also
Barons of Runymede. Samuel Baldwin was
Deacon for Guilford, Litchfield and Goshen,
Connecticut ; also Treasurer and Representative,
and his descendants have been men of note.

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Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

OUTLINE FOR HISTORY PROGRAMS DURING 1922-1923

Dr. George M. Churchill, Assistant Professor of History, George Washington University,
Washington, D. C, has prepared the following outline of the history prograins, which are to
appear in the Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine monthly during 1922-
1923, so that chapters, desiring to plan their programs of study, can benefit from it.

THE EXPANSION OF THE UNITED STATES

A study of the growth of the United States,
not only in the sense of territorial acquisitions,
but of the movement of its people within its
boundaries, with some attention to geogra-
phic conditions.

I. The European Frontier.

The expansion of Europe.
Establishment of English colonies.
The advance to the mountains.
The colonial spirit.

II. Breaking the barriers.

The nature of the barriers.
The French and Indian Wars.
The new field for expansion.

British policy and colonial reac-
tions.

The Quebec Act and the Hinterland.
The Revolution and Expansion.

Kentucky and Tennessee.

The Northwest-Clark.

The treaty and the boundaries.

III. The Mississippi Valley.
The Land Cessions.
The Ordinance of 1787.
The Struggle for the Mississippi

Valley.

The Northwest and England.

The Southwest and Spain.

The Louisiana Purchase.

IV. The Advance to the Mississijipi.

The Occupation of the Old Northwest.
Cottan Culture and the Southwest.
Transportation and settlement.
The Frontier .Sjiirit.
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V. Southwestern Expansion.
The Santa Fe Trail.
Texas — Settlement, annexation, inde-
pendence.
The Mexican Cessions.
Expansion and the Civil War.

\'I. Northwestern Expansion.

Exploration and the Fur trade.
Oregon.

The Oregon Trail.

The Settlement of Oregon.

The Adjustment with England.
The purchase of Alaska.

\'II. California and the Pacific.
California.

Old California.

The American Conquest.

Gold and Settlement.
Hawaii and the Philippines.
The United States in the Pacific.

\'ni. P.uilding up the West.

The Mormons in Utah.

'I'he Pacific Railroads.

Stock raising, mining, and agriculture.

'J'he Disappearance of the Frontier.

I.\. Southward Expansion.

Florida and the Monroe Doctrine.

The Filibusters.

Cuba and the Spanish War.

The Panama Canal.

The United States in the Caribbean.

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NATIONAL'BQARD'OF

Regular Meeting, June 7, 1922

REGULAR meeting of the National
Board of Management was called to
order by the President General, Mrs.
George Maynard Minor, in the Board
Room of Memorial Continental Hall,
on Wednesday, June 7, 1922, at
10.05 A.M.

The Chaplain General opened with prayer,
the members joining in the Lord's Prayer.

The President General announced that Mrs.
Yawger was not able to be present and that
it would be necessary for the Board to desig-
nate some one to act as Secretary. Moved by
Mrs. Buel, seconded and carried, that Mrs.
White act as Secretary pro tern.

The President General spoke of the serious
illness of Mrs. Sparks, State Regent of Penn-
sylvania. Moved by Mrs. Cook, seconded by
Mrs. Harris, and carried, that a letter of love
and sympathy be sent to Mrs. Sparks, who is
seriously ill at University Hospital, Phila-
delphia. Mrs. Guernsey referred to the death
of Mrs. Hodgkin's father, and moved that a
letter of condolence be sent to Mrs. Wilkinson
and family upon the death of her hisband, the
father of Mrs. Hodgkins, Vice President Gen-
eral of the District of Columbia. Seconded by
Mrs. Bissell and carried. Mrs. McCall reported
that Mrs. Akerman, State Regent of Georgia,
was unable to be present on account of the
illness of her mother and moved that a note
of sympathy be sent to Mrs. Charles Akerman,
of Georgia, on account of serious illness of her
mother. Seconded by Mrs. Guernsey and car-
ried. The President General read messages
from other members regretting their inability
to be present at the meeting.

The announcement was made by the President
General that if it was the wish of the members
present, Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman of the
Building and Grounds Committee, would endeav-
or to have an informal luncheon of sandwiches,
iced tea and cakes served in the Banquet Hall.
The plan met with general approval and most
of the members signified their desire to be
included in the numl)ir for whom luncheon
should be ordered.

The roll was called by the Recording Secre-
tary General pro tern, the following members
being recorded present: National Officers: Mrs.
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Minor, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Morris, Mrs. Cook,
Mrs. Holden, Mrs. Hodgkins, Miss McDuflfee,
Mrs. Mondell, Mrs. Buel, Mrs. Block. Miss Wal-
lace, Mrs. McCall, Mrs. Spencer, Mrs. Elliott,
Mrs. Hanger, Miss Strider, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs.
White ; State Regents : Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Bis-
sell, Miss Todd, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Craig, Mrs.
Chubbuck, Mrs. Guernsey, Mrs. Denmead, Mrs.
Shumway, Mrs. Seydel, Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Young,
Mrs. Reed; State Vice Regents: Mrs. Dawson,
Mrs. Schick.

The President General read her report.

Report of President General

Members of the National Board of Manage-
ment :

Your President General begs to submit the
following report of her activities since the last
meeting of the Board on April 24th. She
remained in Washington for a week after the
close of Congress and the meeting of the Board,
to write letters of thanks to those who so
generously contributed their time and talent on
the program of our Congress, and also to put
into operation, as far as possible, the business
resulting from Congress and the Board meeting.

During the week following Congress your
President General was invited to represent the
Daughters of the American Revolution at the
International Conference of Pan-American
Women, at the meetings held in Baltimore and
Washington, under the auspices of the League
of Women Voters.

While in Baltimore for this conference a very
delightful luncheon was given in her honor by
the Daughters of Maryland, some of whom are
also members of the League of Women Voters.
Friday evening of that week the conference was
held in our own Memorial Continental Hall.
This meeting was attended by your President
General, and she was also present at a luncheon
given by Mrs. Charles Boughton Wood in honor
of the women of the conference.

After this your President General returned
to her home for a much-needed rest, but within
a few days she was starting out again to keep
official engagements. She attended the Congress
of the National Society, Sons of the American
Revolution, in Springfield, Mass., on May 15th,
where she gave greetings from our Society.

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487

On May 24th she accepted an invitation from
the President and Officers of the Imperial
Order, Daughters of the British Empire in the
United States of America, to attend a luncheon
in New York City, and made an address.

The day following she made a trip to Ellis
Island in company with Miss Amelia Campbell
and Mrs. Remsen, Chairman of Americanization
of Ellen Hardin Walworth Chapter, of Brook-
lyn. Mrs. Remsen was instrumental in securing
the distribution of the Manual on Ellis Island
through the Social Service Department.

It is very gratifying to be able to report that
the workers on Ellis Island are finding the
Manual most helpful in their work. They are
enthusiastic in its praise and want it in many
languages. Thousands of copies have been sent
to the Island, where it is being distributed with
careful discrimination and in a way to avoid
needless waste. A great field of usefulness is
opening before our Society on Ellis Island, not
only in the distribution of the Manual but also
in cooperation with the relief and social work
now going on there.

On May 30th your President General attended
the dedication ceremonies of the Lincoln
Memorial by invitation of the Lincoln Memorial
Association. An invitation was also extended
to all our National Officers. This ceremony was
most impressive and long to be remembered.

On June 1st she was asked to present in
person the cup awarded by the Society each year
to a midshipman at Annapolis. The exercises
at Annapolis were held on the afternoon of that
date and it was the privilege and pleasure of
your President General to present the cup to
Midshipman Jerauld Lockwood Olmsted, of
Iowa, who not only excelled in seamanship and
international law, for which the cup is awarded,
but was the honor man of the class. While
at Annapolis the President General was the
guest of Mrs. Rhett Goode and her daughter,
Mrs. Coyle.

Before and since leaving Washington in April,
the national committees have been given consid-
eration and the chairmen and many of the
committee members have been appointed. It is
desired to have the committee lists in the hands
of the chairmen very early in the summer, in
order that the resolution adopted at the last
meeting of the Board requiring National Chair-
men to issue their circulars early in the Fall may
be carried out. To date only about one-half of
the lists have been received from the State
Regents. Pursuant to the resolution adopted by
Congress the following have been selected for
the committee to take charge of the administra-
tion of the income from the Liberty Loan Fund,
which is now to be a standing committee : The
President General, the Treasurer General, Mrs.

Joy, Mrs. Hodgkins, Mrs. Lord, Mrs. Hanger
and Mrs. Ellison.

It has been found advisable to create another
department under our Patriotic Education Com-
mittee, in the interest of better films, and
therefore a vice chairman will be appointed to
take charge of this phase of patriotic education.

Your President General is able at last to
report that a definite decision has been reached
by the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission as to
the site for our memorial fountain. The site,
as finally settled, is to be on the green opposite
the Court House, on the main street of the
town, a very efifective and conspicuous location.
It is by far the most desirable of the proposed
sites that were available since the location on
Cole's Hill, directly back of the Rock, could not
be obtained. A new design for the fountain
was submitted to the committee at a meeting
held yesterday and the work will proceed at
once. It is hoped that it will be completed in
time for dedication in the Fall or early Winter.

Immediately after the close of Congress the
painting for the War Museum in France was
turned over to the War Department for ship-
ment and a very appreciative letter was received
from General Rogers, which I will read.

WAR DEPARTMENT
Office of the Quartermaster General

OF THE AliMY

Washington, D. C.

April 28, 1922.
Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
President General,

National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution,

Memorial Continental Hall,

Washington, D. C.
My dear Mrs. Minor:

I desire to express to you, and through you
to the Society of which you are the President
General, my warm appreciation of the painting
presented by the Daughters of the American
Revolution to the American War Department
Exhibit, in the Hotel des Invalides, Paris, France.

The excellence of the painting is particularly
appealing in combination of beauty, fine artistic
quality and impressiveness of subject, the last
named conveying to me an added interest inas-
much as it intimately connects with the Quar-
termaster Corps upon which organization fell
the duty of overseas transport of our troops.

It seems especially fitting that in this perma-
nent American exhibit in France the Daughters
of the American Revolution should be conspicu-
ously represented, preserving and symbolizing
as they do the principles of loyalty and true
Americanism.

It is my intention to forward vour gift on

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the transport Cantigny, sailing on May 2nd. It
will be immediately placed by Major Gimperling,
of the Quartermaster Corps, in whose charge
these details have been given.

Please accept my thanks and kind personal
regards.

Very sincerely,

H. L. Rogers,
Quartermaster General.
and my answer :

May 2. 1922.
H. L. Rogers,

Quartermaster General, U. S. A.
Office of the Quartermaster General,
War Department,
Washington, D. C.

My dear General Rogers :

Your very gracious letter of thanks, for the
painting which the National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution, has just turned
over to you for shipment to the War Museum
in Paris, has been forwarded to me, and I am
writing to say that the Society which I have
the honor to serve as President General has
counted it a very great privilege to contribute
to the museum in Paris this painting. We stand
ready at all times to cooperate in any way that
we can with our Government, and it has been
a pleasure to turn over to the War Department
this small contribution to the War Museum
being established in France.

May I take this opportunity to thank you for
your courtesy in permitting the painting to
remain with us until after our Congress, as it
was very satisfactory to the delegates attending
to see the painting before it was shipped abroad?
Very sincerely,

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

In accordance with the motion made at our
last meeting, that the President General appoint
a committee to get the practical facts we need
to know in regard to the ofifer of the Rosa
Bonheur chateau, she has named Mrs. Cook,
Mrs. Wiiitman, Miss Richards, Mrs. Hunter,
Miss Coltranc, Mrs. Lcary, Mrs. Butterworth,
Mrs. Seydel and Mrs. Bissell.

It will be recalled that CoKuiel Walter Scott
sent to the President General, during the week
of Congress, a check for one thousand dollars,
to Ik- used for prizes which would give more
publicity to our Society and its work. It seemed
best to your President General to appoint a
committee to take charge of this, and she will
therefore appoint Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Seydel, Miss
Lincoln, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Chubbuck.

Two I'^xecutive Committee meetings have
been held. April 2«(li and June 5th. The former,
a special meeting to dicide about placing the
contract for tiie pulilicition of the Magazine

(which contract was awarded to J. B. Lippin-
cott Company, the lowest bidder) and the latter
meeting will be reported by the Secretary, so
it is unnecessary to go into details here.

In closing this report there is regret that the
announcement must be made of the resignation
of Miss Grace M. Pierce, as Genealogist, which
she tendered on account of ill-health, the
resignation taking effect April 30th.

Anne Rogers Minor,

President General.

The President General interrupted her report
to call attention to the blue print and drawing
showing the location and the proportions of the
fountain. The letter of Miss Pierce, tendering
her resignation, and the President General's
reply thereto, were also read by the President
General. Mrs. Guernsey spoke of the services
rendered to the Society by Miss Pierce during
her different terms as a National Officer and
moved that the resignation of Miss Grace M.
Pierce be accepted and that a letter of sympathy
be sent her in her illness and regret for the
necessity of her resignation as Genealogist of
the National Society, D. A. R. Seconded by
Miss McDufifee and carried. The President
General's report was accepted on motion
duly seconded.

The President General reported the appoint-
ment of the Auditing Committee, as follows :
Miss Coltrane, Chairman ; Mrs. Talbott, Vice
Chairman ; Mrs. Helen M. Boynton, Mrs.
Eugene G. Herndon, Mrs. Herbert K. Lord,
Mrs. H. B. Patten, Mrs. Fred L. Volland, Mrs.
Howard L. Hodgkins ; and announced that inas-
much as Miss Pierce, who had been the Chair-
man of Printing for the past two years, was
too ill to act now, the Treasurer General had
been requested to be Chairman of that Commit-
tee and would serve in that capacity.

The report of the Recording Secretary General
was read by Mrs. White as follows :

Report of Recording Secretary General
Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The instructions of Congress have been car-
ried out as promptly as possible. The resolutions
adopted, the Constitution and By-laws as
amended, the address of the President General,
and the Magazine verse were all prepared for
the printer, and the proof read and turned over
when delivered to the Corresponding Secretary
(iencral for mailing.

There were sent to the officials and various
organizations copies of the resolutions adopted
by Congress, and very appreciative letters were
received in reply.

The minutes of the Board meetings of April
l.^th and 24th weri' dnlv turned over to the

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489

Editor of the Magazine. Copies of the ruhngs
of Congress and of these two Board meetings
were sent to all offices; all letters sent as
ordered ; and notification cards to the 945 mem-
bers admitted at these two meetings, in addition
to the 1950 admitted March 27th, were sent out
before May 15th.

Membership certificates have been sent out to
the number of 1800.

Notices of appointment have been mailed and
the lists sent to the respective National Chair-
men for all National Committees except those
composed of State Chairmen, the complete lists
of these not yet having been received from the
State Regents. Eleven of the State Regents'
lists have been received in my office as follows :
Alabama, Florida, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode
Island, Vermont, and West Virginia.

Notices to members of the June Board meet-
ing were mailed as soon as the date was fixed
by the President General, and I have just fin-
ished signing about twenty-five hundred mem-
bership cards to provide for the new members
who will be admitted today.

Rita A. Yawger,
Recording Secretary General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted. The report of Executive Committee
was then read by Mrs. White.

Report of Executive Committee

April 28, 1922 : That the contract for publish-
ing the Magazine be given for another year
to J. B. Lippincott & Company.

June 5, 1922: That the report of the commit-
tee appointed to investigate the claims of two
members to be charter members be accepted,
and filed with its findings and recommendations,
and that the Recording Secretary General be
requested to communicate these findings and
recommendations to these members.

That an appropriation of $100 be granted to
the Committee on Historical and Literary Reci-
procity for postage and typing, and that in
addition a supplemental list be printed consist-
ing of papers received since the last list
was printed.

That the salary of new clerks having served
on the permanent roll of the Society at least
one year at $75 a month, shall be increased to
$80 a month, from July 1, 1922.

That the salary of those clerks who have
been on the permanent roll more than two years
now receiving $80 a month, be increased to $85
a month, from July 1, 1922.

That the clerk assisting in the office of the
Magazine be paid $5 a month, beginning
July 1, 1922.

That the request of the Registrar General be

granted, transferring Miss Mohler, general
clerk, and Miss Busam, copyist, in her office,
from the temporary to the permanent roll, at
$75 a month, from July 1, 1922.

That the request of the Recording Secretary
General be granted, transferring Miss Rae, in
her office, from temporary to permanent roll,
at $75 a month, beginning July 1, 1922.

That Mrs. Getzendanner be transferred from
the temporary to the permanent roll, as Secre-
tary to the Curator General at the same salary
as her predecessor.

That the Recording Secretary General be
requested to have minutes of all Board meetings
now in short-hand transcribed into long-hand
and signed, the entire work to be completed on
or before January 1, 1923, and the Board min-
utes from April, 1917, to and through June,
1922, to be completed and signed on or before
October 1, 1922.

That the Treasurer General inform this for-
mer member, now resigned, who lost her mem-
bership certificate and desires another, that the
wording of the certificate covers only members
of the Society; therefore to issue a duplicate
certificate to one not now a member is
not permissible.

That the President General be authorized to
write a letter to the Valley Forge Association
expressing the views of this Committee that we
cannot undertake so big an object as raising
funds for a library building at Valley Forge.

That $50 be paid Mr. Phillips for his services
during Congress.

The recommendation of the Executive Com-
mittee of April 28th was accepted without objec-
tion. Mrs. Guernsey moved that Recommenda-
tion No. 1 of June 5th of the Executive
Committee be adopted. Seconded by Mrs. Block
and carried. Recommendation No. 2 was adopted
on motion of Mrs. Cook, seconded by Mrs.
McCall ; Recommendation No. 3 adopted on
motion of Mrs. Hodgkins, duly seconded ; fourth
Recommendation adopted on motion of Miss
McDuffee, seconded by Mrs. Bissell ; fifth Rec-
ommendation adopted on motion of Mrs. Bissell,
seconded by Mrs. Guernsey; sixth Recom-
mendation adopted on motion of Miss Strider,
seconded by Mrs. Hunter ; Recomendation No.
7 adopted on motion of Mrs. McCall, seconded
by Mrs. Seydel ; recommendation No. 8 adopted
on motion of Mrs. Hunter, seconded by Mrs.
Elliott ; Recommendation No. 9 adopted on
motion of Mrs. Nash, seconded by Mrs. Chub-
buck ; Recommendation No. 10 adopted on
motion of Miss Strider, duly seconded ; Recom-
mendation No. 11 adopted on motion of Mrs.
Nash, seconded by Mrs. Buel ; Adoption of
Recommendation No. 12 moved and seconded.
Mrs. Hanger asked that the word "customary"
be inserted, making the Recommendation read

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

"that the customary $50 be paid to Mr. PhilHps
for his services during Congress." There being
no objection, this word was added and the adop-
tion of the recommendation as amended carried.
Miss Strider then read her report as Reg-
istrar General, requesting that she be allowed to
give a supplementary report during the after-
noon session.

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
One thousand four hundred and sixty-five
applications presented to the Board ; and 614
supplemental papers verified ; 2079 total number
of papers verified.

Permits issued for 522 insignias, 270 ances-
tral bars, and 600 recognition pins.

Papers examined and not yet approved: 1116
originals and 920 supplementals.

Papers returned unverified: 11 originals and
28 supplementals.

Eighty new records verified.

Respectfully submitted,

E.MM.\ T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Elliott, and carried, that the Secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the admission of
1 'i*i-'i applicants for membership. The Secretary
pro tern announced the casting of the ballot and
the President General declared the 1465 appli-
cants members of the National Society.

The Treasurer General reported that 35 for-
mer members had complied with the require-
ments of the Constitution and requested rein-
statement, and moved . that 35 members who
have qualified for reinstatement be reinstated.
Seconded by Mrs. White and carried. The
Secretary pro tern announced the casting of the
ballot and the President General declared these
i^ reinstated as members of the National
Society. The Treasurer General reported also
tiiat the Society had lost by resignation 51
members and through death 161 members. At
the request of the President General the Board
rose in silent memory of these 161 members.

Mrs. Hanger read her report as Organizing
Secretary General.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President (krural and Members of the
National Hoard of Management:
I have the Imnor to report as follows:
ThrouKh their respective State Regents the

following nienil)ers at large are presented for

confirmation :

Mr-i. l-:nini:i K. Mnnger Slii)her, KlagstafT,

Ariz.; Mrs. Ami.i llot^■hl^i^s (iillespie, Court-

land, Ala. ; Mrs. Jennie Alaude Mclver Roun-
tree, Edgewood, Ala. ; Mrs. Grace F. Reid
Kendall, Wynne, Ark. ; Mrs. Elsie Ringer
Vaught, Julesburg, Colo. ; Mrs. Josephine Wil-
son Hess, Jonesboro, 111. ; Miss Elizabeth Bird,
Savage, Md. ; Mrs. Inez Brewster Wentworth,
W^olfeboro, N. H. ; Miss Florence P. Sanford,
Orange, N. J. ; Mrs. Lillie Burwell Horner,
Oxford, N. C. ; Mrs. Mary Margaret McCona-
hey Hall, Carrington, N. D. ; Mrs. 011a Mac-
Clarkson Hardway, Minot. N. D. ; Airs. Dorothy
Rachel Clark Van Pelt, Lostine, Ore. : Mrs.
Jennie McKellar Cade, Mt. Carmel, S. C. ; Mrs.
Ida Gavin Harper, St. George, S. C. ; Mrs.
Sarah Divine Cooke, Chattanooga, Tenn. ; Mrs.
Sara P. McMillan, Harriman, Tenn. ; Mrs.
Hattie Swift Race, Coupeville, Wash.

The authorization of the following Chapters
is requested : Tampa, Fla., and Bethesda, Md. ;
Altavista, Arlington and Chase City, Va.

The following Organizing Regencies have
expired by time limitation :

Mrs. Lottie Jones Allan, Ft. Lupton, Colo.;
Miss Emma Pottengill, Delhi, N. Y.

The State Regent of New York requests the
re-appointment of Miss Emma Pettengill as
Organizing Regent at Delhi, N. Y., be confirmed.

Through their respective State Regents the
following resignations of Organizing Regents
have been received :

Mrs. Alice Cook Wilhelm, Jonesboro, 111. ;
Mrs. Anna M. Hicks, Amelia, Ohio.

The Cordele Chapter, Cordele, Ga., through
its State Regent requests to be disbanded. The
Chapter feels they can better serve the National
Society with one large Chapter instead of two
small ones.

The State Regent of Oklahoma, Airs. Mc-
Clintock, requests the Organizing Regency of
Mrs. Mary McComb Allen be changed from
Leedley to Woodward, Okla.

The Chapter at Austin, 111., requests that its
name be changed from John Cory to David
Kenni.son. I recommend this be allowed.

The following Chapters have reported organ-
ization and are herewith presented for confirma-
tion and their names for approval :

Capt. Jacob Rich, at Cobden, III. ; Capt. John
Holmes, at Minneapolis, Minn.; Cozad, at
Cozad, Neb. ; Elizabeth Forey, at Tacoma,
W^ash. ; Gov. Isaac Stevens, at Toppenish,
Wash. ; Mary Anne Gibbes, at Toppenish,
Wash.; To-whan-ta-qua, at Syracuse, N. Y. ;
Washington-Lewis, at Fredericksburg, Va.

Respect fully submitted.
(Mrs. (;. W.M.i..\cK W. ) Ltcv Ci.M.T H.am.kr,
()ri/(iniciiui Secrrlary (icncral.

There being no objection, the report of the
Organizing Secretary (ieneral was adopted
without its recomnundation. Mrs. Hanger

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 491

recommended that the name of the Austin, III, until the Organizing Secretary General could

Chapter be changed from John Cory to David send for the correspondence of the Chapter in

Kennison. This was seconded by Mrs. Bissell. regard to the selection of this name.

At the request of the State Regent of Illinois. The Treasurer General then read her financial

action on this recommendation was deferred report, as follows :

Report of Treasurer General

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management :

I herewith submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from April 1 to
May 31, 1922:

CURRENT FUND
Balance in Bank at last report, March 31, 1922 $42,374.72

RECEIPTS

Annual dues, $7670; initiation fees, $10,120; reinstatement fees, $45;
supplemental fees, $843 ; Apostrophe to the Flag, $1.57 ; certificate,
$1; copying lineage, $.50; creed cards, $9.75; D.A.R. Reports,
$20.87; die. $2.40; directory, $1 ; duplicate papers and lists, $169.06;
exchange, $.55 ; hand books, $29 ; Immigrants' Manual, sale of
copies, $65.10; index to Library books, $3.76; interest, $377.50;
lineage, $1380.42; Magazine subscriptions, $3495.60; single copies,
$59.20; post cards, $78.55; proceedings, $6.75; remembrance books,
$1.40; rent from slides, $10.76; ribbon, $109.21; rosettes, $5.10; sale
of waste paper, $2 ; slot machine, $4.35 ; stationery, $9.84 ; telephone
$108.17; Auditorium events, $1200; contribution to Real Daughters'
Fund, $5 ; Refund, Real Daughter pension, $8 ; books for Library,
$20.25 ; index to Lineage books, $10.

Total receipts 25,874.66

$68,249.38

DISBURSEMENTS

Refunds : annual dues, $976 ; initiation fees, $79 ; supplemental fees, ^33 $1,088.00
President General: clerical service, $317; hotel and traveling expenses,

$577.18; postage, $14.50; telegrams and telephones, $33.84;

shears, $2.35 944.87

Organizing Secretary General : clerical service, $636.48 ; telegrams, $4.29 640.77

Recording Secretary General : clerical service, $493.05 ; admission cards.

$160 ; postage, $2 ; telegrams, $1.53 ; expressage, $.68 657.26

Certificate : clerical service, $320.45 ; engrossing, $212.70 ; postage, $400 ;

certificates, $100 1,033.15

Corresponding Secretary General : clerical service, $255.36 ; postage,

$90 ; bonding clerk, $1.25 346.61

Registrar General : clerical service, $2890.01 ; postage, $3.40 ; bonding

clerks, $2.50 ; baskets, $3.50 2,899.41

Treasurer General : clerical service, $2667.36 ; postage, $20 ; telegram,

$.53 ; bonding Treasurer General and clerks, $58.75 2,746.64

Historian General: clerical service, $453.12; telegrams, $4.55;

expressage, $2.01 459.68

Librarian General : clerical service, $440.25 ; accessions, $284.20 ; binding

volumes, $68; cards, $5; postage, $8; expressage, $.18 805.63

Curator General: clerical service, $243.09; cataloguing relics, $75 318.09

General Office : clerical service, $487.82 ; messenger service, $80.40 ;

postage and stamped envelopes, $517.10; postage on Manuals and

refund, $93; carfare, $1.20; adjusting typewriters, $5.10; bonding

clerks, $2.50 ; supplies, $28.99 ; wreath and ribbon, $22 ; insurance,

President General's pin, $5; Professional service, $60; refreshments,

Spanish War Nurses. $18 1,321.11

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Committees: Building and Grounds — clerical service, $10; Finance —
clerical service, $20 ; postage, $.25 ; Liquidation and Endowment —
postage, $5; National Old Trails Road— circulars, seals, postage,
expressage and telegrams, $38.96; Patriotic Education — circulars,
$19.50 ; postage, $9.05 ; Patriotic Lectures and Slides— postage and
telegrams, $4.31 ; Real Daughters — postage, $5 ; State Regents
Committee on Finance — postage, $1.86 ; circulars, $2.75

Expense Continental Hall: employees pay roll, $1443.50; electric current
and gas, $230.97 ; ice and towel service, $20.69 ; water rent, $58.65 ;
china, clerks' lunch room, $36.10; bonding Superintendent, $2.50;
caning chairs, $12.25 ; supplies, $29.15

Printing Machine expense : printer

Magazine : Committee — clerical service, $224.26 ; postage, $73.90 ;
Editor— salary, $400; postage, $8; expressage, $1.12; telegram, $.35;
binding books, $2.75 ; Genealogical Editor — salary, $100 ; Printing
and mailing April and May issues, $5419.05 ; cuts, $208.17

Duplicate paper fee refunded

Furniture and Fixtures: 3 vestibules, $680; 2 typewriters, $167; lino-
leum and runner, $41.99

Lineage : postage

Remembrance books : 2000, January issue

Ribbon

State Regents' postage

Stationery

Support of Real Daughters

Telephone

Thirty-first Congress : clerical service, $42.91 ; badges, $546.88 ; con-
gressional stenographer, $500 ; parliamentarian, $300 ; cornetist and
pianist, $95; orchestra, $150; fire and police service, $100; luncheon
and supper for tellers, $110; Treasurer General's reports, $147.50;
Credential Committee: clerical service, $133.51; postage, $12.50;
telegrams, $6.93 ; House Committee : clerical service, $18 ; telephone
operator, $75; cleaners, $405.40; decorations, $100; rent, chairs and
tables, $80; seat tickets, $32.25; checks, $1.80; signs, $2.95; postage,
$2 ; ice, $9.45 ; Invitation Committee : invitations, cards and
envelopes, $51.55; postage, $8; chps, ink and tags, $.65; Program
Committee: clerical service, $49.87; auto service, $15; postage, $3.50

Auditorium events: labor and lights, $140.50; refunds, $488.10; rug for
Auditorium, $983.16

116.68

1,833.81
80.00

6,437.60
1.00

888.99
65.00
167.50
121.50
249.80
187.55
540.00
240.67

3.000.65
1,611.76

Total disbursements

28.803.73

Balance

$39,445.65

PERMANENT FUND
Balance in Bank at last report, March 31, 1922

RFXKIPTS

Charters

Administration Building contributions

Continental Hall contributions

Liberty Loan contributions and interest

Liquidation and Endowment Fund

Commissions : Insignia $430.50

Recognition pins 98.85

Interest : Bank balances

Bonds

Proceeds from tea room

Total receipts

8.41
45.00

$34,051.04

$50.00
1.587.10
1.114.28
1.280.39

249.21

529.35

53.41
100.50

4.964.24

$39,015.28

NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT 493

DISBURSEMENTS

Administration Building payments $7,000.00

Architects 6.000.00

Furnishings — tea room 146.28

Total disbursements 13,146.28

Balance $25,869.00

Petty Cash Fund $500.00

SPECIAL FUNDS

LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Balance, March 31, 1922 $15.57

Receipts 300.00

Balance $315.57

immigrants' manual

Balance, March 31, 1922 $9,270.81

Receipts 1,202.14

Transferred from Painting Fund 2,332.20

Balance $12,805.15

painting- — CONVOY OF TROOPSHIPS

Balance, March 31, 1922 $5,539.93

Receipts 364.06

$5,903.99

Transferred to Fountain Fund $3,571.79

Transferred to Manual Fund 2,332.20

$5,903.99

PILGRIM mothers' MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN

Balance, March 31, 1922 $20,646.74

Receipts 781.47

Transferred from Painting Fund 3,571.79

Balance ■ $25,000.00

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

Receipts $27,958.38

Disbursements 27,958.38

PHILIPPINE scholarship ENDOWMENT

Balance, March 31, 1922 $17.18

Receipts and Interest 549.24

Balance 566.42

PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SPOTS

Balance, March 31, 1922 85.00

PRIZES

Receipts— Col. Walter Scott gift 1,000.00

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

MARKERS^ HISTORIC SPOTS AND OLD TRAILS

$226.80
211.80

Disbursements

$360.85
1,207.20

15.00

Balance, March 31, 1922

RELIEF SERVICE

Receipts

$1,568.05
1,144.20

Disbursements

423.85

ECAPITULATION

Bal. 3-31-22

Receipts

Total Special Funds

$40,210.99

R

Funds

Bal. S-3I-23

Current

$42,374.72

34,051.04

500.00

15.57

9,270.81

5,539.93

20,646.74

17.18
85.00

360.85

$25,874.66
4,964.24

300.00
3,534.34

364.06

4,353.26

27,958.38

549.24

1,000.00

226.80

1,207.20

$28,803.73
13,146.28

5,903.99
27,958.38

211.80
1,144.20

$39,445.65

25,869.00

500.00

Permanent

Petty Cash

Life Membership

Immigrants' Manual

Painting

Pilgrim Mothers' Memorial Fountain.
Patriotic Education

315.57
12.805.15

25,000.00

Philippine Scholarship

566.42
85.00

Prizes

1 000 00

Markers

Relief Service

15.00

423.85

Totals

$112,861.84

$70,332.18

$77,168.38 $106,025.64

DISP

Balance, National Metropolitan Bank.
Petty Cash (In Treasurer General's of

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$105,525.64
500.00

Total

$106,025.64

INVESTMENTS

Permanent Fund — Liberty Bonds

$100,000.00

2.314.84

1.000.00

9.450.00

650.00

Permanent Fund — Chicago and Alton

Bonds
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Bonds

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of the
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Permanent Fund — Chicago, Rock Isla
Philippine Scholarship Fund — Liberty
Life Membership — Liberty Bonds

Pacific Bond

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495

Mrs. White, as Chairman of Finance Com-
mittee, read the report of that Committee.

Report of Finance Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The following is a report of the disburse-
ments of the Society as authorized by the
Chairman of the Finance Committee during the
months of April and May. The vouchers
approved amounted to $70,176.39, which includes
contributions of $27,958.38 received for Patri-
otic Education and $1144.20 for Relief work.

Two payments amounting to $7000 were made
to the contractors of the new Office Building
and $6000 was paid to the architects on account.

Other large expenditures follow :

Clerical service $9,777.54

Magazines 6,437.60

Emplovees of the Hall 2.169.40

Postage 1,533.28

Support of Real Daughters 540.00

Expenses of 31st Congress 3,002.65

Miscellaneous, as itemized in the

Treasurer General's report 4,613.34

The Finance Committee makes the following
recommendation : "That the sum of $3000 be
appropriated for the traveling and hotel ex-
penses of the President General while on
official business for the current year, begin-
ning with the close of the Thirty-first
Continental Congress."

Respectfully submitted,

(Mrs. George W.) Louise C. White,

Cliair)inni.

The recommendation contained in the report
was again read by Mrs. White and on motion
of Mrs. Guernsey, seconded by Mrs. Harris, it
zvas carried that the sum of $3000 be appro-
priated for the traveling and hotel expenses of
the President General ivhile on official business
for the current year, beginning zcith the close
of the 31st Continental Congress.

In the absence of Miss Coltrane, Chairman,
Mrs. White read the report of the Audit-
ing Committee.

Report of Auditing Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The Auditing Committee met May 16th. The
reports of the Treasurer General for the month
of April, 1922, and the audit thereof by the
American Audit Company were compared,
found to agree, and placed on file with the
Recording Secretary General.

Under authority of the National Board the
Auditing Committee renewed the contract with
the American Audit Company, for auditing the

accounts of the Society for the fiscal year
beginning May 1. 1922, at the same rate as last
year ; viz, $75 per month. The contract has
been forwarded to the Treasurer General.
Respectfully submitted,

Jenn Wixslow Coltrane,

Chair)i!an.

The acceptance of Auditing Commit tee report
was moved by Mrs. Elliott, seconded by Mrs.
Bissell and carried. It was pointed out by the
Treasurer General that this report of the Audit-
ing Committee only covered the month of April,
while the Treasurer General's report included
both April and May, but the month of May
would be covered in the next report of the
Auditing Committee.

The consideration of Mrs. Hanger's recom-
mendation that the name of the Austin, III,
Chapter be changed from John Cory to David
Kinnison was resumed and the letter from the
corresponding secretary of the Chapter was
read giving the action of the Chapter in regard
to the selection of the name. The motion was
then put and unanimously carried.

Mrs. White read the report of the Historian
General in the absence of Miss Coltrane.

Report of Historian General

Madam President General and National Board
of Management, Daughters of the American
Revolution :

The work in your Historian General's office
has continued with no lack of enthusiasm or
less time given to the pursuit of our duties, but
we have very little to report now.

A letter has been sent to all State Historians
stating the work to be undertaken during the
coming year. Our work will be really a con-
tinuation of the work begun last year, but using
more uniformity in compiling. We want to
arrange a card catalogue of our work so that
material sent by the different State Historians
will be available.

We hope to gain much information relative
to our women in history. Old records of all
kinds, and through State Directories, make it
known what is of historical value in each state.

I would like to ask you to grant the accus-
tomed $75 to pay for our historical program
this year. Some complained that because they
could not secure the program as a whole last
year, they could not use it, as they printed their
program in Year Books. I would like to say
that the program "Woman in American His-
tory" is now complete, and you have the one
in the Magazines of last year, which makes it
very easy to follow. Our program for this
year, "The Extension of the United States,"
is now in outline form, ready to be printed
in your book. It will be published in the July

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issue of the Magazine and is in excellent form
for the programs. Monthly it will be carried
out in detail as last year, beginning in the
September number of the Magazine and ending
in May. Some Chapters said last year they
could not get the desired material for study.
We hope to promote our Educational as well
as our Historical Research work this year,
through Extension Libraries. This work will
be under the supervision of Miss Florence S. M.
Crof ut, of Hartford, Conn., who so ably assisted
in the War Service Records. A plan for this
extension will be submitted as soon as completed.

Since Congress, Alabama has sent in her War
Service Records bound. This leaves only four
states whose bound Records have not been
received. We are very proud of this work and
feel it is work well done.

As usual, the work on the Lineage Books has
continued without interruption.

May I not extend to each one of you my
best wishes for a very delightful summer?
Respectfully submitted,

Jenn Win slow Coltrane,

Historian General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted without its recommendation. Moved
by Mrs. Cook, seconded by Mrs. Reed and car-
ried, that the recommendation of the Historian
General be granted.

In the absence of Mrs. Ellison, Mrs. White
read the report of the Librarian General.

increasing and that this is becoming a matter of
first importance.

Annually increasing numbers, both of mem-
bers and visitors make use of the Library, not
only in securing ancestral records as a means
of entering a patriotic-hereditary society, but
also in obtaining information about their for-
bears for the sake of the knowledge of the part
taken by them in the history of this
noble country.

The accessions since April 24, 1922, number
51 volumes, 42 pamphlets, 1 manuscript, 22
periodicals as follows :

BOOKS
California

San Francisco as it was, as it is, and How to See it.
1912. Compiled and presented by Mrs. Helen Purdy.

Connecticut

The following 3 books from Sibbil Dwight Kent
Chapter :

Celebration of the 250th Anniversary or Suffield,
Conn. 1921.

Bi-Centennial Celebration of Suffield, Conn. 1871.

Historical Sketches. J. H. Harden. 1915.

District op Columuia

Marriuocs and Baptisms at Hanover, Morris County,
yew Jersey, 1746-1796. E. L. Henry. 1922. From
General Stephen Moylan Chapter.

Fourth Bivnnial Report of the Slate Board of Educa-
n in Idaho. 1921. From Idaho Pocahontas Chapter.

Illinois

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board :

The condition and needs of the Library have
been set forth quite fully in the recent reports
of your Librarian General and have not mate-
rially changed since. The administration of the
Library has had the personal attention of the
Librarian General, and the routine work has
been faithfully performed by Miss Griggs and
her assistant.

As Chairman of the Memorial Continental
Hall Library Committee your Librarian Gen-
eral has communicated with all the recently
elected State Librarians, whose addresses have
been sent her, sending information in regard to
the work of the Committee. As usual in
September, letters and instructions will be sent
all the members of this committee. In the
meantime it is desired that all, whether nuin-
bcrs of the committee or not, secure as many
volumes of historical and genealogical value
for the Library as possible. This vital factor
in the usefulness of our Society should rrccivc
the interest and support of each membor.

The use of this Library indicates tliat
interest in genealogical pursuits is constantly

The Clark Genealogy of Windsor, Connecticut.

Emma L. Walton. 1913. From Chicago Chapter.

Atlas Map of Scott County, Illinois. 1873. From
Mrs. Alice Welch.

Maryland

The .indent City, a History of .4nnapotis, Md.
E. S. Riley. 1887. From Mrs. Emma A. Gage.

Massachusetts

The Life of James A. Garfield. R. H. Conwcll
lb81. From Mrs. Nellie Rice Fiske.

Personal Memoirs of Gen. U. S. Grant. 2 Vols.
1885. From Mrs. Clara E. Howes in name of Bunker
Hill Chapter.

History of Saugus, Massachusetts. H. H. Atherton,
.Jr. 1916. From Parson Roby Chapter.

John Checkley; or the Evolution of Religious Tol-
erance in Massachusetts Bay. 2 Vols. From Fort
Massnrhnsctts Chapter.

The 2 following volumes from Mrs. Nellie Rice Fiske:

l),yr,iid,n,l.'< of ]yilliam Ward. A. il. Ward. 1851.

The Eddy Fantily of Massachusetts. R. H. Eddy.

The following 5 volumes from Mrs. Charles Jewclt:
.1 History of .Missouri. 3 Vols. L. Houck. 1908.
///. Regime in Mi.'ssouri. 2 Vols. L. Ilouck. 1909.

llAMI

Till' following 8 volumes from Menv Hathaway
itc Clmptcr:

Woman and the Republic. II. K. Johnson. 1913.
Fi.sliral of the Sons of New Hanip.ihire. IS.'iO.
Si,rl.,ly (if Cotoniut Wars iu New Hampshin: 1914.
Didiralinn of a .Memorial to Rrv. John Tucke.

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New Hampshire as it is. E. A. Charlton. 1856.

The Prescott Memorial. W. Prescott. 1870.

The History of Sutton, N. H. 2 Vols. A. H.
Worthen. 1890.

The History of New Boston, N. H. E. C. Cogswell.
1864. From New Boston Chapter.

The following 2 volumes from Abigail Stearns
Chapter :

A Genealogical History of the Jennings Families in
America. Vol. 2. W. H. Jennings. 1899.

Early Genealogies of the Cole Families in America.
F. T. Cole. 1887.

Historical Sketches of the Discovery, Settlement and
Progress of Events in the Coos Country and Vicinity.
Rev. G. Powers. 1841. From Mrs. Wendell B. Folsom.

The History of Canaan, New Hampshire. W. A.
Wallace. 1910. From Exeter Chapter.

New Jersey

History of Camden Co., New Jersey. G. R. Prowoll.
1886. From General Washington Chapter.

Alabama Women in Literature. M. L. Robbins.
1895. From Mrs. William McPherson.

Lieut. William Barton of Morris Ccntunty, N. J., and
His Descendants. W. E. Barton. 1900. From Hannah
Arnctt Chapter.

New Mexico

The following 2 volumes from Stephen Watts
Kearney Chapter:

The Students History of New Mexico. L. B. Prince
1913.

A Concise History of New Mexico. L. B. Prince.
1912.

Ohio

'eeh:

Ashland, Ohio Centennial Home Coming
1915. From Sarah Copus Chapter.

Delaware Archives. Vol. 2. 1912. From Colum-
bus Chapter.

Early History of Highland County, Ohio. D. Scott.
1890. From Waw-wil-a-way Chapter.

Pennsylvania

Georqe Bryan and the Constitution of Pennsyl-
vania. 1731-1791. B. A. Konkle. 1922. From Pliila-
delphia Chapter.

Other Sources

Publications of American Jewish Historical Society,
No. 28. 1922. Gift of the Society.

Thirtieth Annual Report of Reynolds Family Associ-
ation. Compiled and presented by Mrs. Anna E." Rippier.

Base Hospital Number 10. Gift of Dr. John M.
Swan.

Common Prayer. 1810. From Mr. H. T. Harris.

Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society.
2 Vols. 1919 and 1920. Gift of the Society.

Rosa Bonhcur, Her Life and Her Work. Anna
Klumpke. 1922. Presented by the author.

PAMPHLETS

New Mexico

The following 4 pamphlets from Stephen Watts
Kearney Chapter:

The Money Problem. L. B. Prince.

Stone Idols of New Mexico. 1896.

The Stone Lions of Coehiti. L. B. Prince. 1903.

Early Pueblo Indian Missions in New Mexico. L. B.
Prince. 1917.

Ohio

Centenary Celebration Commemorating the Birth of
General Ulysses S. Grant. P'rom Taliaferro Chapter.

Vermont

The following 5 pamphlets from Mrs. G. H. Ripley:

The Battle of Plattsburgh. 1914.

Plattsburgh Centennial Celebration. 1914.

The Battle of Johnstown. 1871.

Mohawk Valley Historic Association. 1920.

Forty of Boston's Historic Houses.

Other Sources

Reports and Proceedings 1!)20 and 1921 Sons of the
Revolution in Neiv York. Gift of Society.

Annirersan/ of Fulton Chapter. Order of Eastern
Star of Ohio. Gift of Mrs. W. H. Maddox.

The following 3 pamphlets from Roar Admiral
George W. Baird :

Exploits of the Connecticut Ship "Defence." L. F.
Middlebrook. 1922.

John Winthrop the Younger. 1922.

The British Attack at Bunker Hill. F. Parsons.
1920.

The Genealogy of the Wyatt Family. Compiled and
presented by Alden H. Wyatt. 1922.

The following 14 numbers presented by Sons of the
Revolution in California.

Roster of the Society, Sons of the Revolution in
California. 1918, 1919, "and 1922.

The Liberty Bell. 11 Nos.

Remembrance Book, N.S.D.A.R. .July 1921, Jan.
1922. 2 Vols.

MANUSCRIPT

Maryland

Historic Conowingo. From Mrs. Fred C. Jones.

PERIODICALS

Annals of Iowa. October.

County Court Note Book. May.

Daughters of the American Revolution Maga-
zine. May and June.

Georgia Historical Quarterly Magazine. March.

Iowa Journal of History and Politics. April.

Kentucky State Historical Society Register. May.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
April.

New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings. April.

.V. Y. Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin. April.

T. Y. Genealogical and Biographical Record. July.

N. Y. Public Library Bulletin. March, April and
October.

N. Y. State Histo-ical Association Quarterly Journal.
April.

Palimpsest. April and May.

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Maga-
.-inr. Octoljer.

Tiilrr's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Maga-
zine April.

Virginiit Matinzine of History and Biography. April.

Wrstrni /'. inisi/lrania Historical Magazine. ApriL

Williiuii and Mary College Quarterly. April.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. Frank D.) Anne C. Ellison,

Librarian General.
Report accepted without objection.

Mrs. White then read her report as Curator
General.

Report of Curator General

Aiadam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report the following
accessions in the Museum since the Board Meet-
ing of April 24, 1922 :

District of Columbia: Coin, 50-cent silver
piece, U. S. 1795, presented by Mrs. G. W.
Baird, Army and Navy Chapter.

Indiana: Warming pan, handed down
through the Huntington family, and preserved
in the old Huntington Home in Hadley,
Mass., presented by a descendant, Mrs. Kather-
ine Huntington Day, of the Caroline Scott
Harrison Chapter.

AIaryland : Manuscripts, (4) : " Statement

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of Account, Henry Russ to James Webster,
dated 1794; letter signed by James Monroe;
interesting endorsement on the back ; dated May
2, 1814; statement of account. Dr. James
Coleman to Robert Trimble ; bears four other
signatures; date 1772; and referee's Bond and
Award (1809), bears signature of Francis Scott
Key; presented by Mrs. James Loughborough,
Janet Montgomery Chapter.

Ohio: Linen, spun by Martha Merrill
Kellog, East Hartford, Conn. ; also, lace cap,
worn by Mila Kellog Phillips and piece of gold
cloth gown, imported for and worn by a New
Jersey belle at Washington's Inaugural Ball ;
presented by Mrs. Rhea Mansfield Knittle,
Sarah Copus Chapter.

Oregon : State plate, with portrait of Wash-
ington ; from the Stuart family of Virginia ;
presented by Mrs. Bruce L. Bogart, Oregon
Lewis and Clark Chapter.

Pexxsylvania : Snuff box, dark red, with
snuff inside, formerly belonged to the Densmore
family of Pennsylvania, presented by Mrs.
Althea Innis, Bradford Chapter, through Mrs.
Alden Swayze, Registrar, Bradford Chapter.

Virginia: Linen pillow case; lace edge and
linen woven at Mount Vernon. It was used
at Washington's Headquarters, Tappan, Rock-
land County. N. Y., in 1781; Mrs. Blauvelt,
who was a young girl at the time Washington
visited his Headquarters, gave this piece of
linen to Mrs. Caroline Keating Reed, who pre-
sented it to the Mount Vernon Chapter, D.A.R.,
and by that Chapter now given to the Museum,
through the Regent, Mrs. D. M. Niven. Silver
teaspoon, initial " E " on handle, presented to
the Museum by Mrs. Lorenzo Lewis, Mount
Vernon Chapter.

Paris, France: Notice for protection of
Americans in Paris in 1914. One of three ex-
tant notices prepared by American Ambassador
in 1914 to be posted on houses sheltering Ameri-
cans ; presented through Mrs. George Maynard
Minor, President General, N.S.D.A.R., from
Mrs. Hugh Reid Griffin, member at large.
Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. George) Louise C. White,

Curator (icncrul.
There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

Mrs. I'^lliott read her report as follows:

Report of Corresponding Secretary General

Madam President Cieiieral and Members of the
National Board of Management:
Since April first the following supplies have
been mailed from my office to chapters and
individuals making request for such service:
Application blanks, 13,693; leaflets "How to
Become a iVhinber," 11.^0; leaflets of (ieneral

Information, 939; Constitutions, 511; transfer
cards, 568.

Seven hundred and seventy-nine letters were
received and recorded and seven hundred and
eight letters were answered.

There have been mailed from this office to
the National Board of Management and Chap-
ter Regents 2000 copies of the Constitution and
By-laws as recently amended, the Resolutions
of Congress, the address of the President Gen-
eral and the verses included in the report of the
Magazine Chairman which the Congress
ordered printed.

In filling the orders for the Immigrants'
Manual to be distributed direct to the immigrant,
we have sent out since the Congress 22,900
copies, of which 6373 were in the English lan-
guage ; 77 Spanish; 6034 Italian; 7117 Polish;
1106 Hungarian; 2195 Yiddish.

Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. a. Marshall) Lily Tyson Elliott.

Corresponding Secretary General.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman, read the report
of the Building and Grounds Committee.

Report of Building and Grounds Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The Building and Grounds Committee begs
leave to report as follows :

Since the Thirty-first Congress our building
has been cleaned and put in order, all floors
waxed and polished, draperies and rugs cleaned,
sprayed with moth preventive and stored in our
moth-proof closets for the summer, all linen
and doylies as well as lace curtains have
been laundered.

Our grounds have been put in order, the grass
seeded and rolled and the flower beds trimmed.

In order to co(")perate with the request of the
President of the United States for daylight sav-
ing, the hours of the employees were changed
to conform with this re(|uest and the building is
now open from 8 to 3.30.

Acting upon the motion passed by the Feb-
ruary. 1922, Board regarding a new roof, the
contractors, Samuel H. Edmondson & Co. have
been notified of the acceptance of their contract
and the work will begin in a few days.

Your committee has to report that the State
of Oklahoma has presented the tea service
equipment for the Ban(|uet Hall. This equip-
ment is particularly enjoyed by tbe Daughters
during Congress week wlien as you recall
afternoon tea is served.

Sierra Chapter. Berkeley, California, presents
two poems by Mary Byrd Clayes. to be placed
in the California room.

The Art Committee has passed upon and

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accepted the steel engraving. " The First Prayer
offered in Congress," presented through Abigail
Hartman Rice Chapter by Mrs. Anne Ingraham.

1. The Colorado Chapter through its Regent,
Mrs. Myron W. Jones, request that the Colo-
rado Chapter be allowed the privilege of replac-
ing the flagstaff on Memorial Continental Hall
whenever needed.

The following states have been assigned
rooms in Memorial Continental Hall : Wiscon-
sin, Rhode Island and Vermont.

2. That portion of the Building knowai as the
superintendents' quarters, consisting of two
rooms and bath, has been assigned to Wiscon-
sin. The Committee recommends that the price
be $1800. That the National Society allow
$300 to restore the rooms to their original con-
dition with the understanding that any remodel-
ling or change to be done by Wisconsin, subject
to the approval of the architect and the Building
and Grounds Committee.

3. Rhode Island has been assigned the room
on the third floor now used by the Editor of the
Magazine. The Committee recommends that
the price be $800. That the National Society
allow $100 to restore the room to its origi-
nal condition.

4. Vermont has been assigned the room now
in use as a record room by the Registrar Gen-
eral. The Committee recommends that the price
be $1000. That the National Society allow $100
to restore the room to its original condition.

The price of these rooms has been based
upon the prices paid for the other rooms in
Memorial Continental Hall, which were pri-
marily based upon the cost of construction and
finished condition. We also recommend
the following :

5. That the request of the Curator General
for a new Remington typewriter be granted to
cost $92.25. The old one to be retained.

6. That the request of the Organizing Secre-
tary General for a Royal typewriter be granted
to cost $77.25. This typewriter is made less
because the one formerly used is to be turned
in for which we are allowed $15.

7. The purchase of two oscillating twelve-
inch electric fans, one for the President Gen-
eral's room and one to be placed temporarily
in the New Jersey room.

The following events have taken place in our
Auditorium since our last report : Congress of
International Ophthalmological Society ; mass
meeting of League of Women Voters; Twelfth
Annual Convention of American Federation of
Arts ; Washington's second Music Week Cele-
bration, when a bust of Caruso was presented to
the City of Washington ; commencement exer-

cises of Washington College of Law;
commencement exercises of George Wash-
ington University.

The above meetings have been of special in-
terest. The Congress of the International
Ophthalmological Society was accommodated in
our Auditorium at short notice owing to the
recent fire at the New Willard Hotel, where
they had expected to hold their sessions ; we
arranged their meetings over night.

At the Mass Meeting of the League of
Women Voters the bright and particular star
was Lady Nancy Astor, who was one of the
prominent speakers.

American Federation of Arts meeting marked
another milestone in the interest of Art
in America.

Washington Music Week celebration and the
Washington College of Law and George \\'ash-
ington University Commencement exercises
speak for themselves.

In October, 1922, permission has been given
for the use of the Auditorium to the Red Cross
and the American Child Hygiene Society.

8. We recommend that the Guide, two mes-
sengers and the night watchman be uniformed,
these uniforms to be purchased by the Society
and to be of Palm Beach cloth for summer, blue
uniform for winter, cadet style with D.A.R. on
the collar and cap. The summer suits to cost
not more than $25 per suit and the winter suits
to cost not more than $40 per suit, each suit
to include extra trousers.

In the last four months nearly 4000 visitors
have been shown over the building by the Guide.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Chairman, Building and Grounds Committee.
The report was accepted without its recom-
mendations, and these were considered ad
seriatim. Mrs. Hanger then read the recom-
mendations in their order. There being no
objection, the request of the Colorado Chapter
was granted. The adoption of Recommendation
No. 2 was moved by Mrs. Buel, seconded by
Miss McDuffee, and carried ; the adoption of
Recommendation No. 3, moved by Mrs. Bissell,
seconded by Mrs. Chubbuck, and carried ; adop-
tion of Recommendation No. 4 moved by Mrs.
Morris, seconded by Mrs. Elliott, and carried;
Recommendations Nos. 5 and 6 were adopted
on motion of Mrs. Hunter, seconded by Mrs.
Bissell ; Recommendation No. 7 adopted on
motion of Mrs. Nash, seconded by Mrs. Harris ;
Recommendation No. 8 adopted on motion of
Mrs. White, seconded by Mrs. Cook. Mrs.
Hanger referred to the authorization at a pre-
vious meeting for the purchasing of china,
silverware, and small teapots for the clerks'
lunch room, for which $55 was named, and
stated that that sum was not quite enough.

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She therefore requested a further appropriation
of $7.36. Moved by Mrs. Elliott, seconded by
Mrs. Hunter, and carried, that the Building and
Grounds Committee be allozved $7.36.

Mrs. Nash presented the request of the
Tawasentha Chapter of Slingerlands to be in-
corporated in order to own property. Moved
by Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Seydel, and
carried, that the request for incorporation of
the Tawasentha Chapter, Slingerlands, N. Y..
through the State Regent of Nezv York
be granted.

Mrs. Hanger stated that the University of
Washington Chapter had sent her a request to
present to the Board for permission to incor-
porate. Moved by Mrs. Hodkins, seconded by
Mrs. Smith, and carried, tJiat the Unii'ersity
of Washington Chapter be granted permission
to incorporate.

Miss Lincoln read her report as follows :

Report of Editor of Magazine

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I wish to call to your attention an article
which will appear in the July issue of the
Magazine. It is by Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick
and in it he relates the discovery of the Declara-
tion of Independence. For many years the
greatest document dealing with a people's inde-
pendence lay forgotten in the archives of the
Department of State, and it was not until two
rival editors of newspapers got into a contro-
versy over the document that interest became
again centred in it. The controversy waxed
so hot that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson,
both at that time old men, became involved in
the dispute. Mr. Fitzpatrick relates these for-
gotten incidents of history with a graphic pen,
gleaning his facts from the official documents of
state now in the Manuscript Division of the
Library of Congress, of which he is Assist-
ant Director.

From an historical viewpoint this article by
Mr. Fitzpatrick is probably the most valuable
the Magazink has been so fortunate to secure
up to the present time, and its publication will
insure a demand for the July Magazink. If
you will urge your friends to place their sul)-
scriptions and orders for single copies as quickly
as possible it will enable us to judge of the size
of the edition to order printed.

For the year commencing June, 1921. until
May 31, 1922, the National Board set aside, first
at its June, 1921, meeting and then at its meet-
ing in October, 1921, the sums of $500 and $300
respectively — a total of $800— for the payment
of special articles for the Ma(;azi.\i;. Of this
there has been expended for photographs and

articles the sum of $760, leaving $40 still in the
treasury to the credit of this fund.

The expenditure for photographs to illustrate
articles in the Magazine totalled $57, while
$703 was paid out for twenty-one special
articles ; thus the amount paid for these articles
has averaged $34 each — surely not an extrava-
gant sum !

By paying for articles upon acceptance we are
enabled to get them at reasonable rates, as
authors generally prefer to take a small sum
rather than wait to be paid upon publication.

As articles must be secured far in advance
of publication, may I recommend to the Board
that $500 be set aside to purchase articles and
photographs, as heretofore, during the next
six months.

After the publication of the minutes of the
February meeting of the National Board of
Management, I received a letter from Mrs.
Joseph Lindsay, of Superior, Wisconsin, in
which she said :

" I note your report to the Board of Manage-
ment at the February meeting and am disap-
pointed in the number of subscriptions to our
Magazine. It does not seem that any
Daughter can be a valuable member of our
Society unless she keeps up with the plans and
activities of the National Society, and our
Magazine is the only regular source of infor-
mation concerning the projects, needs, and
accomplishments of our Society as a whole. It
W'Ould seem that the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Magazine is too important to
the individual members, and to the Society in
general, not to be in every member's home.
In our Chapter I know some of our members
are not taking the Magazine simply because
no one asks for their subscriptions."

One enthusiastic member from Indiana wrote
in : " I decided, when the price was increased
to two dollars, that I could not afford to
continue the Magazine, now I find that I can-
not do without it — so I gladly send my two-
dollar renewal."

Mrs. Ben F. Gray, former Vice President
General from Missouri, sent this message with
her renewal, " Congratulations upon your pub-
lication— it is fine! " Mrs. Noble C. Shunnva\,
of Chicago, Illinois, wrote to the Treasurer
General: "I could not do without the Ma(;a-
zine. The proceedings of the National Board
are the first thing I want to see. I do not see
how any chapter officer can get along without
it. Every Daughter should be a subscriber,
l-'xcuse me if I enthuse; the lulitor might like
Id know how heartily an early member (since
.\l)ril, 1<S*)2) and a long-time sul)scriber enjoys
the Magazine. 1 would not give it up if the
price had Iieen increa.sed still more."

In her letter enclosing her renewal Miss Ella

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H. Hardie, of Baltimore, Md., said : " The
Magazine grows better with each number. I
could not do without it any more than I could
my Bible."

These unsolicited expressions of appreciation
from all parts of the country are a great incen-
tive to keep the Magazine up to the high
standard worthy of this National Society.

Again I have to thank the members of this
Board for their hearty cooperation and loyal
support of every plan for the betterment of the
Magazine and for the many courtesies ex-
tended to me personally I am most grateful.
Respectfully submitted,

Natalie S. Lincoln,

Editor.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted. Moved by Miss McDuffee, seconded
by Mrs. Buel, and carried that the request of
the Editor of the Magazine for $500 for
articles be granted.

Mrs. Bissell read her report as Chairman of
Magazine Committee.

Report of Chairman of Magazine Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board:

Your Chairman comes to you at this time in
a fairly hopeful state of mind, for there are
certain small signs which seem to indicate that
the Magazine circulation has passed the low
point and is again rising.

For instance, we had 579 subscriptions expire
in May and over and against that 981 renewals
and new subscriptions.

June has 3562 expirations and a direct appeal
has been made to each one to renew.

The " Steady Subscriber " which your Chair-
man quoted in her report to the Thirty-first
Congress apparently caught the attention of the
Daughters, for many renewals have referred to
it and your Chairman has received letters com-
menting upon it, among them the following :

" How dear to my heart is the D.A.R. Magazine

Willingly paid for in May of each year.
The pictures, the essays, the notes and the
queries,
The President's Message which always brings
cheer.
I never shall stop it, I'll always demand it,

I read it at once, as soon as it's here.
I always shall praise it, ask others to take it;
The whole family like it and read it ' My
Dear.'
How our list of subscribers would soar in a
trice.
Our Chairmans' report, it would surely sound
nice.
If all of our members' subscriptions would try
To our D.A.R. Magazine ranking so high."

You will recall that during the Congress
Colonel Walter Scott, of New York, presented
the Society a check for $1000 and expressed the
wish that a part of it be used to further the
interests of the Magazine.

Your Chairman has a plan which she hopes
will meet the approval of the Committee in
charge of the distribution of this money.

The plan is to offer four prizes to stimulate
interest in the Magazine. Dividing the states
into four groups according to the size of the
membership, the idea is to offer a prize to the
state in each group, which secures the largest
number of subscribers during a given period.

It is our ambition to bring our subscription
list up to 25,000 by January 1, 1923. It can be
done by earnest, hearty cooperation all along
the line. The starting point of that cooperation
naturally is with our National Board and yet
our records show that two National Officers, six
State Regents and eighteen State Vice Regents
have allowed their subscriptions to lapse.
Really if our officials are not interested enough
to take and read the Magazine can we justly
blame the rank and file for its apathy? Will
you not give us a 100 per cent, official record
in order that we may have this solid foundation
to build upon?

The publishers give us most generous service,
having recently gotten out 4500 circulars and
assumed the entire work: printing, enclosing
an addressed return envelope and subscription
blank ; the only expense to the Society for all
this was the cost of postage.

Your Chairman believes it would more than
pay the expense involved if we made a practice
of sending out so-called " follow-up " notices
when subscribers fail to renew promptly. If a
reminder was received within a short time, in
most cases we could secure the renewal.

Your Chairman appeals to the State Regents,
as they go about among the chapters in their
respective states, to impress upon the members
the fact that the Magazine is a " NEED."

If only the Daughters could realize its im-
portance to them individually, subscriptions
would come pouring into the Treasurer Gen-
eral's office.

At least 25,000 subscribers by January 1,
1923, is our slogan.

Respectfully submitted,

Eva V. M. Bissell,

Chairman.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The Treasurer General read letters from the
Police and Fire Departments of the District
of Columbia expressing appreciation for the
contributions sent their Relief Funds in accord-
ance with the vote of the 31st Continental Con-

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gress. She also read letters of gratitude from
Real Daughters for the action of Congress in
increasing the pension sent them from $8 to $20
per month.

In pursuance of the vote of the 31st Conti-
nental Congress empowering the National Board
of Management to negotiate a loan to complete
the Administration Building, Mrs. Hunter
offered the following resolution, which was sec-
onded by Mrs. Elliott and carried.

Whereas, At the Thirty-first Continental Con-
gress of the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, held on the 19th
day of April, 1922, the following resolution
was adopted: That this Thirty-first Continental
Congress empower the National Board of Man-
agement to negotiate a loan to the amount of
$185,450, or such part thereof as will be neces-
sary to complete the Administration Building.

Therefore, Be it Resolved, That in pursuance
of the foregoing resolution, the President Gen-
eral and the Recording Secretary General be,
and they hereby are, authorized and directed to
negotiate a loan or loans not exceeding the sum
of one hundred eighty-five thousand, four hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($185,450) from any bank
or banks, trust company or trust companies,
individual or individuals, on the note or notes
of this Society.

The Treasurer General read also a letter from
Mrs. Holt regarding Elizabeth Camantilis, who
graduated from St. Luke's Hospital in Manila,
who was the honor graduate of a class of
eleven, therefore receiving the Cathedral prize.
Mrs. Hunter stated that Mrs. Holt and her
Committee had been successful in securing free
transportation for Elizabeth to San Francisco,
and the Chairman had also secured through
Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, ex-Governor General
of the Islands, a one-year dietitian course for
Elizabeth in the Brigham Hospital at Boston,
instruction and board free, Mrs. Forbes furnish-
ing the money to pay her room rent ; that it
would be necessary to send to San Francisco a
draft to meet Elizabeth's expenses from that
point to Boston, the amount of which should
not be less than $225. In view of the fact that
the Philippine Scholarship Fund now has
reached the amount of $10,016.42, including in-
terest and principal, and the need seeming so
great and the opportunity just right, Mrs.
Hunter moved that the Treasurer General be
authorized and directed to draw a check on the
Philippine Scholarship fund for the aniount of
$225, and to forzvard the same to Elizabeth
Camantilis, in care of Doctor Dorr, Superin-
tendent of St. Luke's Hospital, 27th and Valen-
cia St., San I'rancisco, to defray her expenses
to Boston, Mass., as requested by the Chairnian
of the Philippine Scholarship Committee, Mrs.

MclVilliams Holt. Seconded by Mrs. Nash
and Mrs. Buel and carried.

Referring to the vote of Congress that the
Remembrance Book was not hereafter to be
published but the records kept in the archives
of the Society to be accessible to all the mem-
bers, the Chaplain General moved that a Com-
mittee of three be appointed by the President
General to purchase a book suitable for holding
the obituary notices of this organization, and to
work out a plan that shall be submitted to the
President General for approval. This was
seconded by Mrs. Elliott. During the discus-
sion which ensued it appeared that it was the
consensus of opinion of the members of the
Board that the notices should contain only the
D.A.R. record of the deceased member — the
name, date of death, date of entrance into
Society, National Number, positions held in the
Society beginning with Chapter Regent, name of
Chapter and State. The motion was then put
to vote and carried.

Mrs. Morris made a short report for York-
town, and stated that there was every prospect
the bill would go rapidly forward in the Fall.

At 1.10 P.M. recess was taken for luncheon.

Afternoon session was called to order at 2.20
P.M. The President General presented the re-
quest from Mrs. Talbott, Chairman of the
National Old Trails Road Committee that the
Treasurer General be empowered to open an
account for that project so that the money being
raised in various states through the efiforts of
the State Chairmen for the marking of the
Road might be properly sent to the Treasurer
General and remain there until used. Moved
by Mrs. Cook, seconded by Mrs. Smith, and
carried, that the Treasurer General be author-
ized to open an account for National Old
Trails Road.

The President General presented the further
request of Mrs. Talbott that the Board endorse
the bill looking toward the designating and nam-
ing of the historical ocean to ocean highway
as the National Old Trails Road and recogniz-
ing the patriotic organizations which have pro-
moted it. Moved by Mrs. Guernsey, seconded
by Mrs. Bissell, and carried, that we endorse
the Bill, H. J. Res. 306. recommended by the
Chairman of the National Old Trails Road
Committee, Mrs. Talbott.

The President General read a letter from
Mr. Jusserand enclosing a letter from the
Marquis de Lastcyrie. descendant of Lafayette,
regarding the saplings sent by him to be planted
at Mount Vernon at the recjuest of the Chair-
man having the ceremonies during the Congress
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oak was born on the edge of the Battle of the
Marne and would have lost its life but for the
timely arrival of Marshal Joffre, the sixth of
September, 1914.

The President General read also a letter from
Thomas Savage Clay, Assistant Treasurer,
Society of the Cincinnati in the State of
Georgia, calling attention to the defacing of
the monument erected by the United States at
Wakefield, Westmoreland County, Virginia, to
mark the spot where George Washington was
born. The property on which the monument
stands is a United States reservation, but lack-
ing a caretaker the place is overgrown with
weeds. The War Department appropriated $100
to clean up the place, but that sum, it was
thought, was not enough, and the General
Society of the Cincinnati at its last triennial
meeting passed a resolution calling upon the
government to take necessary steps to have
Wakefield and the monument properly cared
for. and the Daughters were urged to take
similar action. A picture of the monument was
enclosed in Mr. Clay's letter showing the places
where the stone was chipped. In the absence
of Doctor Barrett, Mrs. Schick, State Vice
Regent of Virginia, stated she would take the
matter up with the Chapter at Fredericksburg
and have them investigate the matter and see
what could be done in the way of caring for
the monument.

A letter from the Magna Charta Day Asso-
ciation was also read by the President General,
together with a petition to the President re-
questing him to issue a proclamation appointing
June 15th as Magna Charta Day, which the
Association wished the National Society to sign.
Moved by Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Block,
and carried, that zvc endorse tliis resolution
petitioning the President of the United States
to proclaim a Magna Charta Day, June 15th,
and that we sign the petition officially as
a Society.

The following letter was also read by the
President General :

The Bank of New York,

National Banking Association,

New York City.

May 22. 1922.
Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
President General,

Daughters of the American Revolution,
Memorial Continental Hall.
My dear Mrs. Minor:

The first money borrowed by the United
States Government was in 1789, when the Bank
of New York loaned $200,000 to the new
nation. This money was withdrawn gradually
and we have among our other historical papers
Warrant No. 1 signed by Alexander Hamilton,

Secretary of the Treasury, making the first
withdrawal, which was $20,000. We have had
some facsimiles made of this Warrant, and I
am sending you one, thinking it may be
an interesting souvenir for the walls of
your museum.

Yours very truly,

H. L. Griggs,

President.

Moved by Mrs. Hunter, seconded by Mrs.
Spencer, and carried, that a vote of thanks be
sent to Mr. Griggs, President of the Bank of
Nezi' York, for his gift of a copy of the first
zvithdraix'al of $20,000 by the Government.

The President General read an invitation to
attend the Pageant of Progress to be held in
Chicago from July 29th to August 14th, when
the Historic Liberty Bell would be the guest
of the City of Chicago, and to act as head of
the guard of honor for the sacred bell ; this
invitation to be extended to the Vice Presidents
General from the various states. The President
General stated that she would reply to the invi-
tation that it had been brought to the Board
and if it was possible for any of the members
to attend they had their invitation and could
do so. The President General regretted that
it would be impossible for her to be present.

The President General also read a letter from
Bailey, Banks & Biddle soliciting a share of the
business of the National Society and quoting
a price at which they would make the insignia.
The President General stated that no action
could be taken by the Board as the Society was
under a contract with J. E. Caldwell & Company
which was made by the Continental Congress.

Mrs. Buel, at the request of the President
General, read extracts from letters with regard
to the use of the Manual for Immigrants at
Ellis Island.

P. O. Box 481,

Harrison, New York.
Mrs. George M. Minor,
Washington, D. C.

De.ar Mrs. Minor :

I am sending you two testimonials of the
work the Manual is doing in New York City
and on Ellis Island. " The Ellen Hardin Wal-
worth Chapter," D.A.R., is supporting an
English class at Mulberry Community House
and have found the Manual wonderfully helpful
in this class ; as soon as the men are far enough
advanced the instructor gives them reading-
lessons in the Manual ; he says they become
so interested in the information until he finds
difficulty in getting away when his time is up;
he also reports the class has increased so until
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Manual ; the old men over fifty years old will
come in and ask him to teach them that little
book and a number of them are learning English
solely to gain the knowledge in the Manual, as
he does not let them know they can have it in
their language. I gave one hundred copies to
Mr. Semiuellie, President of the Italian Bank
on Spring Street (in Italian). He tells me the
supply was exhausted in a day and they are
constantly asking for more. All of the Com-
munity Houses in New York City have re-
quested Manuals from me. A Congressman
from Maine found out about the Manual in
some way and wrote asking me for fifty copies ;
he said there was so much information for the
American as well as the foreigner. I sent a
copy to the President of the Southwestern Lum-
ber Company ; he replied it was such a splendid
book he had advised his manager to get in
touch with the D.A.R. in Texas and order
Manuals for his mill hands, which would mean
thousands of Manuals paid for. I know of an
Italian who had been in this country for five
years and had not taken out naturalization
papers as he felt he could not afiford the ex-
pense ; he saw a Manual and found how simple
and inexpensive it was ; he at once proceeded
to get out his first papers, also had his brother
do the same ; that one instance is enough to
show how valuable the Manual is to these poor
helpless people.

Please do all you can to continue this good
work that we have so successfully commenced.
I feel this is the opportunity of our generation
to the D.A.R. to lift these people out of their
misery (mentally as well as physically) and
make them happy citizens of our country. I
know you will succeed in realizing all we so
much desire on Ellis Island and that the
National D.A.R. will not fail you in so im-
portant a work.

With very best wishes from yours, very
sincerely, Edna W. Rem sen,

June fifth.

Nineteen twenty-two.

June L 1922.
Mrs. John Remscn,

P. O. Box 481, Harrison, N. Y.
Mv DEAR Mrs. Remsen:

On behalf of the immigrants passing through
Ellis Island, I wish to express to the Daughters
of the American Revolution their appreciation,
and our thanks for the splendid work that is
being done by the distribution of the D.A.R.
Manual. The distribution to immigrants at
Ellis Island is made when they pass through the
Railroad Room, en route to their various desti-
nations throughout the country. This method
provides the immigrant with the Manual so
that he can read it on the train.

The material of the Manual is very practical
and comprehensive. It is very essential for
such information as the Manual contains on
American government, institutions, resources
and habits of conduct, be made available to the
immigrant when he arrives and is most suscep-
tible to lasting influences.

The Ellis Island Hospital, where immigrants
are kept under medical supervision until cured,
admitted or deported, offers a possibility for
further distribution of the Manual. The length
of detention in the hospital varies, according to
the ailment of the immigrant. Some who are
under treatment are required to remain for
several months before being admitted. These
would find the Manual a great benefit, and
would have plenty of time to become thoroughly
acquainted with its contents.

Sincerely yours,

Raymond E. Cole,
Port Secretary.
June 1. 1922.
Mrs. John Remsen,

Box 481, Harrison, N. Y.
My dear Mrs. Remsen:

Mr. Cole is writing you about his first-hand
knowledge of the help of the Manuals. All I
can do is to add that not only at Ellis Island,
but in a place like God's Providence House, a
Settlement among Italians, this is especially
helpful for those who are in our citizen-
ship classes.

For years I have used such Manuals among
people of foreign birth, and have found them
most valuable. This one I consider the best I
have ever seen, and I hope that the D.A.R.
will not fail to have copies of the Manuals
printed in large quantities, so that the growing
need for their use can be met.

I speak of it as a " growing need " because
as this group of people in this country become
more intelligent and more familiar with English,
they are more apt t© carefully read such a con-
cise statement, and there is a great lack of
something of this sort for even American born
people, who themselves need education in citi-
zenship and government.

Very sincerely yours,
(Signed) L. Ernest Sunderland,

Superintendent.

The President General spoke of the work
being done for the children at Ellis Island in
the kindergarten started there and told of the
need for an assistant teacher to help with the
children and play the piano. The President
(iencral said the Daughters carrying on this
work would be grateful for contributions of
kindergarten paraphernalia and other supplies,
and urged the members of the Board to take the
suggestion home to their states.

Mrs. Harris, as National Chairman of
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the matters referred to her Committee from the
last Congress were being attended to, that the
matter of the histories would be gone into and
she hoped to be able to have something to report
on that subject at the October Board meeting.
Mrs. Harris dwelt at some length on the neces-
sity of sending in all contributions for whatever
object through the Treasurer General if the
Society is to be credited with the true report
of the money it has raised for various purposes,
instancing cases where states had given thou-
sands of dollars to specially favored institutions
for which the Treasurer General's report
showed only a few hundreds. Mrs. Harris re-
ferred to the resolution adopted by the 31st
Continental Congress that the National Society
cooperate with the American Legion and the
National Education Association during Educa-
tion Week, and stated that the cooperation of
the National Society would take the form of
sending out circulars for better films. This, it
was explained, were to be enclosed with other
matter the American Legion is sending out
with the understanding that all the material
would be submitted to the President General
for her approval. Moved by Mrs. Hunter, sec-
onded by Mrs. Hanger, and carried, that the
Committee on Patriotic Education be pciiiiitted
to have circular letters printed on " Better
l-'ilms " for circulation if they deem it advisable.

Mrs. Harris read a letter from the Pyramid
Film Company placing before the Board a plan
for an official motion picture screen organ, the
editorial direction and control of which should
be in the hands of an editorial committee com-
posed of members appointed by the National
Society, D.A.R., and other women's national
organizations. The results anticipated to de-
velop from the weekly being the following :

\. It will be the most effective medium pos-
sible of publicity for women's activities along
every line of endeavor.

2. It will consequently further and augment
such activities by illustration and example.

3. It will be an immediately available and
most powerful constructive agency in the fight
for cleaner and better motion pictures in which
the women of America are so vitally interested.

4. The Editorial Committee will be a point
of contact and medium of rapprochement for
the women's organizations represented, espe-
cially as regards their efforts for bettering
motion pictures.

Mr. HoUister, President of the Company, was
invited to appear before the Board and reply
to questions the members might wish to ask.
During the discussion on this plan it was
brought out that neither in picture nor in print
in this screen weekly would anything be put on
about this organization that had not previously
been approved by the women on that organiza-

tion. After Mr. Hollister left the room Mrs.
Harris assured the members that she knew the
people with this Film Company and that they
were absolutely reliable, and moved, that the
Board of Management, N.S.D.A.R., endorse the
proposition for an official motion picture screen
organ of zvomen's interests as presented by the
Pyramid Film Company Motion Pictures. This
was seconded by Mrs. Guernsey and numerous
others and carried.

Mrs. McCall referred to the statement of the
President General as to the need for an assist-
ant teacher who could play the piano in the
kindergarten at Ellis Island who could be
secured, the State Regent of New York thought,
for $10 a month, and urged that the Board
appropriate $100 to this work. Mrs. Hanger
pledged for the Captain Molly Pitcher Chapter
to make up the sum for the rest of the year.
Mrs. AlcCall moved that $100 be given to the
Chairman of Patriotic Education Committee for
Americanization work among the children at
Ellis Island. Seconded by Mrs. Cook and Mrs.
Morris and carried.

Miss Strider read the following supple-
mental report :

Supplemental Report of Registrar General

I have the honor to report 60 applications
presented to the Board, making a total of 1525.
Respectfully submitted,

Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, that the Secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the admission of
60 applicants for membership. The Secretary
pro tcm. announced the casting of the ballot
and the President General declared the 60 appli-
cants for membership admitted into the National
Society. The Treasurer General presented the
request of two former members for reinstate-
ment and moved that the Recording Secretary
General be instructed to cast the ballot for the
reinstatement of two members. Seconded by
Mrs. White and carried. The Secretary pro
tem. announced the casting of the ballot and
the President General declared these two mem-
bers reinstated in the Society.

Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman of Building and
Grounds Committee, explained that by advice of
the architect, who thinks labor will be less in the
Fall, no estimates would be asked until that time
for redecorating the rooms that had been
damaged by the leaky roof, and that it would
be to the advantage of the states to wait until
that time before having the work done.

The President General read a letter from the
Committee on Constitutional Instruction of the
National Security League with which was en-

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closed copies of bills, which it was their expec-
tation to present to the legislatures in session
this year with the hope eventually to have
passed by all the states a law making the teach-
ing of the Constitution of the United States
compulsory, and requesting the President Gen-
eral to furnish them with the names of a few
women in each of the states who might give
their assistance in furthering the passage of the
bills. Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
White, and carried, that the President General
appoint the committee desired by the National
Seeurity League.

A communication from Madame de Ballivian
urging the National Society to express itself
in regard to the demand of Bolivia for the
restoration of an outlet to the sea, was read by
the President General, who referred to the
literature on the subject sent with the letter,
and suggested that this might properly be
referred to the Committee on International Re-
lations. Moved by Mrs. Hunter, seconded by
Mrs. Spencer, and carried, that the letter from
Madame Balli7'ian with accompanying literature
be referred to the Committee on Inter-
national Relations.

Moved by Mrs. Hardy, seconded by Mrs.
Reed, and carried, that Captain Molly Pitcher
Chapter of the District of Columbia be granted
permission to sell fiozvers next year at the Hall
during the week of Congress, April, 1923.

The President General stated that the ques-
tion had been discussed in the Executive Com-
mittee meeting as to the advisability of having
special Board meetings during the summer for
the admission of members, and the authoriza-
tion and confirmation of chapters, and it was
the consensus of opinion that it would be best
to call a meeting around the last of July or the
first of August, and this meeting would be
called for a day when the required quorum of
seven could be secured.

Mrs. Nash spoke of the great help the little
book " Necessary Information for Chapters "
had been to the officers of her chapters, that the
information which went out from the different
departments to the various officers, while valu-
able, did not serve the same purpose that it did,
bound in the one volume. Moved by Mrs. Nash,
seconded by Mrs. Buel, and carried, that a sup-
ply of a re-c'ised edition of " Necessary Informa-
tion for Chapters " uniforjii in dimension with
Constitution and By-laws be printed.

Mrs. Nash, as Chairman, presented tlie fol-
lowing report of the Col. Walter Scott
Prize Committee :

Report of Col. Walter Scott
Prize Committee
Madam President Cieneral and Meml)ers of the
National P.oard of Management:
The committee appointed by the President

General this morning to administer the Colonel j

Walter Scott Fund begs leave to submit the
following report : Previous to this afternoon's
session the committee met with these members
present : Miss Lincoln, Mrs. Chubbuck, Mrs. |

Seydel, Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Nash. Mrs. Nash j

presided and Airs. Hardy was chosen Secretary. i

As it was understood by the committee that i

Colonel Scott desired a large portion of the j

$1000 gift should be expended for the Maga-
zine, only this feature was considered at this
time, the further disposal of the fund to be
deferred for a future meeting.

Mrs. Charles M. Bissell, National Chairman
of Magazine, was invited to present a plan for
stimulating interest for an increase in Maga-
zine subscribers. After presenting her ideas,
Mrs. Bissell retired. The committee discussed
the suggestions fully and in three motions
unanimously adopted Mrs. Bissell's plan
as follows :

1. To set aside $400 of the $1000 for State

prizes for the Magazine.

2. To divide the states into four groups,

group one to consist of those states hav-
ing more than 5000 members ; group two,
those from 2000 to 5000; group three,
from 1000 to 2000; group four,
under 1000.

3. To divide the $400 into four prizes to be

awarded the state in each group which
shall secure the largest percentage of
subscriptions as compared with its mem-
bership ; $125 to be offered group one,
$100 to groups two and three, respec-
tively, $75 to group four, the contest to
be open from July 1 to December
31, 1922.
The committee also voted to leave all details
of the carrying out of this plan to the National
Chairman of Magazine.

Respectfully submitted,

Frances Tupper Nash,
Chairman, Col. Walter Scott Fund
Committee.

Moved by Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Block,
and carried, that the report of the Committee
on Col. Walter Scott Prize Pund be accepted
ivith its recommendations.

Mrs. Hunter moved ///(// the Capt. Molly
Pitcher Chapter be given a vote of thanks for
the offer of $20 to complete the necessary sum
required to complete a specific .bnericanization
work at P.I I is Island. Seconded I)y Mrs. McCall
and carried.

The Secretary pro ton. read tlie minutes,
which were approved. On motion, duly sec-
onded, tlie nuiting adjourned at 5.30 P.M.
Louise C. White,
Recording Secretary (ieneral. pro tem.

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HEADQUARTERS

MEMORIAL CONTINENTAL HALL

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NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1922-1923

President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

1412 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCIeary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Aye., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D. Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N.C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. L

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1821 Kalorama Road, Washington, D. C.
(Term of office expires 1925)
Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, Mrs. Williard T. Block,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Annie Wallace,

Newcastle, Wyoming. Rochester, N. H.

Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, Mrs. Howard H. McCall,

Litchfield, Conn. Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, 143 S. E. 2nd St., Miami, Fla.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D.C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,
Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,
Memorial Continental Hall.
Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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BREAD AND THE SUPERINTENDENT

OF BAKERS OF THE

CONTINENTAL ARMY

By John C. Fitzpatrick, AM.
Assistant Chief, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress

HE ration of a soldier is always a
fixed quantity and the amount
of bread issued daily to the
Continental private was one
pound. Circumstances varied
this amount slightly at different
times during the Revolution, but the full
quantity never rose above 1% pounds nor
fell below ^ of a pound at any time that
bread was obtainable. Approximately one
pound of bread has always formed a part
of the daily ration of the American soldier
since the time of the Revolution.

Lexington and the siege of Boston
brought an army into existence almost
over night, and an army that grew in num-
bers daily. Food for this suddenly created
body of men became a subsistence prob-
lem that was met with varied skill by the
train-band captains and higher officers.
These were not men entirely inexperienced
in such matters, for King George's and the
old French and Indian War had taught
the Colonial militiamen practical, if severe,
lessons and, though the military subsist-
ence problems of 1775 were not easily

solved, they were met with such intelli-
gence that as long as the army remained
stationary, on the lines around Boston,
the food supply was not a matter of great
difficulty. With the evacuation of the town
by the British and the commencement of
the first march of the Continental Army
from Boston to New York, came the first
real test of the commissary department.

Bread was one of the three principal
parts of the soldier's ration and any re-
duction of the quantity, or an entire lack
of supply, was more severely felt by the
troops than a loss of beef, vegetables or
rum. Congress established the ration of
the soldier as to quantity and variety, but
made no provision for a system that would
insure a regular supply of the food author-
ized. Before the appointment of a super-
intendent of baking the companies had
obtained bread by selecting one of their
number to bake bread for them and one
or two other men were usually detailed as
assistants. Flour was issued instead of
bread and the men pooled their receipts
and handed it to the comrade chosen ta

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do the baking, or else, if they were in a
thickly settled part of the country, the
individual soldier traded in his loose flour
to the country folk in return for bread, or
dickered with the camp traders, who fol-
lowed the army, for either bread or rum.
This practice was uncertain and uneven in
its results. In the first instance it permit-
ted the company baker to make such a tidy
profit (one pound of flour will make much
more than one pound of bread and the
baker kept the surplus as his perquisite)
that there was an instance of one or two
soldiers making so much profit, by baking
for one of the artillery regiments (250 to
300 men), that they were able to lend the
commissary, in an emergency, 1000
rations of flour for eight days. These
baking privates used as much water in the
bread as they pleased, as there was no in-
spection, and sold the surplus flour to the
country folk, or, if they were not satisfied
with the price, loaded the flour in public
wagons and transported it to a better
market. The individual soldier, with flour
trading as his excuse, straggled and plun-
dered and roused the ire of the country
people by his marauding practices.

The lack of system and the evil efifects
therefrom were not plainly evident at first
for, before the Continental Army had been
six months in the field the British arrived
in New York bay, and the battle and re-
treat from Long Island ensued, and was
followed by a desperate campaign of fight-
ing and retreat that left small time for
considering any plans other than those
of combat and flight. Forts Washington
and Lee were lost, the retreat through the
Jerseys followed, Trenton and Princeton
were added to the immortal honor roll of
the Continental Army, and the tired regi-
ments were established in winter quarters
at Morristown before a decided move

could be made to put the bread supply
upon a stable footing.

The army bread was almost entirely
hard bread, what we now know as hard
tack or ship's bisctiit. Soft bread was
something of a luxury and does not seem
to have been very highly esteemed by the
men in the ranks. The ration of loose
flour gave the soldier a chance to obtain
rum and, where he did not trade for any-
thing but bread, he declined the soft
variety as it was bulky to carry, if more
than one day's rations were issued, easily
spoiled and more apt to be sour and un-
wholesome than the hard variety, which,
though made without salt or rising was
compact, easy to carry and remained
edible for days in any temperature. When
conveniences were lacking the men baked
their own bread on stones, with far from
satisfying results, and the satirical name
among the soldiers for such bread was
" fire cake."

It was not until the war was entering
upon its third year, in May, 1777, that
Congress took steps to insure a proper
supply of the staff of life to the army.
The man selected for this important work
was an old ginger-bread baker in Phila-
delphia, who, at the call gave up a well-
paying business and a comfortable old
age to share the hardships of military life
with an army in the field and to make hijin-
self responsible for a most important part
of that army's subsistence. Christopher
Ludwick was 57 years old when he ac-
cepted the appointment by the Continental
Congress of " Superintendent of Bakers
and Director of Baking in the Grand
Army of the United States."

He was not unknown in Philadelphia
for he had been in the city, following his
trade of baker, since the French and
Indian War. He was not unknown to
Congress, for he had helped to forward a
supply of powder to Ticonderoga in 1775

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and, after the Trenton victory he had taken
charge of and fed some of the Hessian
prisoners and wrought so cannily with
them they succeeded in inducing the
desertion of several of their brethren from
within the British lines, who came over to
the patriots bringing their arms and ac-
coutrements with them.

This appointment by Congress gave
Ludwick power to license, with approval
of the Commander-in-Chief, or the com-
manding officers of separate armies or
posts, all persons to be employed
in baking for the troops; to regulate
their pay and take any necessary steps
to rectify all the then existing diffi-
culties and failures of the bread supply.
He was given $75 a month as pay and two
rations per day. It is current tradition
that when Ludwick's pay was discussed by
the committee of Congress it was sug-
gested that he be granted the perquisite of
furnishing only eighty pounds of bread
for every hundred pounds of flour and
that the old man had replied with scorn :
" Is it that I should grow rich by such

ways

I will bake one hundred and

thirty-five pounds of bread for every
hundred pounds of flour, and it will be
good bread and all the flour will be used,
and if there is any floUr over, it will also
be made into bread."

The army was at Morristown when
Ludwick left Philadelphia to take charge
of the baking, and he had hardly time to
do more than start operations before the
campaign opened and the troops broke
camp and moved out upon, what was to
be, the most active marching campaign of
the war. The peculiarly uncertainty of
movement displayed by the British com-
mander-in-chief at the beginning of the
campaign of 1777, was responsible for
much of the marching and counter-
marching of the Continentals ; the troops

were almost daily on the move and an
enormous supply of bread had to be ready,
to meet the continual emergencies caused
by unexpected changes in direction of the
line of march. To add to these difficulties
inexcusable losses of bread occurred from
careless handling. Hundreds of pounds
of crisp, browned bread would be sent
from Ludwick's ovens to the troops in
the field and because no particular officer
had been designated to receive it, it some-
times remained in the open field, beside
the camp, in the blazing heat of the day
and the damp of the night dew. The com-
missaries of issues declared it was not
their afifair and the quartermaster officers
declined the responsibility of issuing it to
the troops and old Ludwick stormed and
swore great oaths at such official stupidity.
When the army turned south from
the Highlands, General George Clinton
ordered 30,000 pounds of hard bread,
which had been stored at Fort Mont-
gomery, sent on to the marching troops by
way of King's Ferry and found that, for
lack of proper storage, most of it was so
badly broken it could not be transported
and was unfit for use. He attempted to
save the unbroken part by collecting casks
in which to pack it ; but none were to be
had, so he sent a hurry call to the Conti-
nental store house at Fishkill to properly
pack and forward 30,000 pounds from
there. Ludwick's principal troubles were
not in the baking of the bread, but in the
arrangements necessary before the ovens
could be charged and afterwards in get-
ting the bread away to the troops. While
he was in control there were but few com-
plaints as to the quality of the bread
issued. There was at first some difficulty
in obtaining the flour for baking from the
commissaries or store-keepers of the dif-
ferent divisions, or posts. Congress made
no provision for paying the bakers which

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it authorized Ludwick to employ, and
the old man used his private means to
advance the pay of those of his bakers
who were civilians ; soldiers detailed from
the ranks, as helpers were on a different
footing ; but Ludwick kept them in humor
by small gratuities. To accomplish this
he sold several of his houses in Philadel-
phia and expended the tidy little fund of
ready cash (£3500) that he had made
from his ginger-bread baking before the
war. He paid these wages regularly every
two months and before he was reimbursed
by the military paymasters he suffered
further losses through the depreciation of
the Continental currency.

The difficulties of distribution of the
bread after it was baked so worried the
Superintendent of Bakers that he appealed
to Congress to specially designate an
officer for each group of troops, in bar-
racks, or field, whose duty it should be
to requisition for the bread and receive it
from the ovens. This officer, Ludwick
urged, should furnish covered wagons for
the bread, wagons with tight, strong
bodies and stout enough to hold a ton in
weight. The army on the march spread
over a large tract of territory so that it
was impossible for the Superintendent of
Bakers to direct and oversee all matters
from the van to the rear, over the entire
line of march. Also, he sagely remarked,
" It is often impossible for one man, who
is otherwise sufficiently occupied " to find
masons, lime and bricks and direct the
proper building of ovens. The question
of the expense of this oven building was
also to be settled. Congress met Ludwick's
recommendation by placing a fund of
$1000 in his hands, with which to build
ovens as he saw fit and authorized him to
employ any workmen he thought proper
to do the work. It gave him authority to
demand flour from any commissary or

military storekeeper, directed him to pay
the bakers he employed and to draw on
the Paymaster General for settlement of
his accounts, and designated the Com-
missary General of Issues, or his deputy,
as the officer to receive the bread; lastly
it directed the Quartermaster General of
the Army to furnish the Commissary
General of Issues with a sufficient number
of covered wagons, of one ton capacity,
that could be locked, or fastened up, in
which the bread was to be transported.
There are few instances of such complete
acquiescence on the part of the Continental
Congress in the recommendations of an
officer, other than the invariable attention
paid to the recommendations of the
Commander-in-Chief.

The need for bread at the opening of
the campaign of 1777 was pressing, and
Washington sent Ludwick to Philadel-
phia to lay the situation before Congress.
As a result of his representations it was
ordered that supplies of flour, previously
directed to be sold, be baked into " bisket "
as fast as possible and that the bakers in
Philadelphia be urged to help. The Com-
missary General of Purchases, was
directed to have all the flour in his stores
at Lancaster, Downingtown and Valley
Forge converted into bread. Ludwick
could not obtain bakers enough for this
activity because most of the journeymen
bakers in Philadeljihia were serving in the
Pennsylvania militia, so Congress recom-
mended to the Supreme Executive Council
of that state, that as many bakers in the
militia as Ludwick called for, be excused
from military service for the time he
needed them.

The main group of Ludwick's ovens
seems to have been built at Morristown,
New Jersey, where he had started build-
ing them before the army moved from that
place. Other small groups were scattered

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517

along the route of march in Jersey and at
convenient places in Pennsylvania. The
establishment of these various baking
posts was decided by the movements of the
army and the convenience of the roads.
And, though all of them worked steadily
with the resources at their command, the
bread supply of the army was seldom
more than a few days, or a week, ahead
of the consumption.

After obtaining Congressional action,
Ludwick left Philadelphia and hastened to
Pottstown, there to be met by a letter from
the Commander-in-Chief, ordering him to
send every bit of bread he had to Coryell's
Ferry, except 2000 pounds which was to
be sent to White Horse tavern to await
the arrival of the troops that were with
Washington himself. Two divisions were
to pass through Pottstown and would want
bread. The Commander-in-Chief gave
Ludwick authority to hire or impress
wagons to bring the bread to the troops
and asked where the new ovens would be
erected so no time would be lost in sending
for bread as it was needed. At the same
time that he gave these orders to Ludwick,
Washington directed the Quartermaster
General to put all the private bakers in
Philadelphia to work baking hard bread.
A week later the Commander-in-Chief sent
a hurry call to Ludwick to come to camp
at once ; to leave an experienced baker in
charge of the Morristown ovens and, to
sweep up, on his way, all the bread he
found at Coryell's and Pottstown and send
it forward to the army. The need was
great, as the Quartermaster General had
not been successful in getting the private
bakers in Philadelphia to work for the
army, Washington requested that Ludwick
try to accomplish the same thing.

The transportation difficulty had been
anticipated and measures taken by
Washington to meet it, in some degrees, by

orders to construct portable ovens of sheet
iron, light enough in weight to be easily
carried. These ovens were made at the
Ringwood iron furnace and were so small
that two of them could be carried on an
army wagon. The idea was good, the pur-
pose was laudable, but the ovens, ordered
in June, did not reach the army until near
the end of November, 1777. By then, what
with the fighting and continuous manoeu-
vring to save Philadelphia, the lines of
supply had broken, all the reserve stocks
exhausted and Major General Greene
complained that the army was living
from hand to mouth, at the very beginning
of what was to prove that most terrible
winter at Valley Forge. Before the army
had fairly settled into winter quarters the
pinch was felt, and a brigadier general who
was directed to hold his brigade in readi-
ness to march, wrote that he welcomed
the orders, as fighting would be preferable
to starving. The failure of provisions was
most severely felt in the flour supply and
another brigadier wrote to the Com-
mander-in-Chief that for three successive
days his troops had been without bread,
and he doubted if the men could be held
much longer. " According to the saying
of Solomon," he wrote, " hunger will break
through a stone wall" and, indeed, it was a
marvel that the Continental Army was held
together during the winter of 1777-78. It
was the experiences of this terrible winter
that finally showed Congress the need of
providing a permanent stafif of bakers.
Ludwick was doing his best, but greater
official sanction seemed necessary. In
February, 1778, Congress ordered the
enlistment of a company of bakers, to be
managed by a director, who would be paid
$50 a month and three rations per day, 3
sub-directors at $40 and two rations, 12
foremen at $30 and one ration and 64
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of enlistment was to be one year and the
articles of war were to govern. A clothing
allowance the same as that of the non-
commissioned officers was granted and the
Board of War was directed to appoint the
director and sub-directors and raise the
company as speedily as possible. This
organization was in addition to Ludwick's
arrangements and was not supposed to in-
terfere with him in any way. The
attempted remedy failed. The Board of
War dodged the responsibility by placing
the matter in the hands of Major General
William Heath, then commanding the
Eastern Department. He raised the com-
pany in Boston and appointed John Torrey
to be its captain. This company was sent
to camp in June, 1778. Soon after Torrey
arrived the army broke camp with speed
and started its forced march across Jer-
sey in pursuit of the British. The rapidity
of the succeeding events seemed to have
dazed Torrey somewhat. He gave it as
his positive opinion that camp was an im-
proper place for baking hard bread. He
had expected to bake soft bread, but
nobody wanted it except the staff officers.
Every brigade had found means to bake
for itself (that the means were Ludwick's
arrangements did not seem to be under-
stood) also, because the men made a little
saving, or profit, by drawing flour for
their rations instead of soft bread, soft
bread was never called for when hard
bread could not be obtained. The idea
was to save this profit by means of
Torrey 's company, but Torrey's idea of
the necessary preparations at every camp-
ing place of a moving army cost as much
as would be necessary for a whole year's
business. The captain of the bakers was
a well meaning and honest patriot, but he
did not seem to be equal to military
emergencies. He suggested that he be
allowed to return to Boston and bake
biscuit, or hard bread there. When the

matter was referred to Washington, he '
settled it by ordering Torrey's men to
establish a permanent baking station at
Springfield, Massachusetts, where the
largest manufacturing post and supply
arsenal of the Revolutionary War was
located. The United States Government
still retains an important supply post there.
By August, 1778, the expense of this
baking station had amounted to $6000.

All the difficulties of the bread supply,
as managed by Ludwick, centered around
the question of flour. Periods of prolonged
drought, which withered crops and dried
up the water power in the mills ; long con-
tinued and heavy rains, which hurt the
grain, clogged the roads and held up the
supply wagons ; speculators, who gambled
in food stuffs, and farmers who held on
to their grain for better prices, all con-
tributed to the hardships suffered by the
army. There was always sufficient food
in America to feed the Continental troops
bountifully; transportation and misman-
agement, most of which were avoidable,
kept the army nearly always in want. The
quantity of the bread ration was cut down
many times to eke out the supply during
periods of scarcity. Several times during
the year 1779, and not always during the
winter months, the Northern Department
troops were on the verge of mutiny from
lack of bread. The ragged finances of
the central government were responsible,
in large measure, for the bread scarcity.
Purchasing agents strained their personal
credit to the breaking point to obtain flour.
Some idea of the consumption of this
article may be had from the statement of
the Commissary General that 700 barrels
of flour would furnish the army with
bread for only two weeks. By July, 1780,
Ludwick had demonstrated that no flour
should be issued at all, as a part of the
daily ration ; nothing but hard bread should
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Point and Stoney Point, in addition to
those at Fishkill, the New Jersey and
Pennsylvania posts, and those at West
Point became the final baking station of
the Continental Army. They had a
capacity of 8000 pounds of hard bread
a day.

The beginning of the year 1781 brought
something of a crisis in bread baking.
Ludwick had been struggling desperately
to maintain the bread supply, but the
breakdown of the specific supply sys-
tem and the confusion in inaugurating
the new contract scheme for feeding the
army were too much for the old man. He
had suflFered a crippling accident and,
despite his saving even the sweepings of
the flour barrels and gaining a little by
selling the empty barrels themselves, he
was unable to obtain flour. By his econo-
mies and carefulness he had kept the
yearly expense of bread baking below
£3000 and " Advanced in years (he was
61 in 1781), blind in one eye and almost
worn out in the service of his country "
was the pitiful way in which he introduced
himself to Congress and begged leave to
resign. All of his bakers had left him,
except those few civilians he was retain-
ing by advancing their pay out of
his own pocket ; the two master bakers,
one of them Torrey, who had been ap-
pointed by order of Congress, had
given up and left the whole burden
on Ludwick's shoulders. He reminded
Congress that he had " served His
Country honestly from the Commence-
ment of the War (the first six months as
a volunteer, finding himself and Horse
without fee or reward) — built the greatest
part of the Bakehouses for the use of the
Army; — ventur'd his Life on several oc-
casions for the Cause; — had his property
ruined by the Enemy; — expended his
private fortune, earned by his industry
before the War ; and by his Assiduity and

Vigilance in his Department saved great
sums of money to the States ; and he is now
willing and desirous to retire from the
Service in the 61st year of his Age,
with the loss of his right eye and a
ruined Constitution."

But Congress declined to accept his
resignation. He was authorized to call
for money from the military chest of the
Commander-in-Chief and it was voted that
" he had acted with great industry and in-
tegrity in the character of principal
Superintendent of Bakers . . . that
he be empowered to hire any number of
bakers, not exceeding 30 and that he re-
ceive as compensation for all past services,
one thousand dollars in bills of the
new emission."

A board of general officers considered
the baking situation in June, 1781, and
advised the use of travelling ovens for
each brigade, and that l}i pounds of
bread should be required of every pound
of flour. It is indicative of the general
lack of system that this board of 1781
should recommend the use of travelling
ovens that had been ordered and experi-
mented with in 1778. The opening of the
campaign of 1781, brought forth orders
from the Commander-in-Chief, to start up
all the ovens and all the available bakers to
baking hard bread as speedily as possible.
With a good reserve in hand the combined
American and French armies commenced
their march southward. It was by means
of the French bakers that Washington was
able to mislead Sir Henry Clinton so that
the British general believed New York
city was to be attacked and, not until the
allies had reached Philadelphia, did he
awake to the knowledge that their object
was Cornwallis, in Virginia. Then it was
too late to check Washington. The French
bakers, under orders, set up ovens and
made great preparation and bustle at
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Continentals was placed around the estab-
lishment and held there until September
2nd, by which date, Washington had
reached Philadelphia and the ruse was
completely successful. After the surren-
der of Cornwallis and the return of the
Continental Army to the Hudson River,
the contract system of feeding the army
began to produce results ; Ludwick never-
theless continued his baking operations at
West Point. Almost immediately the con-
tractors proposed modifications in the
terms of the contract, and almost the first
modifications had to do with the bread
supply. It was proposed to increase the
bread ration by half a pound and furnish
two pounds of soap for every 100 rations
in return for withholding one-half of the
daily ration of rum; but this was not
because of temperance principles. This
proposal started trouble, for from the
very beginning, the quality of the bread
issued by the contractors had been poor.
Ludwick had kept steadily at work at
West Point and when, at the close of the
year 1782 the contract scheme was
abandoned, the bread supply of the army
was safe. The troops were gradually dis-
banded during the summer of 1783 and, as
the army dwindled in size, the bread sup-
ply became an ever easier matter to handle.
Long before New York City was finally
evacuated by the British the arrangement
and method of Ludwick was amply suffi-
cient for all the strain put upon it.

The importance of Ludwick's work to
the efficiency of the Continental Army
was such that he deserves to be held in
much better remembrance than is the case
at present. The value of his services is
certified to by Major Generals Anthony
Wayne, Thomas Mifflin and Arthur
St. Clair and Colonels William Irvine and
Timothy Pickering. Last of all General

Washington, himself certified that he had
" known Christopher Ludwick from an
early period in the war, and have every
reason to believe, as well as from observa-
tion as information, that he has been a true
and faithful servant to the public ; that he
has detected and exposed many imposi-
tions, which were attempted to be practiced
by others in his department; that he has
been the cause of much saving in many
respects ; and that his deportment in pub-
lic life, has afiforded unquestionable
proofs of his integrity and worth." And
v.hen George Washington wrote thus
about a fellow patriot no further praise is
needed. Ludwick died a year and a half
after Washington, and a final touch is
given in the answer he gave to a book
canvasser who tried to sell him a life of his
old Commander-in-Chief, shortly after
Washington's death. It illustrates in clear
colors the comradeship and human under-
standing that existed between Washington
and those men of the Revolution whom he
had tried and found not wanting.
Ludwick's answer to the request that he
subscribe for a copy of the life was : " No,
I will not, I am travelling fast to meet him,
and I will soon hear all about it from his
own lips."

From the quaint old tombstone in the
Lutheran church at Germantown, where
Ludwick lies, comes this message : " On
every occasion his zeal for the relief of
the oppressed was manifest; and by his
last will, he bequeathed the greater part
of his estate for the education of the
children of the poor of all denominations,
gratis. He lived and died respected for
his integrity and public spirit, by all who
knew him. Reader, such was Ludwick.
Art thou poor. Venerate his character.
Art thou rich. Imitate his example."

A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

ITH September comes the end of
vacations and the beginning of our
Daughters of the American Revo-
lution activities. State officers are
preparing for their State Conferences,
chapters are beginning to plan for
their winter's vi^ork and social pleas-
ures. In all this activity there is one big thing
to be remembered, one which I have repeatedly
stressed. This is, the national character of
our Society. We are a great national organ-
ization which has the individual member as
its unit, and these individual members gathered
into local groups or chapters, as permitted by
our national by-laws, are those who carry on
the work of the National Society in their
various localities ; simply the National Society
working in groups.

No one can join a chapter without being
first admitted as a member by the National
Board of Management.

The annual dues of $2.00 are the National
Society's dues, of which a chapter is permitted
by the national by-laws to retain $1.00 per
member for its own use in the National
Society's work. The initiation fee of $5.00
belongs, all of it, to the National Society.
We are not a federation of separate and
independent clubs, each club having a different
object and character, we are one big national
organization with certain well defined objects
laid down in its constitution, and these objects
are the united aims and purposes of every
chapter ; no chapter can have any constitution
of its own. The National Society by-laws are
likewise the by-laws of every chapter. No
chapter or state organization can have any
local by-laws in conflict with them. In brief,
our form of organization is national, our dues
are national, our laws are national, our objects
are national in scope and character, either
carried out nationally by the concerted effort
of states and chapters, for instance as in the
building of Memorial Continental Hall, or
carried out locally as state work or as
chapter work.

Let every chapter remember these facts when
laying out its work for the coming year. Let
it read once more the article on "Objects"

in our constitution and keep strictly to these
objects. Do not scatter your energies all over
a broad field of activity that does not belong
within the scope of our Society.

Our objects are, memorial, commemorative,
historical and educational. They are not char-
itable or philanthropic, political or controversial.
Alany chapters dissipate their energies on purely
charitable objects, eminently worthy but not
within our field of action. Leave such objects
to the philanthropic societies, or promote them
as individuals, not as chapters. Similarly,
many chapters dissipate all their energies in
" cooperation" with other societies instead of
doing their own work and receiving their own
just credit. They make donations to or through
other organizations and thus sink their identity
into another society which assumes all the
credit for the work accomplished. Then they
find that they have no money left for our
own work, for our Manual for instance,
or for the scholarships which we seek to main-
tain in many institutions. Cooperation is
praise-worthy and it is often essential in cases
where the aims of other societies are similar
to our own, and united action is for the best
good of the community, but it should be entered
upon very sparingly and only in cases where
it is appropriate for our Society to take part.
Otherwise, if we are not careful, our own
work will be neglected and we shall find our-
selves doing the work of other organizations
instead of our own, in short, pulling other
people's chestnuts out of the fire.

This should not be branded as a selfish policy.
It is no more " selfish " than that of other
societies which do not hesitate to confine them-
selves to their own line of work. We rarely
ever hear of their cooperating with us; it is
always the other way around. Yet, why should
they not cooperate with us as well as we with
them, if cooperation is in order? Moreover,
there are some organizations that have of late
years taken up our work which we have been
doing quietly and unostentatiously for many
years, such as " Americanization" or teaching
respect for the Flag, and with " Nation wide"
publicity they pursue this work as though it
were a new discovery, and ask our " Coop-

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eration " in our own field of labor. In many
cases it would be more proper for these organ-
izations to cooperate with us. It is not that
we should object to their doing the work, for
the field is vast and the laborers all too few ;
but it is quite legitimate to object to taking the
position of new-comers in our own field, where
we were pioneers at the time when all others
pooh-poohed at the need of such work as we
were organized to promote.

Another very important consideration bears
on all this. It is the fact that we hold our
charter direct from the Government and are
obliged under the terms of that charter to
make an annual report of our Society's work
to the United States Congress.

Now the United States Government does
not consider that a list of donations made to
the work of other organizations would con-
stitute by itself a report of work valuable
enough to print as a Senate document, which
is what our report to the Smithsonian In-
stitution really is. The Government wants a
report of our own work done in pursuit of
the objects laid down in our charter and
repeated in our Society's constitution. It wants,
for instance, reports of original historical re-
search, memorials erected, events commemor-
ated, historic sites and buildings marked,
scholarships or other gifts donated to educa-
tional institutions, education in citizenship, both
of the native and foreign born, education in the
principles of proper respect for the Flag — in
short, it wants reports of what we do as a
Society to carry out the objects laid down
in our charter and in general to " cherish,
maintain and extend the institutions of Ameri-
can freedom," and to " foster true patriotism
and love of country" in the masses of our very
heterogeneous people. Elsje why grant us a
charter for the pursuit of these objects and re-
quire a report of their accomplishment?

Lay out your own work and do it.

Be cordial and sympathetic with the aims
of other organizations which are worthy of
endorsement, but be very sparing of votes of
endorsement lest your influence be cheap-
ened ; cooperate or seek cooperation only

when advisable and necessary, and not as a <
habit. In this way the power and influence
of every chapter in its own community will be i

immeasurably increased, and our Society as a I

whole will be a power for patriotism and {

loyalty, to which our Government will continue |

to turn for help in the future as in the past. I

There is no space in this message nor is I

it necessary to mention specifically the many j

objects of endeavor that are before us. I {

have already written of the future needs and :

the practical helpfulness and success of our
Manual for Immigrants. '

National Officers and National Chairmen
will shortly issue their instructions and sug-
gestions for the work of the chapters along ,
our various lines of effort; some have done
so already. Read them carefully and carry
out all that possible of accomplishment.

Our Magazine deserves loyal support, not as i

a charity but for its own sake and for the |

sake of our members and our chapters to
whose efficient work it is a necessity.

Our office building must soon be furnished,
and the resolutions passed by our last
Congress, printed copies of which were
sent to every chapter, should be loyally heeded
and lived up to by the chapters whose repre-
sentatives in our Congress adopted them as our
Society's work or policy.

In all of our work let us remember the
high mission of our Society, the ideals of
patriotism that we stand for, and the power
for loyal and stable Americanism that we can
be in the midst of the present lawlessness,
disorder and treasonable propaganda of many
kinds. Stand by the Constitution and the Flag
— for there are many that seek to overturn the
Constitution and to take away the Flag, sub-
stituting " pacifism" and " internationalism" for
national patriotism. Serve God and Country :
Thus only shall we carry out the ideals
of the National Society, Daughters of the
American Revolution, and their patriot an-
cestors to whom we owe the principles that
have made us a nation.

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

KENMORE, PAST AND PRESENT

By Dora

N Washington Avenue, in the
west part of historic old Fred-
ericksburg, is Kenmore. An iron
raiHng encloses the old mansion
and its spacious grounds, and
the big iron gates are swung
invitingly open. To those familiar with its
story, the name Kenmore suggests the stir-
ring days of the American Revolution,
when the celebrated patriot. Colonel
Fielding Lewis, was the owner and
lived there with his young wife, Betty
Washington Lewis. It also suggests
another patriot, her brother, who was the
great Commander-in-Chief of the Amer-
ican forces. General George Washington.
" All that tract or parcel of land, lying
and being in the County of Spottsylvania,
and the Parish of St. George, joyning to
the town of Fredericksburg, containing,
by a survey made the 26th day of Febru-
ary, 1752, by George Washington, eight
hundred and sixty acres." This is in part
the text of the deed from Richard Wyatt
Royston, conveying to Colonel Lewis the
land on which Kenmore is located.
Although it is difficult to realize that the
present property was once that enormous
tract, the few acres remaining are both
attractive and commanding. The grounds
are covered with many kinds of trees and
shrubs, which greatly add to the beauty
and value of the place.

The old brick home stands in the
centre of the garden, and because of the
quality of the material used in construction
and the careful maintenance of those of

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a later day, it carries its one hundred and
seventy years with the dignity and charm
becoming a worthy old age. It is a square
brick house, with little attempt at orna-
mentation, a style popular in the Georgian
period. But it is the interior of Kenmore
which appeals to all who know its story.
George Washington, our best loved hero,
designed the frescoes in the salon and
drawing rooms, and this work is the
adiniration of all who see it. The young
mistress of the manor, Betty Washington
Lewis, was the loved sister of General
Washington, and he was often her guest.
The value of all this is inestimable in con-
sidering the acquisition of such a me-
morial. To commercialize such a home
seems akin to desecration, but now, after
many years, in the glamour of its historic
past, the beauty and utility of its present,
and its visible promise of endurance far
into the future, it is thrust upon the mar-
ket—it is the property of anyone who pays
the price.

The people of the old town can no longer
remain inactive. They have determined
to save this old Washington-Lewis home,
and add it to the other assets of the
American nation. Its solidity, the space
within and without, the massive doors and
wonderful stairway, every detail seems to
symbolize some feature of its famous occu-
pants and guests.

Patriotic and grateful America, has
made of Mt. Vernon an American
Mecca. The Association for the preser-
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caring for the little cottage in Fredericks-
burg where the mother of Washington
lived. The Metropolitan Museum of
New York has purchased the liand-
painted panels which decorated the walls
of " Marmion," one of the country estates
of Colonel Lewis and Betty Washington
Lewis. Clay from the neighborhood
formed one of the chief components of
the work which was done by a grateful
Hessian soldier. In the hills of North-
amptonshire, England, stands Sulgrave
Manor, the ancestral home of the
Washington family, a spot new to the
present generation in spite of its four
centuries of age. In 1914 when its pur-
chase was inaugurated by the British-
American Peace Committee, its interior
was a crumbling ruin. Moncure D.
Conway visited the spot in 1890, and
wrote of the mutilated shield on one of
the spandrels of the door bearing the arms
of " Washington." The old memorial,
since June, 1921, has been open to an
appreciative public. When the Mother

country has taken the initiative in the res-
toration of this ancestral home of our great
patriot, should not that be an incentive to
Americans to save that which this same
patriot helped to create? Kenmore was
the home of his sister and of her husband,
a great figure in the days of the Revolu-
tion. Colonel Lewis was appointed in
July, 1775, Chief Commissioner for the
manufacture of small arms in Fredericks-
burg, Virginia — the first manufactory of
its kind in the Colonies. In a letter written
in February, 1781, he says, " But for my
advances (70001b.), the factory must have
been discontinued." Should not such a sac-
rifice be recognized and rewarded, as far
as lies now within our power?

Sponsored by the local Chapter,
D. A. R., a Kenmore Association has been
formed in Fredericksburg, having a
charter under the laws of the State of
Virginia. Every legal citizen of America
has the privilege of becoming a member
of this association, whose object is the
purchase of this Virginia home.

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MOTOR-BOATING INTO CARNAGE

By Frank J. Brunner

ARNAGE, naturally, suggests
war. Now, this is a war story
with the atmosphere, almost, of
a regatta. And it remained for
our American youths to put into
the fray what any one of them
might call " jazz." Even a serious
British naval officer who wrote in com-
mendation of their exploits caught the
spirit of the adventure and inserted so
informal a sentence in his letter as,
" They thoroughly enjoyed themselves."
This light-hearted, jolly and singular
motor-boat excursion to the thickly mined
and strongly fortified base of a powerful
enemy will have its place in the history
of the United States Navy and will be
penned in serious detail of latitudes and
longitudes, starboards and ports, and all
that. History is ever serious, and
although the operation so thoroughly
enjoyed by young Americans was of very
serious intent, it nevertheless deserves to
be recorded from the viewpoint of our
participation in a regatta spirit.

This was a motor-boat excursion for
the reason that American naval vessels
engaged in the reduction of the Austrian
base at Durazzo in October, 1918, were
all gasoline motor-driven submarine
chasers — those little, wooden-hulled 110-
footers turned out by the hundreds in
this country with the serious program
ahead of them of combating the piratical
submarines. Twelve of these boats were

gathered at Brindisi, Italy, coming from
Corfu, Greece, where the tiny craft were
maintaining a mobile barrage across the
Strait of Otranto. They were under com-
mand of the British Adriatic Force in
the joint British-Italian bombardment of
the enemy naval base ninety miles north-
east of Brindisi across the Adriatic sea.
Anticipations of major activity denied
to all other chasers in European waters
was high as the order came to get under
way, just after midnight of October 2nd.
Unfortunately one of the boats " stubbed
her toe," or rather heel, by fouling her
propeller, and had to stay in port. The
eleven specks on the surface of the sea
collected six miles off Durazzo about
breakfast time and waited impatiently for
more than an hour the arrival of the
leisurely bombarding force. Both Italian
and British forces came into position
about 10 o'clock, the fireworks began, and
the chasers went into action with a rush.
They dashed to stations 1000 yards
inshore from the bombarding battleships
and cruisers and darted hither and thither
like full-grown destroyers in screening
the larger ships from submarine and
destroyer attack. Their happy, jolly
crews got the full benefit of an exag-
gerated Fourth of July celebration, for
their manoeuvres brought them constantly
under the roaring big guns of the
attacking forces.

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In this operation there were four units
of three chasers each, designated B, D,
G and H, but unit D was short one boat,
which had been disabled, so the eleven
made the very best of the situation and
entered into the game with a zest. No
peace-time regatta ever offered the pro-
gram of " stunts " such as the tiny
fellows were directed to perform, but the
regatta spirit remained throughout.
Except for the fierce bombardment the
affair, to the American youths, might
have been a pleasure trip around our
own Atlantic Fleet in the Hudson River,
and they never dropped the spirit of fun.
When the British ship Weymouth was
hit, unit G got into action and formed
a swiftly-darting screen about the vessel
which was being escorted back to
Brindisi. Unit B was simply irrepres-
sible, and after hunting down two
submarines and putting both out of
action, the three subchasers in this unit
took in charge the Austrian hospital ship
Baron Call and forced her toward the
entrance of Brindisi where, greatly dis-
appointed, they were ordered to release
their prize. Taking hospital craft simply
wasn't a part of the game. Unit D also
came along with the hospital ship to add
tone to the party. Meanwhile, unit H
was keeping the Italian force cleared of
obstructions, and coming on an enemy
mine, destroyed it. A short time later
another mine was discovered directly in
the path of four oncoming British
destroyers. There was no time to signal,
so one boat of this unit hovered close to
the mine and compelled the destroyers to
swerve, thus saving them from prob-
able contact.

The action of the big ships continued,
and then unit D made an original dis-
covery of a sentry house on the shore of
Cape Laghi and did a little bombarding
of her own. But the sentry house turned

out to be a water tank and tiring ceased,
for the Americans knew full well the
value, to them, of water in that warm^
clime. The officers and men of unit B
were in ecstacy when it befell them to
capture a bulky hospital ship, and they
will always remember the compHment
graciously offered by the commander of
a British destroyer who suggested that
they take their prize to Italy. That officer
has an appreciation of humor. What if
there was a little " irregularity " in it and
a bit of a jolt when ordered to free the
ship — the subchasers had tasted the joy
of capture and that was enough.

The American commanding officer
spoke in the highest terms of the snappy
manner in which the outfit carried on its
work, and well he might do so, for it was
none the less snappy than the exploit of
an Italian motor-boat which dashed
inside the harbor and torpedoed an Aus-
trian battleship. The Americans would
have done some of the same dashing
work, but orders are orders, and they
had to stick to their duty of fending off
danger from the bombarding ships, all
the while speeding under the flashes of
guns and in a haze of pungent powder
smoke. How well they were enjoying
themselves is indicated in the activities
of subchaser 129 of unit B, which was
operating with the British light cruiser
force. Getting close in toward shore the
unit came under the guns of the short
batteries, when the 129 discovered the
wake of a submarine and stood over to
attack. Her sister boats, the 215 and
128, about the same time traced the
" feather " of another submarine and,
while delivering an attack which is
credited as successful, they caught a
signal from the 129, stating her engines
were disabled. Shortly came another
signal reporting the sighting of a sub-
marine. Investigating what appeared to

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be a third " feather " the 215 and 128
prepared for attack, but concluding that
no undersea boat had been sighted, the
two chasers went over to aid the 129, and
on haiHng her were assured that she had
sunk her submarine and that her engines
were then under repair. Leaving the
spot a Hvely hunt was inaugurated and
continued until the 129 was again under
headway, when the unit came upon the
hospital ship and made its capture.

Only when the bombardment stopped
did the chasers cease activity, and they
returned to port as chipper as when they
haled forth before dawn. The operation
against Durazzo was a strategic success,
silencing the shore batteries, sinking or
crippling the Austrian ships in the harbor,
wrecking ammunition dumps and working
great havoc in the town, in fact laying
waste a military base which had been a
very great menace to allied operations in
the Adriatic and the Mediterranean. That
the attacking force had only one ship
damaged may be attributed in large
measure to the screening American sub-
chasers, which eagerly played the game
hard and, like gay craft on gala occasions
in home ports, surrounded the bigger
actors in the event, sped at their utmost
and struck their colors to none. Twelve
subchasers were engaged in another expe-
dition against Durazzo, October 13th-
17th, prepared to land all hands ; but the
Austrian base was found practically
abandoned, and the detachment enjoyed
only a heavy-weather experience on the
return to Brindisi. The regatta feature
of operations in the Adriatic had come to
an end, and serious, watchful work was
resumed until the close of hostilities.

Responsibility could not be abandoned
with the Armistice by the chasers based
on Corfu, however, for on November
16th six units were ordered to proceed to
Fiume to investigate conditions and

report to Rear Admiral W. H. G. Bullard,
commander of the United States naval
forces in the eastern Mediterranean.
The officers of the chasers were directed
to get in touch with the Jugo-Slav repre-
sentatives and to do everything in their
power to convince them of the sympathy
of the United States, and in the event that
the Jugo-Slav surrendered ships under
the terms of the Armistice, to hoist the
American colors together with the flags
of the associated powers. They were
cautioned to safeguard material and to
hold the ships in trust for the Allies.
Upon arrival at Spalato, however, orders
Avere modified and fifteen chasers re-
mained at that base for some time. From
Spalato they were sent on various
missions, their crews used to man the
Austrian ships taken over, and their
officers assigned to duty as representa-
tives of the United States in carrying out
the terms of the Armistice. In places
along the Dalmatian coast these officers
were the sole representatives of the
United States Navy and they performed
all the duties, both diplomatic and naval,
required by circumstance. Conditions
demanded sound judgment, initiative and
administrative abiHty, and in all these
matters these small boat complements
reflected credit upon the United States.

The enjoyable part of the task in
reducing Durazzo was the one instance
of its character, and it was all the more
remarkable in its performance because
the officers and crews of the chasers were
nearly to a man from the Naval Reserve
Force. They had the unique distinction
of taking part in a major naval offensive.
But the units which operated in the
Adriatic and the Mediterranean also saw
the sad side of the picture when the war
was over in carrying food to the starving
peoples of Greece and Turkey. Still, they
took the glad with the sad experiences in

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a characteristic American spirit, for duty
was duty, no matter where it called.

In the Durazzo operations, Lieutenant
Commander P. H. Bastedo was comman-
der of B unit, Lieutenant G. J. Leovy of
G unit, and Ensign H. R. Dann of H unit.
The chasers detachment was under the
command of Captain C. P. Nelson,
U.S.N., who, in his report, writes : " I
want to especially mention the fact that
two submarines out of the three were
destroyed by this unit, one of them by
two chasers of this unit, and the second
by one which had broken down and was
acting by herself. The manner in which
these attacks were conducted was highly
satisfactory, and had another unit been
operating in company with unit B, I feel
certain that the third submarine would
also have been accounted for. A careful
study of the manner in delivering the
attacks in both cases shows quick judg-
ment and equally accurate execution."
i Admiral Sims, who commanded all our
naval forces abroad, in a communication
dated July 19, 1918, " noted with interest
and pleasure the hard work and enthusi-
asm of the submarine squadron based on
Corfu. He has particularly noted the
attack on an enemy submarine on June
18th. . . . The Force Commander par-
ticularly notes the work of Lieutenant
Commander E. E. Spafford, Ensign G. J.
Leovy, Ensign Conroy and Ensign
Beverly. It is fully realized, however,
that every ofificer and man is doing his
best to promote the efficiency of our
submarine chaser squadron."

The submarine chasers on " distant
service " were under command of Captain
Richard H. Leigh of Admiral Sims' stafT.
Detachment 1 was based on Plymouth,
England, with 66 boats, in charge of
Captain L. A. Gotten ; Detachment 2, at
Corfu, Greece, with 36 boats in charge
of Captain C. P. Nelson ; Detachment 3,

at Queenstown, Ireland, with 30 boats, in
charge of Captain H. J. Hepburn. Initial
operations began in June, 1918, at both
Plymouth and Corfu, and in September
at Queenstown. At this latter base the
subchaser and seaplane duty was coordi-
nated under Captain Hepburn. By day
the seaplanes led the hunt for U-boats
and summoned the chasers when contact
was made or suspicion aroused. By
night the chasers carried on drifting
patrol, effectually employing their listen-
ing devices.

Eighteen chasers were assigned to
Brest on September 1st, owing to the
operation of large German destroyers off
the French coast which endangered our
convoys. At Gibraltar chasers were not
regularly assigned, but they came into
that port frequently and were utilized
on mobile barrage duty. During five
days on this barrage four contacts and
three attacks on submarines were made
by eight chasers, but there was no con-
clusive evidence of success. No chasers
were definitely based on Ponta Delgada,
Azores, the half-way station of our con-
voys, but all stopped en route to their
distant stations and were then used for
patrol duty off the harbor entrance.

Subchasers performed important duty
after the Armistice in the removal of the
North Sea mine barrage. Of this service,
Admiral Joseph Strauss wrote : " Of all
the hardships endured, the subchasers
probably drew the greatest portion.
These tiny ships were never stopped by
wind or weather, and as long as the
sweepers could operate, their frail assist-
ants were with them. They stood out
in many a sea which would have daunted
larger craft. Their services were in-
valuable. . . . Pitching about on the
North Sea like chips in a whirlpool, with
cramped quarters, coarse food, and every
discomfort imaginable, these little ships

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performed a duty that was extremely
arduous and exacting; and they never
failed to live up to the high reputation that
they had built for themselves."

The voyages of these small craft across
the wide Atlantic, their operations against
enemy submarines, and the measure of
success they obtained, constituted one of
the most spectacular performances of the
Navy's participation in the war. It was
a splendid tribute to the young Americans
who formed the crews, and to the Ameri-
can scientists who developed their
equipment. The Navy operated 340 of
this type of vessel and in addition 100
were built for the French government.
The 120 chasers in European waters were
ever active hunting U-boats, destroying
floating mines, performing patrol, con-
voy, hunt and escort duty, as well as
special missions in all parts of Europe,
even to far off Archangel, Russia. The
highly technical nature of the knowledge
required of their officers, the importance
of the duty assigned and the way they
performed it, as well as the difficulties
and discomforts under which they oper-
ated, will ever stand out as notable in the
records of the Navy's service in the
World War.

The chasers were regarded in and out
of the Service as oversized motor boats
designed for open sea conditions but
dependent upon a nearby base or tender
for shelter. But by force of circum-
stances these tiny craft had to assume the
role of full-fledged cruising ships, with
scarcely any of the facilities and none of
the comforts of cruisers. Considering the
almost total lack of naval experience and
sea experience, in the beginning, which
formed a striking characteristic of their
crews, the bare problem of existence on
these boats was a severe one. To reach
the standard of Navy efficiency demanded
of the officers and men it was necessary

to be efficient in all the duties required
on any larger ship, including seamanship,
engineering, gunnery, communications,
and the maintenance of an organization
complete from " scrub and wash clothes "
to decoding secret messages. Writing of
a tendency to rank the subchaser rather
low in relative importance of service.
Captain Hepburn says : " If it is proper to
consider as a basis for personal recog-
nition the creditable performance of duty
to the last limit of opportunity and
endurance, in a sphere that called for
high professional ability and the utmost
in hardihood, cheerfulness and pure grit,
the chaser personnel will stand second to
none. Insignificant as these small ships
may appear in the broad view, if the pres-
tige of the United States Navy could be
conceived as resting solely upon the
qualities displayed by them it would
not suffer."

The " regatta " is over, but that its
lessons will live is firmly asserted by the
Operations Section of Admiral Sims'
staff, which says : " The chasers have
attacked the submarine from the Irish
Sea to the Strait of Otranto, tracked him
submerged for 172 hours, and executed
numerous attacks. They were but pio-
neers in a field of infinite possibilities.
Their vessels were built after the declara-
tion of war and they themselves were part
of the ' million men ' who were to ' spring
to arms overnight.' They set out with
the half-developed ideas of a single year
to combat the culmination of a hundred
years' development. The work they have
accomplished will ever remain a tribute
to the foresight and optimism of the men
who conceived their equipment, and to the
stamina and ability of the hardy men
who braved the submarines in all weathers
in these tiny boats.

" Their work is done. It remains for
us, the permanent officers of the Navy,

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to deduce the lesson they have so plainly
shown, and to follow in the channels
which their successes have so clearly
Ibuoyed. It is useless to ask, ' Of what
practical use is a baby ? ' The child has
grown, already he has demonstrated his
strength, and it remains for us whose
lives are in the Navy to bring him to his
full manhood.

" When we do there will be no need
of legislating the submarine out of exist-

ence and our security will rest upon a
foundation more solid than any ' scrap
of paper.' The day must come when the
submarine which has been sighted will
derive no more protection from diving,
than does the ostrich in hiding its head
in sand. Then we will look back with
pride to these hardy boys who set out
across the Atlantic in their tiny boats to
blaze the trail."

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MARRIAGE RECORDS OF THE FIRST CHURCH
OF HANOVER, MORRIS COUNTY, N. J.

Compiled By E. L. Henry

The following marriages are taken from
records of the First Church of Hanover,
Morris, Co., N. J., during the pastorate of the
Rev. Jacob Green, from the year 1746 to 1796.

Aakens, James and Mary Budd, 4th May, 1751.

Aber, and Samuel Campfield, 20th July,

1772; Amos and Jerush Warren, 12th Feb-
ruary, 1789.

Allen, Abigail and Uriah Smith, 28th March,
1770; Anna and Thomas Baldin, 15th July,
1756; Mary and Joseph Wood, 29th November,
1752.

Allerton, Jacob and Martha Baley, 23d
December, 1755.

Allington, Orriongery and John White, 15th
August, 1754.

Ames, Sarah and Alexander Brenan, 30th
March, 1778.

Babbet, and Beach^(of Mendham), 27th

May, 1779.

Baldin, Esther and Joseph Duglas, 18th April,

1750; Jacob and Baley, 3d December, 1758;

Rhoda and Asa Kitchel, 11th July, 1770; Sarah
and Jedediah Leonard, 28th April, 1752 ; Thomas
and Anna Allen, 15th July, 1756; William and
Sarah Martin, 24th August, 1769.

Baldwin, Samuel and Lucy Fairchild, 30th
May, 1782.

Baley, and Jacob Baldin, 3d December,

1758; Martha, and Jacob Allerton, 23d Decem-
ber, 1755.

Ball, Anne and Jacob Cory, 19th February,
1871; Caleb and Martha Sergent, 8th Dec-
ember, 1748; Caleb and Mary Parrot, 3rd
April, 1755; Daniel and Phebe Tuttle, 3rd
December, 1758; Daniel and Martha Price, 10th
October, 1768; Daniel and Anna Beach, 19th
March, 1778; David and Sarah Dikins, 18th
April, 1754; Miss Electa and (Moses?) Condit,
26th March, 1795; Elizabeth and Abraham
Cooper, 23rd April, 1778; Ephraim and Mary
Hedden, 9th January, 1775; Hannah and David
Philips, 29th January, 1772; James and Eliza

More, January, 1794; Jemima and Philip

Poste, 8th May, 1771 ; Jemima and Lent W.
Fairchild, 25th December, 1785; Deacon John
and Katharine Winchel, 25th December, 1760;
John Jr. and Lidia Jones, 19th January, 1775;

Joshua and Phebe Carmon, 26th November, 1746;
Lucretia and Isaac Winchel, 20th December,
1752; Lucy and Solomon Munson, 31st Dec-
ember, 1781 ; Moses and Lucretia Dalglish, 24th

January 1750; Phebe and Robert Canfield,

December, 1792; Sally and Josiah Kitchel, 23d

January, 1794; Sarah and William Ball, •

May, 1777; William and Sarah Ball,

May, 1777.

Bates, Daniel and Mary Kitchel, 22nd Nov-
ember, 1787; John and Miss Polly Lindsly, 28th
December, 1794; Phebe and Jesse Price, 7th June,
December, 1794; Rachel and David Kitchel,
1st April, 1778; Sarah and Nathaniel Dalglish,
15th January, 1782.

Beach, (of Mendham) and Babbet,

27th May, 1779; Abraham and Phebe Kitchel,
27th May, 1784; Anna and Daniel Ball, 19th

March, 1778; Anne and Day (of morristown)

sometime in year 1871 ; Darling and Keturah
Green, 31st March, 1790; Electa and Silas
Dickerson, 21st May, 1795 ; Enoch and Hannah
Wheeler, 31st December, 1777; Hannah and
Henry Smith, 25th November, 1747; Hannah
and Calvin Green, 28th December, 1787; James
and Elizabeth Morehouse, 22nd April, 1784
Jedidiah and Afary Post, 31st December, 1781
Mary and Nathaniel Squire, 24th April, 1751
Mary and Isaac Winers, 4th January, 1787

Phebe and Abner Wade, October, 1780

Sarah and Garrerdus Drake, 27th February,
1753; Sarah and Ezra Broadwell, sometime in
the year 1781 ; Stephen and Patience Bedford,
1st January, 1766.

Bealton, Thomas and Hannah White, 21st
December, 1769.

Bebout, William and Hannah Ogden,

November, 1777.

Bedford, and Rebecca Hoppen, 29th Sep-
tember, 1768; Elisabeth and William Cook, 15th
December, 1785 : Patience and Stephen Beach,
1st January, 1766;

Beers, John and Susannah Broadwell, 7th
October, 1783.

Benjamin, John and Hannah Burnet, 21st
October, 1761.

Berker, Mercy and Thomas Millage, 3rd
December, 1758.

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Biglow, Jonathan and Sarah Ladd, 14th
April, 1752.

Blaricum, Icabod, and Mary Riker, 28th
January, 1750/1.

Bond, Rachel and Matthew Canfield, 25th
October, 1756.

Bolesby, George and Phebe Stiles, 24th
December, 1767.

Bonnel, Hannah and (William?) Rague

Jan., 1781.

Bowden, Matthew and Martha Corbe, 22d
April, 1784.

Bowers, and Hannah Fairchild, 30th

January, 1794.

Bradford, Eben'r and E. Green, 4th April,
1776.

Brant, John and Temperance Hoppen, 4th
December, 1749; Phebe and David Cory, 4th
July, 1775 ; Stephen and Sarah Young, about
20th June, 1775.

Grenan, Alexander and Sarah Ames, 30th
March, 1778.

Bridge. Joanna and Ezekiel Day, 23d March,
1774; John and Joanna Kitchel. 22d December,
1766.

Bright. Joseph and Deborah Zerreckson, 18th
April, 1754.

Britten, Abigail and Joseph Green, 25th
December, 1782; Joseph and Elizabeth Ward,
28th November, 1782.

Broadwell, Ezra and Sarah Beach, sometime
in the year 1781 ; Fanny and Moses Broadwell,
5th November, 1788; Hezekiah and Abigail
Green, 29th May, 1769; Joanna and Abraham
Carle, 9th March, 1784; Moses and Fanny Broad-
well, 5th November, 1788; Rebecca and Eben-
ezer Tuttle, 28th November. 1771 ; Susannah and
John Beers, 7th October, 1783.

Brookfield, Jacob and Jemima Camp, 18th
January, 1784.

Brooks, Jonathan and Katharine Mathews,
18th Feb., 1787.

Brown, Aaron and Phebe Shores, 16th
January, 1785 ; Jabez and Hannah Cregers, 30th
November. 1785: Solomon and Densy Squire,

January, 1790; Thomas and Comfort Squire,

2nd October, 1781.

Budd, Joseph and Mary Drake, March,

1775; Mary and James Aakens, 4th May, 1751.

Burnet, Aaron and Dorothy Wade, 31st Dec-
ember, 1786; Aaron and Patty Harris, 18th
March, 1790; Betsy and Samuel Merry, Jr., 30th
January, 1795; Hannah and John Benjamin,
21st Oct., 1761; Linsly and Elizabeth Halsey,
23d Aug., 1769 ; Martha and Jedidiah Tompkins
26th January, 1757; Phebe and Henry Tunis,
27th Aug., 1751; Sarah and Sylas Hand, 8th
June, 1752;

Byram, Joseph and Esther Dalglish, 21st
March, 1776.

Byrom, Japhet and Elizabeth Tappan, 10th
January, 1754;

Gamble, James and Mary Kilbourn, 26th
March, 1789.

Camp, Bethyah and Joshua Seely, 1st

December, 1782; Daniel and Lucy Miller,

May, 1793; Jemima and Jacob Brookfield, 18th

January, 1784; Phebe and Rev. Mr. White,

February, 1792.

(Calvin Green's diary.)

Campfield, John and Mary Dixon, 24th May,

1781; Kitty and De Hart, 8th February,

1795; Matthew and Electa Shipman, 15th

December, 1783; Samuel and Abner, 20th

July, 1772; William and Sarah Squire, 27th
April, 1773.

Canfield, Johannah and John Tuttle, 3rd
July, 1747; in Newark, N. J., Matthew and
Rachel Bond, 25th October, 1756; Robert and

Phebe Ball December, 1792; Ruth and John

Merrit, 8th May, 1748.

Carle, Abraham Joanna Broadwell, 9th March,
1784.

Carman, Deborah and Gershom Mott, 10th
April, 1751.

Carmon, Phebe and Joshua Ball, 26th Nov-
ember, 1746.

Carr, John and Sinte Turens (?) 4th
July, 1752.

Carter, and Lidia Stiles 29th January,

1794; Deborah and Jonas Genung, 5th January,
1758; Lois and Nathaniel Wyllys, 19th May,
1782; Mary and Jacob Minton, 17th November,
1748; Mary and Zebediah Potter, 20th October,
1750; Phebe and Michal Vanwinkle, 13th July,
1758; Sarah and Rubin Riggs, 16th August,

1750; U (Uzal?) and Rhoda Condit, 13th

March, 1785.

Chapman, Jedidiah Rev. and Margaret Le-
compte, 18th Feb., 1777.

Chidester, Abigail and John Slater, 31st
Nov., 1747.

Chitester, Jemima and John Stewart, 1st
January, 1750.

Clark, Pamelia and Othniel Luker,

August, 1779; Sarah and Samuel Crane, 9th
August, 1750; Sarah and John Genung, 22nd
August, 1751.

Glason, Mary and Jacob Philip, 23rd
January, 1765.

Cobb, Abial and Sarah Van Winkle, 4th
January, 1750; Anne and John Gould, 3d
March, 1757; Mehetable and Joseph WoodruflE,
11th October, 1750.

Cocker, Margaret and Ellis Cook, 12th July,
1753; Sarah and Williams Cook, 5th June,
1755; William and Dorothy Green, 31st
May, 1770.

Coe, Thomas and Sarah Dalgish, 11th
January, 1749.

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MARRIAGE RECORDS OF HANOVER, MORRIS COUNTY. N. J.

537

Coggswell, Nathaniel and Marget Shingle-
ton, 16th July, 1752.

Cole, Sarah and William Squire, 22nd June,
1786.

Colman, Job and Eunice Lee, 22nd October,
1781.

Condit (?) and ■ October (?)

15th 1788; (Moses?) and Miss Electa Ball,

26th March, 1795; Rhoda and U (Uzal?)

Carter. 13th March, 1785.

Conger, John and Sarah Tuttle, 12th March,
1746/7.

Consolee, Mercy and Isaac Vaness, 16th
July, 1786.

Cook, Dr. Ambrose and Miss Sally P. Wheeler,
27th June, 1794; Elisabeth or Betsy and Ben-
jamin Williams, 30th July. 1787; Ellis and
Margaret Cocker, 12th July, 1753; Ellis (of
Bottle Hill) and Sarah Wortman, 28th Sept.,
1789; Epaphras and Sarah Smith, 4th Oct-
ober, 1762; Jonathan and Margaret Tappan,
30th Nov., 1757; Lotta and William O. Grigory,

Sept., 1792; Martha and William Kitchel,

9th June, 1783 ; Matilda and David Plumb, 27th
Feb., 1794; Nancy and George Dotee, 20th

Sept., 1791 ; Polly and Jacob Green,

1794; William and Margaret Cocker, 12th Feb.,
1778; William and Elisabeth Bedford, 15th
Dec, 1785 ; Williams and Sarah Cocker, 5th
June, 1755; Zebulon and Mary Jones, 15th
Feb., 1775.

Cooper, Abraham and Elizabeth Ball, 23d
April, 1778; George and Sissel Tappan, 11th
October, 1753; James and Phebe Young, 26th
December, 1786; Jerusha and Aaron Gillet,
2nd Feb., 1761 ; Margaret and William Cook,
12th February, 1778; Mary and Cornelias
Vooris, 10th May. 1780; Thomas and Elisabeth
Dixon, 16th March, 1763.

Corbe, Martha and Mathew Bowden, 22nd
April, 1784.

Cory, David and Mary Hambleton, 29th Dec,
1746; David and Phebe Brant, 4th July, 1775;
David and Hannah Richards, 1st January,
1781; Jacob and Anne Ball, 19th Feb., 1781.

Crane, Amos and Elizabeth Luker, 12th
January, 1775 ; Asa and Abigail Young, 28th
December, 1784.

Crane, Elizabeth and William Dixon, 16th
October, 1765 ; Eunice and Jonathan Squire, Jr.
5th June, 1755 ; Samuel and Sarah Clark, 9th
August, 1750.

Cregere, Hanah and Jabez Brown, 30th Nov.,
1785.

Cumber ford, William and Jane Waters, 20th
Jan., 1750.

Dalglish, David and Jane Dixon, 3d Jan.,
1771 ; Dosia and Josiah Post, 2nd November,
1769; Esther and Joseph Bryam, 21st March,
1776; Esther and Williams Ely, 22nd August,
1782; Hannah and William Dixon, 13th July,

1758; Joseph and Martha Dixon, 19th Sept-
ember, 1771 ; Lucretia and Moses Ball, 24th
January, 1750; Mary and Benj. Green, 18th Jan.,
1750; Nathaniel and Sarah Bates, 15th Jan.,
1782; Patty and E. Prudden, Nov., 1792;
Phebe and John Grover, 3d Sept. 1793.

Dalgish, Sarah and Thomas Coe, 11th Jan-
uary, 1749.

Darling. Hannah and Stephen Kitchel, 24th
October, 1775.

Darlington, Mary and John Joline, 11th June,
1779.

Daton, Rachel and James Leonard, 31st
August, 1768.

Day, (of Morristown) and Anne Beach,

sometime in the year 1781 ; Ezekiel and Joanna
Bridge. 23d March, 1774; Thomas and Diadema
Gardner, 16th January, 1770.

Decamp, Lambert and Mary Wood, 7th
July, 1758.

Degrow. Betsy and John McKillop, 29th
August. 1776.

De Hart, and Kitty Campfield, 8th Feb.,

1795.

Denton, James and Mary Halsey, 29th Nov-
ember, 1784.

Dickerson, Silas and Electa Beach, 21st May,
1795.

Dickinson, (John?) and Sylvesta Wade, 12th
Feb., 1795.

Dickson. Thomas and Hannah Stephens, 19th
December, 1751.

Dikins, Sarah and David Ball, 18th April,
1754.

Dixon, Elisabeth and Thomas Cooper, 16th
March. 1763; Jane and David Dalglish, 3d
Jan., 1771; John and Mary Williams, 26th
December, 1768; Martha and Joseph Dalglish,
19th Sept., 1771 ; Mary and John Campfield,
24th May, 1781; William and Hannah Dalglish,
13th Tulv, 1758; William and Elizabeth Crane,
16th Oct., 1765.

Dobben, Betsy and Ephraim Manning, 10th
November, 1782.

Dotee. George and Nancy Cook, 20th Sept-
ember, 1791.

Drake, Garrerdus and Sarah Beach, 27th

Februarv, 1753; Mary and Joseph Budd,

Mar., 1775.

Douglas. Joseph and Esther Baldin, 18th
April, 1750.

Easton, Desire and Joseph Fox, 16th Oct.,
1783.

Edeson, John and Sarah Ogden, 10th Oct^
1765.

Edwards, Rachel and Aaron Magee

■ 1794.

Ely, Lois and Thomas Parsel, 22d September,
1768; Sarah and Benj. Green, Jr. 10th Aug.,
1791 ; William and Esther Dalglish, 22nd Aug-
ust, 1782.

538

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

Fairchild, Abner and Phebe Russel, 18th May,
1780; Hannah and David Osburn, 15th May,

1758; Hannah and Bowers, 30th January,

1794; Lent W. and Jemima Ball, 25th Decem-
ber, 1785 ; Lucy and Samuel Baldwin, 30th May,
1782; Martha and Joel Wilkinson, 28th Nov-
ember, 1765 Moses, and Mary Gardner, 5th
Dec, 1770.

Farrand, Anna and Ephraim Stiles, 31st May,
1758; Daniel and Phebe Plum, 6th Jan., 1785;
Ebenezer, Jr. and Rebecca Parrot, 16th Nov-
ember, 1757; Finn, Solomon and Elizabeth
Wheeler, 17th Nov., 1758; Force, Elizabeth and
Daniel Lyon, 16th Jan., 1753 ;i Manan and
Lucretia Wirxhel, 10th May, 1753; Martha and
John Roll, 8th June, 1783; Squire and M.
Johnson, 6th March, 1770.

Ford, Elizabeth and Samuel Gardner, 19th

Sept., 1784; Phebe and Moses Ross, - — -

1788; Samuel and Grace Kitchel, 20th Jan.,
1757.

Fordham, Triphena and Jonathan Kainer,
17th Oct., 1771.

Fox, Joseph and Desire Easton, 16th Oct-
ober, 1783.

Francisco, John and Hannah Van Zile, 7th
August, 1752; Solomon and Phebe Shipman,
4th July, 1782.

Frazev, Anna and Joseph Green, 14th April,
1788.

Freeman, Margery and Robert Philips, 3d
September, 1761.

Garner. and Miss Pierson (Morristown)

12th June, 1794; Diadema and Thomas Day, 16th
Jan., 1770; Elijah and Mary Hymes, 26th
October, 1762; Jotham and Hannah Russel,
20th June. 1782; ( ?) Moses and Moses Fairchild,
5th December. 1770 Sally and Joseph Squire,
8th November. 1787; Samuel and Elizabeth
Ford, 19th September, 1784.

Genung, Benjamin and Hannah Whitehead,
9th May, 1780; Cornelius and Abigail Parrot,
18th October. 1775; John and Sarah Clark, 22nd
August, 1751 ; Jonas, and Deborah Carter, 5th
January, 1758; Martha and Jeremiah Poste,
22nd August, 1751.

Gill, Robert and Phebe Shipman, 26th Nov.,
1770.

Gillet, Aaron and Jerusha Cooper, 2nd Feb.,
1761.

Ginnings, James and Polly Williams, 27th
November, 1787.

Glover, Miss and Jonas Young, 20th Feb.,
1795.

Goble, Ezekiel and Phebe Peck, 11th May,
1758;

Gordon, Sarah and Gidion Hoel, 2nd April,
1753.

Gould. Isaac and Anna Stephens, 5th Mav,
1760; Jacob and Rachel Kimble. 8th March,
1758; John and Anne Cobb, 3d March, 1757;

Joseph and Sarah Ward, 19th December, 1768;
Rachel and Samuel Tuttle, 14th November,
1749; Theodosia and David Young, 2Sth Nov-
ember, 1784.

Green, Abigail and Hezekiah Broadwell, 29th
May, 1769; Anne and James Tuttle, 2d Feb.,
1767; Benjamin and Mary Dalglish, 18th Jan-
uary, 1750; Benjamin Jr. and Sarah Ely, 10th
August, 1791. Calvin and Hannah Beach, 28th
December, 1787; Dorothy and William Cocker,
31st May, 1770; E. and Eben'r Bradford, 4th

April, 1776; Jacob and Polly Cook

1794; Jemima and Phineas . Jones, 22d April,

1779; Hannah and Horton Magee, June,

1793 ; Joseph and Abigail Britten, 25th December,
1782; Joseph and Anna Frazey, 14th April,
1788; Keturah and Darling Beach, 31st March,
1790; Mary and John Hamilton, 7th January,
1772; Sarah and Ebenezer Smith, 15th Feb.,
1787.

Grigory; William O. and Lotta Cook,

September, 1792.

Groticlass, Elizabeth and Thomas Parsel,
24th Oct., 1779.

Grover, John and Phebe Dalglish, 3d Sept.,
1793.

Hains, Jemima and Joseph Tuttle, Jr. 25th
July, 1757.

Halsey, Elizabeth and Linsly Burnet, 23d
August, 1769; Elizabeth and Frederick Jones,
12th August, 1772; Hannah and Lion Loper,
25th October, 1768; Mary and James Denton,
29th November, 1784; Ruth and Sylas Howel,
August, 1756.

Hambleton, Mary and David Cory, 29th Dec-
ember, 1746; Stephen and Jane More, 19th
November, 1750.

Hamilton, John and Mary Green, 7th Jan-
uary, 1772.

Hand, Sylas and Sarah Burnet, 8th June,
1752; Uriah and Mary Hygby, 23d July, 1753.

Hanneon, Nancy and John Plumb, 18th Feb.,
1754.

Hardy, Mary and Thomas Squire, 12th
March, 1786.

Harris, David and Catharine Ridner, 12th
January, 1752; Lidia and Simeon Squier, 12th
September, 1791 ; Patty and Aaron Burnet,
18th March, 1790.

Harrison, Daniel and Mary Parrot, 8th Jan.,
1786.

Haven, Jeremy and Polly Merry, 27th Dec,
1789.

Hedden, Mary and Ephraim Ball, 9th Jan-
uary, 1775; Sarah and Zopher Williams, 3d
September, 1765.

Hill, James and Sarah Tompkins, 17th
December, 1756.

Hoel, Gidion and Sarah Gordon, 2nd April,
1753; I^uthcr and Mary Young, 24th February,
1783; Marget and Stephen Osbourn, 17th

MARRIAGE RECORDS OF HANOVER, MORRIS COUNTY, N. J.

539

February, 1777 : Sarah and Samuel Serren,
24th March, 1767.

Hoppen, Anna and Joseph Post, 17th October,
1775; Daniel and Patty Stiles, December, 1792;
Ezekiel and Eunice Price, 3d Jan., 1771 ;
Jerusha and Samuel Tisler, 30th Dec, 1765 ;
Hannah and Laban Ward, 24th July, 1754;
Rebecca and— Bedford, 29th Sept., 1768;
Samuel and Sarah Smith, 1st April, 1778;
Silas and Joanna Miller, 12th Sept., 1787 ;
Temperance and John Brant, 4th December,
1749.

Howel, Sylas and Ruth Halsey, August,
1756.

Hygby, Mary and Uriah Hand, 23d Julv,
1753.

Hymes, Mary and Elijah Gardner, 26th Oct-
ober, 1762.

Jewel, Abigail and Moses Stiles, 4th Dec-
ember, 1788.

Johnson, Benjamin and Phebe Wade, 14th
February, 1787; James and Eunice Sergeant,
18th October, 1758; Joanna and Levi Shadick,
26th January, 1775; John and Lois Robertson,
26th March, 1787; M. and Squire Force, 6th
March, 1770.

Joline, John and Mary Darlington, 11th June,
1779.

Jonas, Tompkins and Jane Lion, 6th March,
1770.

Jones, Fredrick and Elizabeth Halsey, 12th
August, 1772; Lidia and John Ball, Jr. 19th
Jan., 1775 ; or Price, Lucy and Richard Woods,
14th May, 1750; Mary and Zebulon Cook, 15th
February, 1775 ; Phinehas and Jemima Green,
22nd April, 1779; Sarah and Philip Price (in
Morristown) 14th May, 1750.

Kelly, Mary and John Miller, 21st January,
1768.

Kelso, Robert and Puah Merry, 7th Feb-
ruary, 1770.

Kilburn, Elizabeth and Edward 12th Novem-
ber, 1746.

Kilbourn, Mary and James Gamble, 26th
March, 1789.

Kimble, Rachel and Jacob Gould, 8th March,
1758.

King, John and IMargret Miller, 24th Dec-
ember, 1754; Mark and Elizabeth Miller, 25th
June, 1751.

Kitchel, Abigail and Joseph Wood, 1st June,
1769; Asa and Rhoda Baldin, 11th July, 1770;
David and Rachal Bates, 1st April, 1778;

Farrand and Ester Mulford, February,

1793 ; Grace and Samuel Ford, 20th January,
1757; Joanna and John Bridge, 22d December,
1766 ; Joanna and Philo Miller, 20th September,
1791 ; John and Abigail Parkhurst, 18th March,
1778; John Jr. and Nancy Kitchel, 17th October,
1787; Josiah and Sally Ball, 23d January,
1794; Mary and Daniel Bates, 22nd November,

1787; Matthew and Sally Post, 13th August,
1794; Nancy and John Kitchel Jr. 17th Oct-
ober, 1787; Phebe and Abraham Beach, 27th
May, 1784; Stephen and Hannah Darling, 24th
October, 1775; William and Martha Cook, 9th
June, 1783.

Ladd, Sarah and Johnathan Biglow, 14th
April, 1752.

Lanah (Negro) to Prince September, 1791.

Lane, Ruth and Caleb Ward, 3d October,
1771.

Lecompte, Margaret and Jedidiah Chapman,
18th February, 1777.

Lee, Eunice and Job Colman, 22d October,
1781.

Leonard, James and Rachel Daton, 31st Aug.,
1768; Jedediah and Sarah Baldin, 28th April,
1752.

Lewis, Samuel and Lidia Squire, 4th March,
1776.

Linsly, Joseph and Anna Lum, 12th March,
1761.

Lindsly, Polly and John Bates, 28th December,
1794.

Lockwood, Mary and John Warren, 25th
January, 1784.

Loper, Lion and Hannah Halsey, 25th Oct-
ober, 1768.

Luker, Elizabeth and Amos Crane, 12th
January, 1775 ; Othniel and Pamelia Clark,
August, 1779.

Lum, Anna and Joseph Linsley, 12th March,
1761 ; Samuel and Dorcas Riggs, 7th June, 1772.

Lyon, Daniel and Elizabeth Force, 16th Jan.,

1753; Henry and Martha Tompkins, Jan.,

1773.

McKillop, John and Betsy Degrow, 29th
August, 1776.

Magee, Aaron and Rachel Edwards (Bap-
tists) 1794; Horton and Hannah

Green, June, 1793; Margaret and Stephen

Squire, 23d September, 1789; Miss and

Elias Reeves, 19th Oct., 1794.

Manning, Ephraim and Betsy Dobben, 10th
November, 1782.

Martin, Sarah and William Baldin, 24th
August, 1769.

Massaker, Katee and Christopher Strait, 21st
June, 1769.

Mathews, Katharine and Jonathan Brooks,
18th Feb., 1787.

Meleck, Aaron, and Sherlotte Miller, 28th
Dec, 1756.

Merrit, John and Ruth Canfield, 8th May,
1748.

Merry, Mary and Joseph Tuttle, Esq. 27th
August, 1760; Polly and Jeremy Haven, 27th
December, 1789; Puah and Robert Kelso, 7th
Feb., 1770; Samuel Jr. and Betsey Burnet, 30th
January, 1795.

Miller, Elizabeth and Mark King, 25th Jun^

540

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

1751; Fredreck and Ann Van Winkle, 20th
November, 1753; Joanna and Silas Hoppen, 12th
September, 1787; John and Mary Kelly, 21st

Jan., 1768; Lucy and Daniel Camp, May,

1793 ; Margaret and John King, 24th December,
1754; Fhilo and Joanna Kitchel, 20th Sept-
ember, 1791 ; Sherlotte and Aaron Meleck, 28th
December, 1756.

Millage, Thomas and Mercy Berker, 3d Dec-
ember, 1758.

Minton, Jacob, and Mary Carter, 17th Nov.,
1748.

Moffat, Walter and Jemima Tuttle, 29th
September, 1785.

Moffatt, Walter and Jemima Tuttle, 29th
September, 1785.

Molleneau, Elizabeth and David Wheler, 10th
February, 1754.

Montanny, Rebecca and David Morehouse,
8th June, 1785.

Moore, Nancy and Stephen Taylor, Feb.,

1793.

More, Elizabeth and James Ball, Jan-
uary, 1794; Jane and Stephen Hambleton, 19th
Nov., 1750.

Morehouse, David and Rebecca Montanny,
8th June, 1785 ; Elizabeth and James Beach,
22nd April, 1784; John and Betsy Tompkins, 10th
Dec, 1789.

Mott, Gershom and Deborah Carman, 10th
April, 1751.

Mulford, Abigail and Simeon Squire, 22nd

March, 1787; Ester and Farrand Kitchel,

February, 1793.

Munson, Solomon and Lucy Ball, 31st Dec-
ember, 1781.

Ogden, Hannah and William Bebout,

November, 1777; Sarah and John Edeson, 10th
October, 1765; Unice and Philip Post, 4th
October, 1794.

Osborne, and Betsey Sayre, May,

1793; Esther and Moses Tappen, March,

1793; David and Hannah Fairchild, 15th May,
1758.

Osbourn, Stephen and Marget Hoel, 17th
Feb., 1777.

Parkhurst. Abigail and John Kitchel, 18th
March, 1778.

Parrot, Abigail and Cornelius Genung, 18th
October, 1775; John and Anne Rioson, 27th
June, 1765; Martha and Joseph Tayler,
26th December, 1765 ; Mary and Caleb
Ball, 3d April, 1755; Mary and Daniel Harrison,
8th Jan., 1786; Phebe and William Runnals,
3d Oct., 1783 ; Rebecca and Ebenezer Farrand
Jr., 6th Nov., 1757; William and Phebe Wade,
11th September, 1777; William" Jr. and Katy
Williams, 15th July, 1779.

Parsel, Thomas and Lois Ely, 22nd September,
1768; Thomas and Elizabeth Groticlass, 24th
Oct., 1779.

Peck, Phebe and Ezekiel Goble, 11th May,
1758.

Pettet, Benjamin and Phebe Potter, 6th Feb.,
1752.

Philip, Jacob and Mary Clason, 23d January,
1765.

Philips, David and Hannah Ball, 29th Jan-
uary, 1772; Robert and Margery Freeman, 3d
Sept., 1761.

Pierson, Miss (Morristown) and

Garner, 12th June, 1794; David and Abigail
Thompson, I7th Dec, 1789; John and Susannah
Russel, 20th Sept., 1787.

Plum, Phebe and Daniel Farrand, 6th Jan-
uary, 1785.

Plumb, David and Matilda Cook, 27th Feb.,
1794; John and Nancy Hanneon, 18th Feb.,
1754.

Post, Joseph and Anna Hoppen, 17th October,
1775 ; Josiah and Dosia Dalglish, 2nd November,
1769; Mary and Jedidiah Beach, 31st Dec.
1781; Philip and Unice Ogden, 4th Oct., 1794;
Sally and Matthew Kitchel, 13th August, 1794.

Poste, Jeremiah and Martha Genung, 22d
August, 1751 ; Philip and Jemima Ball, 8th May,
1771.

Potter, Phebe and Benjamin Pettet, 6th Feb.,
1752; Zebediah and Mary Carter, 20th Oct-
ober, 1750.

Prat, Constantine and Phebe Williams, 8th
August, 1765.

Price, Betty and Elijah Stiles, 25th February,
1768; Eunice and Ezekiel Happen, 3rd Jan., 1771 ;
Hannah and Ephraim Woodruff, 26th Feb.,
1782; Jesse and Phebe Ball, 7th June, 1769;
Lidia and David Young, 19th Feb., 1781;
Martha and Daniel Ball, 10th Oct., 1768;
Philip and Sarah Jones (Morristown) 14th
May, 1750.

Prince (Negro) to Lanah, Sept., 1791.

Pritchard, James and Leah Saunders, 30th
July, 1774.

Prudden, E. and Patty Dalglish, ■ Nov-
ember, 1792.

Rague, (Wm. ?) and Hannah Bonnel, •

January, 1781.

Rainer, Jonathan and Triphena Fordam, 17th
Oct., 1771.

Reeves, Elias and Miss Magee, 19th Oct.,
1794.

Richards, Hannah and David Cory, 1st Jan-
uary, 1781 ; Jemima and Ruben Shadrick, 26th
Nov., 1783.

Ridner, Catharine and David Harris, 12th
Jan., 1752.

Riggs, Dorcas and Samuel Lum, 7th June,
1772; Rubin and Sarah Carter, 16th August,
1750; Samuel and Elizabeth Tompkins, 5th
Jan., 1749.

Riker, John and ■ 2nd March, 1758;

Mary and Icabod Blaricum, 28th Jan., 1750/1.

MARRIAGE RECORDS OF HANOVER, MORRIS COUNTY, N. J.

541

Rioson, Anne and John Parrot, 27th June,
1765.

Robertson, Lois and John Johnson, 26th
March, 1787.

Roll, John and Martha Force, 8th June. 1783.

Ross, Moses and Phebe Ford, 1788.

Runnals, William and Phebe Parrot, 3d Oct-
ober, 1783.

Russel, Hannah and Jotham Gardner, 20th
June, 1782; Phebe and Abner Fairchild, 18th
May, 1780; Susannah and John Pierson, 20th
September, 1787.

Saunders, Leah and James Pritchard, 30th
July, 1774.

Sayre, Betsey and Osborn, May, 1793.

Scaword? Jemima and David Tuttle,

Oct., 1793.

Seely, Joshua and Bethyah Camp, 1st Dec-
ember, 1782.

Sergeant, Eunice and James Johnson, 18th
Oct., 1758; Mary and John Tichener, 26th
Oct., 1752.

Sergent, Martha and Caleb Ball, 8th Dec,
1748.

Serren, Samuel and Sarah Hoel, 24th March,
1767.

Shadick, Levi and Joanna Johnson, 26th Jan.,
1775.

Shadrick, Ruben, and Jemima Richards, 26th
Nov., 1783.

Shingleton, Margaret and Nathaniel Coggs-
well, 16th July, 1752.

Shipman, Electa and Alatthew Campfield,
15th Dec, 1783; Phebe and Robert Gill, 26th
Nov., 1770'; Phebe and Solomon Francisco,
4th July, 1782.

Shoves, Phebe and Aaron Brown, 16th Jan-
uary, 1785.

Slater, John and Abigail Chidester, 31st Nov.,
1747.

Smallpiece, Mary and Elisha Sutton, 29th
March, 1758.

Smith, Ebenezer and Sarah Green, 15Lh Feb.,
1787; Henry and Hannah Beach, 25th Nov-
ember, 1747 ; John and Elizabeth Williams,
8th November, 1758; Mary and Thos. Welles,
15th August, 1781 ; Sarah and Epaphras Cook,
4th October, 1762; Sarah and Samuel Hopper,

1st April, 1778; Susana and Benj. Tappan,

March, 1793; Uriah and Abigail Allen, 28th
March, 1770.

Squire, Comfort and Thomas Brown, 2nd

Oct., 1781 ; Densy and Solomon Brown,

January, 1790; Jonathan Jr. and Eunice Crane,
5th June 1755; Joseph and Sally Gardner, 8th
November, 1787; Lidia and Samuel Lewis,
4th March, 1776; Mary and Uzal Ward, 19th
July, 1786.

Squire, Nathaniel and Mary Beach, 24th
April, 1751; Sarah and William Campfield,
27th April, 1773; Simeon and Abigail Mulford,

22nd March, 1787; Simeon and Lidia Harris,
12th September, 1791 ; Stephen and Margaret
Magee, 23rd Sept., 1789; Thomas and Mary
Hardy, 12th March, 1786; William and Sarah
Cole, 22nd June, 1786.

Stephens, Anna and Isaac Gould, 5th May,
1760; Hannah and Thos. Dickson, 19th Dec,
1751.

Steward, John and Jemima Chitester, 1st
January, 1750.

Stiles, Elijah and Betty Price, 25th Feb.,
1768; Ephraim and Anna Farrand, 31st May,
1758 ; Jonathan and Joanna Tuttle, 10th Aug-
ust, 1750; Lidia and Carter, 29th January,

1794; Moses and Abigail Jewel, 4th Dec,
1788; Phebe and George Bolseby, 24th Dec-
ember, 1767; Phebe and Daniel Hoppin,

Dec, 1792; Samuel and Margaret Vanderhoof,
24th Dec, 1767; Stephen and Elisabeth Taler.
31st Jan., 1758.

Strait, Christopher and Katee Massaker, 21st
June, 1769.

Sutton, Elisha and Mary Smallpiece, 29th
March, 1758.

Taler, Elisabeth and Stephen Stiles, 31st
Jan., 1758; EHsabelh and Solomon Zeluff, 8th
June, 1785.

Tappan, Benjamin and Susana Smith,

March, 1793; Elizabeth and Japhet Byron, 10th
January, 1754; Isabel and John Wilkinson, 18th
October, 1768; Margaret and Jonathan Cook,
30th Nov., 1757; Tappen, Moses and Esther

Osborn, • March, 1793 ; Sissel and George

Cooper, 11th October, 1753.

Tayler, loseph and Martha Parrot, 26th Dec,
1765.

Taylor, Stephen, and Nancy Moore,

Feb., 1793.

Thompson, Abigail and David Pierson, 17th
Dec, 1789.

Tichener, John and Mary Sergeant, 26th
October, 1752.

Tisler, Samuel and Jerusha Hoppen, 30th
December, 1765.

Tompkins, Betsey and John Morehouse, 10th
Dec, 1789 ; Elizabeth and Samuel Riggs, 5th
January, 1749; Jedidiah and Martha Burnet,
26th January. 1757; Jonas and Jane Lion, 6th
]\Iarch, 1770; Lucretia and Stephen Tompkins,
10th February, 1783 ; Martha and Henry Lyon,

Jan., 1773; Sarah and James Hill, 17th

Dec, 1756; Stephen and Lucretia Tompkins,
10th Feb., 1783.

Tunis, Henry and Phebe Burnet, 27th Aug.,
1751.

Turens (?) Sinte and John Carr, 4th July,
1752.

Tuttle, David and Jemima Scaword ( ?)
Oct., 1793; Ebenizer and Rebecca Broad-
well, 28th Nov., 1771 ; James and Anne Green,
2nd Feb., 1767; Jemima and Walter Moffat,

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

29th September, 1785 ; Joanna and Jonathan
Stiles, 10th August, 1750.

Tuttle, John and Johannah Canfield, 3d July,
1747; (Newark, N. J.) Joseph and Mary
Merry, 27th August, 1760; Joseph Jr. and
Jemima Hains, 25th July, 1757; Phebe and
Daniel Ball, 3d Dec, 1758; Samuel and Rachel
Gould, 14th Nov., 1749; Sarah and John
Conger, 12th March, 1746/7; Timothy and Mary
Ward, -^Oct., 1779.

Vanderhoof, Margaret and Saml. Stiles, 24th
Dec, 1767.

Vaness, Isaac and Mercy Consolee, 16th July,
1786.

Van Winkle, Ann and Fredreck Miller, 20th
November, 1753; Michal and Phebe Carter,
13th July, 1758; Sarah and Abial Cobb, 4th
January, 1750.

Van Zile, Hannah and John Francisco, 7th
August, 1752.

Vooris, Cornelius and Mary Cooper, 10th
May, 1780.

Wade, Abner and Phebe Beach, Oct., 1780;
Dorothy and Aaron Burnet, 31st December,
1786; Henry and Margaret Ward, 23d Sept.,
1773; Mary and Jacob Wright, 4th Feb., 1752;
Phebe and William Parrot, 11th September,
1777; Phebe and Benj. Johnson, 14th February,
1787; Rachel and John Williams (in Conn-
ecticut Farms), 18th Feb., 1748; Sylvesta and
John ( ?) Dickinson. 12th Feb., 1795.

Ward, Caleb and Ruth Lane, 3d October,
1771; Elizabeth and Joseph Britten, 28th Nov-
ember, 1782; Laban and Hannah Hoppen, 24th
July, 1754; Margaret and Henry Wade, 23d
September, 1773; Mary and Timothy Tuttle,

■ October, 1779; Sarah and Joseph Gould,

19th Dec, 1768; Timothy and Hannah Zelop,
22nd January, 1782; Uzal and Mary Squire,
19th July, 1786.

Warren, Jcrusha and Amos Aber, 12th Feb-
ruary, 1789; John and Mary Lockwood, 25th
January, 1784.

Waters, Jane and William Cumberford, 20th
Jan., 1750.

Welles, Thomas and Mary Smith, 15th Aug-
ust, 1781.

Wheler, David and Elizabeth Molleneaux,
10th Feb., 1754.

Wheeler, Elizabeth and Solomon Finn, 17th
Nov., 1758: Hannah and Enoch Beach,
31st Dec. 1777; Sally P. and Dr. Ambrose
Cook, 27th June, 1794.

White, (Rev.) Mr. and Phebe Camp (Calvin
Green's diary), Feb., 1792.

White, Hannah and Thomas Bealton, 21st
Dec, 1769; John and Orriongery Allington,
15th Aug., 1754.

Whitehead, Hannah and Benjamin Genung,
9th May, 1780.

Wil- Lidia and Benjamin Woodruff, 10th
Jan., 1786.

Wilkinson, Joel and Martha Fairchild, 28th
November, 1765; John and Isabel Tappan, 18th
Oct., 1768.

Williams, Benjamin and Betsy or Elizabeth
Cook, 30th July, 1787; Elizabeth and John
Smith, 8th November, 1758; John and Rachel
Wade, 18th Feb., 1748; (in Connecticut Farms).
Williams, Katy and William Parrot, Jr. 15th
July, 1779; Mary and John Dixon, 26th Dec-
ember, 1768; Phebe and Constantine Prat, 8th
Aug.. 1765 ; Polly and James Ginnings, 27th
Nov., 1787; Zopher and Sarah Hedden, 3d
Sept., 1765.

Winchel, Isaac and Lucretia Ball, 20th Dec-
ember, 1752 ; Katharine and Deacon John Ball,
25th Dec, 1760.

Winers, Isaac and Marv Beach, 4th January,
1787.

Wirxhel, Lucretia and Manan Force, 10th
May, 1753.

Wood, Joseph and Mary Allen, 29th Nov-
ember, 1752; Joseph and Abigail Kitchel, 1st
Tune, 1769; Marv and Lambert Decamp, 7th
July, 1758.

Woodruff, Benjamin and Lidia Wil- 10th
January, 1786; Ephraim and Hannah Price,
26th Feb., 1782; Joseph and Mehetable Cobb,
11th Oct., 1750.

Woods, Richard and Lucy (Jones or Price),
14th May. 1750.

Wortman, Sarah and Ellis Cook (of Bottle
Hill), 28th Sept., 1789.

Wright, Jacob and Mary Wade, 4th Feb.,
1752.

Wyllys, Nathaniel and Lois Carter, 19th
May, 1782.

Young, Abigail and Asa Crane, 28th Dec,
1784; David and Lidia Price, 19th Feb., 1781;
David and Theodosia Gould, 25th Nov., 1784;
Jonas and Miss Glover, 20th Feb., 1795; Mary
and Luther Hoel, 24th February, 1783; Phebe
and Joseph Youngs, 25th February, 1768 ; Phebe
and James Cooper, 26th Dec. 1786; Sarah
and Stephen Brant, about 20th June, 1775.

Youngs, Joseph and Phebe Young, 25th Feb-
ruary, 1768.

Zelop, Hannah and Timothy Ward, 22nd
January, 1782.

Zeluff, Solomon and Elisabeth Taler, 8th
June, 1785.

Zerrcckson, Deborah and Joseph Bright, 18th
April, 1754.

Cyruss (Black) and Susanna (Black) 1st
January, 1795.

Edward and Eliz. Kilburn, 12th Nov-
ember, 1746.

(?) Condit, 15th Oct., (?) 1788.

(Black) Susanna and Cyrus (Black), 1st
January, 1795.
Venas (Blacks), 5th April, 1795.

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EDMONDSTONE

The Edmondstones of Duntreath, Scotland
trace their Hneage from the Count de Edmont,
a Duke of Flanders whose son, Sir Wm.
Edmondstone in 1063 went to Scotland with
Queen Margaret, the wife of King Malcolm
Kenmore as special attache to the Queen. King
Malcolm bestowed upon this first Lord of
Edmonstone the land of Edmiston and Umet
for his faithful services. Sir Wm. Edmond-
stone, second Laird who received from King
David the lands of Nibbrie ^Marshall, the
Crownership of Lothian and Constabularie of
Haddington, had son Sir John, who married,
Margaret, Countess of Douglass, daughter of
King Robert Stuart.

Their son Sir William received from his
grandfather King Robert, a Charter and Seasin
for the lands of Edmiston and Ednew to him
and his heirs forever. He married Margaret
Alaitland, daughter of Laird of Lethingtown.

Six generations later their descendants mort-
gaged Duntreath and purchased estates in
Counties Antrim and Downs, Ireland, later
redeeming Duntreath and although they kept
their Scottish possessions the family residence
continued to be chiefly at Red Hall in Ireland.

Archibald Edmondstone, first of the family
in America, patented land 1689 and married
soon after Jane daughter of Ninian Beall. He
patented various extensive tracts in Prince
George County, which included land in Fred-
erick, Montgomery and Washington Counties.
He succeeded his father-in-law as Commander
of Prince George County Militia and died 1733.

The inter-marriages of the Bealls, Edmon-
stones, Ormes, etc. have left their descendants
in a most comphcated genealogy. They claim
descent from the Royal House of Stuart.

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MONTGOMERY

This family had its origin in the north of
France and can trace to Roger de Montgomerie,
who was called " Count de Montgomerie" be-
fore the coming of Rollo, 912. When Duke
Rollo, in his descent upon France overcame
King Charles the Simple, the Montgomerys
were among the nobles allowed to retain
their estates.

Roger Montgomery, son of Hugh, a direct
descendant of Count de Montgomerie, 912,
accompanied William the Conqueror to England
1066 and furnished sixty vessels for the ex-
pedition. For his gallant conduct at the Con-
quest, William advanced him to the Earldom of
Chichester and Arundel and later to that
of Shrewsbury.

Domesday Book mentions Roger de Mont-
gomerie, Earl of Shrewsbury as the builder of
Montgomery Castle, which was afterwards
demolished by the Welsh, but rebuilt by William
Rufus, 1093. His possessions included 143
lordships and he was one of those who marched
in the first Crusade, accompanying Robert,
Duke of Normandy.

The first Montgomery to come to America
was William, of Brigend. who married Isabel
Burnet in Scotland and came to East Jersey
in 1701.

John Montgomery, born 1718 in Ireland
came later to America, and was Member of
the Council of Safety of which Benjamin
Franklin was President. His home was a
rendezvous for distinguished leaders of the
Revolution all during the War. General Wash-
ington being his personal friend.

His son John entertained General Lafayette
during his visit to America.

The Montgomerys intermarried with promin-
ent families of New Jersey. Philadelphia, Mary-
land and Virginia, including those of Howell,
Atwater, Whitney, Stewart, Biddle, Wood,
Reading, Kernochan De Bow and many others.

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Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

I. The European Froxtier

1. The Expansion of Europe.

The intellectual growth of Europe during the
fourteenth century aroused a spirit of inquiry
which made exploration seem desirable, and
furnished the knowledge which made it possible.

Abbott, W. C. : Expansions of Europe, i, 64-
81.

Cheyney, E. P.: European Background of
American History, 9-21.

Sparks, E. E. : Expansion of tJic American
People, ch. 1.

At the same time the economic motives for
exploration to the West grew stronger owing
to the increasing demand for luxuries from the
East and the increasing difficulty of obtain-
ing them.

Cheyney : European Background, ch. ii.

Fiske : Discovery of America, ch. iii.

Spain and Portugal had the advantage of
geographical location. Portugal had already
begun to work down the East coast of Africa,
and Spain, forestalled in that direction, was
ready to listen to proposals for another route.

Abbott : Expansion of Europe, i, 82-95,
96-102.

Cheyney: European Background , ch. iv.

Bourne: Spain in America, ch. ii.

The first crossings of the Atlantic were
favored by the character of the European side ;
the winds and currents of the ocean itself ;
and the position of the comparatively few
Atlantic islands.

Semple, E. C. : American History and its
Geographic Conditions, ch. i, while the bays
and rivers of the Atlantic coast gave at once
the incentive and the means for penetrating
the interior.

Semple (as above) 19-24.

Ferrand, L. : Basis of American. History, ch. i.

2. English Colonization.

A general account may be found in any of
the following :

Ferrand, Max : Development of the United
States, ch. i.

Austin, O. P. : Steps in the Expansion of our
Territory, ch. ii.

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Johnson, W. F. : A Century of Expansion,
ch. i.

English attempts to found colonies were
impelled at first by the love of adventure and
the desire to share the riches of the new world
which Spain had revealed. Later on, disturbed
economic and political conditions gave rise to
attempts for relief by expansion.

Channing : History of tlic United States, i,
143-148.

Fiske : Old Virginia and her Neighbors, i,
9-14, 41-50.

Usher, R. G. : Rise of the American People,
18-30.

Cabot's expedition (1497) furnished a claim;
Raleigh's failures in " Virginia" furnished a
lesson. The first successful colony at James-
town was founded by a commercial company.
A new element, the desire for religious freedom,
appears in the Plymouth colony (1620) empha-
sized by the settlements on Massachusetts Bay
(1630) and in the Catholic colony of Maryland
(1634) In the unrest and disorder- of Seventeenth
Century Europe the opportunity offered for
an asylum in the New World was of
great importance.

Abbott, Expansion of Europe, i, 403-431,
433-449, Eggleston, E. : Beginners of a Nation,
ch. i.
3. The Expansion Inland.

The first settlements on the mainland were
naturally on the seacoast or on rivers near their
mouths. By the end of the seventeenth cen-
tury they formed an interrupted fringe along
the coast, nowhere more than fifty miles from
the sea except where rivers like the Hudson,
Connecticut or Delaware led them further inland.

Bolton and Marshall : Colonirjation of North
America, ch. xii or Andrews, C. M. : Colonial
Self -Government, 288-336.

The maps in Bolton and Marshall and still
better in Channing's United States, Vols, i and
ii, show the slow advance up to 1660 and the
more rapid movement as a firmer basis was
established and the coast districts became filled.

The second stage of expansion, the advance
into the Piedmont region (1700-1750) carried

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the area of settlement to the foot of the
Appalachians.

Fiske : Ole Virginia, ch. xvii.

Bolton and Marshall: 309-312, 326-328, or
Greene, E. B. : Provincial America, ch. xiv.

For the full and rather scientific discussion
see Turner, F. J. : Frontier in American His-
tory, 67-125.

An important part of the advance was due
to non-English elements, particularly Scotch-
Irish and Germans.

Bolton and Marshall: 316-326.

Fiske: Ole Virginia, ii, 390-395.

Channing: United States, ii, 401-422.
4. The Colonial Spirit and its Conditions.

The civilization of the colonists was a
transplanted European civilization, primarily
British, although locally affected by Dutch,
German and French elements. Because this

culture was British and because of the political
connection there was a constant tendency to
look back across the ocean and follow British
manners and ideas. But because it was trans-
planted it was affected by the conditions of its
new environment and this influence became
greater with the lapse of time.

Wilson: History of the American People,
98-122.

Andrews. C. M. : Colonial Folkzcays, ch. i.

Sparks. E. E. : Expansion of the American
People, ch. iv, v. and for special phases :

Usher : Rise of the American People, 140-
167 (Economics)

Andrews, C. ^l. : Colonial Folkzvays, ch. vi.
(Education.)

Eggleston, E. : Transit of Civilization, ch.
iv. (Morals.)

Van Dyke, Henry: Spirit of America, ch. ii.

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Boston Tea Party Chapter (Boston, Mass.)-
celebrated its twenty-fifth Anniversary with a
Colonial luncheon on Tea Party Day, Decem-
ber 16, 1920. A committee under the direction
of Mrs. George H. Folger had entire charge
of the arrangements. The music was in keeping
with the period and was under the management
of Mr. John Harris Gutterson. A reception
to the guests of honor preceded the luncheon.
In the line besides the Chapter officers were Mrs.
James T. Morris, Vice President General from
Minnesota, Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Librarian
General, Mrs. George Minot Baker, State Vice
Regent of Massachusetts and President of the
Massachusetts State Federation of Women's
Clubs, Mrs. William A. Jackson, President of
the Massachusetts Society of Daughters of
Founders and Patriots, Mr. George Hale Nut-
ting, President of the Massachusetts Society
Sons of the American Revolution, Dr. Charles
M. Green, President of the Royall House
Association and the following State officers :
Mrs. James C. Peabody, Recording Secretary;
Mrs. Rufus K. Noyes, Corresponding Secretary ;
Mrs. Mattie M. Jenkins, Chaplain; Mrs. Andrew
K. Howarth, Historian; Miss Emma W. Burt.
Registrar ; Mrs. Seth S. Crocker, Librarian ;
Miss Jennie G. Moseley, Custodian and Miss
Julia T. Pevey, Auditor.

After luncheon papers were read by Mrs.
Isadore F. Baxter, Miss Sarah H. Couch, Miss
Harriett W. Fo^er and Miss Evvie Fuller
Dalby, direct descendants of men who partic-
ipated in the original Boston Tea Party. Mrs.
Mary G. Bunton, Chapter Treasurer for twenty-
three years, gave an interesting paper on " How
We Got Our Tea Chest."

Boston Tea Party Chapter some years ago,
was the recipient of an original Tea Chest,
which was picked up on the beach near the foot
of Hollis Street in Boston, the morning after
the destruction of the tea. It had been in the
family of Mr. John Hancock Foster, since 1773.

Several years ago the Chapter restored and
furnished one of the rooms at the Royall House
in Medford and this room, known as the Boston
Tea Party room is still maintained by the Chap-
ter. The old Doggett House on the corner of

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lioUis and Tremont Streets in Boston where
some of the men who threw the tea overboard
were disguised as Indians on the night of Decem-
ber 16, 1773, has been marked with a bronze
tablet by the Chapter. During the present
administration the Chapter has contributed to
the Philippine Scholarship Fund, the Guernsey
Scholarship Fund, Hillside School at Green-
wich, Mass., the Roosevelt Memorial Fund, the
Young Men's Civic League of Boston, the
Chandler Service Homestead for Convalescent
Soldiers in Brookline and the Boston Music
School Settlement. A full scholarship amount-
ing to two hundred and seventy-five dollars has
been raised for International College at Spring-
field, Mass. It has paid its quota for the
Immigrants Manual, the painting of the " Con-
voy," and the Pilgrims Memorial Fountain.
The scholarship of fifty dollars each which it
lias for many years subscribed to the Hindman
and Martha Berry Schools, have been paid.
Flag Codes, American's Creeds and Constitutions
have been distributed in the schools of Boston
and the surrounding towns, in the Italian Dis-
trict in Revere, and in the Portuguese School
at Oak Bluffs. Creeds suitable for framing
have been sent to the Boston Seamans' Friend
Society, St. Mary's for Sailors in East Boston
and to several of the American Legion Posts.
Magazine subscriptions and many miscellane-
ous magazines have been sent to schools and
hospitals. One member served in the base
hospitals during the war and is still doing
Reconstructional Therapy among the Soldiers.
The Chapter has entertained as guests many
women of foreign birth and in return its
officers have been entertained by these women.
On April 1, 1922, the " Griffin's Wharf Society,"
Children of the American Revolution (aux-
iliary to Boston Tea Party Chapter) was
organized by Mrs. William B. Rand, State
Director for Massachusetts, with a charter
membership of forty-seven. Mrs. Stephen P.
Hurd, a Past Regent of the Chapter is the
organizing President and is expected splendid
results from the new society.

The Regent has presided at all Chapter and
Board of Management meetings, has represented

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the Chapter at all State Board Meetings, at
four State Conferences and at the Thirtieth
and Thirty-first Continental Congresses
in Washington.

EvviE Fuller Dalby,
Regent.

Eve Lear Chapter (New Haven, Conn.)
held a meeting in Benedict Memorial Presby-
terian Chapel, February 20th. The program
opened with a patriotic melody by Mrs. Harold
Davis, who is a musician of ability. Mrs.
Lena Hershman rendered a group of songs
accompanied by Mrs. Davis. ]Miss Mary E.
Lewis read an extract of a speech delivered by
her father in the Connecticut Legislature in 1895.

Mrs. A. W. Flint showed a paper published
by her grandfather, Sanford Brewster Swan, of
Norwich, containing verses, composed by him in
memory of Israel Putnam.

Each member was asked to bring something
of Revolutionary interest and give a short
history of it. Many responded. Airs. David
T. Welch displayed a British musket ball with
which her grandfather. Lieutenant Auer Bradley
was wounded in the Danbury raid, and a piece
of brocaded silk bought for her grandmother's
wedding gown. Her parents sent to England
for it, but when it arrived she declared she
would not wear it until peace was declared and
the dainty silk was laid away. She was married
in a simple white muslin. Mrs. Wilbur A. Peck
brought a white veil of darned lace which
belonged to Mary Daggett Bradley, a grand-
daughter of Reverend Naphtali Daggett, a
patriotic old man who had been president of
Yale College. The veil was embroidered in
oak leaves, acorn branches and bunches of
passion flowers. Mrs. Herbert H. Smith dis-
played a sixty dollar bill, which was the
property of an officer in the Revolutionary War.
It was made on parchment, being much smaller
than any bill of today. The date on the bill was
1778. Mrs. Frank A. Monson showed a sword
presented to General Fields. The sword was
just like the one carried by General Washington.
She also exibited some tile, which was in his
home in Long Meadow and a book written in
1753. Mrs. Effie Stevens Cramer showed a
knee buckle which belonged to her grandfather.
Mrs. John Talbot displayed a pocket worn by
the wife of Samuel Lawton, Sr., (one of the
Green Mountain boys,) who was with Col.
Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga. Mrs. Talbot had
also, a veil of darned net, belonging to one
of the old families of Hartford. The meeting
closed with the singing of the first and last
verses of xAmerica. Miss Carrie G. Heald and

Mrs. Lewis W. Upham were the hostesses,
assisted by members in serving delicious refresh-
ments, in honor of Eve Lear Chapter's
Patriotic Meeting.

(Mrs. Charles F.) Helen M. B. Messinger,

Regent.

Orange Mountain Chapter (Orange, N. J.).
Our annual Guest day, held in October, opened
our program for the year's work. This day
is one which we thoroughly enjoy as it is
the time when we entertain our State Officers,
and other distinguished guests. Our newly
elected Regent, Mrs. W. H. Blogett was host-
ess for the day. October 6, 1921 our Chapter
was largely represented at the annual conference
of the New Jersey, D. A. R., held at Elizabeth,
N. J., when we greeted our President General,
Mrs. George Minor. We will long remember
her impressive address, especially of how that
we. Daughters of the American Revolution,
are looked up to, to preserve the patriotism of
our Country, and of the great responsibility
which this entails upon every member of this
Society. With pride we received the annual
State reports of our work, and welcomed with
sincere appreciation, the many national and
state officers.

On Armistice Day, November 11, 1921, our
Chapter recognized with deep reverence the
most beautiful symbol of patriotic respect
shown in this, our Country, in patriotic memory
to the unknown dead soldier.

Constitution Day, September 17, 1921 was
observed by our Chapter. Mrs. Kirtland, Chair-
man of our Americanization work, read to us
a most comprehensive discourse on the Con-
stitution of the United States. Also Miss
Wilcox, Chairman on Patriotic Education, read
to us the poem, "Elizabeth," by Longfellow,
which gave us a good picture of Colonial life,
at the time of the making of the Constitution of
our Country, the poem itself referred to an
incident in Haddonfield, N. J., where the
Constitution of New Jersey was framed.

In December, we celebrated our sixteenth
birthday. Miss Sanford, President of the Han-
nah Clark Chapter, C. A. R. of Orange, N. J.
arranged the program. Miss Thompkins ren-
dered a dance in costume of Revolutionary
period. This was followed by a paper on Mrs.
Reed the wife of the first Governor of Penn-
sylvania by Miss Philips. Mrs. Faulks, the
hostess for the afternoon, prepared the birthday
cake, which was ornamented with sixteen candles,
color of the field in our flag.

In February we held our annual patriotic
church service, commemorative oi the Ijirth of
George Washington. Upon this occasion we had
with us. Rev. George P. Eastman a former

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Chaplain of our Chapter. The address was
dehvered by our recently elected Chaplain, Dr.
Robert B. Beattie. At this service we included
the salute to the flag, and the singing of " The
Star Spangled Banner." While the large aud-
ience stood singing " My Country ' Tis of
Thee," the Orange Boy Scouts marched in. each
bearing a large silk American flag, which was
most impressive. De Kevin's Recessional was
rendered most beautifully by Mr. Eric Good-
win. Our Chapter gives great praise to the
Chairman, Mrs. Herbert Griffith and her com-
mittee for such an inspiring service.

On February 27th, we held our annual His-
torian Day, out of a membership of one
hundred and seventeen, seventy-six responded
to roll call. Five of our members read papers
on New Jersey women of Revolutionary fame.
Mrs. Berger gave a paper on churches of
Revolutionary days in New Jersey. Mrs. Mat-
thias Steclman. State Chairman of Committee
on Philippine Scholarship addressed us on our
work in the Philippine Islands. State His-
torian, Airs. C. W. Thomas of Bound Brook,
was an invited guest.

Our Chapter feels justly proud of its contri-
bution for this year, which reports donations :
American Indian Schools, $1.50; Fitts endow-
ment scholarship fund, $14.38; Berry School,
$25; Women's League for Patriotic Service
("Orange. N. J.), $25. We have also pledged
$25; additional: International College (Spring-
field, Mass.), $50; Scholarship for Berrv
School, $100; State Utility fund, $14.30;
Prize for the best essay on " The Constitution
of the United States" to the Orange and
West Orange High Schools, $10. Total $267.18.
Students entering this contest must have a high
general average.

Books : Atkinson's " Newark," 1 fall's " Pres-
byterian Church of Trenton," Messler's " His-
torical Sermons," as gifts to Continental Hall,
Washington, D. C. Our Honor Roll shows a
record of twenty-eight names who served their
country in the World War. Our Committee
on Ways and Means realized from a card party
given (luring the year, $129.50. Eight new
subscribers to the Daightf.rs of the Amkri-
CAN Revom;tion Magazink, this year, have
been secured.

(Mus. J. S. ) ;\.\xi-: BrkGKss IIoi.mks.

Ilisldriaii.

Rebecca Stoddert Chapter ( l") Paso,
Te.xas.) in Ai-ril, V)22, celebrated the 2()lii
anniversary of its founding. We have a
menil)ership of 126. Our meetings arc held
monthly. Patriotic holidays have been approp-
riately ob.served. The Chapter joined with the
American Legion in the Armistice Day parade,
iiiso in tile oliservance of Meiudrial I )av and

Flag Day ; on the latter occasion an interesting
pantomime, illustrating periods in American
history, was presented under the direction of
one of our members in one of the city parks.
On Washington's Birthday a party for the
children and grandchildren of the Chapter, was
given at the home of one of our members.
For the past two or three years we have been
presenting framed copies of the Constitution
of the United States to the schools of El Paso;
at each presentation an appropriate address is
made by some member of the Chapter. We
have contributed to the Denton State Normal
Scholarship fund ; the Sarah Elizabeth Guern-
sey Scholarship fund ; the Caroline Scott
Harrison Mem.orial Dormitory. Have also paid
our quota toward the three projects of the
National Society; also contributed to the fund
for the support of our Texas Real Daughter.
Last winter we took up the study of the
Constitution of the United States under the
direction of one of our members, a part of the
time at each meeting being devoted to this
purpose. We are looking forward to a winter
of active and enthusiastic Chapter work.
Gertrude Yale,
Regent.

Matthew Thornton Chapter (Nashua,
N. H.) reached its 25th birthday on January
21, 1922, observing the event in a most
fitting manner. A luncheon was served at Odd
Fellows hall.

About 100 members and guests were present,
the state officers of the order being the honored
guests of the afternoon. After the luncheon,
the meeting opened with the singing of
" America " with Mrs. James H. Tolles at the
the piano, followed by the salute to the Flag.
Mrs. James Farnsworth, Regent, acted as
toastmistress, and spoke very interestingly, she
then introduced the various speakers.

The first was Mrs. Alary P. Harris, a
charter member and also State Treasurer.
Mrs. Harris told of the work which the
Chapter has accomplished in its quarter of a
century of existence.

Airs. Farnsworth then called on Airs. Lorin
Webster, State Regent, of Plymouth, who
spoke briefly of the work and duties of the
Chapter, both individually and as a state. Airs.
George IL Warren of the AloUy Stark Chapter
of Mancluster, .State Chairman of the coniniitteo
on patriotic education, was the next speaker.
She l)r()Ught greetings from her cliai)ter and
was much enjoyed.

Notes of greeting were read from some of
the state officers who were unable to be present
and from soine of the chapter members. The
speaking was interspersed with music by a trio

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consisting of Mrs. Doris White Whitney, 'cello;
Miss Claire Hickey, piano ; and Miss Jean
Rickey, violin. Two groups of songs were
given by Miss Sarah Fiske of New Haven, Conn.,
accompanied by Mrs. Anna Melendy Sanderson.

The meeting closed with a parting toast
given by Miss Elizabeth F. Taylor. A short
social hour followed. The celebration of the
25th anniversary will not soon be forgotten by
those present. It adds one more round to the
ladder of success of the Chapter under Mrs.
Farnsworth's leadership.

(Mrs. C. a.) Julia B. Spalding,

Director.

Charity Cook Chapter (Homer.
Mich.). One of the most interest-
ing events in D. A. R. circles in
Southern Michigan, occurred July
16, 1921, when Charity Cook
Chapter was hostess to the D.A. R.
chapters from Hillsdale, Cold-
water, Marshall and Albion. The
occasion was the unveiling of the
marker placed by Charity Cook
Chapter on the grave of Eli Ball, a
soldier of the Revolution, in the
little cemetery near Herricksville,
Branch County, Michigan. Eli
Ball was born August 5, 1766, at
Brookfield, Mass. When not quite
sixteen he enlisted at Brookfield,
June 8, 1782 as private in the 7th
Massachusetts Regiment under
Captain Wm. Mills, and Colonel J.
Brooks. Records do not mention
the battles in which he took part.
He served until the fall of 1783,
when he was discharged. He had
four children, Elisha, Polly, who
married first — Simmons, then
Rogers, Anna who married Rev-
erend Spear and Hannah who
married Smith Jones. His children,
Elisha and Polly came to Michigan
in 1837 and settled in Clarendon.
He soon followed them and lived
with Elisha until his death on De-
cember 11, 1857. He is buried
beside his son Elisha, in Whig
Centre Cemetery, Herricksville,

After a dinner in the town hall,
Mrs. R. D. Gardner, Regent of Homer Chapter,
opened the program with an address of welcome,
which was responded to by Mrs. E. O. Gallo-
way, the Regent of Hillsdale Chapter; and
Mrs. S. L. Wing, the Regent of Coldwater
Chapter. Mrs. W. H. Cortright, who discovered
the grave and spent many months in perfecting

the work and bringing it to such a successful
conclusion, was called upon to tell all about
it which she did very charmingly. She intro-
duced to the chapters eight descendants of Eli
Ball: Mrs. D. O. Moore and son of Butler,
the former a granddaughter and Mrs. Andrus
and her two daughters and son of Clarendon
and Mr. Thurston Simmons and his son all
of Clarendon.

Mrs. William Henry Wait, past State Regent
for Michigan during the War and Vice Pres-
ident General from Michigan, gave the address
of the afternoon in a charming manner. The
real granddaughter, Mrs. Moore, unveiled the

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marker : taps was sounded and the benediction
was pronounced by Rev. M. H. Weaver of
Homer. Thus an interesting historical event
to D. A. R. members was concluded and another
Revolutionary hero duly honored.

Jeaxette Ayre Taylor,
Historian.

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Shenandoah Valley Chapter (Martinsburg,
W. Va.). Celebrated on May 19, 1922,
the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of
the founding of Berkeley County. The cele-
bration was held on the lawn before the old
house, known as the " Red House," it was
used as the first Court House for Berkeley
County. Here the gentlemen Justices met and
produced their commissions granted them by
Lord Dunmore. These persons " met May 19,
1772 at the house of Edward Beeson and after
having first taken the usual oath to his
Majestie's person and government, repeated and
subscribed the test, took the oaths of the Justice
of the Peace, of a Justice of the County Court
in Chancery, a County Court was then pro-

Havana Chapter (Havana, Cuba), held its
regular business meeting on December 9, 1921,
at the home of the Regent. She made a report
of work done during the summer. Upon the
death of Captain Osgood Smith of the United
Spanish War Veterans, at one time commander
of Havana Camp No. 1, Miss Springer sent an
American flag, which was draped over the
coffin, and was the only flag displayed at the
funeral ceremonies.

The Chapter was delighted to know that the
Regent had been made a life member of the
American Red Cross, an honor which she
indeed merited.

The following officers were reelected for
another year. Regent, Miss Mary Elizabeth

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claimed." The program opened with the read-
ing of a paper, " The Red House," then a
Prologue was read, followed immediately by
the farce, written by one of the members and
called " Let's Pretend." The ladies were in
costume, and the porch of the old house was
used as the stage. Luncheon was served upon
the lawn.

The old house was built aljout 1766 and is
in very good condition.

(Mrs. Paul) Marif, Buxton Martin,
Historian.

Springer ; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. Ed-
ward Gibson Harris ; Treasurer, Miss Annie
(irace Springer; Historian, Miss Ines Virginia
Springer; Registrar, Mrs. Adolf Horn. After
the meeting a social hour was enjoyed, with a
musical program and refreshments. The prin-
cipal work of the Havana Chapter is to award
a prize for the i)est essay on George Washington
on Washington's Birthday, to a pupil in an
luiglish speaking school in Vedado. The prize
winner this year was Marie Cobas, whose ances-
tors were from Massachusetts, and honorable

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mention was accorded to a pupil from Virgina.
The Director of the Cathedral, Miss Mary
Nichols, and other teachers prepared an excel-
lent program. A replica was shown of the
Valley Forge Memorial Chapel, and the pupils
recited historical events centering around that
hallowed spot. Bishop Hulse, Dean Myers
and the Rev. William Steel, relatives of the
pupils, and many friends were present. The
" Star Spangled Banner" was sung, and also the
" Cuban National Hymn." A short address of
presentation of the prize was made by the
Regent, Miss Springer.

Havana Chapter contributed $5 toward the
Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial at Oxford
College, Canton, Ohio. Our Chapter's chief
patriotic work was pilgrimages to the wreck of
the Maine, and the erection of a memorial
tablet which now may be seen in the Maine
Monument in Arlington.

We keep alive the love of home and country
in a foreign land, and endeavor to instill love
for our beloved flag, a flag synonymous of
betterment and progress — a flag which carries
the loftiest sentiments and most noble aims.
Florence K. Harris,
Corresponding Secretary.

Onwentsia Chapter (Addison, N. Y.).
Under the leadership of Mrs. John Crane,
Regent, our Chapter has had a successful year.
The anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims
was celebrated with a fine program and a
New England supper. On Washington's birth-
day, Mrs. Eugene Crawford and Mrs. D. H.
Orr gave a dinner at the home of Mrs. Orr,
and an elaborate program was given. Nine
regular meetings were held. Two dances were
given to raise money, and we cleared nearly
$200 from them.

On May 30, 1921, we joined with the Grand
Army men in Memorial services. A meeting
was held on Constitution Day. Copies of the Flag
Code were distributed in our schools. We paid
in full our quota to the National Society on the
Liberty Bond. We also paid our quota on the
Plymouth Fountain, Painting of the Convoy,
Immigrant's Manual, Guernsey Scholarship, and
$10 to the Tomassee School. On June 2Sth
we, together with the other chapters of Steuben
County, enjoyed a picnic at the beautiful home
of Mrs. James Sebring, Regent of Corning
Chapter. Our State Regent, Mrs. Charles Nash
was present and gave us an inspiring address.
We have two new members.

M.-^RY GoFF Crawford,
Historian.

Caughnawaga Chapter (Fonda, N. Y.).
On Flag Day, June 14th, this Chapter cele-
brated its fifteenth year. On that day we took

part in the Bi-centenary of the Palatines at
the old Stone Church, Stone Arabia, built in
1788. The Palatines settled in the Mohawk
Valley in 1722. It was a most fitting celebra-
tion and over two thousand were in the assembly,
chapters being represented from all points in
the Mohawk Valley. The affair was held
under the auspices of the Mohawk Valley
Historic Association.

The meetings have been full of inspiration
under our new Regent, Mrs. Harry H. Dock-
stader, who has filled the office with perfect
satisfaction to the Chapter, We have filled all
our obligations to patriotic and Americaniza-
tion work. A Christmas gift of $5 was sent
to the International School for boys at Spring-
field, Mass. To the New York State Industrial
School at Tomassee, S. C. our energies have
been mostly directed. We sent $40, the balance
of the $50 pledged last year and have pledged
$50 more this year, $25 of which has already
been paid. On the ^Memorial Founders Fund,
we have paid $25 more, leaving us a balance
of $50 to pay in the next two years and thus
making $90 in all to Tomassee this year. Our
new Regent, Mrs. Harry H. Dockstader, has
been made a member of the New York State
Tamassee Committee.

From the charter membership of 27 members
in 1907, the Chapter has increased to 107 mem-
bers. February 28th the annual D. A. R. prize
essay reading of pupils from Fonda and Ful-
tonville High Schools took place. Colonial
History was the subject for which three prizes
in gold were offered, $5, $3 and $2.

February 22nd, Charter Day was celebrated
with a lecture by Dr. Charles McClumpha of
Amsterdam; subject, "The Old Mohawk Turn-
pike." The monthly meetings have been well
attended. The subject of the year, "A Trip
along the old Mohawk Turnpike," consisted of
five papers that took one over the trail from
Schenectady to Rome. Our Regent and a
delegate have attended both State and Na-
tional Conferences.

Our exchequer has been favorably reimbursed
by entertainments. The annual dance in Decem-
ber brought $171.90. On Chapter Day a
card party was given, the result of which was
$30.50. Civic work and further marking of
historic sites and graves will be given attention
the coming year.

(Mrs.) Alice F. Hadley Putnam,

Historian.

Margaret Lynne Lew^is Chapter (Roanoke,
Va.), at the April Meeting had a beautiful
tree-planting on King George Ave., in honor
of Roanoke's soldiers of the World War. The
plans were made by Mrs. C. S. McNulty. Miss
Stearns arranged the program. Scout troops

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patrolled the grounds distributing copies of
The American's Creed and the Arbor Day Song.
As each tree planter went forward she was
presented with a silk American flag and the
colors of the Chapter. Bishop R. C. Jett, Hon-
orary Chaplain, read the Scripture passages
which were followed by a prayer. The public
was led in the reading of the American's Creed
by our Honorary Regent and State First Vice
Regent. Mrs. Paul, Historian, gave an account
of the history of Arbor Day. The four Amer-
ican birch trees were planted by groups of
Daughters, the groups being led by the Regent,
the Honorary Regent, and two ex-Regents,
respectively. " The Prophesy of the Tree,"
was spoken by little Martha Hix, and followed
by the singing of the Arbor Song. Mrs. Arthur
Rowbotham presented the spot where the trees
were planted to the Roanoke Post of the
American Legion as a memorial to their com-
rades of the World War. It was accepted by
Mr. Paul Buford of the American Legion.
Tine Fontain Richardson,
Corresponding Secretary.

Janesville Chapter (Janesville, Wis.). On
July 14, 1921, a boulder in memory of Samuel
St. John and family, the first in the Rock River
valley in Wisconsin was dedicated by the
Chapter. On the boulder is carved :

Samuel W. St. John

1795-1849

Sophia Griffin, His Wife

18C0-1836
Ann Foster, His Wife

1818-1842

First White Family on

Rock River in Wis. Ter. 1835

Erected by

Janesville Chapter

D. A. R. 1921.

When Mrs. St. John died in 18.^6, and the
first funeral in Janesville was held, she was
buried on the brow of the hill on the St. J( hn
claim as she had wished. When the land was
sold later this burial plot was reserved and
though neglected for many years, has now been
marked by the patriotic society of women of
Janesville. Here too were buried other members
of the St. John family.

At the ceremonies Friday afternoon a song
written by Mrs. O. H. I-'ethers, formerly a
resident of Janesville, " Star of Wisconsin,"
was sung by Mesdames S. F. Richards, C. E.
Ro.se, George Paris and Miss Dolly Slrang.

Letters from .Mrs. Imogene St. Jdhn
McCafferty, the only survivor of tiie Samuel
St. John family, were read I)y Airs. Francis

Grant. These letters were written when Mrs.
McCafiferty was 89 years of age, six years ago>

Placing of memorial wreath by Dorothy
Atwood. Adress by Stephen Bolles. Singing
of " America " by the audience.

The Society had hoped to have at the
dedication, the only surviving child of Samuel
St. John, the little girl Imogene, who came here
with the family from Vermont. She is Mrs.
Imogene St. John McCafferty, and lives in
Columbus, Wis. Close to 95 years of age, Mrs.
McCafferty has a wonderful fund of story and
reminiscence. For the occasion she made a
distinctively valuable contribution to the his-
tory of Rock County.

In a letter to Mrs. Grant she gives her grate-
ful thanks for the work of the Daughters of
the American Revolution in erecting the me-
morial over the long- forgotten graves of her
father and mother.

(AIrs.) Mary C. Haviland,

Historian.

Triangle Chapter (North East, Pa.). The
fifth anniversary of Triangle Chapter was
observed Friday, October 21, 1921, at the home
of Miss Betty Brown, one of its members.
Miss Brown, Mrs. Ryer and Mrs. Pierce,
were hostesses.

The program opened with the singing of
" America," followed by prayer led by the
Chaplain, Miss' Jones, and Salute to the Flag.

" A greeting" from the Regent, Mrs. Geo. E.
Pierce, was read.

" The fifth anniversary of Triangle Chapter"
was the subject next taken up by the Vice
Regent, Airs. Erskine Dunlap. She related the
great variety of interests endorsed by Tri-
angle Chapter, among which were Philippine
Scholarship, for the education of particularly
bright girls among the Filipinos, Red Cross
work. Navy League work, adoption of French
orphans for support during the World War,
Americanization night school, Diet Kitchen
at Camp Colt, Pa., McCord Library book
fund, the installation of the water system
in Tilloloy, France, the National Society
D. A. R. Liberty Bond, the National D. A. R.
Treasurer's Fund, the National Immigrants'
Alanual, and other deserving interests.

The Treasurer, Airs. Ethel Thompson, gave
a summing up of finances and disbursements
for the five years past, showing that $4,578.92
had passed through the treasurer's hands for
the causes above noted.

A social hour followed, with serving of re-
freshments and the immense triangular birth-
day cake with its five candles and bordered
with carnations, the Chapter flower.

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Priscilla Mullens Chapter (Galena, 111.)
has had a profitable and interesting year, seven
new members added to the roll (total 30 mem-
bers). All State appeals have been responded
to, and many National ones.

Our program included celebration of National
Holidays, promoting patriotic education along
community lines ; not forgetting the New Amer-
icans in our city. We had a delightful Guest
Dinner in November to which we invited
several women in the City who are eligible
for membership.

We celebrated Washington's Birthday by
presenting " The Birth of the Flag " written

Frances Dighton Williams Chapter (Ban-
gor, Me.) observed its twenty-fifth anniversary
by a banquet on May 31, 1922. Miss Maude
Merrick, State Regent, was among the guests.
A short history of the Chapter was read.

In May, 1897 eighteen loyal women, having
received the necessary charter, met at the
home of Mrs. Corelli Simpson and with the
assistance of the State Regent, Mrs. Helen
Frye White, elected their first officers. Mrs.
Simpson was the first Regent, and the Chapter
was named for her Revolutionary ancestor.
Our first gavel was presented by Mrs. Mary
Curran. It was made of wood from the ship
Sky Rocket, an American ship destroyed by

"by our State Chaplain, Mrs. Mary Lee. It
was given by the pupils of the school under
the direction of Miss Alary Gratiot Bale, a
member of our Chapter.

We are encouraging patriotic education in the
schools by offering a prize for the best essay
on "Americanization," also its State Contest
Prize is to be competed for.

We take great pride in the two Historic
Homes in our City, vis : the homes of Gen. U. S.
Grant, the one used by him when a private
citizen and the one presented to him by Galena.
■Our Chapter has marked them. The latter
home is now a Grant Memorial.

Florence Gratiot Bale,

Regent.

PART IN THE FIRST NATIONAL PAGEANT OF THE RED
, 1921, REPRESENTING THE "SPIRIT OF 1776."

the crew to prevent capture by the British in
1779. In 1908 Miss Sarah Wasgatt gave us
another gavel, made from a piece of the U. S.
frigate Ada>iis, which was also destroyed to
prevent capture by the British in 1814. The
wood had lain at the bottom of Penobscot
river, near the Souadabscook stream for 78
years. In 1917 Miss May Hall presented us
with a gavel made from a piece of a beam
taken from the home of Francis Scott Key,
so now we possess three gavels all of historic
interest. We have entertained the State Con-
ference three times.

June 7, 1912 the state field day was held in
Bangor and was the occasion of the dedication
of the Boulder erected at Indian Island,

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Old Town, in memory of the Maine Indians
who fought in the Revolutionary War. By
publishing a pamphlet on Old Pemaquid
we called attention to the need of preserving
that historic spot, and it resulted in the
appropriation by the Legislature of $2500
for that purpose. In 1908 and 1909 we placed
in the schools and other public places, large
framed engravings of Abraham Lincoln, framed
copies of the Declaration of Independence, books
entitled " Our Flag," and leaflets and cards on
the " Use and Abuse of the Flag." The Chap-
ter has always done its share in all patriotic
work, particularly in the Spanish and World
Wars. At the time of the Spanish War we
sent books, papers, magazines and clothing to
the soldiers in the south. During the World
War we, as a Chapter, bought two Liberty
Bonds and individual members bought bonds to
the amount of $59,150; War Savings Certifi-
cates to the value of $2,758. We gave our
quota of $67 to the National Society Liberty
Bond ; $37.50 toward the restoration of Tilloloy ;
$50 to the Jewish War Relief; $1,180 to the
War Work Drive; contributed $4,894.81 to the
Red Cross and other worthy objects ; $130 to the
relief in the Near East. Besides giving money
we gave clothing and helped in sewing, making
hospital supplies and knitting for the Red Cross.
We have contributed to the Martha Berry
school, Opportunity Farm and Continental Hall
whenever called upon.

The Chapter has marked 43 graves of Rev-
olutionary soldiers. It has also given more than
$2,000 to the various objects during its existence.

In 1918 transfer cards were given to eleven
members that they might form a chapter in
Orono. Our " In Memoriam " list contains
thirty-seven names, five of them the names of
Real Daughters. Thirty- four members have
been transferred to other chapters or have with-
drawn. Eleven members have served as Chap-
ter Regents and two as State Regents. We
now number sixty-nine.

Mary E. Hopkins,

Histonan.

Phoebe Bayard Chapter (Greensburg, Pa.)
has had a delightful year. Flag Day, June
14, 1921 was celebrated by giving a benefit card
and fancy work party, net proceeds of which
were $100. In October, at the close of the
regular meeting, members of the Chapter made
a pilgrimage to the grave of Charles Reichart,
Revolutionary soldier who fought in four of
the greatest battles of that War, Trenton,
Brandywine, Princeton, and Germantown. He
lived to be ninety-seven years of age. A
short memorial service was held at the grave
and all felt it an occasion for Revolution-
ary dcscendents.

A Thanksgiving Tea was the social feature
of the November meeting. One of the members
in Martha Washington costume presided at the
tea table, and the program was in keeping with
Colonial times. At the December meeting, we
were honored by a visit from our State Regent,
Mrs. Edwin Earle Sparks, who gave a most
interesting address, after which an informal
tea was held.

Washington's birthday was celebrated by hold-
ing a Colonial tea. A program followed, con-
sisting of an address by a visiting Daughter,
and a musical. Refreshments were served. In
April we had a visit from Miss Evelyn Wells,
of the Pine Mountain Settlement school. A
benefit tea was held, the proceeds of which went
to the school. Our Chapter contributes annually
to this school.

Our Twenty-fifth anniversary was celebrated
by motoring to New Alexandria, where luncheon
was served. Afterwards a literary and musical
program was given at the home of Mrs. Glenn
McChesney. This event marked the closing of
the social activities until September.

In addition to the financial support given to
the Pine Mountain school, Phoebe Bayard Chap-
ter contributes to local and civic and charitable
enterprises, and supports a membership in the
local Chamber of Commerce.

Elizabeth B. Sweeny,

Historian.

Mount Garfield Chapter (Grand Junction,
Colo.) has 64 members on its roll. The past
year has been successful and much credit is
due the Regent, Mrs. William F. Buthorn, and
her efficient official family. In September the
Chapter was honored by the presence of Mrs.
Hayden, our State Regent. November 4th the
Chapter entertained the Pioneers of Mesa
County. This meeting was instructive as well
as enjoyable. Over thirty old residents of this
County were present. In December, Professor
Ferris of the Gunnison Normal gave us a
patriotic talk. February 22nd a luncheon was
given the Chapter by our Regent, Mrs. Buthorn.
There was a short program afterwards, con-
cluding with informal talks by the ex-Regents
present. Meetings devoted to Puritan History
and Heraldry came later, and at the annual meet-
ing the reading of the play " Mr. Pym Passes
By " was a feature.

While our social and literary afternoons are
enjoyable, the Chapter maintains its interest in
patriotic and philanthropic work. For the past
year or two much attention has been given to
Americanization work. As a memorial to a
hero of the World War, we are helping to
educate two children in whom he was interested.
This is called the Harold Aupperle Memorial.
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several hundred ex-service men are cared for,
interests us very much. Many of these men
are totally disabled. Delicacies of various kinds
are sent from the Chapter and at our annual
meeting it was decided to send a victrola and
records as a gift.

A prize is given each year to the pupil in
public school having the best average grade in
United States History. We are interested in
the marking of historic sites.

On the whole, the past year has been a success
— financially, socially and educationally.

Harriette D. Ottman,

Historian.

Orlando Chapter (Orlando, Fla.) has had
a most successful year, both as to work accom-
plished and increase of membership. From 62,
May 1, 1921, we now have seventy-five mem-
bers. Meetings have been held monthly. Since
January the Chapter has enjoyed the hospitality
of the Elks, who generously offered the use of
their beautiful clubhouse. Refreshments and a
social hour have been closing features of
several meeting. Orlando has many Northern
tourists during the winter and has entertained
35 visiting Daughters, coming from 20 different
states. Their greetings and reports of work
done in their Chapters have added to the
interest of the meetings. On Flag Day this
year the American Legion and other patriotic
societies of the city cooperated in presenting the
program prepared by the Vice Regent, Mrs.
T. W. Matthews. Following the " Salute to the
Flag," and the invocation by Rev. Stanley Long.
rector of Episcopal church, the Regent gave a
history of the flag, appropriate music was
rendered and, as an accompaniment for a Boy
Scout's Drill, Mrs. Cora Pierce Nye, a member
of this Chapter, played a march of her own
composition. J. Y. Cheney, Commander of the
Legion, spoke most earnestly of the need of
greater love and reverence for the flag in our
every day life and a deeper realization of what
it has meant and should mean to every Amer-
ican. The Chairman of the program committee,
Mrs. W. T. Jamieson, brought to our attention
the messages of the President General, as well
as other valuable articles in the current issues
of the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution Magazine.

The pastors of the city churches have, in
turn, addressed the Chapter. Orlando was rep-
resented at the State Conference held in Tampa
in January by the Regent, Mrs. W. C. McLean,
the Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Cheney, the past
Regent and present State Auditor, Mrs. Schuller,
and the Secretary.

Orlando won in a friendly contest for next
conference on January 23, 1921 and because of
its central location, expects a large attendance.

Though not strong in working force, since
quite a percentage of the membership is non-
resident, we feel justly proud of what has been
accomplished along financial lines through the
efforts of our Regent and the cooperation of all
able to assist. All pledges for national and
state work have been made and promptly paid.

We have also aided in the sale of Christmas
Red Cross Sales for County Tuberculosis work
to the amount of $37. The Chapter has con-
tributed in cash during the past year. $250,
divided as follows : For Florida room in Ad-
ministration Building, $100; for Panel in Valley
Forge Chapel, $25 ; for Caroline Scott Harrison
Alemorial Dormitory, Oxford College, $15; for
Caroline Scott Harrison Miniature Fund, $5 ;
for expenses annual state meeting of American
Legion in Orlando, $50; under the heads of
Americanization and Education Work, we have
given to the Caruso Alemorial Fund, to aid
needy students of music, $10; to Tomassee, S. C.
and Mont Verde, Fla. schools, $10; each, and
to the Childrens' Home in Jacksonville, $25.
A shower of clothing and various other needed
articles were recently given to the Orlando Day
Nursery, with an estimated value of over $60.

Though the members are scattered there are
21 subscribers to the Magazine and it is hoped
that the coming conference in January, 1923,
may awaken new interest in the work and add
to the membership. Orlando Chapter extends
to all visiting Daughters, a most cordial in-
vitation and welcome, not only to this State
Conference, but also to all monthly meetings
of the Chapter.

Frances E. Gregory,
Secretary.

Philip Livingston Chapter (Howell, Mich.)
has just completed a very successful year's work
under the direction of Mrs. C. E. Gough, Regent.
We have a membership of 53. There are 23
Magazines taken. We assisted in compiling
World War records. Seventeen Genealogical
papers were recorded. In contributions for the
three National Causes our Chapter was 100
per cent. To Foreign Lands we sent $80 and
clothing valued at $140. Have paid out for all
causes, $165.27. A paper on " Historic Land
Marks in Michigan," was given by Mrs. George
Barnes January 3, 1922. Our Chapter has assisted
in Legislation looking to better laws for health,
child welfare and education. We have assisted
in rural schools and Communities in Physical
Examinations. Through our Publicity Com-
mittee we have secured cooperation from the
Press. In our patriotic work we are working
for enlightened public opinion on national affairs
and also international relations. Distributed
125 copies of the American's Creed. In our
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seals. One member of our Chapter is a mem-
ber of the State Public Health Committee,
supplied 12 victrola records for the ex-service
men at the Michigan State Sanatorium at
Howell. A large historical Museum of relics
has been maintained at the Public Library in
a room set aside for the purpose. The motion
pictures are good in Howell and we hope to keep
them so. April 4th Miss Alice Louise McDuilfie.
State Regent, visited our Chapter and gave a
fine address. Miss McDufifie was elected vice
President General at the last Continental Con-
gress, April, 1922.

An important work of the year was the
placing of bronze markers for the six Revo-
lutionary soldiers buried in Livingston County,
of which Howell is the County seat. Two were
buried here, Jonathan Cooke and Eprhaim
Smith, May 29, 1922 services were held by the
Chapter at the grave of Jonathan Cook. The
ritual service was given by the Regent, Mrs
Gough, assisted by the acting Chaplain, Mrs.
Alfred Garland, a descendant of Jonathan
Cooke. Albert L. Smith gave an interesting
address. He was also a descendant of Jonathan
Cooke and a son of the Revolution. The
marker was then placed and a great, great
grandaughter, Mrs. L. C. Smith placed a flag
in the marker and a bouquet of lilies on the
grave. Ephraim Smith's grave was marked in
the same manner. Lemuel Monroe and Mar-
shall Tubbs in the Lake Cemetery, Marion
township. William Church in the Hodge Ceme-

tery, Hartland, Jacob Ward in the Munsell
Cemetery, Iosco received markers and were
decorated with flowers on May 30th.

Two real daughters were also given markers,
Mrs. Candace Clark Huntington in the Howell
Cemetery and Mrs. Lucinda Wakeman Norton
in the Lake Cemetery, Marion. Deceased Chap-
ter daughters were given markers. Miss Mary
A. Burt, Mrs. Sarah Jewett Crosman, Mrs.
Florence Knapp Rumsey, Mrs. Ruth Silsbee.
Our Chapter celebrated Michigan Day, La-
fayette Day, Constitution Day, Americanization
Day, Indian Day, (with program exhibit), Flag
Day, June 14th at the home of Mrs. W. J. Van
Winkle. Mrs. W. W. Knapp gave a paper, on
the " History of our Flag." Mrs. Geo. Barnes
an original poem " Our Flag." Our delegate
to the Continental Congress, April, 1922, Mrs.
W. W. Bullock, gave an interesting report for
our May meeting. Our meetings are the 1st
Tuesday in the month and held at the homes of
the members. Three hostesses are appointed to
serve refreshments at each meeting. Our Chap-
ter is the proud possessor of sixteen Lineage
Books. The new Regent for next year is Mrs.
R. B. McPherson. Some of our members atten-
ded the naturalization ceremonies for admitting
aliens into citizenship. At our State Conference
held at Detroit in October, seven of our mem-
bers attended.

(Mrs. Geo.) Augusta D. Barnes,

Historian.

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GENEALOGICAL EDITOR

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

ANSWERS

6606. Lee. — In Dr. Edmund J. Lee's book
" Lees of Va." he gives the following : Col.
Richard Lee, emigrant, m Anne and their s
Richard Lee m Letitia Corbin and were the
parents of Henry Lee who m Mary Bland and
Philip Lee who m Elizabeth Sewell. Philip
and Elizabeth Sewell Lee had s John who m
Susannah Smith and they were the parents
of Hancock Philip ; John Pitt ; Lettice ; and
another dau. Philip Lee m Mary Jaqueline
Smith. John Pitt Lee b 1761 m Elizabeth
Shepherd. Susannah Smith who m John Lee,
Clerk of Court of Essex Co., Va., was the
dau of Philip Smith and his w Mary Matthews,
great granddau of Col. Samuel Matthews, Gov.
of Va. John Lee's Rev ser has been verified. —
Mrs. M. D. Woviblc, Thomaston, Ga.

7727. Bear-Miller. — Jacob Bear m Barbara
dau of Adam Miller (Mueller), the first settler
in the Valley of Va. about 1726-1727. Their
dau Barbara m 1st. Philip Lingle (Lingell)
and after his death soon after the close of the
Rev she m Jacob Kishing. The bear family and
desc still live near Elkton, Va. — Mrs. M. C.
Price, 311 S. Spring St., Greensboro, N. C.

10225. Sheppard. — Charles Sheppard who m
Elizabeth of N. C. later came to Wash-
ington Co. with his sisters and bros. His sister
Ruthy m Amos Whittle. Pansy never married.
His bros David, John and Thomas. His bro
George did not go to Washington Co. John
Sheppard b 1806 m Abba Devonia Britton of
N. C. Their ch Nancy Caroline; Sarah;
Elizabeth ; Elif ace ; Martha ; Susan ; Rebecca ;
Georgian ; John Chapel ; Kinchen Hudson ;

Charles Franklin. Eliface Sheppard m •

Walden of Davisboro, Ga. Nancy Caroline m
Isaiah Williams. There is a John Sheppard's
will in Elbert Co., Ga., which mentions the
following ch Samuel ; George Dillar ; Peter ;
Anne Ware Coleman ; Robert ; Anna Dillard ;
Nelms ; Betsy Ridgdell, and Clav Burden. This
will is dated June 8, \mS.—Mrs. Hozvard
Persons, Monticello, Ga.

10241. Slack. — The Slacks were Hollanders
who came to this country prior to 1743. Ben-
jamin and Rebecca Schooley Slack had Benj.
b 1774; John b 1752; Thomas b 1762; and six
girls. They lived in N. J. William Slack was
the s of either Benj. or Thomas. — L. Ethel
Boughner, Uniontown, Pa.

10269. Hopkins. — " In memory of Thomas
Hopkins who was b in Rockingham City, Va.,
Apr. 8, 1773, d Oct. 9, 1831." * * * " In mem-
ory of Mrs. Jane Hopkins consort of John
Hopkins, dau of Wm. and Margaret Ervin of
Augusta City, Va., b Jan. 8, 1800, d June 14,
1832." * * * The above stones were in an old
abandoned cemetery. They were side by side
in what was probably a family lot. The other
headstones are gone. From the " Christian
County History " the following is to contradict
your statement that Samuel Hopkins founded
Hopkinsville. The town was named in his
honor but there is no record of his ever having
lived or visited Hopkinsville. The first settlers
of Christian Co. were James Dares and John
Montgomery, who came there in 1782. No
name of any Hopkins appears on the records
prior to 1800. Between 1800 and 1810 there
was a Morgan Hopkins, nothing else known of
him. The original plat of the city submitted

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to record Sept. 13, 1799. The newly created
city was named " Elizabeth," but just how
or why it was so called is a matter of some dis-
cussion. At the April term of court in 1804
is the first time the name Hopkinsville appears
and then without any explanation as to the
cause of change in name. From local authority
it is ascertained that a change of name of
Christian's seat of Justice was necessary on
account of Garden Co. having adopted the
name of Elizabethtown for her Seat of Justice
some four years previous to Christian and it
naturally fell to the latter to make the change.
The name Hopkinsville was then adopted in
honor of Gen. Samuel Hopkins, an officer of
the Rev army, native of Albermarle Co., Va.
He fought in the Battles of Trenton, Prince-
ton, Monmouth, Brandywine and Germantown,
the last of which he commanded the Bat. of light
infantry and was severely wounded. He was
Lieut. Col. of the 10th Va. Regt. at the Siege
of Charleston, S. C, and commanded that
Regt. after Col. Parker was killed until the
close of the War. In 1797 Gen. Hopkins re-
moved to Ky. and settled on Green River.
He served several sessions in the legislature of
Ky. and was a member of Congress for the
term commencing 1813. In 1812 he led a corps
of 2000 mounted infantry against the Kickapoo
villages in 111. After the close of the War
Gen. Hopkins served one term in Congress
and then retired to private life on his farm
near Red Bank. — Mrs. R. M. Fairleigh, Fairle-
lond, Hopkinsville, Ky.

10240. Powers. — Jacob Powers, s of

Powers, was b in N. J., m Elizabeth Perry.
Their s David Powers b in Essex Co., N. J.
June 19. 1766. m Apr. 12. 1791, Sarah Farmer
and d July 16, 1842, in Crawfordsville. Ind.

(a) F.MjMicR. — George Farmer, s of George,
was b in Germany m Naomi PuUen in Kent
Co., N. J., and d in Westmoreland Co., Pa.
Their dau Sarah b in Westmoreland Co., Aug.
15, 1774. m David Powers in Westmoreland Co..
Pa., Apr. 12, 1791. In both cases only the name
of the one ch is given. — Ella JV. Webster.
Crawfordsville, Ind.

10453. LovETT. — Mary Lovett (not Lovett
Mar) was the dau of Daniel Lovett who was
in Salem in 1638, removed to Braintrce and m
Joanna Blott. Their ch were James b 1648,
m Hanna Tyler; Mary b 1651 m Hopestill
Tyler; Martha b 1654 m Eleazer Fairbank ; and

Hannah b 1656 m Ryder. This is taken

frtim the Pioneers of Mass. — luiiily A. Green-
mau. Dade City, Fla.

10477. (b) Rankin.— David Rankin b in Pa.
was a grandson of Adam Rankin who came
to Chester Co. in 1721 from Derry Co., Ire-
land. Ho was of Scotcli desc. David's ch men-
tion in his will dated Fel). 27, 1802. were James;

Mary Rankin Williams ; Robert ; Anne ; Eliza-
beth; Jane and David, Jr., who m Din-
widdle and had s Robert who m DaVault.

I can put you in touch with direct desc of this
line who have the data you require. — Mary Burt
Rankin, Hapi-Shanti, Niagara on the Lake, Ont.

10484. RiGGs.— Edward (7), b May 21, 1764,
d Feb. 26, 1829. m 1785 Mary Higbee. He was
the s of Joseph (6) (David 5, Edward 4, Ed-
ward 3, Edward 2, Edward 1) b Basking-
ridge, Somerset Co.. N. J., April 24, 1740.
who married Leah Cosad b July 8, 1743, d
Feb. 27, 1827 (dau of Jacob Cosad of Sussex
Co., N. J.). Both bur in Presbyterian Church
Yard, Cranbury, N. J. No rec of Rev ser of
Joseph (6) in N. J. troops. — Elvenah H. Jones,
224 Broad Street, Newark, N. J.

10491. Meeker.— David Meeker b 1758' d
1830, twin of Jonathan b 1758 d 1816. sons
of Timothy Meeker. Sr., m Phoebe Parsel.
Their ch were Elias m Hannah Earl ; Hannah
m Samuel Meeker ; Lucinda d young ; Betsy
m Peter Dea\\.—Miss Grace R. Meeker, 709
S. Mulberry St., Ottawa. Kans.

10495. PoxD.— Bartholomew Pond 1758-1850,
enlisted from Waterbury, Conn., 1776, under
Capt. Moses Foote and reenlisted in Capt. David
Smith's Co. He was at Ft. Stanwix and dis-
charged at Herkimer. He applied for a pen-
sion in 1834 in Oneida Co. and it was allowed
for over eleven months ser as a sol in the
Conn. Line. He d in Camden, N. Y. (See
D.A.R. Lineage book, Vol. 31, p. 149, and 37
p. 60.) The D.A.R. erected a monument to
Rev sol bur at Camden, N. Y., Bartholomew
Pond's name is engraved on one side. Bar-
tholomew's father, Timothy Pond, also served
in the Rev. (See D.A.R. Lineage, Vol. 55,
p. 140.) Timothy Pond 1731-1780 enlisted 1775
as a soldier in Capt. Benedict Arnold's Co.,
Col. David Wooster, Regt. at the Seige of Bos-
ton, Conn. line. He was b in Branford, Conn.,
and d in Clinton, N. Y. His 1st w (m of
Bartholomew) was Mary, dau of Abel and
Sarah Peck Munson, who were m June 20,
1751. She d Jan. 16, 1763.— A/r.f. P. J.
McHiigh. 137 Remington St., Ft. Collins, Colo.

10497. Browning.— Write to D. P. Brown-
ing. Lewisburg. Ky., and he can give you the
information desired relating to John Browning
who m Elizabeth Strother. John and Charles
Browning were sons of Francis Browning. Jr.,
i) about 1724 in Culpeper, Va., and d about
Jan., 1761. His will dated Dec. 30. 1760, Cul-
peper Court House, was recorded Feb. 19,
1761. His w was Frances Norman whom he
m about 1741. She d 1792. Francis Browning
was the s of Francis Browning, Sr., who was
b about 1700 d 1775 in Culpeper Co.— Mrs.
B. E. Yates. Bethany, Mo.

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through Elizabeth Randolph whose sister Jane
m Peter Jefiferson. You must want desc. This
is the line as it is taken from DuBellet's
" Prominent Va. Families " and Glenn's " Some
Colonial Mansions." Wm. Randolph b War-
wickshire, England, 1651, emigrated to Va. in
1674, settled at Turkey Island, m Mary dau
of Mr. Henry Isham and his w Catherine.
Their ch were Wm. b 1681; Thomas 1683;
Isham 1684; Richard 1686; Henry 1687; John
1689; Edward 1690; Mary 1692; Elizabeth
1695. Isham b 1684 m 1717 Jane Rogers and
their ch were Jane who m Peter Jefferson
and were the parents of Pres. Thomas Jeffer-
son ; Susannah ; Thomas Isham ; William ;
Mary ; Elizabeth who m Railey ; Dorothy ;
Anne. Isham Randolph was m 3 times, al-
though only his 1st w name is given. I have
almost all the Randolph desc except Isham who
m Jane Rogers ; Mary who m Capt. John
Stith ; and Elizabeth who m Richard Bland up
to 1800. Would like to corres with any desc
of Wm. Randolph of Turkey Island. — Anne
Gertrude Soderberg. Pipestone, Minn.

10503. Delano.— Pg-99. Philippe De La
Noye (Delanoy) b 1602; d Bridgewater, Mass.,
about 1681; age 79 yrs. To Plymouth, 1621.
Married 1st at Duxbury, Mass., 19 December,
1634, to Hester Dewsbury of Duxbury; m 2nd
at Duxbury, 1657, Mary Pontus, widow of
James Glass, and dau of William Pontus. Ch. :
(1) Mary, b abt 1635; (2) Esther, b 1638; (3)
PhiHp, b abt 1640; (4) Thomas, b March 21,
1642; (5) John, b abt 1644; (6) Jane, b abt
1646; (7) Jonathan, b 1647; (8) Rebecca, b
abt 1651, by 2nd w; (9) Samuel, b 1659. Ibid,
Pg-100: Philip Delano, Sr., was a "Volun-
teer in Pequot War," June 7, 1637. Pg-101 :
The Dewsbury fam is of Gloucestershire,' Eng.
Pg-106 : Philip Delano, Jr., b abt 1640, lived in
Duxbury, Mass., and d in 1708 ; m at Duxbury
in 1668; Elizabeth, dau of Wm. and Martha
Clark. Ch.: (1) Samuel, b abt 1670; (2) Eben-
ezer, b 1675; (3) Philip, 3rd, b 1678; (4) Mar-
tha, b 1680; (5) Jane, b 1685. Ebenezer Delano,
b 1675, d in Duxbury, Mass., before Dec. 11,
1708, m 29th December, 1699, Martha, dau
of John & Mercy (Pabodie) (or Peabody)
Simmons, b at Duxbury abt 1677 ; d in Pem-
brooke, Mass. She m 2nd, Samuel West, June
20, 1709, who removed to Pembrooke. Ch of
Ebenezer Delano & Martha Simmons: Pg-107.
(1) Joshua, b Oct. 30, 1700; (2) Thankful,
b June 8, 1702; (3) Abia, b August 7, 1704:
m in Duxbury 16th December, 1725, Nathaniel,
s of Ichabod & Elizabeth (Bartlett). (Water-
man Philip gives his s Ebenezer deed for land
at Pine Point to build a house on May 17, 1706.)
Francis Pabodie or Peabody was of St. Albans,
Hertford, England. Pg-243. Marriages : Ebe-
nezer Delano & Martha Simmons, Decem-

ber 29, 1699. "Ancient Landmarks of Ply-
mouth, Mass.," by Wm. T. Davis, Boston,
1883. Genealogical Register of Plymouth
families : Pg-84. Ebenezer Delano of Duxbury,
Mass. (probably s of 2nd Philip), m 1699
Martha Simmons and had Joshua, b 1700;
Thankful 1702, m Ebenezer Metcalf, Jr., Oct.
7, 1725; Abiah, b 1704, who m Nathaniel Bart-
lett. " Savage Genealogical Dictionary of New
England," vol. 2. Philip Delano, of Plymouth,
Mass., came over in the Fortune, 1621 ; of
French Protestant parents ; of Eng. church at
Leyden ; 19 yrs old at his coming ; was Free-
man 1632 : moved to Duxbury and m December
19, 1634, Esther Dewsbury, and next 1657, Mary
widow of James Glass. Ch. : Thomas, Mary,
Philip, John, Jane, Rebecca, Jonathan, Esther,
and Samuel. Removed to Bridgewater, Mass..
and d abt 1681, age 79 years. Philip, of Dux-
bury, s of preceding, had Philip and that he
was b early in 1678 is all that is known of this
branch of the family. " Ebenezer Metcalfe, Sr.,
b February 14, 1680, lived in Lebanon, Conn.,
d Nov. 15, 1755, in his 76th yr ; s of Jonathan,
b Sept. 21, 1650, m Hannah Abel. Their ch
were: (Pg-159 Genealogical Notes by Nathan-
iel Goodwin, 1856.) Ebenezer, Jr., b (birth not
given) ; Benjamin, b (birth not given) ; Tim-
othy, b (birth not given) ; Joseph, b July 8,
1711; Lucy, b December 25, 1713; Anna, b
March 18, 1716; Jabez, b November 30, 1718.
Lebanon, Conn., Town records, 1704-1851.
Book I, Pg-196: "Ebenezer Metcalfe, Jr., &
Thankful Deleno were m together October the
7th, 1725; Reuben Metcalfe, s of Ebenezer &
Thankfull Metcalfe was b March the 28th,
A.D.. 1726; Simeon Metcalfe, b November 5th,
A.D., 1729; Levi Metcalfe, b August 27th, a.d.,
1731 ; Abia Metcalfe, b March the 3rd, a.d.,
1736." " Mrs. Thankful Metcalfe, w of Mr.
Ebenezer Metcalf, d 26th December, 1777, in
ye 76th year of her age. Mr. Ebn'r Metcalfe d
22nd day of January, a.d., 1780, aged 76 yrs, ye
10th of April (Old Stile, 1779)." Pg-212,
" Levi Metcalf & Abigail Cutting were m to-
gether 24th Oct., A.D., 1776, by Rev. Mr.
Gurley, of Exeter (a hamlet of Lebanon).
Simeon & Levi their twins were b 4th December,
A.D., 1777. Moses their s was b 6 Sept., 1779.
Sarah their dau was b 8 Apr., 1782. Ezekiel
Metcalfe their s was b 25 June, a. d., 1784."
Congregation Church Records of Goshen in
Lebanon, Conn., baptised 1749, March 19,
Abigail Cutting."

10517. HoYT.— Thomas Hoyt (5) b in Ames-
bury, Mass., May 17, 1731, d in Rev Army
Sept. 1, 1778, m Sept. 5, 1754, at Amesbury,
Mass., Miriam Kimball, b Haverhill. Their
dau Sarah b Amesbury, Mass., Nov. 13, 1765,
d Oct. 4, 1847, at Ogden, N. Y., m Abraham
Morrill, Mar. 24, 1785, at Canterbury, N. H.

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Thomas Hoyt was a sol in the 3rd Regt. of
N. H. Mil. He was in Capt. James Shepherd's
Co. in Cambridge in 1776, enlisted in Col.
Thomas Stickney's Regt. Gen. Stark's Brigade
for 3 yrs in 1777. Was a member of the Train-
band of Canterbury, N. H., and signed the
Association Test of N. H. He also ser in the
3rd N. H. Regt. Ref . " Hoyt Genealogy, pp. 70,
126 & 127, by David Hoyt ; " " Old Families of
Salisbury and Amesbury, Mass.," by David
Hoyt; N. H. State Papers, vol. 2, pp. 163 and
607; Canterbury Town History, Chapt. 6, p.
163. Children of Thomas and Miriam Kimball
Hoyt were Abner b Dec. 17, 1755, m Martha
Weeks; Phoebe b Nov. 22, 1756, m David
Ames; Ruth b July 24, 1759, m Sargent Mor-
rill ; Thomas b Apr. 14, 1762, m Morrill ;

Sarah b Nov. 13, 1765. m Abraham Morrill;
Barnard m Judith Morrill ; and Jonathan b Jan.
21, 1773, d at sea.— A/rj. Frances M. Koehler,
2009 N. Fayette St., Saganaw, Mich.

10517. Hoyt. — In addition to the above we
have : Miriam Kimball w of Thomas Hoyt was
b Julv 14, 1736, dau of Abner Kimball b Apr.
20, 1712, d Aug. 1, 1752, m Mar. 28, 1734,
Dinah Barnett. Their ch were Ruth b Feb. 3,
1734; Miriam July 14, 1736; Anne Mar. 18,
1737; Ebenezer Apr. 17, 1740, Phoebe and
Ruth (twins) b Feb. 8, 1741; Barnard Jan. 18,
1743; Moses Nov. 8, 1747; Amos June 18,
1750. Abner Kimball was the s of Ebeneazer
who d Jan. 23, 1714, m before 1709 Ruth
Eatton. Their ch were Jemimah, b Oct. 22,
1709; Abner, b Apr. 20, 1712, and Abraham,
Jan. 3, 1713. All these Kimballs lived and d in
Haverhill, Mass. — Mrs. S. B. Carrozi\ 5 Stevens
St., Methuen, Mass.

QUERIES

10591. Tkkple. — Wanted, par of Margaret
Tceple, b 1760. m John Staples, d 1848. She
lived in New Germantown, Somerset Co., N. J.
Was her father a Rev sol ?

(a) Luce. — ^ Wanted, any inf. concerning the
family of Henry Luce, Lieut, and Capt. in the
2nd N. J. Cont. Lines 1775 to 1779, Sussex Co.
mil. Did he have a dau Mary, b 1780?

(b) Garijs-Gare.s. — Wanted, inf concerning
the family of John Garis. He moved from
Bucks Co.. Pa., to Flatbrookville, N. J., in 1817.
Was he a Rev sol ?— E. P. K.

10592. Trimble. — Wanted, and inf concerning
Arthur Trimble 2nd and w, Jane Denison
Trimble. Lived at one time at Tub Mill Run,
Pa. Would like to corres with anyone having
knowledge of this family.

(a) Ross. — Wanted, inf regarding Jacdb
Ross, possibly of N. J. He m Elizabeth Sparks.
Was he a Rev sol ?— E. C. P.

10593. W.M.KER.— Wanted, gen ..f David
Walker. Lieut, in Rev from Dinwiddie Co., Va..

who m Peletiah before 1757. Wanted also

her maiden name and gen.

(a) Chilton. — Wanted, gen of Richard

Chilton, who m Judith June 6, 1761.

Wanted also her maiden name and gen.

(b) Bennett. — Wanted, gen of Dewannah
S. Bennett, who m Richard Chilton, Jr., Mar.
10, 1808. Her mother was Dewannah Sydnor.
— D. H. W.

10594. Bradshaw. — W^ anted, ances. of George
Godfrey Bradshaw. Family Bible gives b as
Sept. 23, 1790 at Waterford, or Stillwater.
N. Y.. m Mary dau of Capt. James and Lucy
Whitney Bancroft. Would like to corres with
Bradshaw desc.

(a) BuRBANK. — Wanted. Rev rec with proof
of Nathaniel Burbank. b at Boscawen, N. H.,
Dec. 14, 1747. Married Mary Durgin of San-
bornton, N. H., and lived at that place. He
was in Walden, Vt., before 1800.

(b) Hubbard. — Wanted, parentage of Lucy
Hubbard, who m Edward Fuller about 1745.
Married 2nd Simeon Butler, and 3rd, Capt
Joshua Ward. Did Edward Fuller have
Rev rec?

(c) Martin. — Who was Betty, w of John
Martin whose dau Lucy m Thomas Gibson?
Did John Martin have Rev rec? — ^L. A. M.

10495. Shepherd. — Wanted, name of all ch
of Jacob Shepherd, Rev sol, b 1757, Middle-
town twp, Monmouth Co., N. J., d 1838. Was
he m twice? — F. E. M.

10496. Curtis s. — Wanted, parentage of
Jeremiah Curtiss, whose s John, b at Southing-
ton, Conn., 1740, d 1801, m Mary Lewis, Dec.
12, 1763. Did either ser in Rev?

(a) Bo WEN. — Wanted, parentage and Rev
rec of father of Mehitable May Bowen, who
lived at Roxbury, Mass.. m Micah Higley and
lived in Becket, Mass. The Bowens had 8 ch.
Mehitable May. Abigail. Eunice, Mary, Eliza.
Susan. John and Henry. — R. R. H.

10497. Sawyer.— Wanted. Rev rec of Moses
Sawyer, who m Lydia Flood probably in N. H.,
and had a dau Rhoda Sawyer Choate. —
C. A. W.

10498. Grantland-Powell.— Wanted, par-
entage of Lucy Grantland from Hanover or
Henrico Co., Va.. who m John Peyton Powell
of Pocohontas Co.. b. 1788. s of Lieut. Peyton
and Tabatha Harris Powell.

(a) Townsend-Watts. — Wanted, name of
w of John Townsend. of Va.. who.se dau
Elizabeth m R. R. Watts. They are both in
the census of Pittsylvania Co., Va., in 1782,
but think R. K. Watts lived in Amelia Co. after
m.— T. H. S.

10499. Spangler-Spaengler-VonSpangler.

—Wanted, inf of Spanglcr. who settled in

Pa. about 1830.— H. C. B.

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Garrittson. — Wanted, dates of b & d of Mary
Snover w of Cornelius Garrison, also dates of
b & m of their dau Mary, who m John Robbins.
-L. J. P. E.

1060L Fowler. — Wanted, parentage of Elias
Fowler, b Feb. 16, 1776, Halifax, Windham Co.,
Vt., d No. 1, 1843, m Jerusha Sumner, b Oct.
21, 1779, d Dec. 22, 1847. Elias Fowler was
bur in Prmel Hill Cemetery, Halifax. Was his
father a Rev sol?

(a) Sumner. — Wanted, parentage of
Jerusha Sumner, who m Elias Fowler.

(b) Shepherd. — Wanted, parentage of Nancy
Shepherd, who m Tarrant Putnam, b Apr. 1,
1770, d Feb. 21, 1837.

(c) Allen. — Parentage of Allen, who

m Shepherd, who were the parents of

Nancy Shepherd, who m Tarrant Putnam.

(d) Wheeler. — Wanted, parentage of Lvdia
Wheeler, b Aug. 14, 1722, d Mar. 22, 1805, m
Josiah Putnam, Jan. 13, 1740.

(e) Smith. — Wanted, parentage of Sibbel
Smith, b July 11, 1753, d Dec. 23, 1824, m
Josiah Putnam, Jr.. Sept. 12, 1771. Had she
Rev ances? — M. F.

10602. P Y A T T. — W^antcd, parentage of
Ebenezer, b 1755 in Pa., enlisted in Rev from
Chester Co., Pa.

(a) MiLBUKN. — Wanted, gen and Rev ances
of Rebecca Milburn, b 1765 in Va., m Ebenezer
Pyatt in Loudoun Co., Va. — J. E. P.

10603. Carpenter. — Wanted, Rev rec of
Samuel Carpenter, b in R. I., June 20, 1760, d
Mar. 9. 1810, in Greenville. Green Co., N. Y.. m
in Shepherdstown, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1783,
Honor Arnold.

(a) Harrington. — Wanted, parentage of
Wm. Harrington, d May 13, 1829, age 65 yrs,
bur at Shaftsbury. Va. Did he or his father
have Rev rec.

(b) Mead. — Wanted, parentage and dates of
Jeremiah Mead, who is bur at Westerlo, N. Y.
— S. G. F.

10604. Waring. — Wanted, ances and dates of
James Waring, b in Ulster Co., N. Y., m Jane
Van Hoevenburg. Had s Solomon, b 1808. Was
there Rev ser in this family?

(a) Vickey. — Wanted, gen and dates of
Samuel Vickey and also of his w Nancy
Humphrey. Their ch were Robert. Daniel,
Isaiah. They emigrated from N. H. to Penna.

(b) Adams-Copeland-Nicholson. — Wanted,
gen, dates and maiden name of w of Geo.
Adams of Farquier Co., Va., emigrated to Ohio
about 1800. His dau Evelina, b June 17, 1793, d
Feb. 18, 1879, m Charles Robert Copeland, of
Richmond, Va. Wanted also Copeland gen.
Wanted also gen of Rebecca Nicholson, who m.
Charles Copeland. Sr.— F. W. R.

10605. Wilder. — Wanted, m record of
Samuel Wilder, s of Elias of Dummerston.
Vt.. and Frances Guild, dau of Lieut. Dan Guild

of Keene and Swanzy, N. H., who were m
about 1798. First ch Samuel b June 10, 1800,
in Orange Co., Vt.

(a) Adams.— Dan Guild's 2nd w was Lydia
Adams, b Aug. 16, 1747, dau of Ephriam, s of
Thomas, probably desc of George a bro at
Watertown, 1645, and his w Frances. Wanted
her gen.

(b) Stokes.— Wanted, Rev rec of Wm.
Stokes, who m about 1780 nr Culpeper, Va.,
Hester Inskeep. She d 1784 and he m her
sister Hepsibeth, 1785. They were the daus of
James and Hope Collins Inskeep, who came
from N. J. in 1773 to Culpeper, Va. Wm.
Stokes was b about 1750, and is supposed to
have been the son of John (3). Thomas (2),
Thomas (1), and Anne Ellis Champion.
Thomas came to Burlington, N. J., 1677.

(c) Woolsey. — Wanted, inf of Thomas
Woolsey, who set near Abingdon, Wash. Co.,
Va., about 1773. He was a Baptist minister.
He was a desc of George Woolsey who came to
Plymouth in 1623. Wanted also the gtn
of Mary Hopkins, possibly of Staunton,
in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., the w of
George Woolsey.

(d) Lynch. — Wanted, parentage of Edward
Lynch, of Va., who m nr Bowling Green, Ky..
in 1795. Elizabeth dau of George and Mary
Hopkins Woolsey. He was a desc of the
Lynch family who were among the Long
Hunters in early Ky. history. — G. C. P.

10606. White. — Wanted, parentage of Henry
White, of Orange Co., Va., moved to Ky about
1786 and is bur on his estate in Madison Co.,
Ky., where he d Dec. 20, 1821. His ch were
Durrett, Galen, Joel, Ambrose. Jeremiah,
Elizabeth. Did Henry White have Rev rec?
Joel White was bur nr his father. He d 1815.
Married Franky Ruckcr July 28, 1785, dau of
John Rucker (security George Tomlinson)
Nov. 24. 1785, George Tomlinson m Elizabeth
dau of Henry White (security David Cave),
Orange Co. records. Did John Rucker have
Rev rec? Joel White m 2nd, Tabitha Smith,
Mar. 11, 1807, widow of Reuben, (a) James
Suggett, b 1715 in Westmoreland Co., Va., m
Jemimah Spence, dau of Patrick and Jemimah
Sanford Spence. Wanted, Suggett, Spence and
Sanford gen. — J. R. G. S.

10607. Smith-Briggs. — Wanted, gen and Rev
rec of Joseph Smith, who lived near Putney,
Vt., 1790. He was b 1744, m Olive Briggs, b
1754. Their ch Joseph, Jonathan, Benjamin,
Nathan and Isaac P., who m Abigail Johnson,
b 1788. Wanted her gen. Joseph and Olive
m.oved later, he d 1823 and Olive in 1838, Both
are bur in Gouverneur, N. Y.

(a) Crabb-Lownsbury. — Wanted, gen and
Rev rec of John Crabb, b 1753, and his w Anne
Lownsbury, who lived at Lansingburg, N. Y.

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Their s, Abijah b 1780, m Louisa Button, b 1784,
d 1861.

(b) Ransom. — Wanted, parentage of Mary
Ransom, b 1764, d 1819. Married John Button
Mar. 21, 1783. Would like to corres with any-
one interested in these famihes. — F. S. V.

10608. Glover. — Frederick Glover, of James-
town, Va., will recorded Sept., 1798, in 96th
Dist. Edgefield Co., S. C. Children, John,
Wiley ; Allen, m Sarah Norwood ; Wiley m

Harris; Benjamin, m Mary Oliver.

Wanted, gen and Rev rec of Frederick Glover
and name of his w. Wanted also parentage and
Rev rec of father of Mary Oliver.

(a) Norwood. — Wanted, gen and Rev rec of
father of Williamson Norwood, Abbeyville
Dist., S. C, b July 15, 1777, d July 25, 1848., m
Mrs. Mary Hughes Tatum, b Aug., 1777. His
sisters were Mary, m Robert Hughes ; Sarah,
m. Allen Glover. Williamson Norwood's ch
were James, m Sarah Anne Hester ; Sarah
Mourning, m John A. Calhoun ; Caroline Fran-
ces, m Maj. Clarke; Mary, m Belcher; and

John.— H. C. G.

10609. Hitchcock. — Wanted, parentage of
Elizabeth Hitchcock, b 1801, d 1829, who m
Jarvis L. Smith, of Geneva, N. Y., in 1816.—
B. H. S.

10610. Lamphear. — Wanted, data regarding

Lamphear, who came from England and

was a teacher in Rockingham Co., Va. His
dau Ruth m 1808, John Turkeyhiser, and came
to Highland Co., Ohio.

(a) Henderson. — Wanted, parentage with
dates of Margaret Henderson, who m Wm.
Crawford. Their ch were Robert, m Sarah
Stephenson ; Mary, m John Armstrong ; James,
m Alary Bridge ; Viola, m Capt. David Gwinn ;
Andrew, m Elizabeth Stephenson; Margaret, m
Michael Cluk; Wm., m Martha Cooper. They
lived in Bath Co., Va. Wanted also Rev rec of
Wm. Crawford and of his father. Ensign
Alexander Crawford.

(b) Cum MINGS. — James Cummings and his

w. Mary , among the Highland Co. voters

in 1806. d 1821. Their ch Nancy, m David
White ; Margaret, m Samuel Danner ; Jane, m
James Spears; Andrew, m Jane — ; Thomas,

m Susannah Cinque ; James, m Sarah ;

Jolin m 1st, Mary Bennett, 2nd, Mary Stultz ;
Martha, m Jacob Sccrist. Wanted, any early
data of this line.— P. C. H.

10611. Lee-Haurison. — Wanted, parentage of
Richard H. Lcc, of Va., who m Frances, sister
of Benj. Harrison, father of Wm. Henry
Harrison, Prcs. of U. S. Wanted also his date
of m and Rev rec. Came to Ky. with his family
about 1811, leaving bchinrl him in Va., one
s. Francis.

(a) Bush.— Wanted, Colonel and Rev rec
of John Bush, b about 1742 in Va., s of Philip,
whose will was probated in Orange Co., Va,.

Sept. 24, 1772. Witness by James Madison,
naming 10 ch, including John.

(b) Karr-Douglass. — Wanted, ances of
Wm. Karr, pioneer settler of Madison Co., Ky.,
b Va., 1771, m Sarah Douglass, sister of
Thomas, who m Anne McCord of Ky. The ch
of Wm. and Sarah Douglass Karr were John
Douglass, Wm. Garland, Hudson Monroe,
Perry Culberson, Thomas Madison, Pamelia

Anne, who m ■ Ballard, s of Edward and

Elizabeth Gentry Ballard. Wanted also ances
and date of m of Sarah Douglass. — L. C. W.

10612. Arter. — Henry Arter served in Rev
from Lancaster Co. John Arter served from
Phila. Co. Wanted, names of w and ch of
each.— M. E. W.

10613. Montgomery. — As I am compiling a
history of Montgomery and related families
formerly of Penna., would like to corres with
desc of Forster, Laird, Quiggle, Shaw, Chatham,
Bigger, MacFadden, Huston and McCorkle
families. — J. M.

10614. HiLLis.— Wanted, date of b, m & d of
Abraham Hillis and of his w, Margaret Ewing.
He was a Rev sol in Capt. Ephriam Blackburn's
Co., Westnottingham twp, Chester Co., Mil, 2nd
Bat. Com. by Col. Evans. Apr. 24, 1778.
Reference Penna. Archives, vol. 5 p. 520. He
was supposed to have been a member of the
Octarara Congregational Church. — F. C. P.

10615. Harris. — Wanted, parentage and dates
of Wm. Henry Harris, who m Louise Sheets, b
1812. Their dau Elizabeth, b Aug. 18, 1833,
Parkersburg, W. Va., m Penny Fry. Wanted,
his parentage with dates.

(a) Holt. — Wanted, parentage of Wm. Price
Holt, b in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 18, 1839, d in
Pagosa Springs. Colo., May 2, 1890, m Emma
Fry, April 20, 1874, Leavenworth, Kans. —
F. B. McN.

10616. Nixon. — Wanted, parentage and Rev
rec of father of Wm. Nixon, b in Va., Nov. 11,
1773, m Mrs. Priscilla Abigail Pickett. Apr. 19,
1819. Their dau Mary Ellen Nixon, b July 14,
1825, m Samuel Miller Strong, Jan. 15, 1839.
They had 16 ch.— C. S. C.

10617. Joy.— Wanted, Rev rec of David Joy,
b 1724, d 1809. m Oct. 31, 1747. Elizabeth Allen,
b 1724, d 1820. His residence during the Rev
period was Guilford, Vt. Wanted also Rev rec
of Abel Joy. b 1750, d Apr. 11, 1813, m 1779,
Elizabeth Chase, b Jan. 11, 1759, d Jime 25,
1843. Wanted also Allen and Chase gen.

(a) Stoddard. — Wanted, Rev rec of Jonathan
Stoddard, whose s Jacob, b May 17, 1761, d Feb.
12, 1817, m Mary Salisbury, b Apr. 5, 1770.

(b) Harrod. — Wanted, gen and Rev rec of
father of Elijah Harrod, who had a s John, b
1808, m Rachel Veach, b 1811.— I. H, M.

10617. Tripp.- Wanted, any inf of Hannah
Tripp, b at Ferry. N. Y., about 1798. m Allen
Miller and lived at Nunda, Genc.sco Co., N. Y.

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They moved to Chicago, 111., in 1847.— H. J. E.

10619. Richardson. — Wanted, Rev rec of
Stephen Richardson, whose w was Elizabeth.
Their ch were John ; name unknown, and Sally.
They lived in N. C, but he might have served
from some other state. They moved to Maury
Co., Tenn., and then into Ala. in 1800. Stephen
d on the way.

(a) Williams.— Wanted, all data of William
Williams, who m Miss Mullins, probably in Va.
Had dau Patience, who m Wiley Rodgers.

(b) Thigpen. — Wanted, all inf of John
Thigpen, who m Susannah Scott. They had a
s Wm., who m. Emily Rodgers, and moved into
Ga.— S.B.

10620. Latham. — Wanted, place of res of
Thomas Latham, who m Deborah Harden, 1711
or 1712, before coming to Bridgewater, Mass.
Wanted also dates of b of his sons Phineas and
James who, though not mentioned in Mitchell's
History of Bridgewater, accompanied their bro
Rotheas to N. C. in 1740. Wanted also the
name of Phineas' 3rd w, Anne Catherine.

(a) Talbott. — Wanted, names of ch of Benj.
Talbott, who m Nov. 11, 1734, Eliza Ball, sister
of Mary Ball Washington. Is there a Samuel,
John, Benjamin, Edward or William among
them?— W. H. W.

10621. Roberts — Wanted ances name of w
and date of m of Benjamin Roberts, b 1750, d
1837. Enlisted in Rev War from Culpeper
Co., Va. 1779. Was Capt. of Va. Infantry,
ser under Col. Crockett. Pension allowed Aug.
20, 1832. Residence at time of application,
Shelby Co., Ky. Served 1779 to 1781. His
s Benj. m Sarah dau of Henry Simmons a
native of Henry Co., Ky. who enlisted as a
sol, during the Rev. Simmons later moved to
Shelby, Ind. where he lived to be 115 yrs old
and his w 107. The above named Benj.
emigrated from Ky. to 111. in 1822, d 1847.—
B. D. M.

10622. Carson. — Wanted parentage of Nancy
Carson who m Alexander Findley and lived
in Washington Co., Penna. He was made a
Freeman in 1767. They both died in N. Y.

(a) McCartney. — James McCartney in Rev
War from Westmoreland Co., Penna., d in Chil-

Hcothe, Ohio. His w was Mary • .• Wanted

her parentage and place of birth. — S. J. L.

10623. Woodson. — Have copy of record of m
of John Woodson to Mary Mims, Mar., 1760,

also m of Elizabeth Mims to Woodson..

Would like to know of the m which connect
the Woodson, Britt, Mims, Drury and Connelly
families of Va. They were all represented in
the Rev.— M. B. H.

10624. Hopkins. — Wanted gen and name of
w of Moses (?) Hopkins who was living in
Bourboun Co., Ky. at the close of the Rev
having emigrated from Md. or N. J. Children

Richard, b Oct. 28, 1781 in Nicholas Co.,
(Bourboun) Ky. m Mary Petty, d in Scott

Co., Ind. 1863; Constance m McAfee, lived

in New Albany, Ind. ; Prudence m McCornie,

lived in New London, Ind. ; Joseph m Margaret
Murphy, d in Carrolton, 111.. 1835; Moses, d
in Nicholas Co., Ky. 1853; Peace, m William
Hughes d in Clinton Co., Mo. ; and Anne. Was
Moses Hopkins a desc. of Stephen Hopkins
the Signer?

(a) Murphy. — Wanted ances and date of b
of iMargaret Tilurphy who m Joseph Hopkins
July 28, 1812 in Nicholas Co., Ky. Was there
Rev rec in this family?

(b) Wood. — Wanted gen and names of ch
of John Wood and his w Anne who emigrated
from Md. to Va. whose s William b May
13, 1864 m Mary Anne Clark in Culpeper Co.,
Va., 1790.

(c) Clark. — Wanted gen of Silas Clark and
of his w Linnie whose dau Mary Anne was b
in Charles Co., Md., Oct. 26, 1764, m William
Wood, Mar. 1, 1790 in Culpeper Co., Va.
and d in Rappahannock Co., Va. Dec. 19,
1862.— L. M. W.

10625. Tucker. — Wanted names of ch of
Benj. Tucker Jr. and Mary Thomas, his w m
Apr., 1760 in Aliddleborough, Mass. Have as
their ch Dr. Benjamin who m Eve Viele ;

Ephraim m Nancy ; Joseph m. Polly

Turner ; Lucretia ; Ruth m Daniel Mallory ;
Sally m at Randolph, Vt. James Blodgett, Sept.
7, 1786. Would Hike to have proof that these
are the ch of Benjamin Tucker.

(a) BuNN. — Joseph Bunn m Rachel Bloom-
field and their s Sarajah m Sarah Walker. All
of Woodbridge, N. J. in 1789. Soon emigrated
to Richfield, Herkimer Co., N. Y. Wanted Rev
rec in Bunn, Walker or Bloomfield lines,
also dates.

(b) Moore. — Thomas Moore of Woodbridge,
N. J. m about 1800 Annie Wright. Wanted
Rev ser and all data concerning the Moore and
Wright families.

(c) RuNDLE. — Elizabeth Rundle m Jedediah
Wheeler about 1756. He was from New Fair-
field, Conn. Was she the dau of William
Joseph Rundle of Norwalk, Conn. ? A niece
of Elizabeth Rundle Wheeler, namely Lucy
Rundle m their s, Luther Wheeler. Wanted
anv information about the Rundle familv. —

c.'w. W.

10626. Horn-Orne-Churchman. — Wanted
ances of Deacon John Horn and also of his
w Anne Churchman of Salem. Their dau Anne
Horn m Nathaniel Felton of Salem. Wanted
names of her ch.

(a) Sheldon-Felton. — Hepsibah Sheldon
was an adult when baptized. May 12, 1706.
She m Skelton Felton, s of Nathaniel (2)
Nathaniel (1). Did their s Joseph b Aug. 14,

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DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION MAGAZINE

171S have Rev rec? He d Oakham, Feb.
14, 1803.

(b) Plum.— Robert Plum b 1648, s of Robert

and Mary Baldwin m . Wanted her maiden

name and gen. Their dau Rachel, b Feb. 20,
1676 m Enoch Curtiss of New Haven, Conn.,
June 6, 1739, d 1760. All of Milford.

(c) Merriam-Olney. — Wanted dates of b
m & d of Abigail Qlney who m Nathanial
Merriam b in Kent Co., England, 1613 s of

Theophilas and Hannah Merriam. Wanted

names of their ch and of the persons they
m.— M. S. B.

10627. Williams.— Did William Williams,
signer of the Declaration of Ind. have a dau

or granddau who m Lockwood, who lived

at Newburgh, on the Hudson? — E. L. O.

10628. Dix-Hiatt-Hadley. — Jonathan Lind-
ley b June 15, 1756 probably in London Grove,
Pa. m Deborah dau of Zacharias and Lydia
Hiatt Dix, in 1775. Lived near Snow Camp,
N. C. prior to 1811 when they moved to Ind.
His father, Thomas Lindley moved from Pa.
to N. C. and is probably bur at Snow Camp.
He was b in 1706 in Penna. and m Ruth, dau
of Simon Hadley. Wanted Dix, Hiatt and
Hadley gen.

(a) Cox. — Wanted gen of Elizabeth Cox
who m 1794 Robert Hallawell b Sept. 13, 1772.
They moved from Wayne Co. N. C. to Ind.
in 1807.— W. A. D.

10629. Armstrong. — Wanted date of m of
Jacob Armstrong and Martha Wells. Jacob
was the s of Lebbeus and Rebecca Hyde Arm-
strong, of Norwich, Conn.

(a) Wells. — Wanted Rev rec of George
Wells of Bennington, Vt. whose dau Martha
m Jacob Armstrong, also name of his w with
necessary dates.

(b) Browx.— Nathan, s of Daniel and Mary
Breed Brown of Stonington, Conn, m Lydia
Dewey in 1761. Their dau Theoda m Col.
George Denison and lived in Hartland, Vt.
Did Nathan have Rev rec? Give reference.

(c) ScRiVNER.— Wanted ances of Isaac Scriv-
ncr who m Sarah Hewett and lived at Ballston,
N. Y. in 1809, when their dau Evenile was b
Wanted also date of their m and record of
Rev ser of father.

(d) Hewett.— Wanted parentage of Israel
Hewett who ser in Rev Conn. Mil, pensioned
1818 and resided then in Susquehanna Co., Pa.
Wanted also name of his vv and date of d.—
J. H. H.

10630. McKes.— Wanted gen of Wm. McKec
(1722-1816) Point Pleasant, Va. Commanded
Va. Mil. Sheriff in 1781, Trustee of Wash.
& Iu:e Univ. b in Ireland d in Garrard Co.,
Ky. where he moved in 1796.— J. McK. G.

10631. Allen-.— Wanted parentage of John
Allen b 1758 I'onifret, ConiL ser in Rev from

Wallingsford, m Sarah Edmonds. Wanted her
parentage also, and d of her b. She d 1833
in Louisiana, Mo. John d 1830. Their s John
Edmonds Allen b May 21, 1784 in Lexington
Ky. m May 9, 1804, Pamelia Parry. Wanted
dates of their d and place of m. Pamelia Parry

was the dau of and Betty Nash Parry.

Wanted name of her father and dates of both
parents. Notes taken from old family Bible
give a Wm. Nash b Feb. 2, 1741 ; Alary evidently
his w b Dec. 2, 1737 and ch Cornelius, b Nov.
10, 1767; Betty Nov. 10, 1771; Wm. Nov. 27,
1777; Rev rec wanted for Nash, and Parry
ances. — E. J. K.

10632. Roberts. — Wanted name and dates of

Roberts who m Evelyn Thomson, b in

Statesville, N. H. Did he or his father have
Rev rec?

(a) Smith. — Wanted all data of Elizabeth
Smith, b Concord, N. H., m Josiah Roberts,
Orange Co., N. Y.— P. W. W.

10633. Mariner. — Wanted Rev rec of Ephriam
Mariner b probably at Colchester, Conn., 1735-
36 d 1810, Son of Wm. and Abigail Wells
Mariner. Refered to in History of Sharon,
Conn, by Sedgwick as Capt. Ephriam Mariner
from Colchester in 1765, d 1810. Was a member
of the State Gen. Assembly May, 1787 and
May and Oct. 1788. Charles William Ephriam,

b 1827; Polly m— Jewett ; Sally m Page;

and Buel. Buel and Ephriam moved to Yates
Co., N. Y.

(a) Lord. — Wanted Rev rec of John Lord
b Feb. 22, 1757 at Sharon, Conn., s of Joseph
and Esther Chapman Lord, m 1779 Olive b
1760 dau of Ebeneazer Everitt, member of the
Co. of Minute men under Capt. Caleb Jewett
at Sharon, Conn. Wanted also Rev rec of
Joseph Lord. Children of John and Olive
Everitt Lord were : Ephriam and Ethan,
twins; Joseph; Philo; Erastus ; Orin ; Jay;
Esther, b 1784; Lavinia ; Lois, m Buckston;

(c) York. — Wanted Rev rec of Joseph L.
York m at Clermont, N. H. Elsie Spencer Feb.
2, 1779 by Rev. Hubbard. His headstone near
Randolph N. Y. or Vt. records ser in Army,
either Rev or 1812. His .son Jeremiah lived in
Randolph, Vt., was probably m there and moved
afterward to N. Y. His ch were Converse;
Lavinia ; Hannah Walbridgc ; possibly others.
Wanted also Rev rec of father of Elsie
Silencer. — L. M. E.

10634. Blake. — Wanted parentage of Joseph
Blake. Gov. of the Carolinas 1696-17(X). Also
ances of his w and names of his ch.

(a) Williams. — Wanted ances of William
Williams, b in Brooke Co., Va. 1800, d 1874,
m 1827 Rachel Cantmell b 1806, d 1855.

(b) Smith.— Wanted ances of Mary Smith
of N. J., wlio m 1820 Coshocton, Ohio,
James Cantmell.

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565

(c) Cantmell. — Wanted data of desc of
Capt. Edmund Cantmell, who came to America
about 1664. Charles 2nd granted him a large
estate in Newcastle Co., Del. He was Sherifif
of New Castle Co., and d 1698.— E. H. C.

10635. Greex. — Wanted any inf of John
Green, nephew of Nathaniel, who was a stand-
ard bearer and killed at the Battle of Brandy-
wine. He m Mary Sheets and left one dau
Eleanor.— A. O. B.

10636. Jokes-Bourne. — In " Pioneer Settlers
of Grayson Co., Va." 153, it speaks of Minitree
Jones and Churchill Jones " All of Rev fame.
On p. 61 of same Wm. Bourne, Jr. m Mary
Johnston of Wilkes Co., N. C. whose family
was of " Rev fame." Wanted proof of Rev
rec of these two men. — M. L. B.

10637. Lawrence.— Wanted parentage of
Dorothy Ellen Lawrence who m John Cough-
enour, Lancaster Co., Pa. about 1804. Their
ch were Henry Jacob, John, Joseph, Peter,
David, Polly, Eliza and Nancy. She had one
sister, Mrs. Hanley who lived in Lancaster, Pa.

(a) Taylor. — Wanted names of bros and
sisters and parentage of Mathew Taylor b
about 1756 of English parentage, came to
Penna. from the north of Ireland, m Agnes
Mcllroy of Scotch ancestry. Children, John
Taylor, b 1777; Robert, 1778; Alexander" and
Agnes. Mathew Taylor d in Huntingdon Co.,
Pa. 1853, age 97. His w d age 95. Mathew
Taylor in archives subject to Military dutv,
1788.— J. L. B.

10638. Burton - Tate - Pruett - Campbell. —

Wanted Rev rec on any of these lines.

Burton m Sophia Anne Tate, 1794. Their s
William Tate Burton, b 1796 m Mary b 1802

dau of James and Campbell Pruett of Ga.

Sophia Anne Tate was the dau of Wm. and his
w Miss Pitts.

(a) Brooks. — From what part of Va. did
Peter Brooks, a sol of infantry enlist? His s
Samuel moved to Ga. and ni Elizabeth Starkev
in 1799.

10639. Steele-Slaughter. — Wanted inf and

gen of Dr. Steele who m a granddau of

Col. James and Susan Clayton Slaughter. Dr.
Steele and his w had 11 ch of whom John.

Alexander, James Slaugliter, Moses and Rezin
Davidge Steele lived at ITopkinsville, Ky.
Another s, was Fry, and a dau Susan Clayton
Steel. Wanted to locate desc of all these ch.—
R. D. S.

10640. Bennett.— Wanted maiden name of
1st w of Joshua Bennett the mother of
Mehitable, Amos, David, Hiram, Henry and
John, who d in Russia, Herkimer Co., N. Y.,
where probably all her ch were b. Would like
to corres with any of her desc. — M. E. B.

10641. Felton.— Wanted Rev rec of Joseph
Felton (4) b in Salem 1715.— M. S. B.

10642. Wright. — Wanted ances of Stephen
Wright who m Anne M. Swift of Cape Cod
and soon after 1800 lived in Auburn, N. Y.
Was his mother a dau of Stephen A. Weeks,
cabinet maker of N. Y. City? Either or both
the Weeks and Wright were Quakers.— i\I. F. C.

10643. Bronson. — Wanted any inf of sol
Ephriam Bronson recorded in " New York and
the Revolution " p. 230, that would connect with
Ephriam Bronson b about 1750 who m Bethia

and had 14 ch. The youngest Edwin B.

d age 93, the others were Dr. Ira ; Jacob ; Irene
.Swift ; Eleanor Carpenter ; Sophia Howe ; Dor-
cas ; Artemesia Parker; Almy Barnes; .Amanda

Wilson ; Calista m 1st, Guthrie and 2nd,

■ Harris.

(a) Hallock.— Wanted gen of Zebulon Hal-
lock "ensign" record in "Mil. minutes of
Council of Appointments of N. Y." Was he
b 1727 and did he m Betsey Wells?

(b) Wallace. — Wanted Rev rec and any
other inf concerning Wm. Ross Wallace and
w Anna Clinton.— R. H. A.

10644. Gillett. — Wanted names of w and
ch of Asahel Gillett who d Mar. 6, 1826, 75
years old, whose new stone is placed beside the
old black one in North Rose, N. Y. burying
ground. Wanted also parentage of Avery
Gillet b. in Conn. 1780. Had one bro Asahel,
said to be one of a large family.

(a) Averv. — Wanted name of w and Rev
rec. of Richard .Avery who had daus Phoebe
and Rhoda. Wanted also names of their
husbands. — C. E. McI.

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NATIONAL'BOARD^OF

Special Meeting, July 28, 1922

SPECIAL meeting of the National
Board of Management for the ad-
mission of members and authorization
and confirmation of chapters was
called to order by the President
General, Mrs. George Maynard Minor,
in the Board Room of Memorial
Continental Hall, Friday, July 28, 1922, at

11.10 A.M.

In the absence of the Chaplain General, the
members joined with the President General in
repeating the Lord's Prayer.

The President General spoke of the great
loss which the National Society had sustained
in the death of Mrs. John W. Foster, Honorary
President General, and Miss Grace M. Pierce,
twice Registrar General, and suggested that
it might be more fitting to at this time appoint
a committee to draw up resolutions to be con-
sidered at the larger Board meeting in October.
Moved by Miss Strider and seconded by Mrs.
Young, that the President General appoint a
committee to draw suitable resolutions upon
the death of Mrs. Foster, Honorary President
General, and Miss Grace Pierce. ex-Registrar
General. Carried.

In the absence of Mrs. Yawger, Mrs. Hanger
moved that Mrs. White be Secretary pro tern.
Seconded by Mrs. Hodgkins and carried.

The following members responded to the
roll call: National Officers: Mrs. Minor, Mrs.
Hodgkins, Mrs. Buel, Mrs. Hanger, Miss
Strider, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. White ; State
Regents : Mrs. Bissell, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Young.

The President General announced that she
would appoint as the members of the Committee
to draw up the resolutions, Mrs. Matthew T.
Scott, as Chairman, Mrs. Guernsey, Mrs. Spen-
cer, Miss Strider, and Mrs. Young.

Miss Strider read her report as follows :

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report 975 applications
for membership.

Respectfully submitted,

(Miss) Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.
Miss Strider moved that the Secretary cast
the ballot for the admission of 9/5 applicants

for membership. Seconded by Airs. Hunter
and carried. The Secretary pro tern announced
the casting of the ballot and the President Gen-
eral declared these 975 applicants elected as
members of the National Society.
Mrs. Hanger then read her report.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :
I have the honor to report as follows :
Through their respective State Regents, the
following members at large are presented for
confirmation as Organizing Regents :

Mrs. Maude Bostwick Roddenbery, Cairo,
Ga. ; Miss Clyde Willis, Greensboro, Ga. ; Mrs.
Mary Taylor Logan, Hartford, Ky. ; Mrs.
Clara Hawes Bascom Owings, Mt. Sterling,
Ky. ; Mrs. Florence Graham Offutt Stout,
Versailles, Ky. ; Mrs. Elizabeth MofTatt Get-
zendanner, Bethesda, Md. ; Mrs. Grace Orne
Morton, Arlington, Mass. ; Mrs. Mabel Warner
Metcalf, Holyoke, Mass. ; Mrs. Nellie Winslow
Sargent, Pittsfield, N. H. ; Mrs. Leola Much-
more Wootten, Summit, N. J.; Mrs. Mary
Coffin Sisson, Potsdam, N. Y. ; Mrs. Mattie
Hadley Woodward, Wilson, N. C. ; Mrs.
Esther Gaylor Steward, Thermopolis, Wyo.
The State Regent of Virginia requests the
authorization of a Chapter at Manassas.

The State Regent of Colorado, Mrs. Herbert
B. Hayden requests the name " Elbridge Gerry"
for the Chapter at Sterling, organized Dec-
ember 20, 1920.

The following Chapters have reported organ-
ization since the last Board meeting :

" Pensacola " at Pensacola, Fla. ; " Fred-
erick Funston " at Humboldt, Kan. ; " Catlinite"
at Pipestone, Minn. ; " Gunthwaite " at Lisbon,
N. H. ; " Kiandaga " at Naples, N. Y. ; " Eula-
lona " at Klamath Falls, Oregon ; " Fort
Roberdeau" at Tyrone, Pa ; " Blue Savannah"
at Mullins, S. C.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.,) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Organising Secretary General.

The adoption of the report of Organising
Secretary General was moved by Mrs. White,
seconded by Mrs. Hunter and Mrs. Bissell,
and carried.

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The Treasurer General reported the loss
through death since the last meeting of 360
members. The Board rose in silent tribute
to the members who had passed on. Mrs.
Hunter reported the resignation of 103 mem-
bers, and, in compliance with the provisions
of the Constitution which requires the drop-
ping of members whose dues are not paid
by July 1st, six months after the date they
became payable. 1.055 chapter members and
615 members at large were dropped. Mrs.
Hunter reported that 65 former members had
applied for reinstatement and moved that the
65 former yncmbers, having complied with the
requirements of the Constitution, be reinstated
and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the
ballot for the reinstatement of these 63 appli-

cants. Seconded by Mrs. Hanger and carried.
The Secretary pro tem announced the casting
of the ballot and the President General declared
these 65 applicants for reinstatement members
of the National Society.

Mrs. Hardy referred to the illness of Mrs.
Reynolds and moved that a letter of sy)npathy
be sent to ^[rs. Reynolds because of her illness.
Seconded by Mrs. Buel and carried.

Mrs. Hanger moved that a letter of sympathy
be sent to Mrs. Sparks in her continued illness.
Seconded by Mrs. Bissell and carried.

The minutes having been read and approved,
at 11.45. on motion, the meeting adjourned.

(Mrs. George W.) Louise C. White,

Secretary, pro tem.

FORiM OF BEQUEST

Where one desires to leave both real and
personal property to the National Society.
Daughters of the American Revolution any one
of the following forms can be used:

" I hereby give devise and bequeath, absol-
utely and in fee simple, to the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
having its Iieadciuartcrs at Washington, in the
District of Columbia, (here describe the nature
of the proiJcrty to be given), to be used and
expended for the ol)jects and purposes for
which said National Society was incorporated."

In case a casli legacy only is desired to
be given.

" I give and bequcatli, absolutely, to the
National Society of the Daughters of the

American Revolution, having its headquarters
at Washington, in the District of Columbia, the'
sum of

($ ). to be used and expended for the

objects and purposes for which said National
Society was incori'orated."

In case a devise of real estate only is desired
to be given to the National Society.

" I give and devise, absolutely and in fee
simple, to the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, having its head-
quarters at Washington, in the District of
Columbia, (here describe the real estate in-
tended to be devised), to be used and ex-
pended for the objects and purposes for which
the said National Society was incorporated.

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President General

AIrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

1412 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg. Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schgentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.
(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N.C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R. L

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1821 Kalorama Road. Washington, D. c'
(Term of office expires 1925)
Miss Alice Louise McDuffee. AIrs. Williard T. Block,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Annie Wallace,

Newcastle, Wyoming. Rochester, N. H.

Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, AIrs. Howard H. McCall,

Litchfield, Conn. Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, Ga.

Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, 143 S. E. 2nd St., IMiami, Fla.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D.C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, AIrs. A. AIarshall Elliott,
Alemorial Continental Hall. Alemorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, AIiss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Alemorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,
Memorial Continental Hall. Alemorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,

Memorial Continental Hall.

Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1922-1923

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,
110 N. Conception St.,

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,
Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,

817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.
MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,

Amity.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,
1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.

MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. CLYDE C. DAWSON,
1211 Race St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,

235 N. Main St., Southington.
MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,

61 Seymour Ave., Derby.

DELAWARE

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,
Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E., Washington.
MRS. JOHN M. BEAVERS,

1752 Columbia Road, Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

2.33 VV. Duval St., Jacksonville.

MRS. THEODORE .STRAWN,
De Land.

GEORGIA

MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

106 Culver St., Macon.
MRS. JULIUS Y. TALMADGE,

1295 Prince Avenue, Athens.

HAWAII

MRS. N. L. SCOTT,
The Coortland Hotel, Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Second Ave., E. Twin Falls.

MRS. I). W. .STANDROD,

048 N. Oaukield Ave., Pocatello.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EUGENE CHUBBUCK,

c;rand View Drive, Peoria.
MRS. VINTON EARL SISSON,
5456 Ferdinand .St., Chicago.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,
H)ll N. I'ENNA St., Indianapolis.
MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW,
3128 Kairkield Ave., Ft. Waynb.

IOWA

MI.SS AMY GILBERT,

Statu Center.
MR.S. H. A. WHITE,
815 5th Ave., Clinton.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,
"Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. WILLIAM RODES,

152 E. High St., Lexington.
MRS. JOHN W. CHENAULT,

2217 Glenmart Ave., Louisville.

LOUISIANA

MRS. S. A. DICKSON,

1034 Jacobs St., Shreveport.
MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,

2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,

282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSHMAN,

122 GoFF St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.
MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,

2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bei.levue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,

Pinehuust, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.
MRS. ADDISON DRAKE KENT,
622 State St., St. Joseph.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON

1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MISS HENRIETTA S. MITCHELL,

Jackson.
MRS. ROBERT SOMERVILLE.

Cleveland.

MISSOURI

MRS. PAUL D. KITT,

Chillicotiie.
MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedalia.

MONTANA

MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

814 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.
MRS. ADELPHUS B. KEITH,
418 S. Washington St., Butte.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

1731 L. St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH.

ClIADRON.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

MRS. LOR IX WEBSTER,

I'l.YMIHTll.

MRS. LESLIE P. SNOW,

RoiHICSTER.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY I). FITTS,

448 Riix^K St., Newark.
MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watchung Ave., Plainfiei-d.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. R. P. BARNES,

Aliiuquerque.
MRS. FRANCIS CUSHMAN WILSON.
BuENA Vista Road, Sante Fe.

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NEW YORK

MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,
8 Lafayette St., Albany.

MRS. CHARLES M. BULL.
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

NORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPENCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TILLETT,

810 N. Tryon St., Charlotte.

NORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG.

Valley City.
MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,

300 Sth St., South Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. WILLIAM MAGEE WILSON,

Church and King Sts., Xenia.
MRS. JAMES HENRY ALLEN,

431 N. Detroit St., Kenton.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. H. H. McCLINTOCK,

903 Johnston Ave., Bartlesville.
MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

OREGON

MISS ANNE M. LANG,

115 W. 4th St., The Dalles.
MRS. BRUCE L. BOGART,
962 Pearl St., Eugene.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston^ Linden Ave., Pittsburgh.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westerly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,
4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

TENNESSEE

MRS. LOGAN SEITS GILLENTINE,

MURFREESBORO.

MRS. JOHN H. CANTRELL,

821 Vine St., Chattanooga.

TEXAS

MRS. WILLIAM D. GARLINGTON,

2701 Fairmount Ave., Dallas.
MRS. SAMUEL L. SEAY,
710 Polk St., Amarillo.

MRS. JOHN EDWARD CARVER,

718 25th St., Ogden.
MRS. CLESSON S. KINNEY,

820 E. 4th South, Salt Lake City.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

Middlebury.
MISS JENNIE VALENTINE,
Bennington.

VIRGINIA

DR. KATE WALLER BARRETT,

408 Duke St., Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,
911 Orchakd Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER,
1804 15th Ave., Seattle.

MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,
724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.
MRS. W. H. CONAWAY,

109 Virginia Ave., Fairmont.

WISCONSIN

MRS. GEORGE L. PARKER,
805 Court St., Janesville.

MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER,
Wisconsin Rapids.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN C. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,

Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL,

Sioux Falls.
MRS. VIRGINIA BARCLAY MOODY,

Huron.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Box 1070, Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CAROLINE E. McWILLIAMS HOLT,

744 A. Mabini, Manila, P. I.
MRS. ELAINE CHILDS ELSER,

600 M. H. DEL Pelar, Manila, P. I.

MRS. DANIEL MANNING,
MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. WILLIAM GUMMING STORY,

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

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MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK, 1899.

MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 1899

MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD, 1905.

MRS. WILLIAM LINDSAY, 1906.

MRS. HELEN M. BOYNTON, 1906.

MRS. SARA T. KINNEY, 1910.

Honorary Chaplain General
MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD.

Honorary Vice Presidents General

MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH, 1911.
MRS. THEODORE C. BATES, 1913.
MRS. F. GAYLORD PUTNAM, 1913.
MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.
MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.
MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.
MRS. GEORGE M. STERNBERG, 1917.

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WHOLE No. 362

THE POST OFFICE OF THE
REVOLUTIONARY WAR

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By John C. F
Assistant Chief, Manuscript

HE Post Office of the United
States, as a distinct civic estab-
hshment is built upon a founda-
tion suppHed by the energy and
enterprise of an American news-
paper pubHsher. A year or more
before the outbreak of the Revohitionary
War it came into existence in opposition
to the Royal Mail service in the Colonies
and reached such a point of efficiency and
service that, when the Continental Con-
gress established a postal service, it
meant little more than taking over and
systematizing William Goddard's news-
paper mail.

The Royal Mail in the Colonies became
a source of irritation to the people with
the beginning of the Stamp Act excite-
ment. The postal rates were high and the
business methods a mixture of arrogance
and superciliousness. When the struggle
against the Crown commenced, the Royal
Post Office interfered in every possible
way, that could block the efforts of the
Colonies to obtain unanimity of action. It
delayed and suppressed news and mis-
handled mail. Letters were opened, read
and destroyed and the information thus

itzpatrick, A.Al.

Division, Library of Congress

obtained was transmitted to the royal
authorities. Such interference was serious
and this and many petty tyrannies of
the Post were decided factors in rousing
the spirit of protest and rebellion, espe-
cially among the business and mercan-
tile classes.

William Goddard was the owner and
publisher of the Maryland Journal and
Baltimore Advertiser, a weekly newspaper
that espoused the cause of the Colonies
with fearless enthusiasm. Because of its
pungent criticism of British adminis-
trative measures his paper was practically
barred from the mail a year or more be-
fore the war began. With true American
newspaper enterprise Goddard refused to
be balked and forthwith established a car-
rier service from Baltimore to Philadel-
phia and New York to get his paper into
the hands of his subscribers. This venture
proving successful, he made a tour of the
Colonies and obtained subscriptions suffi-
cient to establish a Hne of riders from
Massachusetts to Georgia. These post
riders, almost at once, were entrusted
with carrying small parcels and letters by
the people along the routes, as their service

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was regular and more dependable than
that of the Royal Mail riders. By August,
1774, Goddard's service was in full opera-
tion and the revenues of the Royal Mail
was seriously curtailed by the competi-
tion. It was not a peaceful competition,
however, and there were frequent per-
sonal encounters and much bad blood dis-
played by the competing riders when they
chanced to meet upon the road. These
were in efiFect, the preliminary skirmishes
of the war that was soon to break forth.

A month after Lexington, the Conti-
nental Congress appointed a committee of
Benjamin Franklin, who had been the
Deputy Postmaster General of the Royal
Mail in the Colonies ; Thomas Lynch,
Richard Henry Lee, who later introduced
the resolution of Independence; Thomas
Willing, Samuel Adams and Philip
Livingston, to consider the best means of
establishing posts for conveying letters
throughout the Continent, as the then
critical situation rendered it highly neces-
sary that ways and means be devised for
the speedy and secure conveyance of intel-
ligence from one end of the Colonies to
the other. This committee brought in a
report, July 25, 1775, which was consid-
ered and adopted the next day, so that the
Post Office, which came into existence by
the adoption of this report, was the second
executive department created by the Con-
tinental Congress. The first, naturally
eufjugh in a frontier country, was the
Indian Department. As established the
Post Office consisted of a Postmaster Gen-
eral of the United Colonies, whose office
was to be in l'liiladeli)hia, a Secretary, a
Coniptrolk-r or auditor and the necessary
number of deputies, or j)ostmasters, in
charge of the post offices throughout the
Colonies. The post riders, or mail car-
riers were looked upon, apparently, as
mere messengers, or employees, and were
not given much consideration, then or

later though, had it not been for their
services, the rest of the organization would
have fallen to the ground as useless. The
main or trunk line of post offices reached
from Falmouth, now Maine, to Savannah,
Georgia, with cross lines to the interior as
needed. The Postmaster General's salary
allowance at the start was $1000, and the
postmasters were allowed, in lieu of salary,
20 per cent, of all postage paid into the
office when the whole amount was under
$1000 a year and 10 per cent, when this
amount exceeded $1000. The postage
rates were established at 20 per cent, less
than those of the Royal ]\Iail, which had
been one shilling, eight pence on single
letters (letters written on one sheet of
paper only), not carried over 60 miles;
two shillings when carried between 100
and 200 miles ; three shillings eight pence
for between 200 and 300 miles ; four shil-
lings for between 300 and 400 miles, and
four shillings, six pence for between 400
and 500 miles. The rate was doubled for
double letters (letters written on two
sheets of paper), treble for treble letters
and so on ; the postage on an ounce pack-
age equalled that on four single letters.

Congress pledged itself to supply any
money deficiency and elected Benjamin
Franklin the first Postmaster General.
Franklin immediately appointed William
(joddard as his Surveyor General of Post
Roads, which was the same as supervisor
of post riders, and Richard Bache, his
Secretary and Comptroller. This was the
modest beginning of the official Post Office
Department of the United States and these
three men juit into operation the postal
system wliicli has continued, without a
break down to tiie present and ranks to-
day with the United States Treasury in
impt)rtance to the well-being of the nation.

The complete Post Office establishment
included, of course, the postmasters
throughout the country and the post riders.

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Unfortunately no full record of these has
survived ; but it is possible to check up a
nearly complete list of the postmasters
and post offices from 1775 through 1777,
and these will be here given because it has
nowhere been published before and be-
cause these men contributed a valuable
share of the combined effort that gained
our independence.

The main line of the mail ran north and
south from Philadelphia, the central office.
Northward the stages were, Philadelphia
to Easton, Pennsylvania ; Easton to Fish-
kill, New York; Fishkill to Hartford,
Connecticut ; Hartford to Boston ; Boston
to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and
Portsmouth to Falmouth, then in Massa-
chusetts, now in Maine. To the south the
line ran, Philadelphia to Annapolis, Alary-
land; Annapolis to Williamsburg, Vir-
ginia; Williamsburg to Halifax, North
Carolina; Halifax to Wilmington in the
same State; Wilmington to Charleston,
South Carolina, and Charleston to
Savannah, Georgia. There were deputies
in each of the above main station post
offices and intermediate stations were
established as needed. The mail passed
twice a week to each of the main stations
and the postal regulations demanded 100
miles of travel from the post riders every
24 hours, even though this might mean
riding both night and day. The riders
were paid 12 pence Pennsylvania cur-
rency per mile from October 20th to April
20th and 8 pence per mile from April 20th
to October 20th. While the army was at
Cambridge, during the siege of Boston,
the riding stages between Philadelphia and
Washington's headquarters were Bruns-
wick, New Jersey ; Dobbs Ferry on the
Hudson, Fairfield, Hartford, Woodstock
and Cambridge.

The year 1775 passed with the civil
organization of the Revolutionary govern-
ment shaking down into place. Despite

the many and heavy demands on Franklin's
time he succeeded in systematizing and
improving the mail service to such an ex-
tent that by the end of 1776, when he gave
up the Postmaster Generalship to become
United States Commissioner to France,
the postal service was running with com-
parative smoothness and commendable
efficiency. In 1776 the franking of mail,
free postage of official letters, was intro-
dviced. It did not come into existence
without a struggle, for the men of the
Revolution were chary and suspicious of
everything savoring of special privilege.
They had seen the evils of political favor-
itism and it was largely because of such
evils that they had been driven to rebel
against their King. The privilege was first
proposed for the soldiers in the field and,
after considering two weeks, Congress
granted free postage to the troops actually
engaged in active service ; later this priv-
ilege was extended to the officers and
toward the end of the year to the Board
of W^ar. The Commander-in-Chief and
the President of Congress had the priv-
ilege from the beginning.

Postmasters were exempt from military
service and the post riders were like-
wise excused, these last by a resolve of
August 8th. At the end of August, Con-
gress formulated additional regulations
which provided a post rider for every 25
or 30 miles of mail route, and each rider
was expected to cover his stage three times
a week, setting out immediately on re-
ceipt of the mail and travelling without
stops to the next rider. This was the pony
express plan that was so successfully oper-
ated in the Far West a century later, and
it is interesting to know that our Conti-
nental Congress planned a service that was
developed to its highest point of efficiency
by the western plainsman, Buffalo Bill, one
hundred years afterwards. A trouble in
1776, was keeping the riders up to their

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INSTRUCTIONS ISSUED BY POSTMA.SI l-R fJKMR.M. H..\ZARI) TO IllK DKPUTY POSTMASTERS
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POST OFFICE NOTICE FOR THE INFORMATION OF THE PUBLIC, ISSUED
BY POSTMASTER GENERAL BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

FROM THE ORIGINAL IN THE PAPERS OF THE CONTINENTAL CONGRESS, IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

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schedule, a point in the western pony ex-
press service that was taken care of by the
personal pride of the plainsman in his repu-
tation as a hard rider. But this pride was
non-existent in 1776, and Congress sug-
gested that the Postmaster General institute
a system of waybills or some similar check
method to prevent delay on the part of the
post riders. In these additional regula-
tions of August, Congress provided for
three mail, or " advice " boats, to ply be-
tween North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia and the nearest port to the seat of
Congress. These boats were to be armed,
and the frugal-mindedness of the Congress
was displayed in the proviso that the boats
carry cargoes, to meet the expense of
their operation.

A record of the Post Office personnel
for the first years of the Revolution does
not seem to have survived. It is doubtful
if one for 1775 was ever specifically com-
piled; but from 1776 up to 1778 we have
what appears to be a nearly complete
record and it is from this record that the
following names and offices are given, as
a roster of civilian patriots deserving of
place on the honor roll of the Revolution :
Falmouth (Maine), Samuel Freeman and
Moses Swift, Postmasters ; Portsmouth,
N. H., Samuel Penhallow and Jeremiah
Libbey ; Salem, Mass., Edward Norris and
Mascoll Williams; Newburyport, Mass.,
Bulkley Emerson ; Ipswich, Mass., Daniel
Daniel Noyes; Middletown. Mass., Hobby
Winsley ; Springfield, Mass., Moses
Church ; l\'iirfield, Conn., Thaddeus Burr ;
Stratford, Conn., Ebenezer Weed; Hart-
ford, Conn., William Ellery, Thomas
Hilldrup and J. Hastings; New Haven,
Elias Beers, G. Saltonstall ; Westerly,
R. I., J(.el r.abcock and — (ioddard;
Newport. 1\. I., Solomon Soutliwick ;
Greenwich, R. 1., G. Mumfonl; Provi-
dence. 1\. I., jolm Carter; JMslikill, N. ^^,
.Samuel Loudoun; iMH'dcricksburi/, N. N'.,

William Smith and James Taylor; Little j

Rest, N. Y., W^illiam Potter; Trenton, I

N. J., Abraham Hunt and James Paxton;
Princeton, N. J., Hugh Montgomery;
Elizabethtown, N. J., Edward Thomas
and Cochran Prider; Morristown, N. J.,
Frederick King; Bristol, Pa., Charles
Bessonet; Easton, Pa., Robert Trail;
Reading, Pa., Henry Haller; Philadelphia,
Peter Baynton, who was also Comptroller
of the Post Office; Susquehanna, Pa.,
John Rogers; Wilmington, Del., Jacob
Broome; Newcastle, Del., Mrs. Clay;
Head of Elk, Md., Jacob Hollingsworth
and Joseph Stiles; Baltimore, Md., Mary
K. Goddard; Annapolis, Md., William
Whitcroft and William Goldsmith;
Bladensburg, Md., Christopher Lowndes ;
Upper Marlboro, Md., Stephen West;
Georgetown, Md., Thomas Richardson ;
Chestertown, Eastern Shore, Md., John
Bolton ; Queenstown, Md., James Browne,
James Kent, William Richmond and R.
Wilson; Talbot, Md., John Nesmyth and
William McCallum ; Alexandria, Va.,
Josiah Watson and Robert McCrea ; Dum-
fries, Va., Richard Graham; Fredericks-
burg, Va., William Smith; Newcastle,
Va., F. Tate; Petersburg, Va., William
Bradley; Sufifolk, Va., John Driver;
Aylett's Warehouse, Va., — Pollard;
Port Royal, Va., George Tankerslie;
Yorktown, Va., Richard Brown; Bath-
town, N. C, William Brown; Edenton,
N. C, \\^illiam Gardner; Wilmington,
N. C, John Dubois ; Georgetown, S. C,
Robert Gibson and William Steuart ; Jack-
sonburg, S. C, John Tod ; Charleston,
S. C, Peter Bonetheau ; Purysburgh.
S. C, Frederick Rehm ; Pocotaligo, S. C,
Richard Wayne. Many of these indi-
viduals had already acted as postmasters
at one time or another before the com-
mencement of the Revolution, either with
the Royal .Mail or in Goddard's news-
paper service so that it was not an entirely

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581

untrained force that managed the various
post office stations.

In addition to the above names there are
those of Richard N. Stephens, Surveyor
for the Southern District ; James Bryson,
Surveyor for the Middle District;
Alexander Purdie, who seems to have
acted as an accountant; John Clarkson,
who acted in a similar capacity, and
Joel Erpin, Richard Cogdell, Thomas
McLeane, William Brown, Richard Yorke,
John Perkins and John Bolton, whose
duties are not defined. The express, or
post riders of 1776 of whom there is
record are : John King, Bernard Wolf, E.
Adams, Hugh M'Clenaghan, John Avery,
Jr., Elijah Bennett, William Chew,
Josiah Fessenden, Joseph Beck and
John Pluckrose.

In October, 1776, occurred the first mail
mishap of which we have a record. The
important despatches between Congress
and the army were sent by special ex-
presses, independent of the regular mail
routes and schedules (Elijah Bennett
and Josiah Fessenden seem to have been
the most trusted of these) ; one of the
riders was robbed of despatches from
General Washington, at Bristol, Pennsyl-
vania. He was promptly arrested and a
committee of Congress investigated the
aflfair. The postmaster at Bristol was dis-
charged for complicity in the theft,
but the express rider was cleared. The
experience Congress gained in this investi-
gation led to the Postmaster General
obtaining full control over the special ex-
presses, and the incident has value mainly
in showing that Congress, thus early,
awoke to the expediency of leaving the
civil bureaus as unhampered in the man-
agement of their aflFairs as the military
officers were left unhampered in the man-
agement of the army.

Near the end of the year Benjamin
Franklin was appointed Commissioner to

represent the United States at the Court
of France, and Richard Bache was selected
to succeed him as Postmaster General.

Political patronage, in the scramble for
postmasterships, may be said to date from
the beginning of Postmaster General
Bache's administration. Envy, masked
as patriotism, represented to Congress in
January, 1777, that persons disafifected to
the American cause were employed as
postmasters and riders. Congress called
for a list of the names of employees and
copies of their recommendations and, as
there appeared to be reason why the Post
Office should be criticized, a thing that
Benjamin Franklin's management escaped,
asked pointedly why the regulations of the
Post Office were not carried out. Bache
did not furnish the names as requested,
but stated generally, that every precaution
had been taken at the first establishment
of the Post Office to prevent such things.
The Surveyors had been ordered to re-
quest the town committees, or State con-
ventions to nominate the postmasters and
riders. In the appointment of deputy post-
masters and post riders these recommen-
dations were made the rule of selection.

But one rider was dismissed as a result
of this spasm of patriotism and the Post-
master General stated that he was not
entirely certain of the truth of the charge
even in this case. The dismissal there-
fore was put upon the ground of dila-
tory habits, of which evidence could
be produced.

Protests of underpaid employees had
been heard in 1777 and were heard again
in March, 1778. Jonathan Hastings, post-
master at Cambridge and Boston, com-
plained that the 20 per cent, allowance was
not sufficient, and after more complaint
to the same efifect, from others, Congress
gave the Postmaster General authority to
grant an additional allowance, not to ex-
ceed $200 annually, to postmasters when.

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in his discretion, it appeared abso-
lutely necessary.

Two additional Surveyors of the Post
Office were authorized during the year
1778, and the inspection tours were de-
fined as from Casco Bay, then Massachu-
setts, to Philadelphia, from Philadelphia
to Edenton, N. C, and from Edenton to
Savannah, Ga. An Inspector of Dead
Letters was created and conferred on
Ebenezer Hazard, whose duties were
specified with such painful precision that
it speedily became apparent they could not
be performed by any one man. By means
of this office, however, intelligence of con-
siderable value found its way to Congress.

A change in the method of handling the
mail for the army had been made toward
the latter part of the preceding year, 1777.
The regular mail riders passing near
where the army happened to be, had been
in the habit of turning oflf to deliver the
mail to headquarters. It was ordered in
October, 1777, that the riders pay no atten-
tion to the position of the army, but
deliver all army mail to the post office
nearest; the postmasters at such points
were authorized to hire special expresses
to deliver the mail to the army head-
quarters direct. Near the end of 1777 it
was found that the expense deficit of the
Post Office had greatly increased and the
postage rates were raised 50 per cent, in
an effort to meet the situation. The ex-
pense account of the Post Office establish-
ment, as balanced from the time Franl-clin
relinquished the office of Postmaster
General, to October, 1778, amounted, in
round numbers, to £13,000. In 1777 the
post office at Philadelphia turned in the
greatest amount of money for postage
paid, with Baltimore, Albany, Annapolis,
Boston and Dumfries next, in the order
named. The last quarter for 1778, and
indeed for the year and a half preceding
January, 1779, the post offices showing the

greatest returns in postage amounts col-
lected were : Philadelphia, Easton, Md. ;
Middletown, Conn., and Providence, R. I.
In January, 1779, the expense of the mail
rider service was eight times as much as it
had been in 1776.

The personnel of the Post Office De-
partment at the end of the year 1778 was
as follows : Postmaster General, Richard
Bache; Surveyor General, Eastern Dis-
trict, Ebenezer Hazard ; for the Middle
District, James Bryson; for the Southern
District, Richard N. Stephens. Hazard,
as before stated, was also Inspector of
Dead Letters; Peter Baynton, the Post-
master at Philadelphia, had been ap-
pointed to succeed Bache as Comptroller
and Secretary, and Samuel Loudoun had
succeeded Hazard as Postmaster at
Fishkill, N. Y.

In January, 1779, the Post Office was
£1300 and two years' salary in debt to
the Postmaster General. In April it
raised the Postmaster General's pay to
$2000, but as that official still complained
of its inadequacy it was raised to $5000 at
the end of the year.

A view of the general mail conditions
in 1779 is given in Ebenezer Hazard's long
letter of December 2, 1779, in which he
sets forth the many difficulties under
which the Post Office labored. A principal
cause of trouble was the grievance felt by
the regular mail riders because of the
preferential treatment, both as to pay and
rations, received by the special expresses.
The current belief among the mail riders
was that the expresses received $20 a day
and that they were paid, while in service,
whether they were riding or not ; they drew
both rations and forage from the public
stores and none of their rides exceeded
twenty miles. They carried letters,
privately, on which postage should be paid,
and often attended to their private con-
cerns while on public business. Hazard

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583

told, with righteous indignation, of an ex-
press who offered a post rider $15 to carry
his despatches to the next station, on the
very flimsy excuse that he could not find
his horse. The expresses seldom had
more than a few single letters to carry
and Hazard suggested that they transport
the army returns, which were being sent
through the post office on frank. These
valuable papers could easily be stolen from
the mail and the enemy gain important
knowledge therefrom. They accumulated
in the post offices until sometimes there
was a wheelbarrow load of them before
they could be sent off. The expresses, it
seemed, were promptly paid their hand-
some salaries while the mail riders were
allowed a mere pittance and even that was
not regularly paid to them. This letter
from Hazard proved the proverbial last
straw with Congress which, at the end of
the month, made a sweeping revision of
the express service by legislating it out of
existence; a remedy that merely substi-
tuted for one set of evils another of a dif-
ferent type. The expresses were abol-
ished December 27, 1779, and the protest
from General Washington was prompt and
vigorous. The matter was compromised
by granting the Commander-in-Chief
authority to employ expresses when he
judged proper. This authority was given
January 14, 1780. A year later (Decem-
ber, 1781) the express service having
again grown to former proportions, all
expresses were again dismissed, with the
same proviso as before.

At the end of 1779 the postal rate was
changed to 25 prices above that of 1775 in
an effort to meet the expenditures for the
Post Office establishment which amounted,
in round numbers, to $111,970.

The Surveyors' travelling expenses were
another exasperating difficulty. With the
cost of everything steadily mounting and
the value of the Continental dollar steadily

sinking, these men, who were continu-
ally on the move throughout the Colonies,
found great difficulty in fulfilling their
duties. Congress tried the experiment, in
January, 1780, of allowing the Surveyors
their reasonable expenses instead of the
$40 a day previously allowed them. But
from the totals that came in under this
arrangement the Surveyors appeared to
have forgotten the meaning of the word
reasonable and, in May, the allowance was
cancelled and the postage rates doubled.
The line from Philadelphia to Talbot, Md.,
was abolished and an effort made to secure
revenue from the foreign mail, or " ships'
letters " as they were called. These were
ordered deposited in the post office imme-
diately on arrival. The sea captains had
been very casual about the letters en-
trusted to them for delivery in the United
States ; no postage was paid upon them and
they were entrusted to almost any traveller
for delivery. By this means a no incon-
siderable loss to the post office resulted
and penalties were established to prevent
the captains from sending forward their
letters by private messengers.

Congress attempted to meet the expense
of the Post Office by authorizing the Post-
master General to draw warrants against
the Continental Loan Offices of Massa-
chusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia and
North Carolina to a total that, among
them, would amount to $100,000. This
would have been a sensible bit of finance,
but for the fact that Congress drew so
often and so extensively upon the Loan
Offices for miscellaneous amounts that
the important question was, did these
offices have the money. One phase of the
Post Office management by Congress was
the continual jugglery of financial ex-
pedients to meet the departmental expense.
The pay of officials and employees was
raised and reduced, schemes were adopted,
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discarded, allowances were cut off, re-
placed and then abolished until it is a
marvel that any organization at all
was maintained.

The Southern mail reached Congress
but once a week and the maintenance ex-
pense of this seemed out of all proportion
to the result so, having dismissed the
expensive expresses. Congress shifted the
burden to the already sorely harassed reg-
ular mail riders, who were expected to
bring in a mail twice a week from as far
south as Charleston and as far north as
Boston. By August, 1780, the experiment
of a biweekly mail was abandoned. The
mail rider's pay was doubled, but in De-
cember this imaginary extravagance was
repented of and the amount put back to
the old figures. There were some favored
mail routes ; but these were by accident
rather than design. Among them was the
stage that ended at Fishkill, N. Y. It was
looked upon as choice, for the rider could
stable his horse there in the public stable
and get forage at cost from the Military
Storekeeper. This, when expense ac-
counts and salaries were irregularly paid
and depreciation caused loss between the
time the account was rendered and the
money received, was an item not to
be despised.

The dangers of the mail service were
real and not a few during the war. Sev-
eral riders were waylaid and captured by
the British or Tories, and robbery of the
mail by stealth, fraud and violence was
not infrequent. But if the troubles were
many the patriotism of most of the per-
sonnel was equal to the strain. The con-
ditions in the country during the Revolu-
tion were such that the wonder is that
there were so few mail losses rather than
that there were many.

The Post Office, together with all the
other government departments, as well as
the Continental Congress itself, suffered

from the relaxed tension that came after
the surrender of Yorktown in 1781. The
war was over and victory had been won;
that was the universal feeling however
doubtful the issue really continued to be.
The year of the surrender, the files of the
Post Office gives us the names of the post
riders in the service and they are worth re-
peating here, as their routes are also given.
The three divisions of the country, under
which the Colonies had functioned
during the war, the Eastern, Middle and
Southern, were not so strictly defined, so
far as the Post Office was concerned, as
for some of the other government depart-
ments. The Eastern District comprised
New England, New York and New Jersey ;
the Middle, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Mary-
land and Virginia ; the Southern, North and
South Carolina and Georgia. The riders
for the Eastern District were James
Martin, who rode from Philadelphia to
IMorristown; Reuben Chadwick, from
Morristown to Fishkill ; Daniel Ayres,
Fishkill to Albany; Elisha Skinner and
James Pratt, Fishkill to Hartford ; David
Hyde, Edward Adams, William Torrey,
Peter Mumford and Benjamin Mumford,
Hartford to Boston; John Noble, Boston
to Portsmouth, and Joseph Barnard,
Portsmouth to Falmouth. The Middle
District riders were : William Gilmore,
Philadelphia to Annapolis ; William
McCallum, Annapolis to Fredericksburg ;
Reuben Ballard, Fredericksburg to Hobb's
Hole; Gideon Bosher, Fredericksburg to
Newcastle ; Alexander Stuart, Newcastle to
Petersburg ; Josh Abraham, Newcastle to
Williamsburg ; John James, Williamsburg
to Suffolk ; John Cowling , Williamsburg
to Portsmouth, and John Wright, Suffolk
to Edenton. The only rider whose name
is available for the Southern District is
William Brown, who rode from Edenton
to Newbern.

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signed and Ebenezer Hazard was ap-
pointed Postmaster General in his place.
The management of the Post Office was
hampered by a mass of conflicting regu-
lations, and one of Hazard's first recom-
mendations was that Congress revise and
codify all the acts and resolves relating to
the Post Office. This was undertaken,
but was postponed and delayed until it
was May of the next year before a com-
plete plan of postal regulation was finally
agreed upon.

Hazard's understanding of the needs of
the service had been gathered at first hand
on his inspection tours as Surveyor, and
he did much to simplify and improve the
organization. He was able to reduce the
post riding expense by a fair saving and
to establish a route from Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, to Edenton, North Carolina, on an
arrangement that kept the United States
free from expense for the first year of its
operation. During his administration a
great many mail robberies took place and
the question of detailing light dragoons
as an armed escort for the riders was con-
sidered. This plan was not generally
adopted because the cavalrymen could not
be spared for such service, and, because
where it was tried, the trooper made more
trouble than he gave aid, for he disdain-
fully refused to carry any of the mail, and
his scorn, did not add anything to the
cheerfulness with which the mail rider
performed his duty.

The insufficiency of the pay and trav-
elling expense money of the Surveyors
continued to be a vexation in 1782. In
that year, more than half the postmasters
did not receive, from their 20 per cent,
commission, over £5 a quarter and, as if
this pittance fee was a matter of prime im-
portance to Congress, there was a wrangle
over the point of whether this paltry sum
was to be paid in hard money (silver) or
the almost worthless Continental paper.

Disposal of the increasing quantity of dead
letters also became a problem in Hazard's
administration. This class of mail had
been under his direct control before he
became head of the postal service. He
had reported the difficulties, but by the
time he became Postmaster General the
number of accumulated dead letters had
become so great as to make the further
saving of them appear fooHsh, even to
Congress. Information of value had been
obtained from them ; toryism had been dis-
covered and evidence of food and other
speculations divulged, though nothing had
been done as a result of such disclosures.
Hazard wished to destroy all dead letters
except those of evident value; but
this matter, like so many others in the
civic administration went over and
was postponed.

The question of postage on outgoing let-
ters to Europe also arose. The practice
seemed to have been for the writers of
such letters to carry them in person aboard
ship, or send them thither by a friend, and
to pay the captain of the ship a small fee
to carry the missive across the sea. Hazard
insisted that this practice be stopped and
that every letter to Europe go through the
post office. The rate was fixed at one
shilling for single letters and others in pro-
portion. Here, as from the incoming let-
ters from abroad, a tidy bit of postage
revenue was lost by the United States.
This matter came up again in 1783, and
was then finally settled by a clever arrange-
ment which will be duly mentioned.

The Post Office was investigated by a
committee of Congress in January, 1783,
and Hazard's administration completely
approved. The committee found that he
had conducted affairs with the utmost in-
dustry and economy and also with due
regard for the public convenience. A
reduction of the franking privilege then
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was proposed in the beginning of the year,
as the mind of Congress was set upon the
most rigid economy, but an investigating
committee considered that it could not be
accomplished without detriment to the
public service. The committee felt con-
vinced that the department heads would
truly pay for all ingoing as well as out-
going mail which was of a private nature,
and frowned upon a suggestion that the
Post Office authorities inspect the mail to
determine the point.

The first case of fraud perpetrated
through the Post Office occurred in year
1783, the last year of the war. Mail rob-
beries had increased in number, but most
of them were of minor consequence like
the one that occurred at Princeton, N. J.
That thief evidently thought he was get-
ting something of value and when he found
it was only a bag of letters he threw it
away without opening any of them; they
were all recovered, little the worse for the
experience. The fraud case was of a more
serious character, reflecting as it did upon
the honor of the Post Office in protecting
the letters intrusted to its care. A firm of
merchants, with houses in Philadelphia
and Baltimore, failed in business. One of
the creditors in Philadelphia, with the con-
nivance of other creditors, applied for the
mail of the father-in-law of the Philadel-
])hia merchant failure. A letter was
handed out and afterwards, when the
father-in-law himself applied for his mail,
the wrongful delivery was discovered. A
prosecution in the courts was expected by
the conniving creditors, who had suspected
dishonesty in the failure and had obtained
the father-in-law's letter to substantiate
their suspicions. Hazard recommended
to Congress that the United States sue the
man who had obtained the letter on mis-
representation, but no government action
appears to have been taken.

One special branch of the postal service

was the postmaster with the Main Army.
He travelled with the army and shared its
hardships and inconveniences in the field.
The cost of this post office, which was
maintained at headquarters, was about
$100 per month. There had always been
difficulty in keeping a good man in the
place for any length of time, as the pay
was quite low, $10 per month, with two
rations a day and forage for two horses.
Most of the men who held this position
resigned because they had no rank and
authority and usually found themselves
considered on a par with the common
soldier. There was no distinguishing
uniform for the position, though one of
the postmasters is known to have worn
green clothes, probably of his own design-
ing. In 1783, with the position vacant,
Postmaster General Hazard asked permis-
sion to fill it on the best terms he could,
unhampered by pay restrictions. The
Congressional method of arranging this
was to take the position away from the
direction of the Postmaster General and
assign it to the military pay roll of the
Paymaster General, which presumably
permitted it to be filled by the detail of a
military man to the post. The list of names
of the men who held this honorable posi-
tion is not complete. Thus far we know
Hugh Smith, Hugh Hastings, Baxter
Howe, John Durham Alvey and
Samuel Loudoun.

The final regulation of the Continental
Post Office was made by Congress, March
1 1 , 1783. It was, in effect, a consolidation
of the various acts and resolves from July,
1775, to October, 1781. In general these
regulations provided that the Postmaster
General was to have supervision over all
mail matters and to appoint deputies as he
saw fit. The deputy's pay was fixed, as
before, at 20 per cent, of the income of
his post office; mails were to be once a
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unnecessary could be discontinued by the
Postmaster General; the supervisors, or
surveyors were granted $4 a day and
travel expenses ; all post office employees
were exempt from military service ; no
one but mail riders and expresses were al-
lowed to carry letters, and these riders and
expresses were forbidden to carry any-
thing other than mail. It was made a
felony to rob the mail ; letters from abroad
must be deposited in the Post Office and
the rate for these was fixed at one penny
per letter; the postage rate for domestic
letters was fixed at the old Royal Mail
amount, before the war commenced; the
list of the dead letters was to be pub-
lished ; the Postmaster General's salary
was fixed at $1250 and that of his clerk at
$800 a year. The franking privilege was
repealed, but the Commander-in-Chief,
heads of separate armies and Congress-
men were allowed to send their letters free.
There was some discussion over this last,
but here, as in the case of the department
heads, it was assumed that the Congress-
man would declare and pay for his
private mail.

The Post Office received its first real
shock in this last year of the war. Since
1776 whatever had been its difficulties it
was spared that of competition, and now,
with peace assured, two lines of packet
ships were established, one by the French
Minister to sail to France and one by
private enterprise to sail to England.
The Postmaster General was wroth and
took the stand that if mail were al-
lowed to go by these packets without
first passing through the Post Office
it would be an insult to the dignity
of the United States. The French packets
were a novel institution and the amount
of mail they might carry was so small
that the Postmaster General thought they
need not be seriously considered; but
the English boats were a dififerent matter.

The mail here was heavier and, by the
British regulations, the postage fees could
be paid either in England or America.
Experience had proven that such fees were
seldom paid in England and the return was
made to the United States where the fee
was then paid. The British packets would
not deliver mail to the United States Post
Office except on a receipt; such receipt
made the United States responsible for the
mail with no means of collecting the
unpaid postage. This responsibility and
the labor of handling would cost America,
it was estimated, £3000 annually. Refusal
on the part of the United States Post
Office to deliver such letters would raise
a clamor from merchants and others to
whom the letters were addressed, that
would be detrimental to the postal service.
Hazard received this mail and forwarded
only such part of it as involved the least
risk. He so notified Great Britain and
thereafter all the letters came as common
" ship's letters," which were minus all
postage for the voyage, but subject to the
usual domestic rate from their port of
arrival to destination. It was at this point
that the Postmaster General showed real
genius. He allowed a gratuity of 1/90 of
a dollar for all letters from beyond the sea
that were deposited in the Post Office by
the sea captains bringing them over. This
was the first mail subsidy in the history of
the United States Post Office. If the cap-
tains declined this fee it would be sent to
the Society for the Relief of Masters of
Vessels, their widows and children.

As soon as this became known, all letters
were promptly turned in to the Post Office
and the blufT seamen declined to accept the
fee. In a very short time over i90 accumu-
lated which was turned into the fund of
the Society, and the grateful thanks of
those who were helped by it was recorded
in the public prints. The merchants were
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ally delivered, the sea captains were glad
to contribute to such a charity, the postal
regulations were obeyed and everybody
was made happy.

During the war the Post Office was
directed by a Postmaster General, a Comp-
troller and three Surveyors ; at the end of
1783 the postal establishment had been
reduced to a Postmaster General and one
assistant, while the mail had grown heavier
and the volume of business greatly in-
creased. The postage rates for 1784 were
established upon the zone system: Eight
pence for 15 miles, 16 pence for 30 miles,
1 shilling for 45 miles and 1 shilling 8
pence for 60 miles. However reasonable
this was in the old days of horseback and
stage, since the advent of the fast railroad
train it was long ago demonstrated to be
impracticable and obstructionary for let-
ters and first class mail. It still continues,
as a relic of archaic understanding, in our
parcel post charges. Newspapers were
carried 50 miles for 8 pence, 100 miles for
16 pence and 200 miles for 1 shilling 8
pence. The regulations provided that they
must be wrapped so that the number of

copies could be known, and if any letter
was placed therein the letter postage rate
would be assessed. A most interesting
practice was the grant of the privilege of
post free exchanges of one copy of a news-
paper between publishers, over one stage
of the post routes. The cost of the con-
tract between Philadelphia and New York
for a mail every day in the summer and
three times a week in the winter was £400
per annum, in 1784.

With the abolition by Congress in this
year of the franking privileges that had
been granted to the military during the
war, the Revolutionary activities of the
Continental Post Office came to a logical
close. The service continued throughout
the trying period of 1784-89 and was
virtually the only branch of the Revolu-
tionary government that held its existence
intact during the transfer year of 1789,
when the present government under
the Constitution went into operation.
The Post Office therefore is the real
point of contact between the old
Continental government of the Con-
federation and our present United States.

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A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

TOBEK is the month of many State
Conferences. I greatly regret that
I cannot have the pleasure and the
inspiration of being present at all of
them, but this of course is a physical
impossibility owing to their conflict-
ing dates. I say " inspiration " ad-
visedly, for our State Conferences are an
inspiration. They are inspiring because doing
things together is always an incentive and
a stimulus if the things that we do are
worth while.

More and more I ask myself — what are the
worth while things? What does our country
need most today and what can we do as a
Society to promote it?

Year by year our Society is growing by the
thousands and tens of thousands. Last year
we admitted 12,615 new members, the largest
number ever admitted in any one year. This
means an increase of power and influence, and
with this comes an increase in our responsi-
bility ; it means that our Society has a mighty
force at its disposal which it can either use or
neglect. We can use or bury our talents.
Clearly it is our high duty to use our power to
promote what our country most needs.

And what our country most needs today is
a revival of the spirit of our ancestors — the
spirit of pilgrim and patriot, the spirit that we
are organized to perpetuate. We have been
drifting away from it. We have been drifting
away from the spirit that wrote the Mayfloivcr
" Compact " which bound its signers to make
laws for the good of the community and then
to obey them. We have been drifting away
from the spirit that wrote the Declaration of
Independence which declares that all men have
an equal right to " life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness." We have been drifting away
from the spirit of the Constitution of the
United States which guarantees this right. The
things that have been happening in this country
this summer are a shame and a disgrace to
America. They should make us ask ourselves
what we Americans can be thinking of to per-
mit such things in a civilized and Christian
land. What has become of our vaunted sense
of morality, our sensitiveness to justice, our
liberty under law ? They are trodden under

the heel of unionism run mad, while the arm
of law and order seems paralyzed with a
strange fear, and the public looks on with a
stranger and more alarming apathy. The in-
famous outrage at Herrin, Illinois, still at this
writing (August 20th) goes unpunished and
even unrebuked by the people of that com-
munity which has become a " perpetual hissing"
and reproach to both State and Nation. Strik-
ers desert their trains and leave innocent pass-
engers marooned for days in the burning
deserts of the west, endangering their lives
from heat and exposure ; others dynamite a
West Shore train, killing women and babies ;
trains are ditched by the pulling up of rail
spikes ; others are bombed ; property is des-
troyed ; men are assaulted and slain for exer-
cising their right to work; others say frankly
they are afraid to work for fear of being shot;
terrorism prevails, and all this because a few
union leaders, without conscience and without
human decency, are attempting in the name of
labor to throttle the entire country and trample
under foot all interests but their own. It is
highly significant that at no time has any
union or any labor leader voiced a condemna-
tion or repudiation of these outrages — at least
not so one would notice it.

In short, labor has become the slave of its
leaders. The honest and honorable laboring
man no longer has the liberty to work as he
chooses as guaranteed to him and all men under
the Constitution of this country ; and why ?
Because many who are elected to uphold the
principles of the Constitution seem strangely
hesitant about enforcing the law. Unionism
has become a tyranny setting itself above
all law.

In proclaiming the right to strike, these law-
less leaders violate the still more sacred right
to work, no matter who or how many suffer
from their selfishness. It is high time to re-
peat those memorable words of Calvin Coolidge
when Governor of Massachusetts : " There is
no right to strike against the public safety any-
where at any time." Courageous words with
the spirit of righteous America back of them^
applicable not only to the Boston police strike
but also to the striking miners and railway

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men, for are they not also striking against the
"public safety" and the very life of the nation?
When organized labor uses the union as an
instrument or excuse for organized lawlessness,
it sullies the once fair name of unionism — the
right of labor to unite for beneficial ends —
with the bad stain of its misdeeds.

How does all this concern the Daughters of
the American Revolution? It concerns us very
much. By heredity we are especially pledged
to be the guardians of the spirit of America — the
spirit of law and order, the spirit of liberty
controlled by law. We are especially pledged
to be the guardians of morality, the keepers
of our national honor and righteousness as
handed down to us by our fathers the founders.
How would Washington act in the present
grave situation? Washington and his patriots
will have fought for and founded this country
in vain if we so soon forget how to uphold
the law with firmness. Murder and violence
demand punishment, not temporizing argument
and weak concession that leads nowhere and
benefits nobody.

As descendants of these patriots we as a
Society are in honor bound to hold America
true to their principles of public order, peace
and safety. Our power and influence should
be used in every community to direct public
opinion toward the enforcement of law, ^o put
courage into public officials, and to uphold the
hands of the President in all his efiforts to
maintain the dignity of the Government and
safeguard the people.

Enlist high-class, loyal American women in
the ranks of our Society and then openly and
courageously stand for the ideals of America
in your own States and towns. There is a
power in group-action dedicated to righteous-
ness which transcends all individual effort. The
mighty power of an organization of 130,000
patriotic and high-minded women acting as one
to keep the nation firm and upstanding against
lawlessness and leniency to crime cannot
be measured.

America needs you — needs every one of you
in your own communities — working to maintain
the moral fibre of the nation in the face of
present tendencies. The slacking of this moral
fibre is to be seen everywhere. It is seen in
leniency to an unrepentant Germany; in paci-
fism ; in the increasing contempt for the law ;
in the weak delays of the law and still weaker
cowardice of the men who should administer it ;
in the fear of losing votes; in truckling to

blocs and lobbies agitating for purely selfish
ends ; in leniency toward radicals, and in easy-
going tolerance of their radical propaganda
that is without doubt at the bottom of much
of the present disorder and anarchy, seeking by
means of it to bring about their hoped for
world revolution.

This is a time when State Conferences and
Chapters throughout the country can do much
to stiffen the public conscience and arouse pub-
lic protest against these wrongs. They can
pass resolutions calling for the enforcement of
law and a firm handling of lawless labor
agitation. They can let our legislators under-
stand that more votes will be lost by temporiz-
ing with lawlessness than by a firm stand for
the right.

Swift and sure was English justice in the
case of the Irish murderers of General Wilson
caught red-handed in the act. A little more
of justice like that and less of easy tolerance
is what this country needs, and patriotic women
can do much to arouse the public to insist upon
it, and this the public will not do until aroused
to the gravity of the present lawless conditions.

It is a time when no true American can
afford to be silent or to let things drift in our
easy American way. We have got to choose
— and choose quickly — between the anarchy and
lawlessness of Herrin, Illinois, and the Con-
stitution of the United States. Which is it
going to be?

Unless we vindicate the law and curb present
conditions, the Communism that is stealthily at
work underneath this unrest will soon fan it
into the flames of a world conflagration. This
is what it is working for.

The Daughters of the American Revolution
have a great opportunity and a great responsi-
bility confronting them. Their heritage is at
stake. Who will rally to America if the heirs
of America are themselves found wanting.
Proclaim American ideals of liberty and law
and morals ; make the Constitution a household
word in every home ; put honest, loyal men in
places of public trust and see that they are
upheld ; have faith that God will deliver those
who are really His people. Only in this way
can those who won the World War for right-
eousness, liberty and civilization win also the
peace of justice and humanity which alone can
bring stability, happiness and prosperity to this
nation and all the world.

An.n'e Rogers Minor,
President General.

MUSIC OF COLONIAL DAYS

By Nelson McDowell Shepard

T is said the music of a nation
expresses its soul. Certain it is
that the music of a nation in-
terprets its history, its reHgion,
its patriotism and its social cus-
toms as do few single mediums.
Some poet has said " a land without ruins
is a land without memories." If that be
so, then indeed a land without its own
native music is a land without romance.

For the romance in the social life of the
Revolutionary period, one naturally turns
to the music and drama of our Colonial
forbears. Volumes have been written
about the military and political events of
those times but too little has been told
about the social and home life. There is
evidence that even in the midst of
founding a future world power, George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John
Adams, the versatile Franklin, the banker
Morris, the fiery Hamilton and the elo-
quent Patrick Henry were not too busy to
give their individual and enthusiastic en-
couragement to the advancement of native
American music.

A renewed emphasis has come to be
attached to the musical phases of life in
early America, through the very recent
assembling in the Library of Congress of
many rare and curious musical manu-
scripts incident to the Revolutionary era.
Such a collection for public display was
inspired primarily by the transfer of the
original copy of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, America's most precious docu-
mentary relic, to the Library of Congress
from the vaults of the State Department.
This collection of prints and manuscripts
has been compiled with a view to furnish-
ing a musical background to Colonial

historical events and social life. For this
purpose it is arranged so that it will offer
specimens of the popular, patriotic, re-
ligious, concert, operatic and dance music
of the day, together with the songs that
were sung or played before the hearths
of austere New England and gay ol'
Virginia. It is interesting to know that
one of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, Francis Hopkinson, a lead-
ing spirit in the musical activities of his
times, was the first native American com-
poser. His son, Joseph Hopkinson, is
known in thousands of American homes
to-day as the author of the words of
" Hail Columbia."

Francis Hopkinson numbered among his
personal friends and patrons the leaders
of the day. He was a genius that com-
bined the qualities of the statesman, the
jurist and the poet with the natural gifts
of the musician. He was successful as
a painter.

" He was an active and useful member of the
three great political parties which at different
times divided his native State— was a Whig,
a Republican and a Federalist, and he lived to
see the principles and wishes of each of these
parties finally and universally successful,"
wrote a contemporary.

Death at the age of 53 years put an end
to Hopkinson's many sided career in 1791.

Among the most prized of the original
Hopkinson manuscripts in the Library of
Congress is his " Tune Book," which
he began compiling in " Philadelphia
Dominie 1759," so the book-plate records.
The book, exhibited in a case, is opened
showing Hopkinson's version of " Where
the Bee Sucks," which he produced from
memory as he heard Thomas Augustine
Arne's setting of the verses from " The

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Tempest." Of more interest, however, is
an original song, the first secular song
supposed to have been written in America,
whose words seem to express the usually
joyful nature of their author : " My days
have been so wondrous free, the little birds
that fly with careless ease from tree to
tree were not as blest as I." In fact,
Hopkinson frankly lays claim to being
America's first composer, as
set forth by the preface to his
" Seven Songs " dedicated to
Washington, in which he
claims " the Credit as being
the first Native of the United
States who has produced a
Musical Composition."

Acknowledging the tribute
thus paid him, Washington
wrote from Mount Vernon to
his musical friend, under date
of February 5, 1789:

" I can neither sing one of the
songs nor raise a single note on
any instrument to convince the un-
believing. But I have, however,
one argument which will prevail
with persons of true taste (at least,
in America) : I can tell them that
it is the production of Mr.
Hopkinson."

Here, we have the General's
own admission that he " could
neither sing or raise a note,"
which explodes the repeated
fallacy that Washington was
an accomplished performer on
the flute and delighted to have
Nellie Custis, his adopted
daughter, play his accompaniments on the
harpsichord. Fond of music he unde-
niably was, just as he was fond of dancing
and the drama. We must accept his own
words, however, that he could not " raise "
a note.

Reference probably is made to these
" Seven Songs " by Hopkinson in one of
the numerous letters that passed between
him and Thomas Jefferson, whose passion
for music brought the two men together
on a common basis. Under date of Phila-
delphia, October 23, 1778, Hopkinson
informs Jefferson of his musical activities
in this vein :

I'hotoby Haiuly, Washington

FRANCIS HOPKINSON, SKJNKR OK THK I)l-XI.ARA'!ION OF INDKPKN-
OKNCF., WHO IS THK FIRST KNOWN NATIVK AMERICAN COMPOSKR.
HK IS CREDITKn WITH DOINC MORE THAN ANY PERSON. TO AD-
VANC-E 'IHE CAUSE OF MUSIC IN THE REVOI.l TION ARY PERIOD.

" I have ainiisccl myself with composing si.K
easy simple songs for the Harpsichord — Words
and Music all my own. The Music is now
engraving, when fmish'd I will do myself the
Pleasure of sending a Copy to Miss Jefferson.
The best of them is that they are so easy that
any Person who can play at all, may perform
them without much Troulile. and I have en-
deavorei! to make the Melodies pleasing to the

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untutor'd Ear. My new Method of quilling or
rather tonguing the Harpsichord has had the
Test of Time and answers perfectly well in
every Respect — both my Daughters play one of
them very well. The Harpsichord is forever in
Exercise and yet my Tongues stand un-
impaired, and my Harp is always in Order, in
that Respect."

Next to Francis Hopkinson the name
of Alexander Reinagle is perhaps the best
known in early musical circles. He is
frequently mentioned in the diary of
Washington, who, for instance, records
that he attended the benefit concert
by Reinagle, June 12, 1787, in Phila-
delphia, at which the talented musician
played the overture to " La Buona
Figliuola," a favorite opera in the lat-
ter part of the Eighteenth Century.
Again, two weeks later, Washington men-
tions in his diary that he " accompanied
Mrs. Morris " to hear Reinagle in concert.
That Washington maintained a broad
minded attitude toward the stage and the
opera is assured from his regular at-
tendance during the " seasons " in Rich-
mond, Philadelphia, New York, and at
one time in Charleston. His favorite
opera appears to have been " The Poor
Soldier," a copy of which is to be seen in
the collection in the Library of Congress.
It is of English origin. Charles Duray,
the actor, in his " History of the Philadel-
phia Stage " says this opera was often
acted at Washington's desire when he
visited the theatre. " The Poor Soldier "
was performed for the first time in
London during November, 1783, at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. It was
composed by William Shield and made its
debut in America at the John Street
Theatre, New York, in December, 1785.

There is reason to believe from early
writings that Washington engaged
Reinagle to give music lessons to Nellie
Custis. The General had presented her
with an expensive harpsichord — now in

the drawing room at Mount Vernon —
upon which he insisted that she practice for
several hours a day. One of his greatest
pleasures, it is said, was to have Nellie play
and sing to him on quiet evenings at home,
such old songs as the popular " Wayworn
Traveler," with copies of which he " kept
her constantly supplied."

One of the most unique of the com-
positions of Reinagle is his setting of a
poem sung in honor of Washington at
Trenton, in 1789, the composition having
made its first appearance at a " New York
subscription concert " on September 22nd
of that year. The composition, " dedicated
by permission to Mrs. Washington," con-
tains the following prefatory note:
" Sung by a number of young girls,
dressed in white, decked with wreaths and
chaplets, holding baskets of flowers in
their hands, as General Washington passed
under the Triumphal Arch raised on the
bridge at Trenton, April 21, 1789, on his
way to New York in Character of Presi-
dent of the United States of America,
there to meet the Congress then assembled
under the new Constitution."

" Welcome Mighty Chief ! Once more
Welcome to this grateful shore :
Now no mercenary Foe
Aims again the fatal blow.

" Virgins fair and Matrons grave.

Those thy conquering Arms did save,

Build for thee Triumphal Bowers.
Strew, ye Fair, his way with flowers,

Strew, your Hero's way with flowers."

" As they sung these lines," Reinagle narrates,
"they strewed the flowers before the General,
who halted until the chorus was finished. The
astonishing contrast between his former and

actual situation on the same spot made a

lively and strong impression on his mind."

Another popular piece of those times by
Reinagle was " The Federal March," an
inspiring air rendered on the occasion of
the great parade held on July 4, 1788, in
honor of the Ratification of the Federal
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tions and whose services to American
music were of intrinsic value, died in
Baltimore in 1809.

In this category of national airs belongs
" The President's March," shown in a
first and several early editions at the
Library of Congress and composed by
PhiHp Phile ( ?). The first record of this
composition appears in R. Shaw's " The
Gentleman's Amusement," issued in April,
1794. Later it served to furnish the tune
for Joseph Hopkinson's " Hail Columbia."
At the request of his friend Gilbert Fox,
the actor, who wished to have a patriotic
text to go with the stirring notes of " The
President's March," Hopkinson wrote the
words to " Hail Columbia," in 1798. It
was first sung by Fox, according to re-
liable records, on the evening of April 25th
of that year. Likewise, there is on display
at the Library a copy of another song,
" Adams and Liberty," a patriotic ode
written by Thomas Paine in 1798 to the
tune of the English drinking song, " To
Anacreen in Heaven," whose strains sup-
ply our own national anthem, " The Star
Spangled Banner."

John Adams was less interested in music
than any of the early Chief Executives,
liis early writings and conversations
showing the utmost contempt for " balls.
Assemblies, concerts, cards, horses, dogs,
which never engaged any part of my atten-
tion " business alone." In later

life, however, Benjamin Franklin and
Thomas Jefferson inveigled him often into
concert halls and opera houses. During
his sojourn in France, we find Adams
attending the oi)era in Bordeaux, April 1 ,
1778, for the ("irst time in his life and
evidently enjoying it. Of this experience
he writes: "Went to the opera, where
the scenery, the dancing, tlie nuisic,
afforded nie a very cheerful, spriglitly
amusement, liaving never seen anvthinir

of the kind before." In Paris his trips to
the opera became more frequent, yet he
would never have been known in those
days what we call now a " first nighter."

With his strict New England training,
Adams at least was very fond of sacred
music. Very probably he had in his pos-
session one of the " Church Hymnals,"
engraved and sold by Paul Revere, the self-
same hero of Longfellow who aroused the
sleeping countryside to arms on his famous
" midnight ride." As a jack of all trades.
Revere seems to have excelled. Cer-
tainly he was an excellent engraver and
printer as his Book of Psalms bears
testimony. It was " printed and sold
by him and Josiah Flagg, Boston, 1764."
On the title page one is informed : " The
best tunes, in one, two, three and four
parts, From the most approved Authors,
fitted to all Measures and approved of by
the best masters in Boston, New England,
to which are added some hymns and
anthems, the Greater part of them never
before Printed in America." The Preface
closes with the remark : " It is hoped it
will not diminish the Value of this Book,
in the Estimation of any, but may in some
Degree recommend it even to those who
have no particular relish for the music.
That however we are obliged to the other
Side of the Atlantick chiefly, for our
Tunes, the Paper on which they are printed
is the Manufacture of our own Country."
This book of Paul Revere's is exceedingly
rare and afifords an excellent example
of the hymnal in common use in that
early day.

C'nule iiTdeed may have been these early
musical productions, but notwithstanding
they are truly interpretative of tlie spirit
and emotions of the times An unknown
composer, whose zeal for Washington is
not to be denied, dedicated to "Lady
Washington " in 17% these imique verses;

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"Saw you my hero George? Saw you my
hero George?

I've rambled o'er the plain,
And inquired of every swain,

But no tidings could find of my George.

" I saw not your hero. I saw not your hero
George.
I am told he's in the van
Where the battle's just began

But must haste to take care of my men
O're the hills, o're dales, o're mountains and
plains

Where the drums and the trumpets sound

alarm
O' Ye Gods, I give you charge to protect my

hero George
And return him safe to my arms."

Indeed there were few patriotic verses
of the Revolutionary period that were not
dedicated to the virtues of the immortal
Washington. Typical of these is the book
of "Sacred Dirges, Hymns and Anthems,"
which is shown in the collection, com-
memorative of the death of General
Washington. The composer was Oliver
Holden of Shirley, or Charlestown,
Massachusetts. The musical service con-
sists of nine vocal solos, with accompani-
ments and includes a " Masonic Dirge,"
the words of which were written by the
Rev. T. M. Harris, at the request of the
Grand Lodge of Masons. In the preface,
which is dated January 27, 1800, the
author says : " At a time when deep-felt
sorrow pervades the Union, & every Indi-
vidual is desirous to express his Venera-
tion for the Character, and his Regret at
the Loss of that Friend of Man, and
brightest Ornament of his Species, the late
illustrious Washington, and Congress hav-
ing recommended and set apart (for that
solemn purpose) the Day which gave him
to America — it appeared just and proper
that every Assistance should be afforded
to render the public Testimonial of Our
Grief as Respectable as possible "

Another composition that is both meri-
torious and unique is the march composed

in honor of the purchase of Louisiana.
The words are by one Michael Fortune,
the music by "an amateur," so the printed
copy informs us. Hero worship of
Jefferson is unmistakable :

" The disdain may foam, and the Malcontents
rail
At thy Measures, O Chief, fram'd in wisdom
and Zeal
Pro Publico bono so fam'd in old Story
For the Welfare of all — or the Whig or
the Tory!
' We admire the calm Sage, who presides o're
the Nation
Of Freemen (no titles) each man in his
station.'
Chorus : " Without Arms — without dread

Or a drop of blood shed,
' Great Jefferson adds to the wealth of a
Nation.' "

" The Nightingale of Liberty," a col-
lection of patriotic and Masonic songs pub-
lished in New York, 1797, is another
striking example of the patriotism and
convivialty of early verses. Here is
an example :

True Blue
" Ye true sons of Freedom, attend to my song,

While time unmolested sweet passes along,
No aid I'll invoke from a tea-drinking Muse,

Dictated by reason I'll sing of true Blues."

From its attractive binding, this collec-
tion of verses must have been popular
in fashionable homes.

Two other prized pieces are the dirge,
" Mourn Hapless Coliunbia," written by
an unknown composer on the death of
Alexander Hamilton, July 12, 1804, and
" Jefferson's March," performed at the
inaugural parade of Jefferson at Wash-
ington, March 4, 1801. On the reverse
side is a copy of the original " Yankee
Doodle." Its verses are appropriate at
this time :

" The only way to keep ofif war
And guard against persecution.
Is always to be well prepared
With hearts of resolution."

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Colonial America had its dancing
masters as well as its musicians. The
youth of those days had dancing schools
as they now have, and the accredited
dancing master of Georgetown, Phila-
delphia, Richmond, New York and Boston
society was a Frenchman named Pierre
Landrin Duport. His " Fancy Menuit "
was " danced by two young ladies before
Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, 1792."
His book of "Menuits " contains some
seventy dance tunes and is full of auto-
biographical allusions, evidently entered
after his immigration to the United States
in 1790. Thus he writes in a fine Parisian
scrawl: "Quit Paris July 17, 1789,"
or three days after the storming of
the Bastile.

There is romance aplenty in the writings
about Colonial music and the names of the
men who founded and moulded the
Nation are intimately associated with it.
Indeed, it affords an insight into their
character and home-life that is not gen-
erally placed before the public.

No mention of Colonial music would be
adequate without reference to Franklin's
share in the development of the Armonica,
that ingenious instrument which aroused
widespread interest on both sides of the
Atlantic. Although the invention of the
musical-glasses, or the glassy-chord, as it

was originally known, is often attributed
to Franklin, careful research tends to dis-
prove it. Franklin did, however, in ac-
cordance with his habit of suggesting
inventions and improvements whether in
electricity, book-binding or a variety of
other things, perfect the glassy-chord,
so that it became in general use in
the colonies.

In many ways Franklin served the cause
of music in America as he served every
other worthwhile cause. He could play
on a number of instruments, the harp, the
guitar, the violin and violoncello. While
abroad he was enabled to indulge in
musical pastimes, attending concerts and
operas with evident pleasure, witnessing
Handel conduct " The Messiah " for the
last time eight days before his death, on
April 6, 1759. Franklin's fondness for
music, however, was to be expected in one
who took the pleasure that he evidently
always took in social affairs.

" Our early musical life was provincial,
but not so primitive as to deserve to be ridi-
culed," says an eminent critic. Provincial
it was if compared with that of the capitals
of Europe — perhaps, as Jefferson regret-
ted, " in a state of deplorable barbarism "
at times ; but it was by no means as " bar-
baric " as some would have us understand.

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DISTINGUISHED MARYLANDERS IN
THE ST. MEMIN COLLECTION

By Edith Roberts Ramsburgh and A. Y. Casanova

MONG the Mary landers por-
trayed by Saint Memin, none
probably, are better known than
the Tilghman family. The his-
torical records of the Old Line
State fairly bristle with their
martial deeds and civic accomplishments,
for they were leaders in public and
social life.

WII.I.IAM HHNSl.KV TILGHMAN

The family in America was founded by
Richard Tilghman, who left Canterbury,
Kent County, England, and settled with
his wife, Mary, on the Chester Run, in
1660. The list of distinguished Tilghmans,
600

since that date, is a long and almost con-
tinuous one. Among the descendants of
the founder, we find Benjamin Chew, a
Federal General in the Civil War; James,
a great Revolutionary lawyer ; Lloyd, a
Confederate General, killed in 1863 ;
Matthew, a Continental Congressman;
Colonel Tench Tilghman, military sec-
retary and aide-de-camp of General
Washington; a second Tench Tilghman,
soldier in the regular army, and Major
General of Maryland militia; William
Tilghman, the great jurist and Judge of
the United States Court. The reputation
of the family has been co-extensive with
the boundaries of the State of Maryland,
and no family in it has contributed more
to the public service, showing greater
fidelity to all obligations.

The family has been traced back to
Richard Tilghman, who lived at Hollo-
way Court, Snodland, Kent, England,
about 1450. The Maryland Historical
Magazine yields an exhaustive genealogy,
and in its pages we find ten or eleven gen-
erations, mostly covering the Ameri-
can period.

William Hensley Tilghman, in the tenth
generation from . . . . , . . . . , was born
December 16, 1784, and died in December,
1863. He was married to Maria Lloyd, a

DISTINGUISHED MARYLANDERS IN ST. MEAIIN COLLECTION

601

daughter of Philemon Hensley, but had
no issue.

WilHam Hensley was a son of Colonel
Peregrine Tilghman, of Hope, Talbot
County, who was a member from this
county in the Maryland Convention of
1777, Colonel of the 4th Battalion of the
county and a member of the State Senate
in 1787-88. The mother was Deborah,
daughter of Colonel Robert Lloyd, of
Hope, and Anna Maria Tilghman.

Judge Nicholas Brice, a prominent
jurist of Maryland was descended from
John Brice who arrived in Maryland from
Hamershire, England, and was a member
of the House of Burgesses, a Justice of the
Peace, and Captain of Severn Hundred.
He married Sarah, the widow of Cap-
tain Worthington.

Judge Brice was born, if we take as
authority the Magazine of the ^Maryland
Historical Society, April 23, 1771, and
died May 9, 1851, marrying on December
5, 1797, Anna Maria Tilghman. She was
born in August, 1774, and died December
15, 1858. In this way he became con-
nected with the prominent family last
named, which must have aided him both
socially and politically.

Among his civic activities, the Chroni-
|i cles of Baltimore notes that, jointly with
others, he established in 1795, the Old
Library Company of that city, and aided
in making the splendid collection of the
best works of that day. A few years ago
this collection passed to and is preserved
in the Maryland Historical Society.

The County Court honored his memory,
at his death, and Samuel Moale, a vener-
able and esteemed member of the bar,
contemporary with the deceased, and
in intimate association with him for many
years, gave an appropriate eulogy. The
speaker referred in a touching manner to
the subject of his remarks, his high in-
tegrity and worth as a public man and a

private citizen, and the Court adjourned
as a token of respect. Judge Brice was
Chief Judge of the Baltimore City Court,
and died at his residence on North
Charles Street, after an illness of about
two years. The Judge had been appointed
to the office which he held until his de-
cease, in the year 1817, when the Court
over which he presided was established by
law. At the time of his death he was over
eighty years of age. He was President of
the Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of
Baltimore for many years, fulfilling his
duties with care and fidelity in that re-
sponsible office. In his more important

* JUDGE NICHOLAS BRICE, OF BALTIMORE

public station, as Chief Judge of the
Criminal Court of Baltimore city, he dis-
charged his obligations and duties under
a conscientious recognition of his responsi-
bility. In his private character, he enjoyed
the unqualified respect of his fellow
citizens, and left behind him the savor of
a life well spent, and to society the memory
of an honest man. His funeral services
were held at historic old St. Paul's Church.

* The profile likeness of Judge Nicholas
Brice bears the name of Lyde Goodwin, Jr.,
in St. A'lemin's handwriting. A. O. Brice of
Baltimore authorized the correction. He
owns the original authentic copy of the St.
Memin drawing.

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Charles Sterrett Ridgeley was one of
the distinguished group of Marylanders
who claimed St. John as his alma mater.
He was of the Class of 1802. We read in
the annals of his State that he was Com-
mander of the Elk Troop of Horse, and
as such find him serving as bodyguard to
General Lafayette when that illustrious
Frenchman visited here in 1825 ; he also
attended President Monroe on his visit to
Annapolis when Samuel Stevens was

CHARLES STKRRKir RIDGELEV

Governor of the State. In 1802 he was
Speaker of the House of Delegates.

The most important and best known
public service rendered by him was when
he led his squadron at the Battle of Blad-
ensburg in 1814. It will be recalled that
General Winder called upon the veteran
General Samuel Smith, Baltimore, to
bring out his division of militia, to meet
the emergency, and, although Smith
promptly responded, the call for volun-
teers wasimot very effective, and General
Winder I'ad less than 3,000 effective men
to face the incoming British forces. As
the men were mostly undisciplined, the
American leader prudently retreated
towards Washington, being followed by
General Robert Ross, who had been joined

by Admiral Cockburn and his sailors in
this warfare, ready for plunder.

An American force had been left at
Bladensburg, four miles from the capital,
and on receiving news of the British ap-
proach, Winder sent troops to reinforce
the American contingent there. The over-
whelming number of the enemy placed the
American commander's force in great
peril, and compelled the latter to fight or
surrender ; the General chose to fight, and
at a little past noon, August 24th, a severe
conflict began. The Americans num-
bered about 2,200, and the British 7,000.
It was unfortunate that Secretary of War
Armstrong and the bewildered Cabinet
hampered General Winder, and many
agree that if the latter had been given un-
conditional control the little American
army with its 26 pieces of cannon might
have driven back the invaders. As the
British descended the hills and pressed
towards the bridge, hurling rockets at the
exposed Americans the latter at first re-
pulsed the enemy with heroic behavior.
Reinforcements came then to the aid of
the British, and in the face of a deadly fire
they crossed the Eastern Branch of the
Potomac. A terrible contest ensued, and
amid a fresh shower of rockets the
American militia broke and fled. Winder,
in vain, tried to rally the Americans, and
finally had to order a general retreat. The
American loss was 25 killed and 50
wounded, while the British was about 500
killed and wounded. In this battle there
were several companies of volunteer cav-
alry from the District, Maryland and
Virginia, under Lieutenant Colonel
Tilghman and others, and many com-
mendatory articles are found in the
Archives relative to these heroes who tried
to save the American capital. President
Madison, Secretary of State Monroe and
Secretary of War Armstrong were pres-
ent at this battle, but hastened back to

DISTINGUISHED MARYLANDERS IN ST. MEMIN COLLECTION

603

W'ashington very hurriedly on the defeat
of the Americans. A New York news-
paper man created much merriment at the
time, when he penned the lines that
" Should some Walter Scott, in a later
century, write a poem, and call it
' Madison, or the Battle of Bladensburg,'
he should suggest the following lines for
the conclusion :

' Fly, Monroe, fly! run, Armstrong, Run!
Were the last words of IMadison. ' "

But it was no time for merriment, for
W'ashington had to be abandoned. Ross
was loath to destroy public property, but
Cockburn, the marauder, became his torch
bearer, for he delighted in vandalism. In
the course of a few hours nothing wa.s left
of superb public buildings but blackened
walls, a destruction deplored by the people
of Great Britain and its best writers. The
public held the Secretary of War re-
sponsible for these calamities, and the
great clamor forced him to resign Septem-
ber 3, 1814.

Ridgeley lived at or near Oakland
Manor, upon the Ellicott City and Laurel
highway, having purchased the estate, con-
sisting of about 2,300 acres from Robert
Oliver, an Englishman, and which had be-
longed at an earlier day to Luther Martin,
the famous lawyer who broke to pieces
John Randolph's charges against Judge
Samuel Chase, another landholder of
Howard county, in one of the most
famous law cases of the time.

William Winder, brother of Levin who
was the sixteenth Governor of Maryland,
married the daughter of Governor John
Henry, and they were the parents of
General ^^'illiam Henry Winder of the
War of 1812.

The subject of this sketch was the son
of another William \\'inder, who had
married Esther Gillis, and had a son John
Winder who married Jane Dashiel. The
last named John was a son of John Winder

who came to America from Cumberland,
England, to Princess Anne, Somerset
County, Maryland, and was appointed
Justice of the Peace in 1665. and lieutenant
colonel in 1697.

The family was prominent in the State,
and its best known member was William
H. Winder, born in 1775, graduated in the
University of Pennsylvania, and was a
lawyer in Baltimore city. He was ap-
pointed lieutenant colonel of infantry and
served in the Niagara frontier, was com-
missioned brigadier general, and later, in
1814, l)ecame inspector general, being in

WILLIAM WINDER

command of the troops in the Battle of
Bladensburg. He was held partly re-
sponsible for the destruction of Wash-
ington by the invading British forces, but
was honorably acquitted, and, after the
war, resumed the practice of his profes-
sion, in which he attained distinction,
and served with credit in the Senate
of Maryland.

It is stated that the camp chest of Gen-
eral Washington came into the possession
of General Winder, and later of his son,
William Sydney Winder, who presented
it, with all necessary documents, to Con-
gress, through John Ouincy Adams.

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A sketch of the Battle of Bladensburg,
in which General Winder took so promi-
nent a part, is given in another part of
this article.

William Tayloe, of London, England,
on his arrival in the New World, lived in
the State of Virginia, and in the latter
part of the seventeenth century settled in
Lancaster County. He married Anne, a
daughter of Henry Corbin, and their son
was John Tayloe. William died in 1747,
and was known as " the Hon. Colonel of
the Old House," in Richmond County ; he

GENERAL WILLIAM H. WINDER

owned 3,000 acres of land in Charles
County, Maryland, known under the name
of " Nanjemoy." He was also the pro-
prietor of "Gwynnfield" in Essex County,
and of " Nelasco " in Prince William
County, Virginia.

John Tayloe, born in 1721, died in 1779,
was known as the founder of Mt. Airy,
where, in 1758, he erected the magnificent
family mansion mentioned in the annals
of Virginia; he was a member of the
King's Council and of the First Repub-
lican Council of Virginia, and married
Rebecca Plater, a daughter of Colonel
George and Rebecca Bowles Addison
Plater of St. Mary's County, Maryland.

Their son, John Tayloe, of Mt. Airy, and
the subject of this sketch, was born in.
1771 and died 1828. He was educated
abroad at Eton and Cambridge, England,
and at the age of 20 years returned to his
native land, succeeding to large estates.
He took a very active part in public affairs,
was a member of the Federal party, and a
warm friend of General Washington. In
the year 1799, he was appointed by Presi-
dent John Adams, Major of Light
Dragoons, U. S. Army; served subse-
quently in the State Legislature for nine
years as Delegate and Senator, and mar-
ried a daughter of Governor Ogle,
of Maryland.

Bucholz, in his " Governors of Mary-
land," yields a fine sketch of Robert
Bowie, who was long prominent in the
affairs of his State.

He was the son of Captain William and
Margaret (Sprigg) Bowie, of Mattaponi,
Prince George County, Maryland, born in
the year 1750, and received his education
at the school of Rev. John Eversfield, near
Croon, and later under Rev. William
Craddock, near Baltimore. At the age of
20 years, he married Priscilla, a daughter
of General James John Mackall, of
Calvert, born in 1755, who at the time of
the marriage was not 15 years of age.
They made a runaway marriage. Her
father. General Mackall, was one of
the most prominent men in the county
during the Revolutionary period, and we
find his name representing Calvert at
nearly all meetings and conventions then
held at Annapolis. He descended from
large landholders, and was a son of Col-
onel John and Susannah Mackall, and
grandson of James Mackall, of " The
Cliffs," having married Mrs. Graham, and
received a grant of 30,000 acres of land in
Calvert County, where he died in 1693.

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General James John married Mary,
daughter of Benjamin Hance.

Prior to the Revokition, Robert Bowie
made a trip to England, in the company of
Richard Ogle, and was introduced at

JOHN TAYLOE

Court, in the reign of George III. But
he returned soon after, and in 1774 he was
present in Upper Marlboro at a meeting
of freeholders and citizens. He continued
to take part in all meetings held there in
the ensuing year, when plans were being
formulated to resist Great Britain. Bowie
was only 24 years of age when the Upper
Marlboro freeholders placed him on a
committee to carry out the resolutions of
the Continental Congress, and on Sep-
tember 12, 1775, he and other residents of
the county were instructed to enroll a com-
pany of minute men. Early in 1776, he
was commissioned First Lieutenant of a
Company organized in Nottingham, was
promoted to Captain of the Flying Artil-
lery of Maryland, and accompanied the
State forces when they joined General
Washington in his early New York cam-
paign. The records show that for several
months Captain Bowie defrayed all the
expenses of his company, and his artillery
covered itself with glory in the battles of

Harlem Heights and White Plains. In one
of these conflicts he was wounded in the
knee. Finding that he had not been very
skilfully treated, he operated upon himself
with a pocket knife, removing a trouble-
some bone splinter, and rebandaging the
leg himself.

After the war, he returned home, and
in 1785 was elected a member of the
House of Delegates. There was a break
of ten years in his political career, during
which time he served as Major of militia
and a Justice of the Peace of Prince
George County.

He again became a member of the lower
house of the General Assembly in the
period of 1801-03, and on November 17,
1803, the Assembly cast a majority of its
votes in his favor, making him Governor
of the State. He was re-elected for a one
year term in 1804, and again in 1805,
which made his administration run from
the fall of 1803 to the fall of 1806, the full
three years for which he was eligible. In

ROBERT BOWIE

1807 he was a Justice of the Peace, and in

1808 a member of the Levy Court, and in

1809 Presidential Elector for Madison.
The year 1811 brought him again into
prominence, for in the month of Novem-

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ber of that year he was again elected Chief
Magistrate of the State.

War was declared by Congress against
England, and his political party almost
unanimously favored it, and when the

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news reached the Governor he was so fired
with enthusiasm, that he ran through the
streets, hatless, to the State House to con-
gratulate the leaders. A Baltimore news-
paper unfortunately, printed an indiscreet
article which angered persons against
whom it was aimed, and the mobs, infuri-
ated, turned out and killed a few Federal-
ists, beating others, among the latter being
Light Horse Harry Lee, who died from
the result of the injuries received. This
unpardonable excess of the Republicans
militated a great deal towards taking
from them their power in the State affairs,
and voices of indignation asked the Gov-
ernor to apprehend the culprits. When he
failed to do so he was accused of shielding
the criminals. The blame was chargeable
to him, and although not established, his
political fortunes suffered from this affair
and ended his public career. He never
regained his former hold upon the political
machinery of the State. Although he tried
several times thereafter to be elected Gov-
ernor or Senator he failed in his efforts.

He died January 8, 1818, of pneumonia,
and is buried in the family graveyard at
Mattoponi. At his death the House of
Delegates adopted a resolution that the
members of that body, as a token of
esteem and high respect, wear crepe on the
left arm for the remainder of the session.

Warfield, in his " Founders of Howard
and Anne Arundel Counties," informs us
that in the year 1785, Colonel John
Dorsey, father of Judge Walter Dorsey,
through speculation, became involved, and
suffering financial losses was forced to sell
has lands near Wood's Mills to his brother
Vachel Dorsey. He was one of the first
Commissioners of Baltimore city, and
was on the reception committee to receive
General Washington on his visit.

J udge Walter Dorsey was elected Judge
of the Court of Baltimore, and married
Hopewell Hebb. In the " Chronicles of
Baltimore " we read that the session of
1799, a new Court of Oyer and Terminer
was organizxd for Baltimore city and
county, and that Walter Dorsey was ap-

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]:)ointed Chief Justice. He resigned in
1808, and was succeeded, by John Scott,
who died in 1813, and was succeeded, in
turn, by Luther Martin, celebrated jurist.

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DUKE

The name Duke literally signifies a leader
or chieftain.

We find it first as a family name in the
Domesday Book, Walfinus de Duaco being
a landholder.

The name became more common during the
reigns of Richard " the Lion-hearted " and
Queen Elizabeth, when members of the family
held high offices.

The family was also early in Ireland.

Roger le Due, great-grandson of William the
Conqueror, was Sheriff of London in 1190.
Burke also mentions a Peter Duke who was
given the right to bear Arms in 1620. This
was probably the same Peter Duke who
accompanied Sir Francis Drake to the Spanish
West Indies in 1586.

His descendants were known as the Dukes
of Benhall, and one of them. Sir Edward Duke,
was the father of Elizabeth, wife of Nathaniel
Bacon, the leader of Bacon's Rebellion in
Virginia, 1676. Her father objecting to the
match, disinherited her.

In the reign of Queen Mary, daughter of
Henry VIII, Michael Duke established a Seat
in Devonshire. His grandson John with
other Royalists, attempted to restore Charles II
to the throne of England. Failing, John Duke
was captured, tried and sentenced, but was par-
doned on condition that he withdraw to
Virginia and make no further attempt against
the government of Cromwell. It is thought he
never came to Virginia, as his death was re-
ported in England, 1671.

Several members of the Duke family seem to
have been interested in the enterprise of
William Penn, as Edward Duke, Gent., and
Thomes Duke, Draper, became owners of land in
the Province of West Jersey and Bartholomew
Duke and James Duke appear in Pennsylvania.

BEATTY -'•

The American family of Beatty traces its
descent, in direct line, from Prince Goffrey of
Scotland, who fought with Brian Boru, at the
battle of Clontarf, 1014, who claimed descent
from Heremon, first King of Ireland.

After living in Scotland fourteen generations,
Garrett, the fifteenth in descent from Prince
Goffrey, returned to Ireland, the ancient home
of the family, and his son John Betagh, was the
first to assume the surname.

John Beatty, the tenth generation after John
Betagh, emigrated to America and settled in
Ulster County, New York, where he married,
November 7, 1691, Susanna Asfordby, daughter
of William Asfordby a descendant of the royal
line of Plantagenet Kings of England and who
brought with him from England a parchment
containing twelve generations of English
ancestry compiled by the Herald of Arms.

Through marriages in these lines she claimed
descent from Pepin of Heristal, Major Domus
of Austrasia, 676, Major Domus of the Franks
by his victory at Testri, 687, also from
Charlemagne, William the Conqueror, Malcolm
Canmore, King of Scotland, Alfonso King of
Arragon, and many others.

The exact date of John Beatty's coming to
America is not known, but he was holding im-
portant offices in 1691, in Ulster County. Later
he removed to Marbletown, where he became
one of its Trustees and for years was Deputy
Surveyor of the Province of New York, in
which capacity he laid out Livingston Manor.

His descendants have intermarried with
the Middaghs, whose emigrant ancestor
was one of the founders and original pro-
prietors of Schenectady, New York, the May-
nards, Schaafs, Ritchies, Harrisons, Carys,
Brawners and many others.

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HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

n. Breaking the Barriers, 1758-1783.

For a general account see Austin : Steps in
Expansion of our Territory, 43-81 ; Sparks :
Expansion of the American People, ch. vi and
vii ; or Johnson : Century of Expansion, 17-60.
Winston Churchill's The Crossing is good ill-
ustrative reading.
L The Nature of the Barriers.

1. The Geographical Barrier and its passes.
The Appalachian Mountains, while hold-
ing back the colonists, tended to concen-
trate their settlements, and to keep off the
Western Indians.

Semple : American History and its Geo-
graphic Conditions, 36-47.

Ferrand : Basis of American History, 8-12.

Brigham: Geographic Influences in
American History, 70-98.

The best natural routes into the trans-moun-
tain country were the Hudson and Mohawk
valleys; over the Pennsylvania mountains or up
the Potomac to the Ohio ; or around the
southern end.

Semple: 53-62; Ferrand 28-34.
The Great Valley, running from Penn-
sylvania to the Carolinas, furnished a natural
road to the southwest, once the first ridge was
crossed, while Cumberland Gap gave easy pass-
age to Kentucky.

2. The Indian Barrier.

The Hudson-Mohawk route and the plains
south of the mountains were occupied by strong
tribes of Iroquois and Muskhogean Indians ;
but the Kentucky country beyond Cumberland
Gap and the Ohio was an unoccupied hunt-
ing ground.

3. The French Barrier.

The French, from their base at Quebec had
extended their explorations and trading posts
to the mouth of the Mississippi and the Rockv
Mountains. In 1750 they held the line of the
Wabash and were planning extension eastward.

Parkman : Conspiracy of Pontiac, ch.
ii. iii.

Cbanning: Unilcd Stales, ii, ch. xviii.

Wilson : Historx of the American People.
ii, 59-75.
H. The Struggle with France.

The earlier French wars were largely re-
flection of European quarrels; but the French
and Indian War grew from the clash of
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English and French colonists in the dis-
puted territory.

For a full account see Parkman : Con-
spiracy of Pontiac, ch. iv; Channing: United
States, ii, ch. xix ; or Fiske : Nczv France and
Nezu England, 258-360. For briefer accounts
any general history. Maps showing the extent
of the French cessions may be found in the
Century Atlas ; or Thwaites : France in Amer-
ica, p. 268; note that after 1763 England held
everything east of the Mississippi.

III. The New Field for Expansion.

The colonists had begun to cross the moun-
tains before 1750, on their own initiative or
under colonial claims, and now hoped for fur-
ther opportunities. But the British policy, as
expressed in the Proclamation of 1763 and the
Quebec Act, was to hold the country as
Indian territory, and strictly control purchases
and immigration.

Bolton and Marshall : Colonization of
North America, 403-406, 411-4.

Howard, G. E. : Preliminaries of the Rev-
olution, 222-241.

Channing: United States, iii, 20-24, 141-
142.

The colonists especially resented the
Quebec Act.

Howard: 276-279; Smith, J. H. : Our
Struggle for the Fourteenth Colony, i, 70-88.

IV. The Revolution and Expansion.

The first settlements beyond the mountains
were made in the upper Ohio valley and the
unoccupied Kentucky country reached by Cum-
berland Gap.

Fiske: American Revolution, ii, 114-124.

Roosevelt : Winning of the IVest, i, 244-
264 (Sagamore ed., pt. II, ch. ii).

Shaler : Kentucky, ch. vii.
Lord Dumnore's War gave them a respite,
hut by 1778 the Indian raids, inspired by the
British at Detroit, threatened to drive them
from Kentucky. Clark's expedition was in-
tended to check these raids at their source, and
strengthened our claim to the Ohio valley.

Roosevelt: ii, 1-91 (Sagamore ed., pt. ii,
ch. v-vii.)

Lodge, H. C. : Story of the Revolution,
ch. xiii.

Winsor: America, vi, 715-730.

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Fontenelle Chapter (Plattsmouth, Neb.),
on May 30, 1922, presented to the county a
memorial tablet in honor of the men from Cass
County who gave their lives in the World War.
Following the Memorial Day exercises at the
theatre which were in charge of the American
Legion, a procession comprised of all the

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accepting the gift. The ceremony of unveiling
was carried out by Mrs. M. A. Street, first
Regent of the Chapter and widow of a Civil
War veteran. The flag was then raised reveal-
ing the beautiful piece of bronze upon which
were the names of the heroes. As the unveil-
ing was completed the audience stood in silent

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Patriotic organizations of the town, marched to
the County Court House where the tablet was
placed?*HVIrs. W. S. Leete, Regent, presided.
Prayer was offered by the Rev. John Calvert.
An address was given by the Rev. Dr. Hayes
of Lincoln, Mrs. Leete formally presented the
tablet to Cass County. Mr. C. F. Harris, County
Commissioner and Mr. Eugene Lister, Com-
mander of the American Legion, responded.

PLATTSMOUTH. NEB.

prayer, then being led by the band all joined in
singing " America." The benediction was pro-
nounced by the Rev. W. S. Leete. The
ceremonies were concluded with a salute by
a firing squad from the American Legion and
the sounding of taps.

Eva Burton Leete,

State Chaplain.
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Taliaferro Chapter (Georgetown, O.),
reports a profitable and interesting year. The
membership increased during the year from
thirty-three to forty-four. The Chapter assis-
ted the American Legion on May 30th, in the
Memorial Day services, taking charge of the
children and the flowers. June fourteenth, the

The Chapter has twelve members who are sub-
scribers to the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine, and a year's subscrip-
tion was given to the library of the town. A
movie benefit and sale of home-made candies en-
abled the Chapter to carry on the work of the
year and meet its obHgations. Besides providing

ON GRANT CENTENNIAL DAY AT GEORGETOWN. OHIO

annual Flag Day program was given, and it
was an enthusiastic meeting well attended. The
September meeting, held at the home of the
Regent, Mrs. Bessie S. Pobst, was a reception
to the new members, it ended the celebration of
the Pilgrim Tercentenary started in December
with a drive for membership. The Chapter
attended the services arranged by the American
Legion on Armistice Day. There was a display
of handwork from the Hindman school at the
November meeting, and numerous articles were
sold. February 22nd was celebrated by a
banquet. The decorations of the rooms and
tables was in keeping with the spirit of the day.
A literary and musical program added much
to the pleasure of the occasion.

The Chapter gave this year a five dollar gold
piece to the pupil making the best grade in
American History in the Georgetown High
School, and the Public School of Russellville.

for one French orphan, the Chapter has contrib-
uted to the Berry school, the Hindman school,
the Philippine scholarship, the Guernsey scholar-
ship, Annette Phelps, Lincoln Memorial fund,
the Fountain for Plymouth, and the Painting of
American Transports for France. General U.
S. Grant having spent his boyhood in George-
town, it was deemed proper and fitting that the
Chapter join in the three day celebration of the
centennial anniversary of his birth. Ohio is
justly proud of her illustrious son, and the
local Chapter D.A.R. gladly assisted in honoring
his memory. The Chapter had a beautiful float
in the parade on that day, which represented
patriotic characters and scenes.

At the annual election of officersr-Mrs. S. F.
Walker was elected Regent.

Mary Lizzie Gilbert Campbell.

Historian.

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Abraham Lincoln Chapter (Lincohi, 111.),
has a membership of forty-five with a large
percentage non-resident. We hold eight regular
meetings a year. Flag Day was celebrated
with a patriotic program, including a pageant
of little girls from the public schools. We
observed Columbus Day and Washington's
Birthday with patriotic programs. Our city
held a Harvest Festival October 20, 1921. Our
Chapter entered a float and a decorated auto-
mobile in the parade. The " Spirit of ' 76 "

the Beautiful," " Illinois " and Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address. Our city has a govern-
ment school of Americanization with which our
Chapter cooperates. We have a visiting com-
mittee for that purpose. We voted to give $5
to seventh and eighth grade pupils of the
public schools for the best essay ; the seventh
grade subject was " Revolutionary Period,"
the eighth grade, " Lincoln in American His-
tory." The Chapter assumed the responsibility
of supplying candy and oranges for twenty-five

FLOAT FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN CHAPTER, IN HARVEST FESTIVAL PARADE, OCTOBER 20, 1921, LINCOLN, ILLINOIS

was represented in tableau by three young men.
On each corner of the float stood a World War
veteran in uniform with gun, holding aloft a
lighted torch. A cannon used in the Civil
War and an old flag with thirteen stars in the
field were prominent on the float as decorations.
The members who rode in the automobile were
dressed in colonial costume. Our Real Daughter,
Mrs. Josephine Wodetzki, rode in the parade.
The tableau represented in the photograph was
" Betsy Ross and her helpers making a flag."
The Chapter gave $7 in prizes for the best
patriotic work in vacation Bible school. Twenty-
one children between the ages of ten and
fifteen learned to repeat and sing "America,

children for the community Christmas tree. We
gave $10 for binding the recent Lineage books
to be placed in the Public Library of our city.
We gave $5 towards the purchase of the
picture of George Washington for the Wash-
ington Memorial at Valley Forge.

An important activity of our Chapter was
the assistance it gave to the Abraham Lincoln
Circuit Marking Association, our county of
Logan having twice the number of roads of
any county in the State over which Abraham
Lincoln rode when he practiced law and rode
the circuit in the old Eighth Judicial District.
We have given thirty cents per capita,
$21 for freight charges on one marker, and

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pledged $200 for the fund. We have petitioned
the board of supervisors of Logan County for
an appropriation for that purpose and have
received $600.

Respectfully submitted,
-(Mrs. a. L.) Edna Scroggin Anderson,

Regent.

Sarah Franklin Chapter (Washington, D.
C.) passed its sixteenth mile-stone in 1922.
Regular meetings have been held monthly; fol-
lowing the business session, a program along
lines of Historical research and general interest
has been carried out. The rapid growth of
membership is a strong indication of the attrac-
tiveness of the ideals and purposes of the
Society, as exemplified by the activities of
this Chapter.

The year's work under the efficient leadership
of our Regent, Mrs. Milton Johnson, has been
most successful. Looking back we find much
has been accomplished. Contributions made to
many worthy causes, as follows : Immigrant's
Manual; The Berry School in Georgia;
Scholarship to Lees McCrae Institute, N. C.
Victory Memorial Fund ; Historic Directory of
the District of Columbia; Painting of the
American Convoys to France ; Friendship
House ; Miniature of our ex-President General,
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, to be put in the museum
at Continental Hall.

We still continue to have annually our "Ex-
perience Meeting," which is a big accession to
the treasury. Many subscribe to the Daughters
OF THE American Revolution Magazine
which is much enjoyed and proves most
interesting.

The Chapter honored Mrs. James E. Mulcare,
our ex-Regent, and Mrs. Robert Harrison, the
Historian, by placing their names in the new
" Ancestry Book," with their Genealogical
record, for the benefit of the proposed " Chap-
ter House" building, in the District of Columbia.

Our Regent, Mrs. Milton Johnson, paid hom-
age to the body of the " Unknown Dead," as
the soldier boy laid in state in the Rotunda of
the Captial, by placing beside the bier a sprig
of ivy taken from the tomb of General Wash-
ington at Mt. Vernon. No greater tribute
could be given the soldier than linking together
in a small way the two great periods in our
history — General Washington, the father of our
country, and the soldier representing the
" Unknown Dead," who made the supreme sac-
rifice for the safety of the world.

We are ever mindful that we must work
for " Home and Country ;" that the coming
years may be filled with deeds worthy of the
Daughters of the American Revolution.
(Mrs. R(ihkrt) Julia Brownley Harrison,

Historian.

Old Glory Chapter (Franklin, Tenn.) at
the home of Mrs. Hyde, on June 15th, cele-
brated the seven hundred and seventh annivers-
ary of the birth of liberty for English-speaking
peoples. Mrs. H. C. Horton told of the
purposes of this celebration how it enters into
the new World policy of establishing friendship
between nations to take the place of hatred of
one nation for another. It is intended to draw
peoples of one language and one blood into
closer bonds of friendship by giving out
mutual information of each other and in this
way prevent misunderstanding. It is believed
that this will go a long way toward bringing
about universal peace. That this does not signify
a political alliance is proven by no less a
personage than the President of the United
States. Mrs. H. P. Cochran the words of
President Harding : " The labor of uniting
into still closer amity and understanding the
English-speaking peoples, is of significance of
good to all Americans and to all nations and
races of the world. These duties will find
their closest recognition in a united, unshak-
able friendship and oneness of purpose, not
for the exclusion from brotherhood of others,
but for a better brotherhood flowing toward
others." Mrs. I. S. House told us something
of what Magna Charta has meant to the world.
The celebration was held in conjunction with
that of Flag Day, two significant days in the
history of the world. That our local D.A.R.
Chapter would commemorate annually the sign-
ing of Magna Charta by King John at Runny-
meade, June IS, 1215, was acted upon at our
meeting in February.

— • Lucy Henderson Horton.

Captain Israel Harris Chapter (Granville,
N. Y.). Our first work in 1920 was to pur-
chase a large flag for staff, and we now have
it out on all special days. We had a most
enjoyable visit from our State Regent, Mrs.
Nash, who gave us many helpful ideas for our
work in Americanization and other work to
be taken up.

On Constitution Day, a copy of the Cons-
titution was placed in all school buildings and
all public buildings in the village. A dele-
gation from this Chapter visited the high
school where appropriate exercises were held.
A copy of the Constitution, framed, was pre-
sented to the school. Tag Day for the
American's Creed was held on July 4th. The
creed was placed in the home of every foreigner
in the village. The Greek and Polish priests
gave them out to their people. We had an
Americanization speaker in 1920 and 1921, also
a trained worker, who with our district nurse
helped us to enter the homes of the foreign
born women. Six home classes were estab-

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lished and carried on under the supervision
of this Chapter and we feel much good
was accomplished.

The graves of fifteen Revokitionary soldiers
have been marked with D.A.R. markers. A
few more have been located, which we hope
to mark this year. Our old Trails Committee
has located many historic spots on the old
turnpike between Granville and Salem.

Service papers of 15 Legionaires, connected
with this Chapter have been sent to the State
Historian for binding.

We planted a tree with appropriate exercises
in memory of thirteen Granville boys who
died in service during the World War. On
Armistice Day, 1920, a large cake was pre-
sented at the Legion Banquet. It was sur-
rounded by tiny American flags and in the
centre was our Insignia with greetings from
the D.A.R. On Armistice Day, 1921, we
established a fund for disabled soldiers and
attended exercises at the Honor Board and
also at the tree. We have given a sum of
money towards the camp in the Adirondacks.
We always give a sum of money to the Civil
War Veterans on Memorial Day. We also
helped in making wreaths, baked for the
\'eterans' dinner, and in a body attended the
Memorial Service on Sunday, and exercises
on Memorial Day. We held a union meeting
with our neighbor Chapter, Lake St. Catherine,
which was most enjoyable. In December we
gave a reproduction of " Living Pictures of
Noted Women in History," which we saw at
Congress. This was held in our Opera House
and each member invited ten guests. It was
voted to be one of our best entertainments. We
observed Washington's birthday in 1920 with
an entertainment by paid artists, and in 1921
with a little play by members, " Washington
as a Civil Engineer." We have paid our
pledges for Liberty Bonds, Fountain for Pil-
grim Mothers, Manual for Immigrants, Painting
of Convoy, gift to Schuyler mansion, Phillipine
scholarship, American College for Immigrants,
and Tamassee School. We have given towards
the Granville Community Association, County
Home for Aged Women, Christmas seal bonds.
Near East Relief, Legion Camp and the local
children's clinic. We have held a needlework
party, food sale, two picture benefits, loan ex-
hibit and a birthday party. We have raised
much money in this way, thus enabling us to
give to many local projects.

The Chapter Regent has visited the high
school five times and presented three prizes,
two for American History and one for an
essay on the Monroe Doctrine. She has visited
one Vermont school, where there are many
foreigners, and personally offered a prize in
American History. She has visited three other

chapters and attended the 25th Anniversary
of Willards Mountain Chapter.

We have held 18 regular meetings and 2
special meetings. The Regent has attended
each of the following together with twenty
committee meetings; State Conference at Sara-
toga, Continental Congress at Washington and
two Regents' meetings at Albany.

We have gained fourteen new members, now
having a membership of eighty-five. We have
a letter from our State Treasurer saying,
" Captain Israel Harris Chapter has met all
obligations and everything paid to date."
-~- Ella W. Wyman,
Regent.

General James Jackson Chapter (Valdosta,
Ga.) was organized in 1908 with sixteen char-
ter members. Its growth has been steady, and
its membership now numbers ninety-two with
five papers pending in Washington. It is our
ambition to have a hundred members before
the end of the year.

This Chapter has the honor of being the
first to respond with a contribution for the
Immigrant's Manual fund. Memorial Fountain at
Plymouth, and the paintmg to be given to the
French Government; sending sixty cents per
capita, our full quota. It was our pleasure to
respond liberally to a call from the Martha
Berry School at Rome, Georgia to the Meadow
Garden Fund at Augusta, Georgia; and toward
painting a portrait of Mrs. Matthew Scott. We
have met in full all state and national obliga-
tions, besides buying anti-tuberculosis bonds
each year and in holding all Liberty Bonds.

There are standing prizes given each semester
to the two pupils in the public school making
the highest grade in American history. The
Chapter awards a full scholarship in the
South Georgia State Normal College at Vald-
osta and is proud to keep a deserving Lowndes
County girl at this splendid institution.

In stressing patriotism through historical
education, the Regent, Mrs. J. T. Wood,
visited every class room in the City and gave a
short talk in each on the correct use of the flag,
and gave copies to each child of the Flag Code.
American's Creed and Constitution of the
United States.

The Year-book Committee with Mrs. Ingram
as Chairman strives for really worth-while
things. This year's study is along the life of
citizenship in its various phases. Members are
requested to buy the book. " National League
of Women Voters" and much helpful infor-
mation is gained through study classes.

Every meeting was held at the regular time
and the attendance always good. Suitable pro-
grams were presented on Washington's Day,
Lafayette's Day, Constitution, Columbus and

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and Armistice Days. February 22nd was cele-
brated with an open meeting, at which time an
historical picture " Youth of Washington" was
given. On Armistice Day the D.A.R. joined
the other Women's Clubs of the City in giving
a barbecue dinner. Five hundred ex-service
men were present as guests.

We have ready for publication a history of
Lowndes County, compiled by members of the
D.A.R. Mrs. T. A. Baker is Chairman of this
Committee, and has worked very hard for the
success of this splendid idea. We have a shelf
at the Carnegie Library on which records and
books given the Chapter by voluntary sub-
scription are kept. The Chapter sends one
subscription to the Library and a large
percentage of its membership subscribe to
the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution Magazine.

Mrs. D. B. Small has organized a very
enthusiastic club. Children of the Revolution,
which grows rapidly in numbers and interest.
The D.A.R. has united with the other Women's
Clubs of the City to build a Chapter House,
a desirable lot having been donated for the
purpose. The D.A.R. trustee for this fund,
B. G. Lastinger, has been made Treasurer
General for the Chapter House Fund.

General James Jackson Chapter, entertained
the Georgia State Conference April 4th, 5th
and 6th. There were one hundred and twenty-
five guests at that time. Among the guests
were Miss Coltrane, Mrs. W. N. Reynolds, and
Mrs. W. O. Spencer of North Carolina. The
Chapter feels that the coming of the Conference
was a great inspiration and they are pushing
onward and upward to greater achievements.
Mrs. Beatrice McGarrah,

Press Correspondent.

Parson Roby Chapter (Saugus, Mass.)
was organized in 1921 under the direction of
Mrs. Marion Pitts Peck, formally a member
of the Old Blake House and Wayside Inn
Chapters. It started with twenty three accep-
ted members and eleven papers at Washington.
The Chapter has grown steadily through the
year and in June, 1922 there were forty accep-
ted members, two associate members, two honor-
ary members, one member at large, and five
papers at Washington. All are new members
to the National Society with the exception of
the Regent.

Eight meetings have been held during the
year, and although much time has been spent
in organization, the members have enjoyed many
instructive and interesting talks. Much work
of patriotic value has been done.

In June, 1921, the Chapter held a card party.
The proceeds, eleven dollars, being used for
operetta books. On December 14th, the Chap-

ter gave the operetta, which was successful in
every way. The proceeds being ninety-
three dollars.

The following patriotic work has been
carried out. Contributions have been made
to : Alemorial Miniature of Mrs. Mathew
Scott, $10; Francis E. Willard Settlement, $5;
International College, $10; Memorial Bell for
Paul Revere, $5; Martha Berry School, $5;
Philippine Scholarship Fund, $2 ; Nicholas Stan-
kovitz, Serbian Boy, $10. A prize of $5 to a
boy and $5 to a girl for the highest attainment
in American History in the Junior High school.
Also, a regulation parade flagstaff, carrying
belt and eagle was presented to Troop 4, Boy
Scouts of Saugus, Massachusetts. To the
Public Playground, $10. The American's
Creed has been distributed through the public
schools in our Italian district.

A C.A.R. was organized on April 8, 1922
with Mrs. Wm. B. Read as President. It has
eighteen accepted members, two papers at
Washington, and two associate members.

The Daughters of the American Rev-
olution Magazine is taken by a number of
the members and has proven both interesting
and instructive.

The annual meeting was held in June, when
the officers for the ensuing year were elected,
these were the same as previously appointed
by the organizing Regent. It was voted at this
meeting to dispense with the charter and have
instead, a charter list, which is to be painted
by the husband of one of our officers, who
has given his services. The money, which
would otherwise have been spent for a charter,
will be used for a local historic purpose.

We are fortunate to be in an historic section
and there is much work to be done in marking
and preserving relics of Colonial Days. The
Chapter can be proud of its first year's work,
but it is only a beginning. To do even a
small part of the work which may be done will
require untiring energy and spirit on the part
of each and every member.

— Mabel F. Full,
Recording Secretary.

Sacajawea Chapter (Olympia, Wash.) re-
ports for the first time, their activities and
accomplishments. The Chapter was named for
the Indian Princess who guided the Lewis and
Clark expedition across the Rocky Mountains in
1805. The work of organization was completed
November 17, 1905 with Mrs. Clarence J. Lord
as Regent. From the thirteen names on the char-
ter roll, the membership has increased to the
present total of 56. During 1921 and 1922
thirteen new members were admitted.

Sacajawea Chapter met its obligations to
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has contributed liberally to local causes. Funds
were given to aid in the erection of a
Washington monument on the University cam-
pus at Seattle, to the Red Cross, and to assist
in establishing suitable markers for the Oregon
Trail. The Chapter paid its quota toward the
State's gift of a bust of George Washington
to Continental Hall in Washington, D. C,
fifty cents per capita was given to the recently
organized University Chapter in Seattle and, in
addition to these cash contributions, suitable
prizes have been given to public
school students for essays on patri-
otic subjects.

On February 22, 1913, the Chapter
unveiled a monument in the City park
which marks the end of the Oregon
Trail and shows where the first actual
settlement was made on Puget Sound.
On a huge granite boulder is a bronze
plate bearing the following inscription :

" Marking the end of the Oregon
Trail, 1844. Erected by Sacajawea
Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, 1913."

The monument is on the spot
where once stood a block house built
during the Indian uprising in 1855
and 1856.

During the World War the members
of the Chapter worked with the Red
Cross and other service organizations
besides, as a unit, making more than
200 sewing kits for men in service,
Miss Milford Stanford, a former
Regent, served one year as a Red
Cross hospital searcher in France.
The members gave to the service of
their country the services of twelve
sons and one daughter, of whom only
one son was called upon to make the
supreme sacrifice.

The quota to the Immigrant's
Manual, Memorial Fountain, Liberty
Bond issue and the painting to
France have been paid, and a donation medici
made to the Tilloloy fund. For two
years the Chapter provided the support of a
French war orphan. Patriotic education has
been a foremost activity and a committee, with
Mrs. Warren Tolman as chairman, has done
commendable work with gratifying results.
Teaching the American's Creed in the public
schools, work on the Immigrant's Alanual and
classes to encourage the proper kind of Ameri-
can citizenship have been carried on successfully.
Two Chapter members are serving on the ad-
visory board of the Juvenile court.

On July 2nd of this year the Chapter had
the pleasure of entertaining the Vice President

General, Mrs. Henry McCleary, and State
Regent, Mrs. William Sherman Walker.

Regular meetings are held from September
to June, each opened with the salute to the
flag. A short historical program follows the
business session, after which refreshments are
served. Three social events marked the past
season, chief among them being the luncheon
given by Mrs. George Aetzel in honor of the
Chapter officers and the open meeting in March
when a program of Indian songs, dances and

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legends was presented by Mrs. Edwin James,
Mrs. Eugene Callaway and Mrs. Edwin
Gardner of Tacoma. In June the Chapter
was entertained at the country home of Mrs.
Forrest Meek.

The most important event of the past year
occurred on Flag Day when Sacajawea Chap-
ter, assisted by representatives of the State
Historical and Pioneer Societies, unveiled a
marker on the Medicine Creek Treaty grounds
near Olympia. The Chapter members and their
guests gathered on the grounds near the
marker where a picnic luncheon was served.
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spot where Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens,
first governor of the State of Washington, on
December 25 and 26, 1854, called a council of
represenatives from the three strongest tribes
of Puget Sound Indians. Upon the tree under
which Governor Stevens stood was placed, with
impressive ceremonies, a bronze tablet bearing
the following inscription :

" Site of the Medicine Creek Treaty between
Governor Isaac I. Stevens and the Indians of
the Puget Sound basin, 1854. Marked by
Sacajawea Chapter, D.A.R., 1922."

Stevens, gave a brief reading from her brother's
life of their distinguished father, describing
the scene as it was enacted 68 years before.
Mr. Bonney, secretary of the State Historical
Society, paid a glowing tribute to Gover-
nor Stevens.

The past year has been one of the most
successful in the Chapter's history, due in a
great measure to the untiring energy of its
retiring Regent, Mrs. Aetzel. The members
are looking forward to another active and
successful year under the leadership of their

GROUP AT GEORGE WASHINGTON PARTY, DRAWING ROOM OK HENRY GRANT HOUSE

After singing "America," the salute to the
flag was given. Mrs. George A. Aetzel, retir-
ing Regent of the Chapter, briefly described
the treaty and its provisions, she then presented
the tablet to Mrs. William Sherman Walker,
State Regent. Little Miss Virginia Aetzel un-
veiled the marker, and Mrs. Walker accepted
the gift on behalf of the State Society, paying
a tribute to the pioneers.

Mark H. Wight, Assistant Attorney General,
representing Governor Hart, responded on be-
half of the State. Mrs. Henry McCleary, Vice
President General of the National Society.
D.A.R. spoke on the origin of Flag Day. Mrs.
Kate Stevens Batea, a daughter of Governor

newly elected Regent, Mrs. Warren W. Tolman.
— -Emma C. McCully,
Historian.

Western Reserve Chapter (Cleveland, O.),
is doing efficient work under the leadership of
its Regent, Mrs. Adin T. Hills with the
splendid cooperation of each member. Our
membership is approaching the six hundred
mark, one hundred twenty-one of whom are
non-resident.

An organization composed of one hundred
boys, known as the Sons of the Republic, is
under the supervision of the Patriotic Educa-
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principles of good citizenship and patriotism.
Twenty-four served in the World War, some
of whom made the supreme sacrifice.

The foreign girls organization is known as
the Martha Washington Club of Girl Home-
makers. The course is for girls from five to
fourteen years of age and includes general
housework, cooking, sewing, table service, care
of baby, laundry work, etc. The Wheel and
Distaff Guilds, senior and junior, are constantly
expanding in their philanthropic work. Gar-
ments are made and distributed among the
poor. Also selected books are collected and
distributed. Flowers are sent to the sick and
" shut ins." The Sons of the Republic, Girl
Home-makers of America and the Wheel and
Distaff Guild had their origin in Western
Reserve Chapter, as did also the Children of the
American Revolution organized January 24, 1912.
There are one hundred sixteen active members
and sixty-one honorary members with Mrs.
Lisle Terwilleger, President. Four meetings
are held during the year.

In July, 1921, Cleveland celebrated its one
hundred and twenty-fifth anniversary. West-
ern Reserve Chapter had a prominent part in
its celebration, one of its privileges being the
placing of a bronze tablet marking the west-
ern entrance to the historic Erie Street Ceme-
tery. The inscription upon the tablet was.
Erie Street Cemetery
Cleveland's Oldest Burial Ground
Dedicated 1826
Western Reserve Chapter
National Society Daughters of the American
Revolution 1921

The Children of the American Revolution
acted as guard of honor on this occasion. The
tablet was unveiled by three children whose
mothers and grandmothers are members of
Western Reserve Chapter and whose great
grand parents are buried there. Two of our
four remaining charter members, Mrs. Gertrude
Van Renssalaer Wickham and Mrs. Sophia
Edwards Roberts were present at the ceremony.

A gold medal specially designed was pre-
sented to Miss Mae Vinunsky of Central High
School for the best original playlet expressing
American ideals which could be understood by
foreigners. Flags, American's Creeds, seven
hundred fifty Manuals, and other patriotic lit-
erature have been distributed among the public
schools, settlement schools, homes for colored
girls and men's citizenship classes.

We have met all of our obligations both to
the National Society and State. Besides our
expenses for Chapter activities, we have com-
pleted our pledge to the Schauffler Missionary
Training School (about $480) ; contributed
$1,137.50 for the Caroline Scott Harrison
Memorial ; $25 for a soldiers' family and added

about $4,000 to our Permanent Headquarters
Fund which now has $10,500 in Liberty Bonds
to its credit. There are nine regular meetings
during the year, including seven Chapter meet-
ings at which business is combined with a
program of music and current topics. The
remaining two are given over entirely to busi-
ness. Services in one of the churches takes
place in February.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Vice President
General is a member and Past Regent of
Western Reserve Chapter. Her daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Roy Gould Harris who represented
the National Society in France in its work in
Tilloloy, is also a member of Western Re-
serve Chapter.

Viola A. Allyn,

Historian.

Pittsburgh Chapter (Pittsburgh, Pa.) cele-
brated Flag Day in the beautiful grounds of the
Pennsylvania College for Women, which had
been graciously placed at our disposal for the
occasion. Our Hospitality Chairman, Mrs.
Biddle Arthurs, and her committee left nothing
undone to make our day a delightful one.
After singing " The Star Spangled Banner,"
we listened to a most able address by Mr.
Thomas Morris, President of the Associated
Press of Pittsburgh. His subject was " Old
Glory." He told of the wholesome respect with
which it is regarded by every nation on the
globe, with many interesting "Associated Press"
stories regarding it, that had come to him
from all parts of the world. Our Regent.
Mrs. Marcellin Adams, then presented two
beautiful flags-one of silk on a handsome brass
standard for the chapel of Pennsylvania
College, and the other, more substantial and
weather proof, to the Church General Hospital
at Wu Chang, China. Both these emblems
were donated by members of the Chapter
Board and their generosity received a vote of
thanks by the Chapter.

At the conclusion of the exercises, an in-
formal reception was held. There were about
two hundred and fifty persons present, and as
our Chapter is widley scattered, this was
indeed a goodly gathering. Refreshments were
served by the young daughters of the Daugh-
ters. And, as the sun sank behind the Penn-
sylvania hills and the great flag on the campus
flag staff was hauled down, each and every
one felt that June 14, 1922, had been a happy
and inspiring day, not soon to be forgotten.
Mary B. Chess,
Historian.

Sarah Caswell Angel Chapter (Ann Arbor.
Mich.) has had a year of interesting work.
In the fall we celebrated our twenty-fifth
anniversary with a reception held in the audi-

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torium of the Michigan Union. This was
followed by a program in charge of Mrs. H.
B. Hutchins, the second Regent of the Chap-
ter. An interesting account of the life of our
founder was given by Mrs. George Patterson,
and the history of the first twenty-five years
of our Chapter was given by Mrs. W. W.
Beman. We regretted that Mrs. Minor, our
President General, was unable to be with us.
At this meeting the G. A. R. presented us
with a silk flag which has been used for the
opening ceremony at each meeting since. In
honor of our twenty-fifth anniversary, a

On October 28th we held the first meeting of
the year, when the reports from the State
Conference were given.

Our program for the year has been mostly
on the subject of Michigan. In November Dr.
W. B. Hinsdale. President of the S. A. R.,
talked to us of the Primitive Man of Michigan.
Dr. George N. Foster, of the Historical Com-
mission, addressed us in December on " His-
torical Relations between Great Britain and the
United States." In January a reception was
held for new members at the home of Mrs.
C. J. Lyons. We had at our March meeting

SARAH CASWELL ANGEL CHAPTER, ANN ARBOR, MICH.

scholarship was established for the benefit of
University girls, to be known as the Sarah
Caswell Angel scholarship fund. Chapter
members subscribed over $400, and during the
year four University girls have been benefited
through this scholarship.

In October thirty-three members of our
Chapter attended the Annual State Conference
in Detroit. Our Chapter was honored by hav-
ing Mrs. William Henry Wait endorsed for
President General of the National Society, but
because of ill health we have had to announce
her withdrawal. Mrs. Wait was further hon-
ored by having the Flint Chapter give a scholar-
ship in her name to the International College
for Immigrants in Springfield, Massachusetts.

a talk on the Geological History of Alichigan
by Prof. Frank Leverett.

We have contributed over $6 toward the
Belleau Wood Memorial Association. The
Entertainment Committee had charge of a
bridge tea and $85 was thus added to
our treasury.

The work of the Americanization Committee
has been in connection with the American Home
Workers Association. Fifteen nationalities
were represented among the foreign women.
A Christmas party with gifts for all the child-
ren was given at the Y. M. C. A. building. The
year closed with a party at which forty-
nine foreign women and eighteen children
were present.

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Much work has been done through the Ves-
ual Education Committee in securing better
films for our city. Several clubs have joined
with us in this good work.

On May thirtieth our Chapter was assisted
by the S. A. R. in placing and marking a
boulder at the junction of the Jackson and the
Dexter roads to mark the old territorial trail
between Detroit and Chicago. The boulder
was supplied by the S. A. R. and the tablet

profitable year, and we feel assured of con-
tinued success.

^(Mrs. a. W.) Fanny B. Smith.

Mohegan Chapter (Ossining-on-Hudson. N.
Y.,) upon Home-coming Day of the World War
men, September, 1919, placed flag markers in
Nelson Park, one for each man of the village
who gave his life for Humanity. Afterwards
a tree was planted beside each marker. On
Memorial Day, 1922, the Chapter presented to

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by the D.A.R. Miss Sarah Wheedon, Regent
of the D.A.R., presided at the unveiling of
the tablet and introduced the following speakers :
Mr. J. E. Beal, whose subject was " Travellers
on the Old Trail," and Dr. W. B. Hinsdale,
who spoke on " Boulders — The First Old
Travellers." After the presentation, accep-
tance for the city was made by Mayor G. E.
Lewis. After the guests had joined in singing
" America," a picnic supper was served. At
our annual meeting we were honored by having
the Vice President General from Michigan,
Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, and State Regent,
Mrs. Victor Seydell, as our guests. At this
meeting the new officers for the next year were
elected. Our Chapter feels we have had a

the village a boulder with a bronze tablet on
it containing the full names of the men. This
was placed among the grove of memorial trees
and is a beautiful spot upon the Albany Post
Road. The services were opened by a prayer
by the Rev. Gibson W. Harris. Miss Clara C.
Fuller, Regent of the Chapter, assisted by Vill-
age President Goodrich, unveiled the boulder
and spoke in an impressive manner. At the
close she asked all present to bow their heads
in silent reverence while she read aloud the
names on the bronze tablet. Miss Fuller then
introduced Mrs. Charles White Nash, New
York State Regent, who gave a most inspiring
address upon Patriotism and at its close dedi-
cated the boulder in the name of the Mohegan

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Chapter to the memory of the men of Ossining.

After the dedication the invocation was pro-
nounced. The Sons of Veterans fired three
volleys and a bugler in the distance sounded
taps. Commander J. Howard Miller of the
American Legion placed a large wreath on
top of the Boulder and another at the base
under the tablet.

A luncheon was given in honor of Mrs.
Charles White Nash by the Chapter. Miss
Fuller spoke and presented Mrs. Nash who
gave an interesting talk on State and National
D.A.R. activities.

Sarah Bishop Regan,
Corresponding Secretary.

Letetia Green Stevenson Chapter (Bloom-
ington, Illinois) stands just over the threshold
of the year 1922 with a membership of 292 and
we have met all our obligations. The cooper-
ation and support of the membership has been
a great help to officers and committees.

From the first luncheon of the year 1920-
1921 at Maplewood County Club, when we
were honored by the presence of our Honorary
President General, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott, and
our State Regent, Mrs. H. E. Chubbuck to
the closing event of the Chapter year — Flag
Day celebration, the meetings have grown in
strength and influence. In November 1920 the
300th anniversary of Mayflower Compact Day
and the second anniversary of Armistice Day
were impressivly celebrated at the home of
Mrs. Roy Critchfield. At this meeting Mrs.
Matthew T. Scott gave $1000 to the Matthew
T. Scott Jr., School, which our Chapter
is aiding.

At the December meeting Miss Nellie Parham,
Librarian of the Bloomington Library gave an
address on the Mayflower Tricentennial.

At the meeting, there was an address by
Prof. Douglass C. Ridgely of the Normal
University, on the " Geography of the Peace
Treaty." The address was illustrated by two
maps of Europe, one the division of the
countries before the war, the other fixing the
lines after the Armistice was signed.

The February meeting consisted of the story
of Illinois written in the form of a pageant
and condensed to a reading for this program.
The story covers a period of time in Illinois
history from 1818 to 1918 and is in five parts —
a beginning and closing masque and three epi-
sodes. The masques are symbolic and the
episodes accurately historical, the dramatic
climaxes secured by the actual characters found
in the history of the state. The pageant reader
was Mrs. H. C. Rhodenhouser, soloist, Miss
Gladys Simms.

On February 23rd one of our members, Miss
Grace Wagner, appeared in concert under the
auspices of our Chapter. Her home-coming

was a great success. Gross receipts from the
concert were $1472.45.

The total of our financial contributions for
the year was $3460.38

One of the most important things being
done this year is the marking of the Lincoln
Circuit. The work of the Historic Spots
Committee has been merged with the Lincoln
Circuit Marking Association. This is the
line traversed by Abraham Lincoln when hold-
ing court at the County Seats along the 8th
Judicial Circuit.

We have had gifts and dedication of
scholarships to the Martha Berry School at
Mount Berry, Georgia by Mrs. F. W. Wilcox
in memory of her son who died in service in
the World War.

Next Flag Day closes two eventful years for
the Chapter, under the efficient leadership of
Mrs. J. W. Riggs. She has given generously
of her strength and means to awaken the
Chapter members to the knowledge of the
force and power of the N.S. D.A.R.

Etta Haverrs Carrithers,

Historian.

Ellicott Chapter (Falconer, N. Y.), has
spent a profitable two years under the Regency
of Mrs. Hattie Jollie. Since our last report
of 36 members we have had 52. Two of
these have been removed by death, leaving a
total of 50 at the present time, with two papers
pending at Washington.

Aside from our regular meetings we have
had very pleasant social affairs. January 15,
1921 at the home of Miss Sample an address
on " Europe since the War," was given
by Dr. Randell. On February 22nd war
veterans, their wives and the ladies of the
U. V. L. were entertained at the home of Mrs.
G. F. Smith. Mr. Lingo of Jamestown High
School spoke on " Abraham Lincoln." March
12th, Charter Day was celebrated with a ban-
quet. An address was given by the superinten-
dent of the Jamestown schools on " Changes
that have taken place in the presidential office
since Washington's time." At the April meet-
ing held at the home of Mrs. Jollie the first
of the citizenship talks were given — " Town
Boundaries and Districts, Officers and Elec-
tions." Flag Day was celebrated on June 18th,
as the speaker of the day. Congressman Daniel
Reed was unable to come for the earlier
date. A reception was given for him before
the exercises.

For the first time in its history the Chapter
was honored by a visit from the State Regent,
Mrs. Charles White Nash of Albany. A lunch-
eon was given for Mrs. Nash and at its close
the attending members and guests listened to
an interesting talk by the guest of honor.

Under the guidance of the Chapter a night
school for illiterates and home classes for

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women of foreign birth have been estabhshed
in the village. Subscriptions to all the enter-
prises of the National Society have been made,
a prize for excellence in American history
awarded to a high school student, and graves
of veterans of the early wars decorated on
Memorial Day. Our members have shown a
splendid spirit of cooperation and for our re-
tiring Regent we entertain the deepest respect
and admiration. Presiding with dignity and
tact, the sentiment she has expressed on public

social meeting during the year. This year and
last we have been devoting our programs to the
history, geography and resources of the State
of Washington. We also have, each month, a
review of the President General's letter and
other interesting articles from the Magazine
presented by some member of the Chapter.
Flag Day and Washington's birthday are
fittingly observed.

In October, we entertained Mrs. William
Sherman Walker, our State Regent. A lunch-

joHx ken'drick: chapter, entry in blossom day parade, wenatchee. wash.

occasions has done much to further in this
community the patriotic principles for which
our Society stands.

^Kate Ely Davis,

Historian.
John Kendrick Chapter (Wenatchee, Wash.)
was organized on May 20, 1914 with twelve
charter members. The organization was due
to the efforts of Mrs. W. J. McCoy, who was
our first regent. Our membership has since
increased to fifty with several papers pending.
At our last meeting it was decided to increase
our membership limit from fifty to seventy-five.
We hold our meetings each month, having lunch-
eon first with the business meeting and program
following. We have interesting programs along
patriotic and historical lines with at least one

eon was given by our Chapter Regent, Mrs.
Charles E. Owens, entertaining Mrs. Walker
and the Executive Board. At the regular meet-
ing of the Chapter, Mrs. Walker gave an
inspiring talk on the work of the D.A.R. for
the coming year.

During the war, we devoted our time to war
work. We have given our financial support to
many worthy causes, including Relief Fund for
the Belgians, Fund for Marking Oregon Trail,
French Orphanage Fund, Berry School in
Georgia, Tilloloy Fund, Anti-tuberculosis
League, Guernsey Fund and Immigrant's Man-
ual, Fountain and Painting Fund.

This year we have been interested in the
University of Washington Chapter House and
have given $92.60 to that and $50 to the Block

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Certificate Fund. We have made money from
time to time by giving bake-sales and card
parties and an occasional home talent play.

Our Chapter vi'as honored in having Mrs. B.
J. Williams elected State Historian last year
and Mrs. J. A. Seaman serve as Chairman of
the State Committee. Our Regent, Mrs.
Charles E. Owens, has laid special emphasis
on teaching the proper use of the Flag, and she,
in company with Mrs. J. A. Seaman, Chairman
of the Flag Committee, and Major Winfield
Harper, retired army officer, visited all of the
schools in the city, demonstrating the proper

always ready to help with any civic or patriotic
work demanded of us.

_. .. (Mrs. A. N.) Stfxla H. Corbin,

Historian.

Bergen Chapter (Jersey City, N. J.) has
concentrated on Americanization for the past
two years, since its last report to the Magazine.
This has included many talks, and papers pre-
pared by the members, also practical application
of this knowledge. In September, 1921, the
Chapter bought the series of slides of the His-
tory of the Constitution issued by the National

IN DRAWING ROOM OF HENRY CiRANT HOISK

use of the Flag and giving short talks on its
origin and history.

The chief industry of our valley is raising
apples and every spring when the apple trees
are in bloom we have a Blossom Festival. Last
spring our Chapter had a beautiful float in the
parade, eight young women in colonial costume
marched, carrying a sedan chair decorated in
apple blossoms and the Blossom Day colors,
pink and green. In the chair sat little Janet
Sumner, a Daughter, also dressed in colonial
costume. On the sides of the chair were
the large letters, D.A.R., of blue on a
gold background.

Our Chapter is alive and enthusiastic and

Society. These were shown in many places
and it is estimated that about 15,000 people
saw them. This work was in cooperation with
the other Chapter in the city. Continuing the
plan of helping foreigners know and love Amer-
ica, the Chapter has two members working with
the International Committee of the Y. W. C. A.
Financial support has been given this work. A
party for the Italian Mothers' Club was
arranged. Col. Helen Bastedo, a social worker
from Ellis Island was a speaker. She told of the
women and children there, and in response to
her appeal, several boxes of children's clothing,
pencils and other material have been sent by
members to the social workers on the Island.

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The Chapter plans to do even more work in
its own city. March 10th Judge James W.
McCarthy, who is in charge of the County
Naturalization Court, was the speaker, the
Chapter holding a Gentlemen's Night for this
occasion. He spoke of the Making of " New
Citizens." In connection with this meeting an
effort is being made to have each new citizen
as the Judge gives the word of welcome, which
is an impressive part of the Naturalization,
receive a card on which will be an American
flag, the salute and also the American's Creed.
This is a gift from Bergen Chapter. The
Chapter is also planning to give the leaflet
issued by the National Society to each immi-
grant making this city his home.

Another plan to foster love of America was
the presentation, with fitting ceremony, of an
American Flag to the Italian Clubs at the
Good Will Community. This is a centre for
Americanizing foreign born of all nation-
alities. This gift from the local D.A.R. will
be used by the club at all its meetings
and parades.

The Chapter has had the pleasure of many
National and State visitors. Mrs. Henry Fitts,
the State Regent, related her experience as New
Jersey representative at the Conference for
Disarmament. Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of
Pennsylvania came in the fall, and also Mrs.
F. H. H. Calhoun. The latter gave an illus-
trated lecture on Tamassee, the Chapter being
a founder and its members having contributed
many packages of material for the girls.

Armistice Day was fittingly celebrated. Last
year the tercentenary of the Pilgrim Landing
was made the occasion of a Pageant when
twenty children in costume gave an interesting
program. Mr. Boyd of the Mayflower Society
and Mr. Humphrey of the Sulgrave Institute
were the speakers for this celebration.

Talks by visiting speakers have been given
at the monthly meetings. The Chapter con-
tributed its quota to the Guernsey and Fitts
Scholarships at Springfield, it supports a young
girl training in the Berea Hospital in Kentucky,
and has aided each and every call from State
or National Society.

Funds are raised outside of membership dues
by an annual card party, and a spring concert.
This season the Chapter had two special pro-
grams, when guests not members of the organ-
ization were entertained to interest them in
joining. The annual election takes place at a
luncheon, with honors for outgoing and in-
coming officers. The Chapter's 15th Birthday
was celebrated March, 1921, with a party and
a cake with 15 candles.

Meetings have been held at the Woman's
Clubhouse, a group of members serving as
hostesses each time.

For the coming year the Americanization
work will be continued, and it is planned to
arouse greater interest in the Children's Chap-
ter, which belongs to Bergen Chapter, and
which has at present over 20 members. To
aid this, the last meeting of the season, in
April, will be Children's Day, with a program
by them. The state organizer for children's
work will be a guest.

Ada D. Fuller,

Historia)i.

Du Quoin Chapter (Du Quoin, 111.) was
organized in September, 1921 with twelve mem-
bers and is closing its first year in June with
twenty-six members. The Chapter was named
for the Indian Chief, Du Coign. The meetings
are held monthly at the members' homes, and
after business is disposed of a social time is
enjoyed. The program this year has been upon
the colonial period. To our Regent, Mrs. L. A.
Cranston, and to her able management we owe
the success of our Chapter. She was the or-
ganizing Regent and when appointed there were
but two D. A. R. members in town. Under her
leadership we are increasing in numbers and
have responded to all local and general demands.
We have a committee on Patriotic Education
who conducted the contest of a prize essay on
the " Pioneer Women of America." The winner
of the contest was awarded a gold medal by the
Chapter. Washington's birthday was celebrated
with a colonial party given by the Chapter with
the members all in colonial costumes. The pro-
gram consisted of tableaux of Colonial times.

During the year much interest has been
shown in Americanization work. A more
definite program will be outlined for the
coming year in this work. The Chapter was
represented by the Regent at the State Meeting
in Chicago. We keep in touch with all D.A.R.
work. Our State Regent, Mrs. Eugene Chub-
buck, was present at the the formal opening
of the Chapter in the fall. We have members
from several nearby towns. Being the only
Chapter in the county we are responsible for
the graves of four Revolutionary Soldiers in
the County.

In June we are to celebrate Flag Day with
a picnic. As it is the last meeting of the year,
the yearly reports are to be given. Several
members of the Chapter are subscribers
to the Daughters of the American Rev-
olution Magazine.

There has been great unity of effort during
our first year and we are ready to enter our
second, anticipating it as one of hopeful en-
deavor and still greater accomplishment.

Margaret Pyatt, — •
Rccordinq Secretary.

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QUERIES

10645. Gore.— Wanted parentage and Rev rec
of Wm. Gore b in Ouslow Co., N. C. in 1751
His bros were James and Joseph and after
leaving Duplin Co., N. C. settled in Columbus
Co. Any inf will be greatly appreciated. —
N. D. M.

10646. Price.— Wanted Rev rec and all dates
of Veazey Price who lived in Balto. Co., Md.
Wanted also dates of his w Anne Barton and
names of their ch. They moved to Mason Co.,
Ky. and are bur at Maysville, Ky.

(a) HicKSON. — Wanted dates of Benj. Hick-
son (Hixon, Hixson) and of his w Sarah
Dallas and names of their ch. He was a Rev
sol in the 3rd Va. Regt.

(b) Jackson. — Wanted Rev rec and all
dates of Henry Jackson and his w Elizabeth

and names of their ch. Their s Wm. b in

Bath Co., Ky. in 1795, m Esther Wallace.

(c) Wallace. — Wanted Rev rec and all
dates of Michael Wallace who served with Md.

troops and also any inf of his w Charity .

— M. S. T.

10647. Alexander-Sanborn-Wilsox.^ — Would
like to corres with desc of James Alexander,
b 1749 and of his w Elizabeth Sanborn, b 1747
of Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co.. N.C., and of
Reuben Alexander b 1774 and of his w Jean
Allen Wilson b 1772 of Mecklenburg Co.,
N. C— L. A. S.

10648. Hanks. — Wanted names of w and ch,
when married and to whom, and Rev rec of
Abraham Hanks who lived in Va. and Ky.
Also of John Hanks who was b Oct. 20, 1765
in Va.

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(a) Craig. — Wanted Rev rec and date of m
of Benjamin Craig. Sr., who lived in Va. and Ky.

(b) Cable. — Wanted Rev rec, dates and
name of w of Johnathen Cable who lived at
Fairfield, Conn.

(c) Read. — Wanted Rev rec, dates and name
of w of Daniel Read.— H. A. W.

10649. Rouse.— Casper Rouse, (1734-1811).
m Catherine Kimball. Wanted names of his
bro and sisters, also of his ch with b dates
when possible.

(a) Wadleigh-Boyce. — Benjamin Wadleigh
(1759-1807) and his w Sarah Patten had dau
Polly who m Reuben Boyce, (1793-1847).
Reuben Boyce was b in N. H.. the other three
were b in Gambia, N. H., where Reuben Boyce
and Polly were m. Wanted place of b of
Reuben Boyce, his ances and that of Benj.
Wadleigh and Sarah Patton.— J. W. B.

10650. Simmons-Roberts. — Wanted inf con-
cerning Henry or Samuel Simmons, Rev sol
of 7 years ser who emigrated from Va. to
Henry Co., Ky., and later to Shelby, Ind. where
he lived to be 115 yrs old. His w d at the
age of 107. Their dau Sarah m Benj. Roberts
and moved to 111. in 1822. Wanted his dates
and name of w and place of b and d. — B. D. M.

10651. Morse.— Among the ch of Joseph Morse
and w Keziah Cleaveland m Apr. 2, 1731 (Int.
rec.) of Woodstock, Conn, were Benjamin, b
May 15, 1732, m Betsey Allen; Josiah b Oct.
25, 1733; Anthony b Apr. 11, 1738, m 1762
Sarah Warner; and Peter b Sept. 2, 1742, m
1762 Sarah Ransom. Would like the names of
the ch with dates of these sons of Joseph Morse.
Wanted also ch with dates of marriages of

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Nathaniel Morse (1728-1781) of Preston, Conn,
who m Mary Morgan.

(a) Orton. — Wanted ch with dates and mar-
riages of Thomas Orton, Jr., bapt May 1. 1709
at Farmington, Conn, and joined the Church
there in 1734. "And his ch were bapt." Was
he the " Deacon " Thomas later of Tyring-
ham, Mass.?

(b) Mason. — Wanted ances cf John Mason,
d Apr. 9, 1714, of Dedham, Mass. Had w
Elizabeth who d Mar. 17, 1714. Their ch were
John, b Sept. 25, 1695 ; Elizabeth, Sept. 22, 1697 ;

Seth, b Feb. 19, 1707, m Rebecca ; Abigail,

Apr. 8, 1703 ; Jonathan, May 27, 1705, m 1730,
Hepsibeth Morse; Hannah, Alay 1, 1710; Noah,
Nov. 14, 1712, m 1736, Keziah Mascraft;—
B. A. C.

10652. Martin. — Wanted parentage and any
inf of Anne Martin b Apr. 11, 1738 probably
in Alexandria, Va., m Col. John Evans, prob-
ably before 1761.

fa) DiLLE. — Wanted parentage of Ezra Dille
b July 31, 1785 in Wash., Co., Penna. d Oct.
27. 1851, m Mary McFarland Sept. 22, 1814.
Their ch were Wm. b July 14, 1815, d Oct. 11.
1815; Samuel L. b Sept. 27, 1816. Aug, 24, 1840:
Daniel L. Apr. 28, 1819-Sept. 14, 1889; John A.
July 19, 1821-Dec. 18, 1896; Hannah June 10,
1823-Oct., 1910; Cyrus Mar. 1, 1826- Sept. 19,
1894;— T. R. D.

10653. Smith. — Wanted parentage, gen and
Rev rec of Joseph Smith who lived nr Putney,
Vt. in 1790. He was b 1744 and d in Gouver-
neur, N. Y. 1823. He m Olive Briggs b 1754,
d 1838. Their ch were Joseph ; Jonathan ;
Benjamin, Nathan and Isaac P. who m Abi-
gail Johnson b 1788 ; Wanted her parentage.

(a) Crabb. — Wanted parentage, gen and Rev
rec of John Crabb b 1753 and of his w Anne
Lownsbury. They lived at Lansingburg, N. Y.
and had a son Abyjah b 1780 who m Louise
Button b 1784 d 1861.— R. L. V.

10654. Rood.— Wanted parentage of Capt.
David Rood who m Sarah Rogers in Salem,
Wash. Co., N. Y. abt 1783.— L. L. G.

10655. Burnett.— Roland Burnett b 1799 d at
the age of 99 in Mo. emigrated from Ky. to

Mo., and m Melinda the 1st white ch b in

Holt Co., Mo. Wanted maiden name of
Melinda and gen of both Roland Burnett and
Melinda with Rev rec.^L. G. B.

10656. White.— Wanted ances of John, s of
Wm. and Dianah White b Aug. 29, 1811, d
June, 1879 m 1st Thankful, dau of Thomas and
"Samantha Fowler Clark. He and his bro
Moses served in State Mil. about 1832, Allegheny
Co., N. Y.— E. W.

10657. LuM.— Wanted parentage and place of
b of Sylvanus Lum, b 1810, d 1872 at Claren-
don, Mich., m Mary Bean (Bayn) at Batavia,
Genesse Co., N. Y. in 1835. At the time of
his marriage, Sylvanus lived in Orleans Co.,

N. \. His father d when Sylvanus was about
9 yrs old. He had a bro Seth who d in Central
Iowa. His sister Orpha m Nathaniel Bean, bro
of Mary in 1835 also, and moved to Michigan,
near Jackson. His mother lived in N. Y. many
years after his father's death. Was his father's
name Charles?— P. M. L. L.

10658. Murray.— George Murray b in Inver-
ness, Scotland (year not known) came to
America when quite young as a sol in the
British army. He later m a Miss Snyder and
settled at Reading, Pa. Later moved to Orange
Co., N. Y. where he reared a family of eight
boys and one girl, ending his life at this place.
His 4th s, Wm. was b in 1773. Could this
George Murray have been the Corp. in the pay
roll of Capt. Robert Mullen's Co. of Marines,
1776? and reenlisted in 1777? This information
greatly desired. — C. A .M. B.

10659. Herriott.— Nathaniel Herriott b 1770
m Mary Chambers of Essex Co., N. J. about
1790. His father came from Scotland before
the Rev. Did his father or the father of Mary
Chambers have Rev rec?

(a) Thompson. — Wanted ances of Thomas
Thompson and of his sister Martha Thompson
Herriott who where b about 1790 and lived and
d near Sharon, Mercer Co., Pa. — E. H. F.

10660. Maddux-Ellis. — Wanted gen of Mar-
vin Maddux and Sally Ellis both natives of
Ga., the parents of Wesley Maddux b in Ky.
1803. Also of James Henry Ellis b in Va., Nov.
25, 1828. Was there Rev rec. in any of
these lines?

(a) VanGundy-Zuck. — Wanted parentage of
Annie VanGundy who m John Zuck in Pa.,
1798. Also Rev rec in that line.

(b) Linton. — Wanted ances of Mariah Eliza
Linton who m David Zuck in Ross Co., Ohio,
Apr. 11, 1833.

(c) Gaston. — Wanted maiden name of w of
James Gaston b Apr. 15, 1747, s of John Gaston,
patriot under British rule in Chester, S. C.
— R. E. D.

10661. WiNSLOW.— The Winslow Memorial.
Vol. 1, p. 163 gives " John Winslow b at Barre.
Mass. Mar. 27, 1769 a Rev sol." Have never
been able to identify him with any of the John
Winslow Rev records. He was the s of Jede-
diah and Sally Bigelow Winslow and d at
Herman, N. Y. 1853 and is bur there. His
childhood was spent in Vt. Can anyone give
me his Rev rec?— F. B. F.

10662. Clinton-Morris-Pease-Pierson. —
Lawerence Clinton, b Ipswich, Mass. abt 1643
m 3rd w Margaret Painter Alorris. Their sons
Thomas; Joseph; George: Shubaal, b abt 1700,
d Oct. 5, 1756 at Ft. Wm. Henry-, m Elizabeth

came to New Haven before 1734. Is there

rec of ser in French and Indian War? Rachel
Pierson of Conn, about 1760 m Henry Clinton b

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1727 s of Shubaal Clinton. In 1763 lived in
Barkhampstead, Conn, but by 1765 had moved
to New Milford. Did her husband or father
have Rev rec, and was she a desc of Abraham
Pierson who came to Boston in 1640 and d 1678 ?
Mehitable Pease m at Barkhampstead, Conn.
17*96 to Lyman Clinton b 1771 in New Milford.
Wanted her parentage and Rev rec of father.

(a) ToBY-WiNG. — Wanted gen of Zacheus
Toby and of his w Elizabeth Wing. (Said to
be desc of early Quakers) In 1818 they lived
in Butternut, N. Y. where their ch Deborah b
1818 and Catherine b 1828 (possibly others).
Moved to Galesburg, Mich. Elizabeth Wing had
bro Samuel and Jerome.

(b) DuRKEE.— Wanted ances and place of b
of Eugene Orlando Durkee b in N. J. 1833. Had

sisters Mary m Wakeley ; Sarah ; Anna m

Babcock and bro WaUer. At one time

lived at Vineland, N. J.— M. B.

10663. Williams, — Having war rec of Rev
ances Samuel Williams, would like names of
his w and ch. — A.R.

10664. Lee. — Wanted parentage of Elizabeth
Lee, b 1724, m John Perrin, b 1721. Was she
the dau of Charles ?— W. R. W.

10665. Green-Myer. — Joshua Green b 1769,
d t846 m 1805 Elizabeth Myer, or Kentle Myer
and lived for a great nurhber of years at, Havre
de Grace, Md. Wanted parentage of each with
their Rev rec.

(a) Chance-Harrell. — James Chance b 1795
d 1863 m in Ga. Sarah Anne Harrell d 1862.
James Chance ser with the La. mil in the War
of 1812. Wanted his parentage. Did his father
or grandfather have Rev rec? — P. G. C.

10666. Curtis.— Hila (Highlia) Curtis b Oct.
16, 1782 d June 22, 1859 m William Wheeler.
Their ch were Challenge Smith b 1800; Daniel
Hotchkiss; John Nelson; Wm. Riley, b 1810;
Ransley ; George and Eunice. All the ch except
Daniel moved to Mich, where he later located.
Would like to corres with some of their desc.

Hila Curtis Wheeler's father -Curtis, enlisted

at Bristol, Conn, returned later and d there.

His w drew a pension and she later m

Catlin. She lived to be 96 yrs old. Wanted
father's Christian name and maiden name of
mother.— J. B. R.

10667. Gibbons. — Want parentage of Sarah
Gibbons who m Thomas Thornburg in 1745.
probably lived in Pa. Wanted ances and Col-
onial ser of Thomas Thornburg.

(a) Moore. — Wanted ances and Rev rec of
John Moore who lived in Balto., sometimes
thought of Westmoreland Co., Pa. In 1790
he lived in Northumberland Co., Pa. where
he probably d. He m Anne, dau of
Thomas Thornburg.

(b) Davis.— Wanted ances of Elizabeth
Davis who m Cornelius Putnam of Sutton,

Mass. Putnam and his w lived in Tolland,
Conn, where some of their ch were b.— N. M.

10668. Dinsmore. — Adam Dinsmore and his
bro Thomas ser in the War of 1812 in Erie,
Pa. Adam m Margot Finley of Finley Lake,
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. who was b abt 1786.
They lived at Northeast Pa. Their ch were

Wm. ; and Nancy who m first Bailey and

2nd,- McCumber ; Isabel m Lorenzo Aus-
tin ; Alexander b 1814 at Northeast, Pa. ;
Thomas ; Diantha b 1820 m Robert McCartney ;

Jessee b 1816; Permeno ; Eliza b 1809 m

Dinsmore and went West ; Mary Jane, m James
McCartney, bro of Robert. They took Church
letters from the Presbyterian Church in 1832.
Wanted dates and parentage and Rev rec of
father of Adam Dinsmore. William Dinsmore
m Isabel Porter Aug. 26, 1788. Third Presby-
terian Church, Phila. Wanted parentage of both
and names of their ch.

(a) GiLLETT.— Jerusha Gillett b May 27, 1768
m Chauncy Barnes, and 2nd, Abel Pond, of
Poultney. Vt. in 1806. She d in N. Y. State
1842. Wanted place of her m with Barnes,
names of their ch and her parentage and Rev
rec of her father. — E. G. M.

10669. Parker. — Can anyone tell me where I
can find the Bible of Titus Parker b Walling-
ford. Conn. Feb. 23, 1728 d Paris. Oneida Co.,
N. Y. June 25, 1811? He was a blacksmith in
Lennox, Mass. and was called "Titus of Len-
nox." Children b in Lennox were Rufus ;
Titus ; Hannah ; Linus ; Elevada ; Martha.
Wanted maiden name of his w Martha.

(a) Huston. — Wanted parentaeg of Joseph
Huston, Judge of Salien Co., Court, Mo. b
Va. d Arrow Rock, Mo. 1865. He built the
Arrow Rock Tavern which has been put in
shape by the D.A.R. He m 1st, Sarah Brown-
lee, and 2nd, Elizabeth Lawless. Any inf
of Benjamin Lawless and w Betsey Sam-
uels, both of Bowling Green, Ky. will be
greatly appreciated.

(b) Thompson. — Wanted parentage of Judge
Philip W. Thompson, Judge of Salien Co.
Court. Mo. b Va. 1790, d Arrow Rock, Mo.
1870, m in Old Franklin, Mo. 1818, Bru-
nette Lawless.

(c) Smith-Dandridge. — Wanted name of
father of Bartlett Smith b Nov. 25, 1734 d Dec.

29, 1797 who is said to have m Miss Dan-

dridge, sister of the w of George Washington.
Bartlett m Susannah Spencer b Apr. 4, 1741.
d June 26, 1803. Their s, Meriwether Smith
who m Judith Woodson Childs. Ref. " The
Woodsons and their Connections " by Henry
Morton Woodson.

(d) Hall.— Wanted all inf of the Rev.
Nathan Hall who, with his s. Rev. Randolph
Hall, witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis.
— C. P. S.

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10670. LuTz-OR LuDwiG- Berry. — Wanted inf

concerning Lutz, a baker in the Colonial

Army. His ch were Sarah m Carroll ; Kate.

m Jenkins ; Elizabeth, b 1786 m 1806 in

Lancaster Co., Pa. Peter s of Peter and Mar-
garet Kublings Berry. Peter Berry, Sr. served
in Lancaster Co. mil. Would like to corres
with any of his desc. Wanted also names of
w and other ch of Lutz.

(a) Brown. — Thomas Brown b 1638, Lynn,
Mass., m 1652 Mary Newhall. Was he a s of
Peter Brown of the Mayfloivcr?

(b) Cox-Reed. — Wanted parentage of Nancy
or Sarah Cox b June 4, 1800, Middletown, Ohio,
m abt 1820, Dayton, Ohio, Abraham, s of Brew-
ster and Sarah Rogers Reed. Reed gen
also desired.

(c) Martin. — Wanted christian names and

dates of Martin and w Alargaret who lived

in Weston, Va. their ch were William ; John ;
James; Charles; Margaret; Polly; Nancy; and
Catherine b 1800, m George Smith. Their dau
Lovisa b Dec. 4, 1819, m 1836, David Crockett.
The Martins moved to Butler Co., Ohio, and
Ind.— L. C. B.

10671. Howes. — Wanted all inf and parent-
age of Ebeneazer Howes, Jr. who was b Sept.
8, 1705, at Yarmouth, Mass. and moved to
Stratford, Conn, abt 1735. His name disap-
pears from the records at Yarmouth about 1735
and appears in the records at Stratford, Conn.
He m Mary Brinsmaid. — E. B. L.

10672. HuRD. — Wanted gen of Simeop Hurd
who ser in the War of 1812. Family came from
N. H. or Conn, to nr PanYan, Yates, Co., N. Y.
m Annis Kidder.

(a) Harrington. — Wanted gen of Lucas
Harrington, Capt. in the War of 1812, m
Martha Ailsworth. Capt. Harrington came to
Elk Co.. Pa. from New Lisbon, Otsego Co.,
N. Y.— B. G. K.

10673. Fauntleroy. — Colonel Wm. Faunt-
leroy of Naylors Hold, Richmond Co. Va. b

June 28, 1713 d 1793, m 1st, Elizabeth and

2nd Peggy Murdock. Where did he gain his
title of Col.? Did he give Rev ser. Wanted
also the Rev ser of Joseph Fauntleroy of Mars
Hill, Richmond Co., Va. s of Col. Wm. and
Peggy M. Fauntleroy b May 30, 1754, d Dec.
1, 1815, m abt 1785 Elizabeth Foushee Faunt-
leroy, his cousin. Wanted also Rev rec, dates
and list of the ch of Bushrod Fauntleroy of
Spotsylvania Co., Va. s of Griffin and Anne
Bushrod Fauntleroy who m Elizabeth Foushee
of Richmond Co., Va. — M. E. F.

10674. Sanborn.— Wanted records of the San-
born family. Wanted parentage of Caleb Mas-
tin Sanborn b Gasport, Niagara Co., N. Y.
Had bros and sisters ; Nelson ; Luther, Julia and
Marcelia. Their father d 1848 in Michigan.
— O. S. A.

10675. Bruce.— Wanted maiden name of

Sarah who m Moses Bruce abt 1765 at

Worcester, Mass. Wanted also all dates of
Sarah. Aloses Bruce was a Minute Man in
Capt. Josiah Fay's Co. Wanted date and place
of his death.

(a) Gould or Gold. — Wanted parentage of
Anna Gould who m Durias Hatch at Roxburv,
Vt., Apr. 10. 1804.— G. H. N.

10676. Rice.— Wanted Rev rec of Josiah Rice
of Framingham, Mass. or of Buckminster Rice
b July 19, 1765, s of Josiah and Mary Rice of
Framingham, Mass. — L. H. R. J.

10677. Merrifield-Britton. — Wanted gen of,
dates and rec of the Signing of the Association
Test by Thomas (5) Merrifield of Dedham,
Mass. Merrifield family originally from Dor-
chester. Thomas (5) m Mary abt 1735.

Wanted her maiden name and parentage. Their
ch were Sarah b 1736; Timothy 1739; Asaph
1741; Phoebe 1742; Hannah 1745. The last-
named widow Hannah Merrifield Ranstead m
2nd Seth Britton, Rev sol of East Westmore-
land, N. H. Wanted Britton gen.— A. M. J.

10678. Ellery-Bruce-Perham. — Wanted Rev
rec, names of ch of Benjamin Ellery (1725-
1797) of Newport. R. L, bro of Wm. Ellery,
the " Signer," m 2nd, Mehitibel Redwood. Their
s Abraham Redwood Ellery, b 1773 ni Rebecca
Bruce. Wanted her dates and parentage, and
Rev ser of her father. Their s, Abraham Red-
wood Ellery, Jr., b 1796. m 1819 Rachel Perham
of Upton, Mass., dau of Aaron, b 1775, d 1833,
m 1st, Henrietta Bartlett, b 1776 and 2nd Betsey
Hill (1780-1844). Wanted ances of both Hen-
rietta Bartlett and Betsey Hill with any Rev
record in the line. Aaron Perham was the s
of Benj. (1733-1812) and Rachel Clemens.
Wanted her ances. — E. M. C.

10679. Holman. — James Holman of Gooch-
land Co., Va., was Burgess 1732-1740. Wanted
his parentage. Henry Holman was in Capt.
Gunby's Regt. Washington Co. Wanted his
parentage. Who was Capt. Holman whose
funeral took place in Goochland Co., Va., June
12, 1759?— D. B. H.

10680. Sylvester- Ware.— Wanted all inf of
Solomon Sylvester b 1779 m 1804 in Cazenovia,
N. Y., Susannah Ware b 1784, d 1815. Their
dau Angeline b 1812 m David Field, 1831, d
Dec. 19, 1863. Wanted names of their other ch
and Rev rec of father of Solomon Sylvester
and also of his w Susannah Ware. — A. F. G.

10681. Scofield. — Ebenezer Scofield, Rev sol
had s Seely b 1781 d 1813 m Lydia Pixley.
Wanted dates of her b and d.— E. S. S.

10682. Ridgway. — Wanted Colonial ser of
Richard Ridgway who m Elizabeth Drews and
lived nr Trenton, N. J. Wanted also Colonial
ser of David Ridgwav who m Jane Burr in
1762.-F. S.

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10683. Thompson. — Wanted ances and Rev
rec of father of Caleb Thompson who m Eliza-
beth Honeywell and was in the War of 1812
and lived in Warren Co., Pa.

(a) Marsh. — Wanted ances of Joseph
Marsh who m Maria Philips and lived and d
nr Kiantone, Pa. His bros and sisters were
Susan; Phoebe; William; Thomas and Ross.

(b) Weddle. — Wanted parentage of William ;
Dave and John Weddle b in N. Y. Cit}'.

(c) Grummons. — Wanted ances of John W.
Grummons b in N. Y. was in the Civil War at
Sparta, Wise. — F. E. G.

10684. Hartley-Fraser. — Mary Ann Eraser
was dau of Mary Hartley of Charleston, S. C,
and Lewis Alexander Eraser. They settled in
St. John, N. B., and he was the s of Adm.
Alexander Eraser. Wanted all inf of Hartley
and Eraser families. — L. C. B.

10685. HoLMAN.— Wanted Rev rec of Henry
Holman who lived in Hagerstown, Md., and d
in Washington Co., Pa., m Catherine Sheplar.
Their ch were Anne ; Mary ; Margaret ; Ellen ;
Hannah ; Adam ; Joseph ; Catherine ; John and
Elizabeth. Tradition says that he entered the
Rev at Phila. and was commissioned Capt.
Can this be proved? — L. J. R.

10686. Hardin. — Wanted parentage of Adam

Hardin who m Tabor abt 1780. Adam

Hardin was Wilkes Co., Ga., in 1789 and later
went to Putnam Co. His s John was a pioneer
of Troupe Co., Ga. Was Adam's father a sol
in the Rev?— W. R.

10687. Ford. — Wanted ances and names of ch
of Capt. Jesse Ford who ser in New Haven
Alarm 1779, Tyron's invasion of Conn. Would
like to corres with his desc.

(a) Salisbury. — Wanted parentage and place
of b of Rebecca Salisbury w of Abijah Ford
of Hebron, Conn., a Rev sol. Abijah and Re-
becca were both bur at Salisbury, N. Y.

(b) BuRWELL. — Wanted parentage and place
of b of Elizabeth Burwell w of Amos Coe,
Rev sol. Lived at Southbury, Conn., 1790, and
removed to Norway, Herkimer Co., N. Y.,
where their dau Clarissa Coe was b.

(c) Lee. — Wanted parentage and place of b
of Rane Lee who m Zebinus Poole Dec. 20,
1782, at Dighton, Mass.— F. F. P.

10688. Taylor - Walton.— William Taylor
of the Rev lived nr Ruchersville, Culpepper

Co., Va., m Walton. Had 9 sons and 1

dau Elizabeth. Sons were William, Jr., b 1774;
Bars; Henry and Jolin. Wanted names of the
other five. Just after the Rev, said William
Taylor, Sr., and family moved to Elbert, or
Wilkes Co., Ga., and settled on Hicking's
Creek, nr Savannah River. Some of the family
later removed to Va. and other states. Wanted
parentage of Wm. Tayloi and his Rev rec.
George Walton, signer, jiad a bro Jesse.

Wanted names of his w and ch. Did he have
a dau Mary who m Wm. Taylor ? — A. T. T.

10689. Webb.— Col. Azariah Webb b at
Windham, Conn., Oct. 11, 1748, d at Guildhall,
Vt., Apr. 10, 1846, m Lucy Andrews who d
at Guildhall, Vt., Oct. 6, 1803, age 58 yrs.
Wanted date and place of their m; names of
their ch with their dates of b and names of
persons they m. Col. Azariah was a resident of
Piermont, N. H., during Rev. — K. J. B.

10690. Kennedy. — Wanted ances and family
of Thomas Kennedy (Canade) of Hartford, or
East Hartford, Conn., who d abt 1751. Did
he have sons, John ; Samuel and David, who
was bapt Mar. 7, 1750, at East Hartford?

(a) WooD.^Wanted ances with dates of
Robert Wood of East Windsor, Conn., m Abi-
gail dau of Nathaniel Barber who m Mary
Filley July 2, 1711. Their ch were Robert;
Capt. John ; Abigail ; Robert ; Obadiah ; James ;
Jemima ; Mary and Chloe. — M. B. A.

10691. LEONARD-BiGGS.^ames Leonard of
Pa. m Jane Biggs of Va. Their s Harvey, b
Nov. 20, 1812, in Warren Co., Ohio, m Pelagic
Bengnoir b 1814 at St. Louis, Mo. Their dau
Pelagic m John Ryan and later moved to Cato.
Harvey Leonard was Sheriff of Dearborn Co.,
Ind., for yrs, his father having moved there
when he was a young boy. Wanted parentage,
dates and places of b of James Leonard and his
w Jane Briggs.

(a) Cunningham.— Rebecca Lauck dau of
Peter (1753-1839) Winchester, Va., m John
Cunningham of Va. Wanted his parentage
with dates.

(b) Fout-Grove (Groff, Van Groff). —
Greenberry Font m Ann Eliza Grove of Fred-
erick Co., Md. Wanted both lines with dates
and Rev ser of ances. — P. J. McH.

10692.— Deyo - Ketcham - House. — Wanted
ances of Wm. Deyo and also of his w Elizabeth
Ketcham b 1775 d 1861. Their s was Dr.
Palmer Deyo. Wanted also ances of Norris
G. House of Hartford, Conn.— L. D. N.

10693. Wood. — Wanted Rev rec of Ephraim
Wood of Middleboro, Mass., b abt 1715, d 1781,
m 1st Mary Lazellc and 2nd Mary (Leach)
Soule. Had dau Hulda, b 1765. Did she m
Samuel Marsh, of Hartland, Vt. ?

(a) Cook.— Wanted parentage of Daniel
Cook b 1763 at Northampton, Mass. Served
as sol in Capt. Ebenezer Strong Co., Hampshire
Co., Mass. mil, m abt 1791 Rebecca Pomeroy.
Moved to Rochester, N. Y., and d 1806 at
Marcellus, N. Y.

(b) Davis. — Wanted parentage of Albinus
Davis b Mar. 26, 1765, at Hagerstown, Md.,
m abt 1790 Sarah Carter and removed in 1795
to Elm Grove, W. Va. Wanted also parentage
of Sarah Carter b Dec. 31, 1769.

(c) Smith. — Wanted date and place of b and
parentage of Sylvanus Smith who m Diana or

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Dianah Fisk before 1774 and was living nr
Woodstock, Vt., in 1790.— J. O. D.

10694. Mills.— Wanted dates of b & d,
parentage and all other inf abt J. Mills who
signed the Association Test, Aug. 16, 1776, at
Nottingham, N. H. John (Job) ? Mills from
Dearfield Parade, N. H., m 1746 Anne (5)
Cilley (Capt. Joseph (4) Nottingham, N. H.,
b 1726. John (Job?) and Anne Cilley Mills
are bur in Nottingham, N. H., but tombstones
are illegible, and dates are not on town records.
Their ch were Alice b 1748, m Sgt. Charles
Glidden; Capt. Joseph b 1749 was in Gen.
Joseph Cilley's Regt. in 1775, so was probably
at war and did not sign Association Test. —
A. M. J.

10695. — Richardson - Williams. — Amos
Richardson, a Rev sol was b Jan. 10, 1741, in
Va. Married 1765 Mary Peterson and d 1815
in Edgefield Dist., S. C. Was a member of
Capt. William Butler's Co. of volunteer mil.
The ch David, b 1767; Susannah 1769; Ruth
1771. David m Frances Williams b 1773, d
1820, had 9 ch. Susannah m Young Allen and
had 3 ch. Ruth m Benj. Bunting and had 3 ch.
Wanted parentage of Amos Richardson and
also of Frances Williams. — S. S. H.

10696. Cole. — Wanted gen with Rev rec of
Azor Cole who came to Cooperstown, Otsego
Co., N. Y., from somewhere in New England
soon after the Rev. His ch were Azor L. ;
and John C. — -A. L. C.

10697. Foster.— Wanted Rev rec of William
Foster b 1733 at Tisbury, Mass., m 1760
Deborah Lewis and d at Ashfield, Mass., 1801.

(a) Hall. — Wanted parentage of Samuel
Hall b 1781 nr Abbeville, S. C, moved to For-
sythe Co., Ga., m Mary Hamilton and d 1854.

(b) Peeples. — Wanted any inf of Nathan
Peeples whose dau Nancy m John Radford
Browning in Culpeper Co., Va.

(c) Howard. — Wanted Rev rec of William
Howard whose dau Elizabeth m Lieut. Edward
Douglas in N. C.

(d) Davis. — Wanted inf concerning the
grandparents of Jefferson Davis. His father's
sister m John Smith of Augusta Co., Va. Was
his grandfather a Rev sol.— E. S. L.

10698. Williams. — Wanted parentage and
names of ch of Isaac and Elizabeth Williams
probably of Mass. One s Oliver was Capt. in
Col. George H. Nellis' Regt from Montgomery
Co., N. J., War of 1812. Wounded at Sackett
Harbor. He m Rachel Swift who was b at
Lebanon, Conn., afterward lived at Fabius,
N. Y.

(a) Swift. — Wanted parentage and names of
ch of John and Jerusha Swift of Mansfield,
Conn. Their s John b Aug. 23, 1761, enlisted
from same place in Rev War, m Ann Throope
of Lebanon, Conn., Sept. 19, 1782. He d at
Fabius, N. Y., Mar. 10, 1838.— J. M. D.

10699. Lewis. — Thomas Lewis, one of the
drafters of the Augusta, Va., Resolution; Bur-
gess; and also ser in the Rev d 1790. He was
the s of John and Margaret Lynn Lewis.
Wanted names of his ch and who they m.

(a) Harvey.^ — William Harvey moved from
Va. to Silver Creek, Madison Co., Ky., abt
1790. His ch were William, m Elizabeth Cook;
Nancy m Thomas Phelps ; Polly m Thomas
Patterson; Rice m Polly Walkup. There were
other ch wanted their names. Wanted also
name of his w and his Rev rec. — E. H. H.

10700. Huston. — Wanted parentage of Nancy
Houston b May 17, 1809, in Hamilton Co., Ohio,
m David Carroll. Her bros and sisters were
Paul ; Samuel ; James and Wm. Houston and
Martha who m Thomas Burns; and Elizabeth
who m David Williamson. Did they have Rev
ances? — A. B. C.

10701. Wright-Dorroh. — Wanted gen of
Pleasant Timothy Wright of S. C. who m

Susan Andison whose mother was Long.

He moved from Abbeville Court House, S. C,
to Green Co., Ala., abt 1815. James Dorrah m
Belinda Hyle Wright and moved from Laurens
Co., S. C, to Green Co., Ala. His bros were
Samuel and John who settled in Perry Co.,
Ala., and another bro who settled in Noxubee
Co., Miss. Wanted James Dorrah's parentage
and country from which they came.— M. L. F.

10702. Wells. — Wanted parentage with dates
of Henry Weils b Dec. 25, 1776, m Mar. 17,
1805, Sophia Breed, dau of Prentice and Mercy
Breed of Stonington, Conn. Did his father
die in Rev?— E. W. H.

10703. Herbert. — Wanted ances and their na-
tivity of Walter Herbert, Sr., who settled in
Newberry Co., S. C, before the Rev. He was
father of Esq. Walter Herbert of Newberry
Co., S. C, who d abt 1855, and of Rebecca
Herbert who m Isaac Jenkins of Newberry Co.,
S. C— H. M. M.

10704. VanValkenburg - Harrison. — James
VanValkenburg b Jan. 20, 1781, m in Chatham,
N. Y., in what is now Columbia Co., Sally
Harrison. Wanted dates of b, m & d of
Sally Harrison, her parentage and Rev rec of
lier father. The grandfather of James Van
Valkenburg received land in what is now
Columbia Co. Wanted names of James'
parents. He d Apr. 1, 1882, age 101 yrs 2 mo
& 21 days.

(a) Crippin. — Daniel Crippin b Feb. 26, 1786,
m Lovicy b Dec. 26, 1785. Wanted parent-
age of both their dau Angelica Crippin b Apr.
21, 1813, m in Otsego Co., N. Y., James
Fletcher VanValkenburg, s of James and Sally
Harrison VanValkenburg. — M. E. E.

10705. Reynolds. — Wanted gen of Sidney
Reynolds who m Ellen dau of Hiram Farnum,
all of Vt, and d in Vt. abt 1850. Wanted also
anv inf of the Farnum family. — E. R. T.

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639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
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110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,

Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,
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MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,
Amity.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.
MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
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MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,
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MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,
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MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,
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MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,
Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E., Washington.
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1752 Columbia Road, Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

MRS. THEODORE STRAWN,
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MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

106 Culver St., Macon.
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MRS. N. L. SCOTT,
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MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Second Ave., E. Twin Falls.
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648 N. Garfield Ave., Pocatello.

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1034 Jacobs St., Shreveport.
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MRS. LESLIE P. SNOW,
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WHOLE No. 363

GEORGE WASHINGTON'S BOYHOOD

By Charles Moore
Chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts

N the year 1657, or thereabouts,
and during the usurpation of
Ohver Cromwell, John and
Lawrence Washington, brothers,
immigrated from the north of
England and settled at Bridges
Creek on the Potomac River in the
County of Westmoreland, but from
whom they descended the subscriber is
possessed of no document to ascertain."
So, in 1791, wrote President Washing-
ton to Sir Isaac Heard, the Garter King-
at-Arms in London. At this date the
Washingtons had been Virginians for a
hundred and thirty-three years, and
George Washington had become " a citi-
zen of the United States," as he described
himself in his will. Many persons, misled
perhaps by James Russell Lowell's
characterization of Abraham Lincoln as
" the first American," are apt to think
and speak of Washington as an English-
man transplanted in America. His life,
his fortunes, his hopes were first Vir-
ginian and, after the Confederation was
formed, they were national. He was
English only in the sense that the spirit
of liberty was in his blood.

Although the origin of his family was
of only casual interest and of no impor-

tance to Washington, it is of moment to
such as find in ancestry the controlling
forces of the life of the indiyidual. Many
books haye l)een written on the subject,
and there is as much reason to believe
with Mr. Albert Welles^ that Washing-
ton was descended from Odin, the
founder of Scandinavia, B.C. 70, as there
is to credit another more modest state-
ment that he sprang from Thorfin the
Dane, who is reputed to have reached
these shores in a.d. 1007. After years
of solemn absurdities printed by imagina-
tive genealogists, it remained for Mr.
Henry F. Waters to discover in 1889, a
century after Washington had confessed
ignorance, that the father of the immi-
grants was Lawrence Washington, M.A.
(Oxford), a son of Lawrence Washing-
ton, of Sulgrave, a brother of Sir William
Washington, of Packington, and of Sir
John Washington, of Thrapton. Law-
rence was successively student, lector and
fellow of Brasenose and proctor of the
University of Oxford. He left the uni-
versity to become rector of Purleigh,
a valuable living in Essex; and during
" the usurpation of Oliver Cromwell," he

' Pedigree and History of the IVashington
Family, 1879.

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FIRST NAME WAS DUE PROBABLY TO INADVERTANCE. HE HAD JUST WRITTEN •'MARRIED" AND THOUGHT HE
HAD WRITTEN "MARY." MANUSCRIPT IN THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

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was deprived of his living by Parliament,
ostensibly because he was a frequenter of
ale-houses, a drunkard and " a malignant
royalist." As a matter of testimony, he
appears to have been upright, pious, and
exemplary in conduct. That he severely
arraigned Parliament was sufticient ex-
cuse for taking from him a rich living.
He died in poverty in 1652; but after the
Restoration, his wife enjoyed one-fifth
of the tithes and profits of Purleigh dur-
ing the two years that she survived him.

Those who are so disposed, may trace
the English Washingtons back for seven
generations prior to the John and Law-
rence of the immigration. It is known
that John was the executor of his
mother's will, and Lawrence had inherited
property in England. Evidently they had
means to buy considerable land in Vir-
ginia, when they arrived in 1658.

Westmoreland County, then but re-
cently set off from Northumberland,
extended nearly a hundred miles along
the Virginia bank of the Potomac even
to the Great Falls, whence the city of
Washington now gets its water-supply.
Bridges Creek, as the Washingtons called
their location, furnished power for their
water-mill, while the broad Potomac not
only formed a highway for the great
staple, tobacco, sold in English markets,
but it presented to the eye a pleasing
prospect. The house John built probably
stood on the tree-covered blufif, com-
manding an extensive view over the
broad Potomac and its peaceful head-
lands. It had four rooms on the first
floor, with chambers above.

How dignified and commodious so
comparatively small a house could be
made, may best be learned from Gunston
Hall on the Potomac, a dwelling built
I)y George Mason a century after the
Washington house was begun, and used
by him as the seat of an estate of some

seventeen thousand acres, with all the
appanages of a community of several
hundred people. At all events, we may
well believe that the Washington house
was quite in keeping with John Washing-
ton's position in the community, which
was that of a colonel in the Virginia and
Maryland war against the Indians, a
member of the Assembly, and an active
man of business.

The English wife and the two children
who came with him did not long survive
the transplanting ; and in due course he
took to wife the daughter of a neighbor,
Ann Pope by name, who became the
mother of his sons, Lawrence and John,
and of his daughters, Elizabeth and Ann.
Land being the wealth of the community,
John Washington set himself to the task
of enlarging his holdings, and among his
acquisitions was an undivided half of
five thousand acres on the upper Potomac,
an area which included the present site
of Mount Vernon, for which he paid by
the usual course of importing settlers.

In 1677, after nearly a score of busy
years in America, his body was laid in
the tomb built for his English wife and
children. The burial-place of the Wash-
ingtons was near Bridges Creek, a mile
from the reputed site of the house, where
Congress has provided a meagre monu-
ment to mark the birthplace, while the
tomb has been permitted to go to decay.
A road almost impassable under the best
weather conditions, leads off the main
highway for a mile and a half to the first
home of the Washingtons.

Virginia is preparing to improve the
road into Wakefield ; and a movement is
on foot to revive the glorious memories
of Westmoreland County, by making
accessible and restoring sites and build-
ings of first historic importance. Per-
haps no other equal area in the United
States has produced so many men of first

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importance in the beginnings of this
government. In Westmoreland, Presi-
dents Washington and Madison were
born; here too is located the seat of
Governor Thomas Lee, Stratford House,
rebuilt after a fire with money contrib-
uted by Queen Caroline. Stratford was
the birthplace of Francis Lightfoot Lee
and Richard Henry Lee, signers of the
Declaration of Independence; and of
Arthur Lee. representative of the Colo-
nies in England and France; and Light-
horse Harry Lee, the friend and eulogist
of Washington ; and Robert Edward Lee,
the general of the Confederate armies.
Stratford House is falling into decay,
and no more pious duty is laid on
any community than that of preserv-
ing one of the most illustrious houses
in all America.

John Washington's eldest son, Law-
rence, married Mildred, the daughter of
Colonel Augustine Warner, of Glouces-
ter County ; Lawrence died at the early age
of thirty-six, leaving John, Augustine
and Mildred. In due time his widow
married George Gale, and together they
went to England to settle the English
portion of Lawrence Washington's estate,
taking the three young Washington chil-
dren with them. Within the year she
died in England and was buried there.
Just what became of the children during
their minority is not certain. Eventually,
John settled in Gloucester County,
probably on the maternal acres; while
Augustine occupied the old home at
Bridges Creek.

Augustine took after his grandfather,
John Washington, being active, energetic,
successful. The tract on the upper
Potomac having fallen to his sister
Mildred, he bought it from her for £180.
Also he acquired various other proper-
ties, including some lands in King
George's County, fourteen miles from

Fredericksburg, which he sold in 1725
to the Principo Company of Virginia and
Maryland. This company, promoted by
British capitalists, began the manufacture
of pig-iron in Maryland in 1717, and the
year following shipped three and a half
tons to England, the first iron exported
from America. Augustine Washington
had a contract for getting out the ore,
hauling it two miles to the furnace, and
then transporting the pig-iron six miles
to the Potomac landing. In 1751 the
company controlled the foreign market,
exporting 3000 tons, to 200 tons from
Pennsylvania and 60 tons from the re-
mainder of the country. At this time
England's total production of iron was
less than 17,000 tons. Augustine Wash-
ington's interest in the company probably
amounted to one-twelfth, besides the
profits from his contract."

On becoming of age, Augustine had
married Jane Butler, the daughter of a
Westmoreland neighbor. After thirteen
years of married life his wife died, leav-
ing two sons and a daughter. Three
years ^ later he married Mary, the
daughter of Colonel Joseph Ball, of
Lancaster County, by whom he had
six children — George, Elizabeth, Samuel,
John Augustine, Charles and Mildred.

Not much is known of Mary Ball.
There is small difficulty in providing for
her a genealogy in England going back
to William Ball, of Northamptonshire,
who departed this life in 1480. It is
certain enough that Colonel William Ball,
son of William Ball, of Lincoln's Inn,

^ Pa. Mag. of Hist, and Biog., vol. xi, 1887;
the Virginia ore gave out in 1753; Lawrence
Washington was then the resident officer of
the company. In 1780 Maryland confiscated
the property, which was sold for £90,000,
Washington's share being £7500. The manager
had espoused the American cause and bad
manufactured iron for the Revolution. He
thus saved his share, £10,000.

= March 6, 1730.

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643

came to Virginia about the time the
Washington family arrived, and settled
at the mouth of Corotoman Creek, in
Lancaster County. Mary Ball's father,
the second son of the original William,
lived at " Epping Forest," in the county
of his birth. He married twice: the son
of his first wife, Joseph, was alternately

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a London lawyer and a Virginia planter.
His second wife, the widow Johnson so-
called, was the mother of five daughters,
all of whom married well. The youngest
daughter, Mary, married Augustine
Washington.* In her youth she was
known as " the Rose of Epping Forest " ;
but unfortunately no portrait of her,
either as a young or an elderly woman,
exists, and the descriptions of her face
in later years betoken strength of will
rather than beauty.

George Washington was born in the
family home, " Wakefield," in Westmore-
land County, at ten o'clock on the morn-
ing of February 22, 1732, and on the
16th of April he was baptized in due
form, with Mrs. Beverly Whiting, Cap-
tain Christopher Brooks and his aunt,
Mrs. Mildred Gregory, as his sponsers.
His father was thirty-eight and his
mother was twenty-eight years old at the
time of his birth. He was the fifth child
of his father and the first child of his

* March 6. 1730-31.

mother. At that time the family included
Lawrence, fourteen years old, and Augus-
tine, aged twelve — both probably at school
at Appleby,^ in Northumberland County,
England — and Mildred, a girl of ten, who
died when George was two years old.
Besides these brothers and sister, there
were two families of cousins. John
Washington had eight children, the oldest
of whom was seventeen years older than
George, while the youngest was but two
years his senior. His aunt Mildred had
three girls, the youngest of whom
was twelve. Thus he had plenty of
young companions.

When, in the spring of 1743, Lawrence
Washington died suddenly of gout of the
stomach, it was found that he had made
suitable provision in his will for his
widow and his children. To his eldest
son, Lawrence, he left the Hunting
Creek Estates, whereon he had built some
sort of a house, but it is not altogether
certain whether he or his son Lawrence

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built the building which now forms the
central portion of the Mount Vernon
mansion. With the 2500 acres went a
water-mill and the slaves who worked the
plantation. In addition he gave to

^ The academy at Appleby was established by
a friend of the Fairfaxes, whose children were
educated there. This accounts for the presence
of the Washington boys at that seemingly re-
mote place.

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Lawrence his interest in the Principo Iron
Works. To his second son, Augustine,
he bequeathed his family home in West-
moreland County, together with its appur-
tenances. For his widow he provided
ready money, or the means of obtaining
it, and placed her in control of the prop-
erty bequeathed to her children, the oldest
of whom, George, was eventually to have
Ferry Farm, across the Rappahannock
from Fredericksburg, where the family
was living at the time of Augus-
tine's death.

Two months after his father's death,
Lawrence married Ann, the eldest
daughter of William Fairfax of Belvoir.
The same year Augustine married Ann
Aylett, an heiress, and the Westmoreland
home was once more occupied perma-
nently. Augustine also succeeded to the
contract his father held with the iron
works for hauling the ore from mines
to furnace.

Mrs. Washington was quite capable of
handling the Ferry Farm plantation, but
family councils decided that she should
relieve herself, or be relieved of, the task
of bringing up her eldest son, George,
then a precocious lad of eleven years. As
a result, he returned to his birthplace and
became a member of Augustine's family.
In that situation he began an education
which was continued throughout his life;
he never stopped learning. In particular
he was instructed in surveying, and he
learned, rather of his own accord
than from his preceptors, the art of
good manners.

During the five years at Westmoreland
the question of his going to sea came up,
but was firmly vetoed by his mother,
whose timidity was reinforced by the
pessimistic advice of her brother, Joseph,
the London lawyer. At the age of six-
teen George went to live with his brother
Lawrence at Mount Vernon, which was

ever afterwards to be his home. Two
children born at Mount Vernon had died
before George's advent, and a third, born
the same year, also died in early youth.

Social life centred at Belvoir, where
the Honorable and Mrs. William Fairfax
lived in patriarchal fashion. Since the
Fairfax estate has become the station of
the United States Corps of Engineers,
known as Camp Humphreys, attempts
have been made to reconstruct Belvoir
from the cellars that remain ; but even the
best-intentioned architects devoting them-
selves to the task have produced nothing
convincing. This much we know : the
mansion stood on the banks of the
Potomac, it was of brick, and spacious,
as it had need to be in order to represent
a colonial magnate who was collector of
customs, a member of the governor's
council, and the agent for the vast landed
property of Lord Fairfax.

The mistress of the house was Deborah
Fairfax. Now Deborah Fairfax pre-
sented to George Washington a type of
person with whom he was thereto-
fore entirely unacquainted. She was a
daughter of Francis Clarke and his wife
Deborah Gedney, both of Salem, Massa-
chusetts, with all that those words imply.
Her brother Gedney was a colonel in the
British service and the governor of Barba-
does. Her younger sister, Hannah,
married John Cabot, of Salem, and as a
widow spent much time at " Belvoir,"
where she was the favorite aunt of her
sister's children. In 1725, Wilham Fair-
fax had exchanged the chief-justiceship
of the Bahama Islands for the place of
Collector of Customs at Salem. His wife
(Sarah Walker) died in 1831, leaving
him with a daughter Ann and two sons.
Tradition has it that on her death-bed his
first wife selected her intimate, Deborah
Clarke, as her successor, a choice which
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645

ested. A long letter, in which Mistress
Deborah discusses frankly her position
as wife and stepmother, proves that she
possessed a strong Puritan strain, relieved
now and again by a tinge of humor. She
had a good opinion of herself and was
justified in it. Doubtless the partiality
George Washington often and unmis-
takably showed for the New England
character had its beginnings in his
associations with this estimable Bay
State woman.

The eldest son, George William Fair-
fax, on coming of age, had married and
brought to Belvoir, Miss Sally Gary, of
Ceelys, one of the most important estates
in Virginia, situated between Hampton
and Newport News. It is quite within
the truth to say that for beauty, liveliness
and social position Mistress Sally was
without a superior in all Virginia. To
George Washington, a tall, spare, un-
formed youth of sixteen, with big hands
and feet, this demure matron, two years
his senior, was quite the finest lady he
had ever seen. On her part she evidently
saw the promise which was so apparent
to all the men with whom he came in con-
tact; and, within the limits of those con-
ventions which she ever respected, she
was ready to encourage his friendship.
Then, too, she had a younger sister, who
added interest to the household, and there
were several other young ladies who for a
longer or shorter time touched the boyish
affections of the susceptible youth. In
short, George was like other boys of his
age and circumstances ; and no more
serious attention is to be given to his
protestations than belongs to those of
boys in general.

Another frequenter of Belvoir became
a powerful influence on the future of
George Washington. Lord Fairfax took
a fancy to the youth and employed him
to make survevs of his lands in the

Shenandoah Valley. George seized the
opportunity with avidity, because it meant
activity, adventure and financial inde-
pendence. With him into the wilder-
ness went George William Fairfax
and their friendship thus established
never diminished.

Lord P'airfax, having inherited from
his mother the Northern Neck of Vir-
ginia, a vast and fertile domain in the
Shenandoah Valley, these lands were to
be surveyed and sold to the settlers,
mostly Irish and Germans, who were
coming to the new world to better their
fortunes. Lord Fairfax himself came to
Virginia to live on his estates, and built
for himself a home among the moun-
tains.® A graduate of Oxford Univer-
sity, he had led a fashionable life in
London, where he consorted with the
literary set as well as with people of
fashion. Fortunate in love, in that he
discovered in time that the object of his
affections preferred a man with higher
title, he had come to America to lead the
life of a recluse.

During the spring of 1748, when he
was sixteen years old, George Washing-
ton obtained his first experience of real
life. His training in surveying had been
excellent, and that accuracy which went
with him through life was first made-
manifest in running the lines of Lord
Fairfax's domains in the Shenandoah
Valley. According to his own account,
he was glad, after a long day's tramp, to
roll himself in a blanket and lie down
on "a little hay or a bearskin with man.
wife and children, like dogs and cats;
and happy was he who got the berth
nearest the fire." Nor did he hesitate
to supply to a band of Indians the liquor
necessary to induce a war-dance — " a
comical sight," he called it.

•^ Greenway Court, then on the road from
Ashby's Gap to Frederick Town, or Winches-
ter ; now in Clark County, near Berryville.

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For rest he returned to Greenway
Court, where by day he hunted the fox
with Lord Fairfax, and at night he
browsed in his lordship's hbrary or Hs-
tened to tales of London life. This was
the beginning of a firm friendship which
not even the War of the Revolution could
break, although Lord Fairfax was forced
to see his lands and rents confiscated by
the government that resulted from the
efforts of his protege.

While these surveys were in progress,
Lawrence and Augustine Washington,
with others both in the colony and in
England, had organized the Ohio Com-
pany, and secured from the King a grant
of half a million acres south or north of

the Ohio River. This territory, however.
France claimed by right of discovery and
proceeded to occupy it in force. The
American affairs of the company fell into
the hands of Lawrence Washington, who
entered upon his task with energy; a
company fort was built near the present
site of Pittsburgh, and station at Piqua,
north of the Ohio. Piqua was destroyed
by the French, and plans were made to
attack the fort at the forks of the Ohio.
Such were the conditions when George
Washington's boyhood was brought to a
sudden end by the death, in 1752, of his
brother Lawrence at the age of thirty-
four vears.

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official D. A. R. mail or any address is in-
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because the Organizing Secretary Gen-

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nor of change in chapter officers.

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Regents' List correct and the members
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Conference on Limitation of Arma-
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in Memorial Continental Hall on
November 12, 1921. For nearly three
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centred on Memorial Continental Hall and the
hearts of the nations thrilled of the momentous
events which took place there.

A year has passed, full of turmoil and unrest,
the clash of swords in the Old World and the
wars of industry in the New. We begin to
ask ourselves if the spirit of the Conference
has faded away into nothingness. Then comes
the thought that nothing so spiritual as the
gift which it gave to the world can ever be
lost. This gift was the practical realization
of international friendship, sympathetic cooper-
ation and mutual understanding. The Confer-
ence proved to the world that great nations of
high and often conflicting ambitions and bitter
jealousies can gather around a table and with
mutual concessions arrive at agreements in the
spirit of trust and good-will. The scrapping
of armament, great as it was, was a secondary
matter compared with the greatness of this
spiritual achievement. The Conference worked
and won with moral forces. It dispelled the
traditional fear and distrust and suspicion that
always before had clouded the vision and con-
science of diplomacy; it promoted confidence
and good-will ; it was animated with a sincere
and single desire to reach agreements that
would make for peace and therefore it suc-
ceeded. It set up an ideal in international rela-
tions which can never be lost, for it was
founded on justice and truth. The spirit which
the Conference gave to the world a year ago
can be given out again, for it rises eternal wher-
ever and whenever men strive for right. Well
may we say that the Conference created an
epoch in the history of humanity.

All this happened in Memorial Continental
Hall. Is it not peculiarly our duty to help the
world to preserve this great gift of inter-
national friendliness? More and more is it
needed at this time, for we have been drifting
away from it somewhat. The evil spirit of

destructive criticism and fault-finding is abroad
in the world, tending to create the ill-feeling
that separates us from our Allies and our
Allies from one another. It is still Germany's
game to fan this ill-will into flame, and she is
doing it now as always. Should such a spirit
of criticism keep on, it cannot fail to be disas-
trous in its consequences at a time when it is
so vitally necessary that the Allies maintain
a united front against the evil forces of many
kinds that are still beating against civilization.
There is an unrepentant and revengeful Ger-
many; there is the Turk, flushed with victory
and fanaticism ; there is the Russian Bolshevik,
with his destructive propaganda — these are ele-
ments that are still to be reckoned with in the
world to-day. Who but the Allied nations can
stem the tide of these destructive forces? We
must all stand together once more in the com-
mon cause of civilization. Those who fought
and won the Great War together must hold
together now if another and more terrific world
conflict is to be prevented. And in this united
action America must do her part and our
influence as a Society should be cast in this
direction. Shall fear of " entanglements " keep
America silent when cities burn and men,
women and children are being massacred with-
out mercy? Must "neutrality" ever keep us
from protesting against wrong? Pray God
this will never be again, as when we viewed in
silence the martyrdom of Belgium. Do all
within the power of each one of you to awaken
the heart and conscience of America to take
what part she can in arresting the horrors of
another conflict.

We can help much with our great influence
both individually and as a great National
Society organized for patriotism. Give ex-
pression at all times to our loyalty to the great
issues of the World War in the cause of right
against a fearful wrong, for those issues are
the same to-day, when civilization seems to be
hanging once more in the balance.

Let us pray for faith— the faith of the
Allied nations in one another, and faith in God
over all.

AxxE Rogers Minor,

President General.
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By Isabel L. Smith

EALS have been used as em-
blems of assent, confirmation
and authority supreme from
prehistoric times.

In Abbot's collection of
Egyptian antiquities in posses-
sion of the New York Historical Society,
there is a signet-ring said to have been
used six hundred years before the grate-
ful Pharaoh " took off his ring from his
finger and put it upon Joseph's hand and
arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and
put a gold chain about his neck and made

SEAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

him ride in the second chariot." In other
words, he gave his seal ring to the
Hebrew slave in token of delegation of
royal authority as viceroy of the land
of Ham.
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That signet-ring, bearing a seal with
hieroglyphics exquisitely wrought in in-
taglio all over its surface, may have
belonged to Arophaxad, the first patri-
arch after the flood or to either Shem,
Ham, or Japhet, princes from Noah. The
Roman Emperors also used the signets of
their rings as Seals of State, and from
their time until now seals in various

SEAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS

forms have been the symbols of the
authority of all civilized nations.

The Declaration of Independence had
been signed about two o'clock on the
afternoon of July 4, 1776 — Congress,
desiring to complete the evidence of the
Independence of the United States by
formally adopting an official sign of
sovereignty and a national coat-of-arms.
Resolved, " That Doctor Franklin, Mr. J.
Adams and Mr. Jefferson be a committee

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to prepare a device for a seal of the
United States of America."

There were delays, other delegates took
up the matter and considered it occasion-
ally, but for six years the Colonists
fought for independence without a token
of authority.

The seal of the President of the Conti-
nental Congress was a small oval cluster
of 13 stars, surrounded by clouds, and
was almost identical in design with the
crest of the seal of the United States.

It was used to attest the verity of the
President's signature until the Great Seal
was adopted. Who designed this little
seal is not known. It was found upon a
document signed by President iMifflin in
1784. The design was afterwards
changed and it was made to conform
closely to the Great Seal, the only dififer-
ence being that in the President's seal the
eagle's head is turned toward the sinister,
and the stars are dififerently distributed.
This seal is used only in sealing envelopes
containing communications from the
President to Congress. The official seal
for all Presidents' acts is the seal of the
United States — the Great Seal.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Before the adoption of the Constitution,
Congress, by Act of July 27th, established
" an executive department to be denomi-
nated the Department of Foreign Affairs,
and that there shall be a principal
officer called the Secretary of Foreign
Affairs * * * "

On September 15th of the same year
Congress resolved : " That the executive
department known as the Department of
Foreign Affairs, shall hereafter be de-
nominated the Department of State and
the principal officer shall hereafter be
called the Secretary of State * * * "

" And be it further enacted : That, the
said Secretary shall cause a seal to be

made for the said department as such
device as the President of the United
States shall approve."

IRST SEAL

x-\ seal was adopted and the device was
probably intended to be a copy of that
represented upon the Great Seal of the
United States. The field and chief bear

the color lines, but the eagle faces the
sinister, the sinister claw holds but three
arrows instead of the symbolic thirteen,
the stars are unevenly distributed, the
clouds being omitted, (No. 1.)

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President Washington selected for his
first Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson,
of Virginia, who took his seat September
26, 1789.

In 1841 Daniel Webster was made Sec-
retary of State. He had minor changes

SEAL NOW IN USE

made in the Seal. ( No. 2. ) This Seal re-
mained in use until 1902 when Secretary
Knox had a new die cut to conform
exactly with the Seal of the United
States. (No. 3.)

SEAL OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT

On September 26, 1778, the Conti-
nental Congress resolved, " That a com-
mittee be appointed to prepare a seal for
the Treasury and for the Navy." The
Treasury at that time was under the com-
mittee of Finance or Board of Treasury.

No report on a seal for the Treasury
can be found ; however, a seal was
adopted, impressions of which may be
found on original papers in the files of
the office of the Register of the Treas-
ury Department.

The seal adopted was substantially the
same as the Treasury seal of to-day. The
legend on the seal is " Thesaur America

Septent Sigil " — The seal of the Treas-
ury of North America. The inference
is, that in the event of success by the
Colonies, all of North America would be
represented by the symbol.

On the 13th of February, 1779, Con-
gress resolved : " That a Secretary of the
Treasury be appointed," but the choice
was not made until the following May,
when Robert Troup was appointed. After
a short time and much discussion a
Superintendent of Finance, similar to our
present Secretary of the Treasury, was
chosen, and on the 20th of February,
1781, Robert Morris was appointed.

On September 2, 1789, Congress
created a Treasury Department with its

THE CONTINENTAL TREASURY SEAL

head a Cabinet Officer, bearing the title
of Secretary of the Treasury.

President Washington selected for this
important post, Alexander Hamilton, of
New York, September 12, 1789.

The seal used in 1866 was cut in 1849
in cast steel by Edward Stabler, of Sandy
Springs, Montgomery County, Maryland.
Mr. Stabler suggested some minor
changes as improvements, but was in-
formed the design must be copied exactly
in accordance with the law.

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NAVY ADMIRALTY SEAL

From the Journals of the Continental
Congress :

On the 26th of September, 1778, Congress

Resolved, That a committee be appointed to
prepare a seal for the treasury and the navy :

That the committee consist of three.

The members chosen, Mr. (John) Wither-
spoon, Mr. (Gouverneur) Morris, and Mr.
(Richard Henry) Lee.

October 28, 1779, Congress took into con-
sideration the report of the Marine Committee
respecting the Navy Department; Whereupon:

Resolved, That a Board of Admiralty be
established, to superintend the naval and marine
affairs of these United States ; to consist of
three commissioners not members of Congress,
and two members of Congress, any three of
whom to form a board for the despatch of
business; to be subject in all cases to the con-
trol of Congress.

On the 4th of May, 1780, this Board reported
a device for a Seal.

NAVAL SEAL MADE IN 1779

The Board of Admiralty reported the device
of a seal for the Admiralty of the United
States : the arms, thirteen bars mutually sup-
porting each other, alternate red and white, in
a blue field, and surmounting an anchor proper.
The crest a ship under sail. The motto Sus-
tentans et Sitstentatum. The legend U. S. A.
Sigil. Naval.

Ordered, That the same be engraved, and
used as the seal of the Board of Admiralty of
the United States of America.

February 7, 1781.

Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the
Secretary of Marine * * * to make out, seal
and countersign all marine commissions.

July 18, 1781.

Resolved, That the seal of the Admiralty be
deposited with the * Secretary of Congress,
and that he seal and countersign the like com-
missions as have heretofore been issued by the
Board of Admiralty by order of Congress, until
a Secretary of Marine shall be appointed.

MARINE SEAL ADMIRALTY

A seal was prepared, bearing an escut-
cheon on which was a chevron with a
blue field and thirteen perpendicular and
mutually supporting bars, alternate red
and white. Below the chevron was a
reclining anchor proper. The crest was a
ship under sail. The motto, Sustentans
et Sustentatinn — Sustaining and Sus-
tained. The legend " U. S. A. Sigil
Naval." This seal was used until 1798.
By Act of July, 1781, the Seal of the
Admiralty was deposited with the Secre-
tary of Congress, James Thompson, and
he was to " seal and countersign all com-
missions issued by the Board of Ad-
miralty until a Secretary of Marine shall
be appointed."

NAVY DEPARTMENT

It was not until the expanding com-
merce of the United States under the
national Government began to suffer
from the Mediterranean Corsairs, and
war with France seemed inevitable, that

*On July 24, 1789, George Washington
writes to Charles Thomson, who was resigning
from the ofRce of Secretary of Congress, a
position he had held since 1774, "I have to
regret, that the period of my coming again into
public life, should be exactly that in which you
are about to retire from it * * *

"You will be pleased. Sir, to deliver the
books, records and papers of the late Congress,
the Great Seal of the Federal Union and the
Seal of the Admiralty to Mr. Roger Alden,
the late deputy Secretary of Congress, who is
requested to take charge of them until further
direction shall be given."

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a Navy was built and a Navy Department
was established.

On the 11th of April, 1798, William
Bingham, of Georgia, introduced in the
Senate a bill to establish an Executive
Department to be denominated the De-
partment of the Navy. It passed both

21, 1798, to Oliver Walcott, then Auditor
for the Treasurv.

5EAL MADE IN 1798

houses of Congress, and on April 30,
1798, received the signature of President
Adams. On May 26, 1798, Mr. Benja-
min Stoddert, of Maryland, was con-
firmed as first Secretary of the Navy.
Then the old Continental Seal was laid
aside, and another, delineated in the en-
graving, similar in device to that now
used, was adopted. In place of the
chevron with bars, a large space of the
face of the seal is covered by a spread
eagle. The anchor and ship are retained
but not in heraldic posture, the motto is
omitted, and the legend is, " Navy De-
partment, United States of America."

No record has been found as to the
authorization and designer of the Navy
Department Seal. It is generally con-
ceded that the honor belongs to the first
Secretary of the Navy Benjamin Stod-
dert. The seal was cut by one Robert
Scott, who presented his bill on Octolier

WAR DEPARTMENT

The germ of our War Department was
planted on the 12th of June, 1776. Con-
gress resolved : " That a committee be
appointed by the name of the Board of
W^ar and Ordnance to consist of five
members." John Adams, Roger Sher-
man, Benjamin Harrison, James Wilson
and Edward Rutledge were chosen as the
Commissioners, while Richard Peters was
appointed Secretary.

A new Board of War and Ordnance
was authorized in October, 1777, to con-
sist of three persons not members of
Congress. These consisted of General
Thomas Mifflin, Colonel Timothv Picker-

HK BOARD OF WAR

ing and Colonel Robert H. Harrison. A
few weeks later a Seal for the Board
was adopted, having for its device a
group of military trophies, with the
Phrygian cap, the emblem of Freedom :
between a spear and a musket. Over this
was a serpent, beneath the trophies was
the date, " MDCCLXXVIII," around the
Seal were the words, " Board of War
and Ordnance." This was the origin of

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653

the present Seal of our War Department
which bears the same device. The date
is omitted. Within the curve of the ser-
pent are the words " Will Defend," and
around the Seal the legend " United
States of America, War Office."

In 1781, 7th February, Congress re-
solved : " That there be * * * a Secre-
tary of War." The office of Secretary
was not filled until the 30th of October.
1781. General Benjamin Lincoln was
selected by Congress and served until the
Revolutionary War was at an end.

When the National Government was
organized six years later with Washing-
ton at its head, General Henry Knox, of
Massachusetts, was appointed by Wash-
ington as the first Secretary of War of
the new Nation, September 12, 1789.

THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT

The Post Office Department was first
mentioned on the 26th of July, 1775.
Congress resolved : " That a Postmaster

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FRANKLIN'S POST-RIDKR

General be appointed for the United
Colonies who shall hold his office at
Philadelphia, who should have a Secre-
tary and Controller and that a line of
posts should be established."

Congress appointed a committee com-
posed of six delegates of which Dr.
Franklin was Chairman. Franklin's ex-
perience and ability aided the committee
to a great extent and bv the unanimous

SEAL OF THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT

vote of the delegates he was appointed
Postmaster General for one year, until
another was appointed by Congress.

In 1789, the Post Office was placed
under control of the National Govern-
ment— Samuel Osgood, of Massachu-
setts, was appointed the first Post-
master General.

The Postmaster General was not made
a Cabinet Officer, until the beginning of
President Jackson's first term in 1829.
William T. Barry was the first to be
made a Cabinet Member.

Franklin's picture of a post rider be-
came the device of the Seal of the Depart-
ment, and is retained to this day with
the words around it, " Post Office Depart-
ment, United States of America."

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

The office of Attorney General was the
fourth Cabinet Officer in order of crea-
tion. The Act of September 24, 1709,
provided for an Attorney General of the
United States and a seal was provided.

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On September 26, 1789, the President
appointed Edmund Randolph, of Vir-
ginia, Attorney General. Washington
declared that he preferred Randolph for
Attorney General to any person with
whom he was acquainted.

The Department of Justice was created
or organized in 1870, with the Attorney
General as its head. The Act of March
5, 1872, declared " the seal heretofore

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S SEAL

provided for the office of the Attorney
General, shall be with such changes as the
President shall approve, the Seal of the
Department of Justice."

The seal now in use is substantially
the same as the one adopted by the Attor-
ney General, before the department was
created. No device was ever prescribed
by law. In the latter seal the words,
" Department of Justice," appear in the
outer circle in place of the Attorney
General's Office.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

The Act of March 3, 1849, creating
the Department of the Interior, made no
specific provision for a Department Seal.
The business of the Department, how-

ever, soon rendered it necessary to pro-
vide one, and on March 14, 1849, Mr. E.
Stabler, of Sandy Springs, Maryland, a
well-known engraver, was authorized by
the Department to make one, and he was

instructed that

" The seal should be one inch and five-eighths
in diameter and have the words ' Department of
the Interior,' around a suitable device in the
centre. Perhaps a spread eagle in the centre,
similar to that in the gold coins, would be most
appropriate; but to enable the department to
decide it virould be well for you to submit for
its consideration, a design of that character, as
well as of any other you might suggest."

This seal, after it was made, continued
in use until 1913, when a new seal, having

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655

generally the same design as the original
made in 1849, was prepared in the Bureau
of Engraving and Printing, and this con-
tinued in use up to October 25, 1917, on
which date a new seal was adopted by the
Secretary of the Interior, Franklin K.
Lane, under the provisions of Section 4
of an act entitled : " An Act to make uni-
form charges for furnishing copies of
records of the Department of the Interior

The " Act August 8, 1894, autliorizes an
official seal of the Department of Agriculture.

" The Secretary of Agriculture is hereby
authorized and directed to procure a proper
seal, with such suitable inscriptions and devices
as he may approve, to be known as the official

FIRST SEAL

seal of the Department of Agriculture, and
to be kept and used to verify the official docu-
ments, under such rules and regulations as he
may prescribe."

PRESENT SEAL

and of its several bureaus," approved
August 24, 1912. This seal was a repre-
sentation of a buffalo, with the words
" Department of the Interior " around it
in a circle.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

The Department of Agriculture was
established by Act of Congress, May 15,
1862, and approved by the President.
But this did not establish an independent
department of the Government. Its chief
officer was styled simply, " Commissioner
of Agriculture." He did not become a
member of the Cabinet until the 11th of
February, 1889. When President Cleve-
land approved another Act of Congress
making the Department of Agriculture an
executive Department. Norman J. Cole-
man, of Missouri, was appointed first
Secretary. First Seal :

THLS SEAL NOW IN USE

By a proclamation dated June 21, 1895,
the then Secretary of Agriculture,
J. Sterling Morton, ordered, in pursuance
of the above quoted Act of Congress ;

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" That the official seal of the Department of
Agriculture shall be (as described in Heraldic
terms), two and three-eighths inches in diame-
ter (azure), a shock of corn (or), upon a
base (vert) an American plough proper. All
within a double annulet (argent) outer roped,
inner beaded, charged with the inscription :
United States Department of Agricidtnre, and
at base a scroll bearing the legend ' 1862.
Agficultiirc is the Foundation of Manufacture
and Connuercc, 1889, (or), A diapered back-
ground of 44 stars (argent) for the States of
the Union."

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

The Act creating the former Depart-
ment of Commerce and Labor (PubHc
No. 87 — approved February 14, 1903),

FIRST AND ONLY

authorized the adoption of a seal " * * *
of such device as the President shall
approve * * *,"

The Act creating the Department of
Labor (Public No. 426 — approved March
4, 1913), transferred to that Department,
several bureaus of the former Depart-
ment, and changed the name of the re-
maining portion to the Department of
Commerce, after which a new seal was
adopted, and approved by the President,
April 4, 1913.

The following is the description of
the present seal of the Department of
Commerce :

" Arms : Per f esse azure and or, a ship in
full sail on waves of the sea, in chief proper ;
and in base a lighthouse illumined proper.

" Crest : The American Eagle displayed.
Around the arms, between two concentric
circles, are the words :

"department of commerce
" United States of America

" The ship is a symbol of commerce, and the
blue ^ denotes uprightness and constancy ; the
lighthouse illustrates one of the principal func-
tions of the Department, the illumination is a
symbol of its duty in commercial enlightenment,
and the gold ^ denotes purity and sterling worth.

" The crest is the eagle of the American
arms and denotes the national scope of the
Department."

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

The Department of Labor was created
by the Act of March 4, 1913, with a
Secretary of Labor at its head. William
B. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, was ap-
pointed the first Secretary.

PRESENT SEAL

" The purpose of the Department of Labor
shall be to foster, promote, and develop the
welfare of the wage earners of the United
States, to improve their working conditions, and
to advance their opportunities for profitable
employment. The said Secretary shall cause
a seal of office to be made for the said depart-
ment, of such device as the President shall
approve and judicial notice shall be taken of
the said seal."

1 The blue forms the background of the ship.
The gold forms the background of the lighthouse.

CHARLESTONIANS IN THE SAINT
MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES

By Dolores Boisfeuillet Colquitt

N authority on Whistler recently
remarked, that as the world
journeys to Spain to admire the
work of Valasquez and to Hol-
land for Rembrant, so will the
world soon journey to America
to admire the art of Whistler enshrined
in the new Freer Gallery at Washington.
Among the most admired of Whistler's
paintings is the portrait of his mother,
Anna Matilda McNeill, belonging to the
famous clan of that name in North and
South Carolina, of which the likeness of
another member can be seen at Washing-
ton in the Corcoran Gallery's collection of
Saint Memin's miniatures. That French
artist has left for posterity the portrait
of Captain Neil McNeill, a prominent
merchant of Charleston, South Carolina,
commander of the ship Isabella trading
l)etween that city and London.

The McNeill clan was founded in
America by Whistler's maternal ancestor,
Neil McNeill, of Kintyre, Scotland, who,
with about sixty of his clan and several
hundred Highlanders from Argylshire,
settled on Cape Fear River, in North
Carolina, about the year 1740.

The " earliest, largest and most impor-
tant settlement of Highlanders in America,
prior to the Peace of 1783," was in this
section of North Carolina, into which
poured immigration of clans " up to the
very breaking point of the Revolution.
The Highland clans were fairly repre-
sented with a preponderance in favor of

the McNeills. They still wore their dis-
tinctive costume, the plaid, the kilt, the
sporan, — and mingled together as though
they constituted but one family " dwelling
in " rude cabins in the depths of the lonelv
pine forests " and revelled to the shrill
music of the bagpipes.

To aid the encouragement of these
peoples, the Governor of North Carolina
and Council of the Province appointed
Dugold and Dan McNeill, Justices of the
Peace in the year 1740. At the same time
it was requested that a sum of one thou-
sand pounds of " public money by His
Excellency's warrant be lodged " with
Dugold, Daniel and Neil McNeill and
two others " to be by them distributed
among several families." In the same
year the Council sitting at Wilmington
was petitioned for patents of land in
Bladen County by Neil, Hector, ^lalcolni
and Daniel McNeill.

Hector ]\IcNeill was known as " Blutl
Hector " because of his residence on the
blufifs of Cross Creek which, in time,
became the settlement and town of Camp-
bleton and since the Revolution called
Lafavette " in honor of the great French-
man." Hector INIcNeill enjoyed the con-
fidence of his clansmen as a sort of leader
among them. Near his home was
" Roger's meeting house," where he was
one of the elders there during the time of
the preaching of the Reverend James
Campbell, and in 1758 was sheriff of
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pounds a year, and a few years later
represented the same county in the legis-
lature at Wilmington.

Bladen County, in which the clan
McNeill received patents of land, was
later subdivided into the counties of
Bladen, Moore, Richmond, Robeson and
Sampson. In the census of 1790 the
McNeill clan appears in each of these
divisions, the heads of their families bore
such Christian names as : Neil, Hector,
Malcolm, Donald, Archibald, Daniel,
Laughlin, Keablin, Sampson, Ralph, Tar-
quil, Godfrey, etc.

they were forced and persuaded into the
service contrary to their inclinations."
In the list of prisoners was Malcolm

CAPTAIN NEIL McNEILL

At the time of the American Revolu-
tion the Highlanders were divided in their
opinions and, under the influence of Allan
McDonald, a Tory battalion was raised.
The division of sentiment even in the
clans is seen by the following :

When in 1775 Congress divided North
Carolina into military districts and ap-
pointed officers of minute men, Duncan
McNeill was appointed first major and
Alexander McDonald second major.
Shortly afterwards. General Allan Mc-
Donald's Tory army was defeated and
" the victory was lasting and complete "
with eight hundred and fifty prisoners
taken " many of whom " confessed that

JOHN DAWSON

McNeill, recruiting agent for General
McDonald's army. He was discharged
soon after arrest and the following is
his oath dated August 13, 1776, taken
on the occasion :

" Oath of Malcolm McNeill and Joseph
Smith. We. Malcolm McNeill and

Joseph Smith, do Solemnly Swear on the
Holy Evangelists of Almighty God that
we will not on any pretense whatsoever

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659

take up or bear Arms against the Inhabi-
tants of the United States of America and
that we will not disclose or make known

JAMES WILSON

any matters within our knowledge now
carrying on within the borders of the
United States and that we will not carry
out more than fifty pounds of Gold &
Silver in value to fifty pounds Carolina
currency. So help us God. (Signed) :
Malcolm McNeill — Joseph Smith."

ROBERT WILSON

Hector McNeill was then commissioned
lieutenant in the First Regiment on Sep-
tember first of that year.

The McNeill clan in North Carolina
continued serving in public office after the
Revolution. John, Daniel, Neil and
Alexander McNeill all served in the
Legislature; and Honorable Archibald
McNeill, of Moore County, after many
terms in the Legislature, was elected to
Congress in 1821. "The McNeills were
related by marriage to the Fairfaxes and
other well-known Virginia families."

As to the members of the clan who
resided over the border line in the State

In 1775 the Legislature passed an act

JOHN STONEY

of South Carolina — a Neil McNeil was
located in that State from the early days
of the clan's arrival in America. He was
Writing Master in the Free School of
Charleston, and his tombstone can be
seen against the western wall of Saint
Michael's church yard in that city.

Other records show that in 1769, Doc-
tor Archibald McNeill, at Charleston,
married Eliza Postell, of Dorchester.
This was evidently his second marriage,
as the South Carolina Gazette of 1769
gives this notice: "Died at Dorchester,

to raise two regiments of Continental January 18th, Mrs. Mary McNeill, wife
troops as requested by Congress, and of Doctor Archibald McNeill."

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The same publication dated says :
" Deaths : At Dorchester, Saturday last
April 23rd, Archibald McNeill, Esquire,
physician : In the course of seventeen
years during which he practiced Physics
in that Parish, he merited, acquired and
preserved the esteem of every one, and
is now universally lamented, * * * In
his profession he was eminent and
learned, and in the exercise of it his
humanity and knowledge kept pace."

A Charles McNeill, gunner of Fort
Moultrie, South Carolina, in the First
Regiment commanded by Colonel Charles

Cotesworth Pinkney, is mentioned in a
report of 1779; and in the papers of the
first Council of Safety of South Carolina
in 1775, James McNeill was one of the
first signers of a petition from Camden
District, Turkey Creek, as one of the
subscribers " being desirous of raising &
forming a volunteer company as well as
for the defense of this neighborhood in
particular as for the province in general."
The SoiitJi Carolina Gazette of Jan-
uary, 1785, says : " Tuesday evening Cap-
tain Ralph McNeill was married to Mrs.
Matilda McNeill, widow of the deceased
Captain John McNeill (Saturday, Jan-
uary 1st).

Another record gives the marriage in
1775 of Margaret McNeill, of Dorches-
ter, to John Glaze, known in after-life as

JOHN PORTi;US

Colonel, and who served in the Revolution
as a member of Colonel Hezekiah
Mahan's Cavalry. Colonel Glaze was a
charter member of the Saint George
Hunting Club, founded in 1786, and com-
posed of distinguished gentlemen of
South Carolina. His second marriage in

1781 was to Joanna Dawson, daughter of
John Dawson, whose miniature was made
bv Saint Memin.

CHARLESTONIANS IN THE ST. MEMIN COLLECTION OF MINIATURES

John Dawson, who furnished supplies
to the Continental army, came to South
Carolina about 1759 and established him-

PETER FAYOLE

self as a merchant at Monk's Corner, a
port of importance in the Revolution
which suffered a severe attack by the
British, as it commanded two roads that
led directlv to Charleston. After the

CAPTAIN JACINTH LAVAL

Revolution, John Dawson removed to
Charleston, where he resided until his
death in 1812. He had been a member

of the State Legislature, and married
Joanna Broughton Monk, heiress of a
large plantation called " Mittin." She was
the granddaughter of Colonel Thomas
Broughton, President of his Majesty's
Council in the Province.

Another Scotchman residing in South
Carolina, of whom a miniature can be
seen in the collection of Saint Memin's
miniatures, was named Moncrief, but
unfortunately the first name has not been
preserved. Possibly he was Richard
Moncrief, of Charleston, mentioned in

NATHANIEL RUSSKI.

the census of 1790 as bead of a large
familv and owner of many slaves. There
was also a John Moncrief, of South
Carolina, who was a prisoner on the
British prison ship Torhy, in May, 1781.
Saint Memin also made miniatures of
James and Robert Wilson, of Charleston.
The former was a merchant of that cit\-
and had been commissioned captain in
May, 1778, in the Continental Artillery.
Robert Wilson was liorn at Saint
Andrews, Fifeshire, Scotland, and died
at Charleston in 1816. It is recorded in
South Carolina that Robert Wilson was
the " father of eleven sons of the patriot
army," and that he was captured Ijy the
British, made a dramatic escape after

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feigning drunkenness and inducing his
guards to drink the rum he procured,
and then with his companions captured
the whole British convoy.

John Stoney, of Charleston, and his
wife appear in the miniatures of Saint
Memin. John Stoney, who was a mer-

THOM\S PRICE

chant of that city and died in Philadelphia
in 1837, appears in a list of names sub-
scribed to a document addressed to the
Council of Safety at Charleston, October,
1775 : " Gentlemen — We whose names
are underwritten having formed our-
selves into a Company of volunteers
either to Act as Horsemen or Footmen in
defense of our Liberties and Countrv,
which so loudly calls upon us for so
doing; do with due submission — Petition
the Honorable Council of Safety, to
grant us Commissions for our officers
which we have chosen by a majority of
Votes, Vizt. . . Darius Dalton Captain,
Charles Browne first lieutenant, Joseph
Ainger second lieutenant, & James Gowen
third lieutenant."

Among other Charlestonians whom
Saint Memin portrayed were John Por-
teous and S. Champneys, merchants and
planters, and two Frenchmen: Peter

Fayole, a dancing master, and Jacinth
Laval. The latter was born about 1762
and died at Harper's Ferry, Virginia,
September 8, 1822. He had served in
the American Revolution as cornet of
dragoons in Rochambeau's Army. Exiled
later by the Revolution in his native
country, he made his home at Charleston
and subsequently became sheriiT. In
1809 he became Captain of dragoons in
the United States army and Colonel
in 1813.

Nathaniel Russell, a lawyer, Thomas
Price and Edward Brailsford, also mer-
chants and planters of Charleston, appear
in the Saint Memin collection. Edward
Brailsford married Eliza Charlotte,
daughter of Major William Moultrie
of the Revolution, who died in 1796.
Nathaniel Russel married in 1788 Sarah,
daughter of William Hopton, merchant
of Charleston, who died the same year,

EDWARD BRAILSFORD

and his wife Sarah Clapp, widow, whom
he married in 1744. Nathaniel Russel
was an intimate friend of Honorable
William Bull, Governor of South
Carolina, who willed to him, among
other things, his " Cherokee diamond
Stock Buckle."

PRESENTATION OF STAND OF COLORS TO
U. S. S. CALIFORNIA BY THE CALIFORNIA
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

By Ivy Perkins Cerkel

HE question of presenting a stand of
colors to the Battleship California
was considered by the California
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion in 1915, shortly after the act
authorizing her construction was
passed by Congress, March 3, 1915.
The keel of the battleship was laid at Mare
Island, California, October 25, 1916, and she
was finally commissioned August 10, 1921. It

War, was asked to serve as chairman in charge
of arrangements.

Fate decided an ideal time and place for the
ceremony of presentation. Every California
daughter was anticipating with pleasure the
arrival of our President General, Mrs. George
Maynard Minor. Was it unusual, or to be
wondered at, that our good ship, California,
should show such keen interest that she should
leave her base at San Pedro and steam up to

LEFT TO RIGHT: CAPT. HENRY J. ZIEGEMEIER. MRS. O. H. HARSHBARGER. MRS. GEORGE MAYNARD .MINOR

AND ADMIR.AL E. \V. BERLE

San Francisco to be first to greet our honored

now seemed time for action, and Mrs. O. H.
Harshbarger, State Regent, received enthusias-
tic support from the chapters throughout the
state, when she suggested the carrying out of
the project. Mrs. Ivy Perkins Cerkel, having
served in the U. S. Navy during the World

guest? So it was, that Mrs. Minor's formal
introduction to the California Daughters within
their state, was on the deck of the great dread-
naught, March 1, 1922, riding at anchor in San
Francisco Bay.

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The President General, National and State
Officers, together with over three hundred
Daughters were taken on board the California
in special launches. Assembled on the quarter-
deck of the flagship, the Commanding Officer
of the Pacific Fleet, the Officers and entire crew
of the vessel awaited the arrival of the visitors.

The assemblage joined in the singing of
" America," accompanied by the California
band, and the Captain introduced Mrs. O. H.
Harshbarger, State Regent, who presented the
colors with the following address :

On June 14, 1777, the Continental Congress
adopted as our official national flag the " Star-
Spangled Banner."

CALIFORNIA D. A.R. PRESENT FLAG TO U.S.S. CALIFORNIA

The first flag was made by Betsey Ross, a
Real Daughter of the American Revolution.
It received its first international recognition
when the American Navy's first admiral, John
Paul Jones, floated it over foreign waters from
the stern of the Ranger. This flag had thirteen
stripes, alternate red and white, and in the
upper staff corner, a union of thirteen stars,
white on a blue field. The stars were arranged
in a circle — the circle signifying eternity, and
the stars unity.

From 1777 to 1818, whenever a new state was
admitted to the union, a new star was added,
and also a new stripe. However, by 1818, the
stars were becoming too numerous to be kept
in a circle and twenty stripes were deemed too
many. Congress, by the Act of 1818, set the
form of our present flag by enacting " that the
flag of the United States be thirteen horizontal
stripes, alternate red and white ; that the union
have twenty stars, white on a blue field." It
further provided " that on the admission of
every new state into the Union, one star be
added to the union of the flag; and such addi-
tion take effect on the 4th of July next suc-
ceeding such admission."

It was a peculiar coincidence
that sixty-nine years to the day,
there appeared another flag ; not
very brilliant nor of very long
life, but marking a unique period
in our state and national history.
This was the flag of the " Bear
Republic." It is now an estab-
lished fact that ever since the
Louisiana purchase in 1803 the
Government and a large share of
the American people saw and
desired the " manifest destiny " of
a United States extending from
ocean to ocean. The pioneer
movement had populated California
with a hardy settlement of Ameri-
cans. Some of these settlers, dis-
gusted with the lack of protection
afforded them by the Mexican
Government, followed the example
of Texas, and seizing Sonoma on
June 14, 1846, unfurled the " Bear
Flag" and proclaimed themselves
the " Bear Flag Republic." This
flag was made of cotton cloth with
the rude figures of a star and bear
painted upon it in red with the
words " California Republic " un-
derneath. Along the bottom of the
cloth was sewed a strip of red
flannel.

The Bear Flag was never really
operative as a government, but it
marked the beginning of the popu-
lar uprising in California against
Mexico and cleared the way to the unopposed
raising of the U. S. flag at Monterey, July 7,
1846. So it happened that after four years
of military government, on September 9, 1850,
Congress admitted California to the Union, and
on July 4, 1851, the thirty-first star appeared
in the Union of our national flag. This star
represented practically the same territory as
was claimed by the " Bear Flag Republic."

It was not until February 3, 1911, that the
Bear Flag officially appeared. On that date

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665

the California State Legislature adopted it as
our state emblem.

We, of the Pacific Coast, are particularly in-
terested in the navy and the Pacific Fleet, for,
let armaments be reduced to the minimum, we
shall still need an ocean police that is strong,
patriotic, and self-sacrificing.

It is as Daughters of the American Revo-
lution that we present these flags of our nation,
our state, and our navy. It is as people of the
Pacific Coast that we present them to a great
unit of our Pacific Fleet, and finally, it is as
Californians that we present them to our State's
named battleship, the California.

The colors were accepted by the Commanding
Officer of the California, Captain Henry J.
Ziegemeier, who expressed the great apprecia-
tion of the officers and men.

As " Old Glory " was flung to the breeze,
all saluted our national emblem and joined with
the band, singing the " Star-Spangled Banner."
Then there was a hush — that moment of silence
that thrills us all, as we gaze on the flag that
has never known defeat. The strains of the
band broke the spell — " I love you, California."

The State Regent and our President General
unfurled the Bear Flag, the banner which means
so much to California.

The Officers and men were then hosts to the
Daughters of the American Revolution, escort-
ing them over the great ship, a new experience
to many of the party, and one keenly enjoyed
by all.

The state and national officers present were :
Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President Gen-
eral ; Mrs. O. H. Harshbarger, State Regent ;
Mrs. Livingston Hunter, Treasurer General ;
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, Vice President
General, Pennsylvania ; Miss Katherine Nettle-
ton, Chairman House Committee, Memorial
Continental Hall ; Mrs. Allan Haines Vance,
State Recording Secretary, California; Mrs.
Ivy Perkins Cerkel, State Corresponding Secre-
tary; Mrs. Lisbeth Hobart Curtis, Director,
Northern California; Mrs. E. K. Roberts,
State Treasurer, California; and Miss
Dorothy Hunter.

Ivy Perkins Cerkel,
State Corresponding Secretary.

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GORDON

According to " The Peerage of Scotland, this
family took its surname from the Barony
of Gordon in County Berwick, which Barony
was granted to a valiant knight, by Malcolm
Canmore, and this knight's grandson, Ricardus
Gordon, flourished during the reigns of Malcolm
IV and William The Lion.

Sir Adam de Gordon received from Robert
Bruce, the Lordship of Strathbogie in Aber-
deenshire. He was slain 1333 at the battle of
Hallidon Hill.

It is stated that the first Gordon was knighted
for slaying " a wild boar, the terror of all the
Merse," hence the boar's heads on the shield.
The son of this knight, Sir Adam Gordon, was
the friend of Malcolm III and the ancestor of
all the American Gordons.

His son Sir Adam married Alicia, daughter
of Thomas de Gordon, the representative of the
eldest branch of the family, and in this way
united all the Gordon estates in one property.
Their son William de Gordon, in 1288, was one
of the Scottish nobles who accompanied Louis
IX of France on the Crusade and lost his hfe.

The Gordons continued their interest in Eng-
land until after the battle of Bannockburn in
1314, when Sir Adam Gordon acknowledged
Bruce as king and soon became one of his most
trusted friends. As a reward for his faithful
services, Bruce granted to him and his heirs
the lordship of Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire,
which belonged to David, Earl of Athol, and
from him descended nearly all of the eminent
men of that name in Scotland.

Three of their direct descendants came to
America and settled in South Carolina. This
branch came from Lord Gordon, Viscount
of Iverness.
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BROOKE

Hampshire Visitation of 1634 gives the pedi-
gree of this family, including the Maryland
immigrant, Robert Brooke.

He was the grandson of Richard Brooke, of
Whitchurch, Hampshire, and his wife Eliza-
beth, sister and heir of John Twyne, both of
whose wills are on record at Somerset House,
London; and son of Thomas Brooke (1561-
1612), who matriculated at New College, Ox-
ford 1581, receiving his degree of B.A., 1584.
He was a Member of Parliament for Whit-
church (1604-1611) and married Susan,
daughter of Sir Thomas Foster, Knight of
Hunsdon Herts, Judge of the Common Pleas.

This family of Fosters traces its descent
from the Forsters of Etherstone, in Northum-
berland, who through their various marriages
claim not only Royal Descent but also direct
lineage from Saier de Quincey, who signed the
famous Magna Charta.

Robert Brooke (1602-1655) matriculated at
Wadham College, Oxford. Received his degree
of B.A., 1620 and M.A., 1624. Married first
Mary Baker, daughter of Thomas Baker, of
Battle, and his wife Mary, daughter of Sir
Thomas Engham, of Goodneston, Kent. She
died 1634 and the following year Robert Brooke
married Mary, daughter of Roger Mainwaring,
Doctor of Divinity and Dean of Worcester,
later Bishop of St. David's.

In 1650, Robert Brooke with his second wife,
Mary, his ten children and twenty-eight ser-
vants, all transported at his own cost, arrived
in Maryland. He soon became a power in the
State. Was President of the Council and Gov-
ernor of the Province for a short period. His
descendants have intermarried with Calverts,
Hattons, Neales, Darnalls, Dents, Sewalls; in
fact, many of the representative families of the
State can trace connection with this emi-
nent name.

Depart me n t of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

in. The Mississippi Valley, 1787-1803.

For a general account, see Austin : Steps in
the Expansion of Our Territory, 82-126;
Sparks, Expansion of the American People,
ch. xvi, xvii ; or Johnson : Century of Ex-
pansion, ch. iii.

L The Land Cessions.

Some of the colonies, as Virginia and New
York, claimed under their charters large tracts
of land beyond the mountains ; others, as New
Jersey and Maryland, were restricted to narrow
limits and feared to suffer from the expansion
of the others. Largely through the attitude
of Maryland in refusing to ratify the Articles
of Confederation, the larger colonies surren-
dered to the Confederation their Western lands.
Fiske: Critical Period, 187-201.
Channing : United States, iii. 453-456.
For maps showing the extent of these cessions
see Century Atlas; Bassett, United States, 216;
or Wilson, History of the American People,
iii, 48.

II. The Ordinance of 1787.

Passed — probably without authority — by the
Confederation Congress and ratified by the first
Congress under the Constitution. Its signifi-
cance lay in committing the nation to a policy
of future statehood and equal rights for the
colonists of the new territory.

McMaster : History of the People of

the United States, i, 504-519.
Fiske: Critical Period, 204-207.
Channing : United States, iii, 528-550.
Hinsdale, B. A. : Old Northwest, 255-
269.

IIL The Struggle for the Mississippi
Valley.

A four-sided contest between the United
States, England, Spain, and^at the last —
France. For a full account, see F. J. Turner's
articles, The Diplomatic Contest for the Mis-
sissippi Valley, in the Atlantic Monthly, vol. 93
(May and June, 1904).

1. The Northwest and England.

England continued to hold Detroit and other
trading posts under pretext of securing compen-
sation for Tories and payment of private debts.
The effect of this was to encourage the resis-

tance of the northwestern Indians to Ameri-
can settlement.

Bassett: Federalist System, ch. iv.
Channing: United States, iv, 116-125.
St. Clair's defeat was followed by Wayne's
successful expedition and the Treaty of Green-
ville which opened three-fourths of Ohio
to settlement.

Channing: United States, iv, 140-142.
Roosevelt : Wi>ining of the West, iv,
52-100 (Sagamore ed. pt. V, ch. v).
England evacuated the trading posts as a re-
sult of Jay's Treaty, 1795.

2. The Southwest and Spain.

The Mississippi with the port of New
Orleans at its mouth was the natural outlet
for the bulky products of the settlers in the
Ohio valley.

McMaster : i, 371-383.
Semple : American History and its
Geographic Conditions, 93-101.
Spain, fearing for her possessions in Mexico
and the Southwest, clung to the eastern bank
of the river, and intrigued with the western
settlers to secede and come under her control,
and with the Indians to attack them.

Bassett: Federalist System, ch. v.
Channing: United States, iii, 487-491;

iv, 298-304.
Roosevelt: iii, 89-152 (Sagamore ed.
pt. IV, ch. iii).
The impression Jay's treaty gave of an under-
standing with England, and the filibustering
expeditions Genet set on foot, frightened Spain
into the Pinckney Treaty in 1795.

Roosevelt: iv, 174-182, 207 (Sagamore

ed. pt. VI, 88-100, 126-128.
Adams, Henry : History of the United
States, i, 334-341, 348-351.
Winston Churchill's The Crossing, or E. E.
Hale's Philip Nolan's Friends, are good illus-
trative reading.

3. The Louisiana Purchase.

France had never forgotten her former
American possessions, and Napoleon (or Tal-
leyrand) now secured the cession of Louisiana
from Spain as a step in the revival of the
French colonial empire.

Adams : United States, i, 352-356, 363-
369.

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Jefiferson realized fully the menace to
American expansion and even to control of the
trans-Appalachian region. Moribund Spain
could be tolerated at the mouth of the Mis-
sissippi, but not strong and aggressive France.
He therefore began negotiations for the pur-
chase of New Orleans. The failure in San
Domingo and the approach of war with Eng-
land led Napoleon to offer all Louisiana and
Livingston and Monroe closed the bargain.

For a very full account, see Adams : i, 414—
446 ; ii, 1-50 ; or Ogg, F. A. : Opening of the
Mississippi, ch. x, xi ; for briefer accounts,
Channing, United States, iv, ch. xi ; or Roose-
velt, iv, 258-285 (Sagamore ed. pt. VI, 184-218).

Frank Bond : Historical Sketch of Louisiana
and the Louisiana Purchase, a pamphlet ob-
tainable from the Superintendent of Documents,
Washington, gives an excellent series of maps
showing the French possessions and the extent
of the Louisiana Purchase.

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The Committee, Mrs. Charles White
Nash, Chairman, appointed to handle the
Colonel Walter Scott One Thousand Dol-
lar Prize Fund, has awarded $400 to be
used in prizes to increase the circulation
of the National Society's official publica-
tion— the Daughters of the American
Revolution Magazine.

Four prizes will be awarded to the
states securing the greatest number of
subscriptions in proportion to their mem-
bership. The states have been arranged
in four groups, thusly :

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of over five thousand — New York, Penn-
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Tennessee, Maine, Colorado, Virginia,
Kentucky, Washington, Minnesota, North

Carolina, West Virginia, Alabama, Rhode
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The contest commenced on July 15,
1922, and zvill close on December 31, 1922.

All subscriptions received by the Treas-
urer General, N. S. D. A. R., Memorial
Continental Hall, Washington, D. C, will
be credited in this contest to each state
from which they come. Subscriptions can
be sent through state magazine chairmen,
chapter magazine chairmen, or by mem-
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not delay.

We have set as a goal 25,000 subscrib-
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National Chairman,
D. A. R. Magazine Committee.

STATE GONFEK^NGES

IDAHO

The Tenth Annual Conference of the Idaho
Daughters of the American Revolution con-
vened in Twin Falls, March 22, 1922, as the
guests of Twin Falls Chapter. It was called
to order by the State Regent, Mrs. Katherine
W. Huddelson, of Toponis Chapter. Miss Pris-
cilla Munson acted as page, gowned in colonial
costume. Fifteen delegates from five chapters
were present.

The memorial service for the four Daughters
whom we mourn was conducted by Mrs. D. W.
Standrod of Wyeth Chapter.

The Chapter reports were most interesting
and indicated much real work. A few of the
accomplishments of each Chapter are as fol-
lows: Pioneer of Boise held a joint banquet
with the Sons of the American Revolution on
February 22nd. The families of three disabled
soldiers were amply provided for at Christmas.
They are also gathering data on pioneer women
of Idaho. Idaho Pocohontas, of Caldwell, gave
aid toward civic undertakings, especially those
of an educational nature. They will place an-
other marker on the Old Oregon Trail at
Canyon Bridge in May. Toponis, of Gooding,
spent much of their energy in raising the $200
due on their scholarship in Gooding College.
Disappointments had come often enough to
make the final success a real triumph. Wyeth
Chapter, of Pocatello, made their annual pil-
grimage to the site of Old Fort Hall, on July
27th, thus commemorating the eighty-seventh
anniversary of the first sermon preached in
the Rocky Mountains. Mr. Ezra Meeker, of
Oregon Trail fame, gave the excellent address
which was printed in full in the Pocatello Tri-
bune. A good-sized crowd of citizens from
surrounding towns was present. The Chapter
has voted to procure a bronze tablet, suitably
inscribed, to place on the granite monument,
which now stands on the site of the old fort.
The Americanization work has been carried on
through volunteer teachers and as they have a
large foreign population, there is much work
to be done.

Twin Falls Chapter helped the town celebrate
Armistice Day by giving the Colonial Scene—
A reception by President and Lady Washington
— in the historical pageant staged on that date.
The pageant was written by a Daughter, Mrs.
Arthur K. Seaver.

Alice Whitman, of Lewiston, is especially
interested in local history and reports that " Un-
marked historic graves, old wills, photographs,
Indian history have all been recorded." A
marker was placed for Mackenzie.

Ee-dah-how Chapter, at Nampa, was officially
organized December 5, 1921, and spent the year
becoming an efficient organization. It closed
the year with seventeen enthusiastic members.

Besides the special achievements of each
Chapter, all ably aided their respective com-
munities in all civic undertakings throughout
the year. Much of the success of the pageants
and " drives " was due to the work of the
Daughters. All, too, are very much interested
in the collection and preservation of the colon-
ial treasures which are found within our l)or-
ders and in the study of Idaho history.

The Chairmen of the State Committees gave
brief reports of the work of their committees.
The most unexpected was that part of the His-
torians, Mrs. Joseph E. Bird, which said,
" There is the possibility that Idaho has two
Revolutionary soldiers buried within her bor-
ders. These men were members of Captain
Hunt's party which traversed Idaho in 1811."

Mrs. J. F. Lawill, who teaches in Jerome
County, attended the meeting and reported that
two of her pupils are great-granddaughters of
Sacajawea. Their names are Esther and Ber-
nice Burnett.

The committee appointed last year to decide
the most historic spot in Idaho ruled : " For
first choice we name Spalding, as this would
commemorate the beginning in the State of
Idaho of the home, the church, and the school,
the three basic elements of civilization."
Twenty-five dollars was voted from the State
funds toward the marker to be erected at this
place and each Chapter is to make a donation
toward it. Spalding, the old Mission site, is
located about nine miles from Lewiston, and the
Alice Whitman Chapter has raised $75 toward
this marker.

Members of Twin Falls Chapter had pro-
vided prizes for two historical essays written
in Junior High. The winning essays were
read and the medals presented at Conference.
The first prize was awarded Miss Miller for
" Our American Flag," and Miss Caldwell re-
ceived second with " The Pilgrims."

The following officers were elected for the
ensuing year : Regent, Mrs. Kennedy Packard,

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of Twin Falls ; Vice Regent, Mrs. D. W. Stand-
rod, of Pocatello ; Recording Secretary, Mrs.
Harry Padgham, of Gooding; Treasurer, Mrs.
George Clithero, of Boise ; Historian, Mrs.
James E. Babb, of Lewiston ; Auditor, Mrs.
J. C. Adair, of Nampa; Registrar, Mrs. H. P.
Blodgett, of Gooding; Chaplain, Mrs. Bertha
Winters, of Pocatello ; Librarian, Mrs. H.
Ward Stone, of Wilder ; Corresponding Secre-
tary, Mrs. J. L. Mee, of Twin Falls.

The meetings were held in the Amusement
Hall of the Reed apartments, which was fur-
nished as a colonial parlor with many heirlooms.
A reception was given on March 21st when

the hostesses appeared in charming colonial
costumes. A musical program was provided.
On the 22nd a luncheon was served at the
Roger son and fifty-seven were seated at the
hollow-square table. The opportunity this lun-
cheon afforded the delegates for visiting with
Twin Falls Chapter members was very much
appreciated. The delegates left the city feeling
that Twin Falls Chapter, under the direction
of its efficient Regent, Mrs. Carrie Harper
White, had ably demonstrated the saying,
" Twin Falls is the synonym for hospitality."
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Staten Island Chapter (New Brighton,
S. I.) was organized on March 14, 1908, Mary
Wolcott Green, being its organizer and first
Regent she occupied that office with credit for
eight years. The next regent elected by the

placed a bronze tablet on the Dutch Reform
Church in honor of Major Gifford, and raised
an iron flag pole and flag, and given flag for
the Home for Destitute Children of Seaman.
We have sent our Regent and one delegate

MARKER PLACED BY THE STATEN ISLAND CHAPTER AT THE CROSSING OF TWO INDIAN TRAILS. THE WILLOW
brook; and THE BLAZED TRAIL

Chapter was Mrs. Lucie E. Lyon Chapman
and she served with great efficiency for
five years.

The Chapter has a membership of 68, and
one life member. We are proud of our first
Regent, Dr. Mary Wolcott Green, author of
" The Pioneer Mothers of America." We have

and three or four alternates to each Contin-
ental Congress. We have gone over the top
in every request of our State Regent and by
the National Society, closing the year of 1921
free from all debt.

During the War we joined with the Red
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her part. We supported a French orphan for
five years, made knitted Belgian blankets and
sent them to Belgium and a knitted outfit for a
Revenue cutter.

We have renovated and fully furnished a
room in the Britton Cottage, an old Revolution-
ary home of Staten Island which is furnished
by the Daughters of Staten Island and kept in
repair by the Arts and Science Association
of S. I.

We give two school prizes each year for best
work in American history and we have presen-
ted two pictures of Washington to Public
Schools and our Regent, Mrs. Chapman, pre-
sented a fine picture of our War President,
Woodrow Wilson, to the assembly room of
Public Schools in Port Richmond. This picture
to hang with the two War Presidents, Washing-
ton and Lincoln.

The Chapter sends delegates to the State Con-
ference each year, as we realize that this is the
only way to keep in touch with the work.

We have been very much interested in the
Old Trails on Staten Island and we prepared
a map of S. I. and presented it to our State
Chairman to be placed in Memorial Con-
tinental Hall.

We have erected a granite marker with
bronze tablet at the crossing of two old Indian
Trails, The Willow Brook Trail and the
Blazed Trail, and at the time of unveiling, we
had appropriate ceremonies.

We entertain our State Regent each year.
We were privileged to have as our guest,
our honored President General, Mrs. George
Maynard Minor, who was entertained by a
cousin, a member of our Chapter, Mrs.
T. C. Brown.

The Chapter has been actively associated with
the Flag Day Association and presented a Float
for each parade, and has been a member of the
Stony Brook Association taking part in the
" Old Home Day" held at Stony Brook, Staten
Island, where the first old Dutch Church was
erected on S. I.

We have distributed over a thousand Flag
Codes in the schools and as many of the
American's Creeds in the Italian Mission school.

We are over the top in our quota for the
Manual, Pilgrim Fountain, Picture, for the
Liberty Bond and Tilloloy.

We place the National Historical Magazine
in two of our S. I. Libraries and nineteen of
our members take the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine.

We gave a generous donation toward the
Bronze tablet placed on Borough Hall for " our
Boys " and we presented to our Honorary Chap-
lain, Rev. O. L. F. Mohn, a handsome flag.

We have sent two large bo;ces of clothing to
Europe for War orphans and one large box
to Armenia. We gave Christmas tree and

trimmings to Italian family, and held meetings at
the Italian mission.

It was our pleasure to present to Memorial
Continental Hall the book " Annals of Staten
Island " for the Library.

We have revised our By-laws and prepared
them and our Constitution for printing, and
we have our Year-books printed each year.

Our Chapter now numbers 68 members with
five papers in Washington.

(Miss) Julia Wilson,

Historian.

Springfield Chapter ( Springfield, 111. )
closed its twenty-seventh year in May, 1921,
with a membership of 289 and with enough
applications pending to raise the number to
300 or more.

Sixteen members who reside at Petersburg
entertained the Springfield members on Sept-
ember 6th, Lafayette's birthday, at the home
of Mrs. George F. Luthringer. The trip
to Petersburgh (about twenty miles) was
made by auto and some of the party
stopped en route at New Salem, the first home
of Abraham Lincoln in Illinois, and the home
of Ann Rutledge.

AH the buildings in this log-cabin village
were torn down, or otherwise destroyed years
ago, but the State has bought the site and
houses and stores are being rebuilt of logs as
they were in Lincoln's time. It was in this
village in the years past, preceding and im-
mediately following the Black Hawk War that
Lincoln came in touch with influences that
paved his way to greatness.

The papers presented at our regular meetings
have told of the work of the National Society.
"Our National Society" was the subject of
the first paper, prepared by Mrs. Granville H.
Sherwood. This paper dealt chiefly with the
history of the organization and its wonderful
growth. Other papers were " Our National
Headquarters " by Mrs. C. J. Doyle, " His-
torical Research " by Mrs. G. A. Lochman,
" Branches of Patriotism " by Miss Carrie N.
Decker, and " Insignia of the D.A.R." by Mrs.
H. J. Dudley.

These papers have given us a fuller con-
ception of the strength of the National Society,
the scope of its work, and the magnitude of
its accomplishments.

In addition to these, Mrs. Jessie Palmer
Weber gave the history of our local Chapter,
a record so full of interest to both old and new
members that it was repeated by special request.

In December, Mrs. Frank O. Lowden graci-
ously offered the use of the Executive Mansion
for a musicale arranged by the Committee on
Patriotic Education. The proceeds of this
entertainment were used to pay for the gold
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uating classes to the eighth grade pupils making
the highest mark in United States History.

Washington's wedding anniversary was cele-
brated January 14th, with a party at which the
reception committee and many of the guests
were dressed in costumes of that period. The
minuet was danced by some of the younger
members and all joined in singing the patriotic
songs of Washington's day led by Mr. William
Dodd Chenery, who also gave a history of
the songs.

On April 2, 1921, the one hundredth anni-
versary of the election of the first county
officers, the Chapter marked the site of the
first county courthouse with a bronze marker
on a granite boulder.

During the year, thirteen spots made mem-
orable by association with the life of Abraham
Lincoln while a resident in Springfield have
been marked by a committee from the Chapter
acting jointly with the State Historical Society
and a committee of interested citizens.

The Chapter has met the full quota of assess-
ments levied by the National and State Boards.
These assessments amounted to $388.80 and
were paid out of the annual dues. In addition
to this we gave : $100 to Martha Berry School ;
$100 to Springfield High School ; Opportunity
Fund; $50 to Park College; $100 to Tamassee
Industrial School; (Gift of Mrs. James King).

We also gave small amounts to various other
worthy causes. Gold medals for excellence in
United States History were given to pupils in
Springfield and neighboring schools.

We have $700 in Liberty Bonds as the nu-
cleus of a Chapter house fund. This fund
has been raised largely through the efforts of
the Ways and Means, and Patriotic Educa-
tion Committees.

Early in the year the State Historian, Mrs.
Charles E. Davison of Greenville, sent a cir-
cular letter to the chapters.

The Chapter also made and sent to Mrs.
William Pace of Mt. Vernon, State Chairman
of Good Roads and Old Trails Committee, a
map of Sangamon County on which old Indian
trails and mail routes had been indicated, and
on which the location of the graves of Rev-
olutionary soldiers were marked with gold stars,
and the graves of Real Daughters with
blue stars.

(Mrs. Charles Ellsworth) Mary M. Knapp,
Historian.

Elizabeth Schuyler Chapter (Holland,
Mich.). Our nine meetings have proven enter-
taining, patriotic and profitable. We have been
entertained both musically and in a literary
way by members, and friends outside of the
organization. We have celebrated our birthday
and enjoyed one luncheon.

In a patriotic way we have done our share.
We have supported a Serbian child for eight
months, and have done much civic work. Our
municipal Christmas, with the wonderful tree
illuminated each night during Christmas week,
for the benefit of the entire city, the church
choirs singing carols through the streets on
Christmas eve, the delicious dinner and useful
gifts to 150 poor children, brought joy and
comfort long to be remembered.

We have added one member to the Chapter
and lost one by transfer.

Edith P. Telling,
Recording Secretary.

Tierra Alta Chapter (Los Angeles, Calif.).
The end of the year finds us with a member-
ship list of seventy-two. The programs have
covered patriotic, educational and historical
topics. Especially enjoyable was our first meet-
ing of the year, held in the South West Mu-
seum, where we were entertained by the
Curator, Dr. John Comstock, who gave an
interesting talk on the Indian.

On the annual Children's Day, in December,
the young people gave a series of tableaux, in
costumes, representing the daily life of the
Pilgrims. We were honored by their singing
" To Our D.A.R. Mothers," the words of which
were written by our gifted member, Sarah Grace
Jones. We have also enjoyed an account of the
Pilgrim Tercentenary celebration, a talk on
Europe before and after the war, a paper on
Los Angeles and a critical review of current
books on the Peace Conference.

In addition to our usual contributions to
philanthropic objects we have assisted in the
purchase of three flags, presented to the United
States Battleship California, by the D.A.R.
of California.

The presence of the President General, Mrs.
George M. Minor, and other National Officers
at our State Conference, helped to make this an
unusually interesting and inspiring year.

Winifred Bf.ardsley,

Historian.

Liberty Bell Chapter (Allentown, Pa.).
The report for Liberty Bell Chapter, Daughters
of the American Revolution, begins with the
annual meeting of October 11, 1920, to October
10. 1921.

Ten official meetings were held monthly and
at the annual meeting of October 11, 1920, offi-
cers were elected for the ensuing year.

The November 8, 1920, meeting was an
anniversary celebration for Armistice Day (No-
vember 11, 1920) by having as our speaker
Capt. Herbert B. Frederick, of Allentown, who
commanded Company C, 108th Machine Gun
Battery, in the World War. The Chapter
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its Pilgrims " at the December 13, 1920, meet-
ing. One of our members, Mrs. George Her-
bert, entertained very agreeably with an address
on the " Pilgrims, their hardships, manner of
living and customs." The February 12, 1921,
meeting was observed as Reciprocity Day by
entertaining members of George Taylor Chap-
ter, D.A.R., of Easton, Pa., in our rooms at
"Trout Hall."

On June 10, 1921, the Regent, Aliss Anna M.
Grim, entertained the officers of the Chapter at
a luncheon at Hotel Allen. The guests of honor
were Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook, of Pitts-
burgh, Vice President General from Pennsyl-
vania, and Mrs. N. Howland Brown, of
Norristown, our State Historian.

The June 14, 1921, meeting was held at the
Lehigh Country Club and was observed as Flag
Day. The official Chapter meeting was held
from 12 to 1 o'clock (noon) ; a luncheon fol-
lowed, attended by Chapter members and guests.
Constitution Day, September 17, 1921, was ob-
served by holding the meeting on that date.
Our present membership is 89. Children of the
American Revolution, Liberty Bell Juniors, have
a membership of seven.

The Chapter has contributed its full financial
obligations to the National Society and to
the State; has contributed the 60 cents per
member toward the three projects which the
National Board acted upon unanimously; and
has contributed to patriotic work in various
directions. The Chapter presented $27.50 in
gold prizes (annual) for essays to students of
Cedar Crest College for Women, Allentown; to
Catasauqua High School, and to Allentown
Preparatory School.

The Chapter was interested in the convales-
cent World War soldiers at the Allentown Hos-
pital and has contributed for their use 39 dozen
eggs, 6 pounds candy, 4 dozen Victrola records,
4 pairs of knitted socks, and 2 knitted caps.

The work on Americanization was carried
on by the Chapter by paying $67.23 for the
enrollment for membership and outfits in the
Allentown Y.M.C.A. for the nine oldest boys
of the George Washington Club, " Sons of the
Republic." (This club was the 1919-1920 work
of the Chapter.)

Continental Congress reports (1921) were read
by the Regent, Miss A. M. Grim, and Miss I.
Martin, Honorary Regent, at the May meeting.

The Chapter signed unanimously the petition
for the preservation of the fortifications at
Yorktown, Virginia.

Two reviews of the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine were given
by two members ; they were instructive as well
as interesting. The Chapter received various
valuable gifts during the year; these were
added to the Chapter's collection, all housed in
our rooms in Historic " Trout Hall."

The Chapter has been active in doing his-
torical research work, through the efforts of the
Chairman on Research, Mina L. von Steuben.
A complete record of more than 500 records of
an old graveyard at Hecktown, Nor. Co., Pa.,
has been compiled. Fifty Revolutionary
soldiers' graves were located there, all have
tombstones but otherwise unmarked. This
record was forwarded to the State Historian
and the State Registrar. The Historian
presented to the Chapter two historic
postcard albums.

As a Chapter, we aspired to give service
worthy of our historic ancestors and to be
loyal to our noble organization.

— Mina L. von Steuben,

Historian.

Mary Washington Colonial Chapter (New
York, N. Y.), celebrated its 25th anniversary
this year. It is a unique commendation to record
that Miss Mary Van Buren Vanderpoel was the
Regent for this entire period.

The " Silver Jubilee Year " of the Chapter
opened with a lecture on old mansion houses of
xAmerica, with illustrations, by Mrs. Frank
Callan, of Illion. In May, Mrs. Frank A.
Vanderlip entertained the Chapter at her coun-
try place " Beechwood," Scarborough-on-Hud-
son. Mrs. Guernsey was the guest of honor,
and the members of the Woman's Oriental Club-
were invited to meet the Daughters of Wash-
ington. A Japanese play was given in the
Greek Theatre on the estate, its first produc-
tion outside of Japan. Greek dances completed
an unusual program, after which refreshments
were served in the great hall adjoining the art
galleries, and on the lawn.

On November 26th the anniversary of the
founding of the Chapter, Mrs. John S. Sutphen
entertained the members in honor of Miss Van-
derpoel at her home near Riverside Drive.
Chaplain Edmund Smith, of Governors Island,
read Washington's prayer, and Mrs. James-
Edward Pope presented Miss Vanderpoel
with a silver-mounted handbag, the gift of
the Chapter.

The year closed in April, with an address
by Mr. Thomas Savage Clay, on Washington
and Fredericksburg, at the Plaza Hotel. Mr.
Clay has collected many fine views of Wash-
ington's Virginia home, and others of great
historic value.

On June 9th, the Regent, Mrs. James Edward
Pope, sent a wreath to be placed on Princeton
Battle Monument in commemoration of Mary
Washington, that her name might be linked in
association with that of her illustrious son, on
this auspicious day.

A wreath has been laid on the grave of Mary
Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., every Me-
morial Day for 25 years, by the Chapter which
bears her name.

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The most conspicuous accomplishment in the
history of the Chapter was the erection of the
Walworth Monument at Saratoga, which was
realized through the efforts of Miss Lillian
Tilghman Montgomery, ably supported by the
Saratoga Chapter.

Three Chapter members have made valuable
gifts to the Society : Mrs. Walter Wellman
Moore, before her death, of land in the rear of
Memorial Continental Hall ; Mrs. Alan Hart-
well Strong, of Fort Crailo, the oldest house
in New York State, used as a fort and where
" Yankee Doodle " was written ; and Mrs.
Bashford Dean, of the old Dyckman House, to
New York.

In memory of Capt. Edward McClure Peters,
the first son of the Chapter to fall in the
World War, a fund of $1009 was raised by
Mrs. Percy Hamilton Goodsell, Vice Regent,
for reconstruction work in France.

A valuable collection of Revolutionary heir-
looms, rare pieces of furniture and famous
relics have been gathered for the Council
Chamber, the Chapter room at Washington's
Headquarters, by Mrs. George Wilson Smith.

The main contributions to patriotic work dur-
ing the year have been : To Oxford College
(the Caroline Scott Harrison building) as a
memorial to Miss Vanderpoel, who was a char-
ter member of the Society, $100 ; Mrs. Pope's
Auxiliary for Belleau Wood, $250; Disabled
Veterans of the World War (including sums
collected in the Forget-me-not Drive of De-
cember 17th). $260; two Hindman School
Scholarships, $200; Tomassee School ($25
from Chapter, $75 from Mrs. Pope), $100; Mrs.
Wetmore's School at Arden, N. C, $50; Army
Relief, $50; City History Club, $25; to the
Maury Monument to be erected by State of
Virginia, $25 ; Flag Association, $25.

The Chapter has also appropriated its full
quota to the State program.

Arda Bates St. Clair Rorisox,

Historian.

Governor Treutlen Chapter (Fort Valley,
Ga.), unveiled a marker to Revolutionary sol-
dier on May 5th. The early history of Fort
Valley is centred around the " Old Pond
Church " Cemetery. The church was built after
the settlers came in 1821, and was used by the
Methodists as a place of worship until 1840.
It was in this building that the early settlers
and founders of our city worshipped, and
through its sacred portals many were borne to
their last resting place. The church was
burned, but the cemetery remains overgrown by
briars and weeds, a dumping ground for dis-
carded peach baskets and trash. An occasional
clump of flag lillies, spirea, and trailing peri-
winkle, planted by loving hands a generation

ago, reveal the lonely spot where the " rude
forefathers sleep." Within the precincts of this
hallowed spot lie the remains of William
Wiggins, Jr., a Revolutionary soldier.

This Wiggins family, of English blood, immi-
grated to Georgia, settling in Wilkes County.
When a lad, William fought with his father
under Col. Elijah Clark at the battle of Kettle
Creek, keeping up the skirmishes until the fall
of the British at Augusta. For their services,
our Government presented each with two hun-
dred and fifty acres of land in Washington
County. Mr. Wiggins' son, Allen, fought as
a colonel of the State Militia in the War of 1812.

There was present at the unveiling four gen-
erations. Two tiny girls, great, great, great
grandchildren, Martha and Mary McCoy, un-
veiled the marker. An historical sketch was
given by Mrs. W. B. Smith, the Regent of the
Chapter ; the Apostrophe to the Flag was given
by Mrs. Lynwood Gray ; and " Taps " was
sounded by Master Howard Branham.

Through the untiring efiforts of Miss Claudia
Culpepper, Chairman of the Patriotic Commit-
tee, the records and marker for this grave were
secured from the Government, adding a num-
ber of his descendants to the list of the D.A.R.

Miss Culpepper has recently been elected
Regent of the Chapter.

- Mrs. W. B. Smith,

Regent.

Daniel Davisson Chapter (Clarksburg, W.
Va.). During the last two years over forty
new members have been added to the Chapter,
which now numbers one hundred and ten, be-
sides several prospective members whose papers
have not been filed.

Our Chapter has been 100 per cent, on the
contributions to the national work : Immigrant's
Manual, Liquidation and Endowment Fund and
Convoy Painting and Fountain. We make it
a point to emphasize the importance of the
national work of the Society and the fact
that the Chapter is, first of all, a part of the
great national organization.

We have contributed to the support of a girl
in the Berea Mountain School in Kentucky
and have not neglected our opportunities for
local work. The Chapter gave two prizes of
$5 each to students in the local schools, one
to the High School Junior who wrote the
best essay on the Formation of West Virginia
and one to the pupil in night school who made
the most progress. The night school is con-
ducted especially for the benefit of our for-
eigners ; the Chapter also contributed to the
expenses of the night school. A contribution
of $10 was made to the Kappa Sigma Pi, a
local boy's organization.

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We had an attractive float in the patriotic
parade on Armistice Day. The committee in
charge of the work for Constitution Day de-
signed a card 10x12 inches bearing the pre-
amble to the Constitution and had 600 printed ;
these were placed in store windows (accom-
panied by a patriotic display) and in local
schools where the day was fittingly observed.
Five hundred " Catechism of the Constitution "
— a booklet presenting the Constitution in twelve
simple lessons — were purchased from the Na-
tional Security League to be distributed to the
rural schools; the committee also interested
the local school officials in this booklet, with the
result that the city school board purchased
five hundred and the Catholic schools fifty for
use in the city schools, thus the Chapter was
instrumental in distributing over one thousand
of the booklets, all of which (as well as the
display cards) were accompanied by American
Creed cards secured from the National Society.
To the rural schools eleven prizes were offered
for the best essays on the Constitution — one to
each of the ten districts in the county and one
to the colored schools. The Chapter was
assisted by the Lowther-FitzRandolph Chapter,
of Salem, this county, in distributing the Con-
stitution Day literature to the rural schools.

The January meeting was Guest Day, when
each member brought a guest, preferably one
interested in joining the Society. In our pro-
gram for the later part of the year we used
the Historical program on Woman in American
History as outlined in the Magazine. Last
March a recital was given by Charles Wakefield
Cadman and Princess Tsainina under the
auspices of our Chapter, which was a most
enjoyable musical event as well as a financial
success. Following the recital an informal
reception was held in the Waldo Hotel. Other
benefit affairs given during the year included
a bridge party, a cake sale and a rummage sale.

The Chapter was represented at the Conti-
nental Congress by three delegates (our full
quota), and an alternate and a Chapter member
also attended, but were unable to secure seats.

The Flag Day luncheon was given at the
Clarksburg Country Club and a patriotic pro-
gram was rendered.

"^T^Mrs. J. E.) Edna Hustead Law,

Historian.

Major General Samuel Elbert Chapter
(Tennille, Ga.) has completed a most success-
ful year with an enthusiastic Regent, Mrs.
George Riley, and most capable officers. All
obligations have been met and Flag Day, Inde-
pendence Day, Washington's Birthday, Armi-
stice Day and LaFayette Day observed.
Chapter meetings have been regular and meet-
ings of the Executive Board productive of most
interesting recommendations.

Flag Codes have been presented to nine
country schools and through cooperation with
County Federation, clothing has been secured
for needy school children.

A medal has been presented to a member of
the 11th grade high school for highest general
average in American history. For the class-
room of the same grade was given a framed
copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Our library is growing, books having been
presented by friends as well as Chapter mem-
bers, and our county history is being compiled.
This Chapter is honored by having a State offi-
cer, Mrs. H. M. Franklin, Librarian.

On October 23rd we marked the graves of
three Revolutionary soldiers and have now in
Washington, application for one marker. Mrs.
Allen, State Chairman of Marker Committee,
announced that ours is the banner Chapter of
the State in that branch of work.

The Chapter program committee arranged
most attractive booklets, and these programs
have been an incentive to study and a pleasure
when rendered.

The following are the contributions made by
our Chapter during the year : Immigrant's
Manual, Painting and Pilgrims' Fountain,
$12.15; Martha Berry School, $10; Meadow
Garden, $2; Georgia Bay, $14; National dues,
$43 ; State dues, $8.61 ; Belleau War Memorial,
France, $5 ; our pledge at State Conference to
Georgia Bay, $5.
-—(Mrs. Julian A.) Minnie S. Smith,

Chapter Genealogist.

Colonel George MofTett Chapter (Beau-
mont, Texas) has met monthly from October
to May, inclusive, in the homes of the mem-
bers. Attendance has been excellent, and great
enthusiasm and interest has been shown, not
only by our members but also by our friends,
for at each meeting many visitors have been
noted. Following the outlined program, some
of the best talent in the city has favored us
with musical numbers at each meeting; after
which we adjourned for an informal reception
with the hostess.

Contributions made and money expended for
year ending October, 1921 : State and National
dues, $108; initiation fees, $11; Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine, $14;
two baby spoons, $5 ; 6000 copies American's
Creed for schools, $15.50; moving picture films,
American's Creed and Salute to Flag, $4.25;
floral offerings, $7.85 ; fund for Fountain, French
Painting and Immigrants' Manual, $4.80; Den-
ton Scholarship, $80 ; Philippine Scholarship,
$10; stationery and printing, $55; inciden-
tal, $114.86.

I would like to make special mention of a
philanthropic work that we are contributing to,
in a small way, $1 per month to the Y.W.C.A.

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Travelers' Aid ; also $1 per month to the Ameri-
can Legion State Hospital Fund. At our last
meeting arrangements were made to enter a
float in the Armistice Day parade.

During the year we have given two transfers ;
received one from another chapter ; had one
resignation ; one new member ; one marriage
has been recorded, and one death. We have
three applications in Washington awaiting the
approval of the National Board. Two babies
have been presented with D.A.R. spoons. We
have 14 subscribers to the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine. At our
first meeting after returning from conference
last year, Honor Roll blanks were given to all
members entitled to them. So far only 14 have
been filled out and returned, while many
more have been promised as soon as the
necessary information can be obtained for
their completion.

As our city and county are not replete with
historical events of Revolutionary times, our
Historian, Mrs. M. J. Thompson, has enter-
tained us many times with interesting sketches
of the lives and activities of our early settlers.

We have had 6000 copies of the American's
Creed printed and pasted in all English books
of the city schools ; and the leaders have been
urged to have the pupils memorize the Creed.
We have also bought slides of the American's
Creed and of the Salute to the Flag and pre-
sented them to six of the leading motion pic-
ture companies.

On the afternoon of February 22nd the larg-
est and most elaborate Colonial Tea ever given
by the Colonel George Moffett Chapter was
held in the Neches Club rooms in celebration
of Washington's Birthday. Our State Regent
and officers of neighboring chapters were in-
vited to assist in receiving our guests.

As Texas Independence Day, March 2nd, fell
on our regular day of meeting, our hostess
emphasized the occasion by having her home
beautifully decorated and draped in both United
States and Lone Star flags. At this meeting
Mrs. Lipscomb Norvell, ex- State Regent, was
endorsed by the Chapter as candidate for Vice
President General, but later she stated that
home duties were requiring so much of her
attention at present that she would have to
request the Chapter not to present her name
for endorsement to the various chapters of the
State at this time.

Our new Year-books were completed early
in the summer and sent out to the members
so as to enable them to have sufficient time for
study while away on their summer vacation.
Our committee deserves a great deal of credit
for these splendid books, which outline a general
topic — " The Work of Our Fathers Enshrined

in Literature and Art " — divided into eight en-
joyable programs.

- Mrs. Chas. H Stroeck,
Regent.
Mrs. Frank Higgins,
Corresponding Secretary.

Lagonda Chapter (Springfield, Ohio). As
the year has closed, we take time to ask our-
selves what has been done since our first meet-
ing last September. Our membership has
increased to one hundred and five members, our
meetings have been well attended, and our pro-
grams have been unusually helpful. This has
been done under the careful supervision of our
Regent, Mrs. E. A. Carlisle. We were glad

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to have as our guest at the January meeting
Mrs. Wilson, our State Regent; at different
times we have had visits from other of our
state officers ; this always makes us happy. Our
townspeople have been especially good to us,
as they have given of their talents at the
various meetings. Especially is this true of
our music. Miss Sibyl Fagan (of Edison
fame) we had, not in record, but in person.
Papers have be( i given on the following topics :
" Old Tavern Days," " Christmas During the
Revolutionary Period," " Tom Corwin," " Out
into the Wilderness." (Lives of Pioneer Ohio
Women.) In addition to our literary and his-

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torical programs, we have had luncheons
and teas.

We have taken an active part in community
work. Early last fall, our Chapter erected a
boulder in honor of our country's soldiers who
fought in the World War. This memorial
stands in one of our parks, and on the tablet
are the simple words, " Lest We Forget Our
Soldiers of Clark County." Back of this rock,
we placed a flagstaff where each day wave the
" Stars and Stripes." During the cold winter
weather, our members noticed that from time
to time a wreath had been laid upon the stone,
and it was not until this spring that we learned
this remembrance had been the offering of a
poor mother in Springfield, whose " boy " had
been lost " over there " and whose body to-day
lies somewhere in Flanders' Fields — a silent, but
beautiful tribute to the loved one.

Next year we are planning to place in Memo-
rial Continental Hall a bronze tablet, on which
will be written the names of the Clark County
soldiers who made the " supreme sacrifice."
This tablet will cost about eight hundred dollars.

One day each month our members make
surgical dressings for the City Hospital.
Through the efforts of the organization, the
City Commission cleaned and restored the old
Columbia Street Cemetery, and re-identified the
graves of several Revolutionary soldiers. The
" Old Trails " committee reports the locating
of ten or more old markers, which formerly
stood along the National Pike. These we hope
to have placed in their original positions.

We have met our various obligations and we
have been glad to make certain donations.
Twenty-five dollars has been set aside for
rewards to pupils writing essays on the subject
of the " Old Trails Road." This school work
is to be prepared during the year of 1922-23
and with this contest, we hope to create greater
interest in Ohio history.

Keren J. Gaumer,

Historian.

Dorothy Q Chapter (Crawfordsville, Ind.)
is a prosperous and progressive branch of the
National Society and now has one hundred and
twelve members, scattered from New York
to San Francisco. Our local working force
numbers eighty, all zealous for fulfilling every
obligation of the Chapter.

During and subsequent to the World War
every demand was met and every quota paid
for national needs. We gave $100 for a gold
star scholarship to the Tomassee school in
memory of Harold Wingert, who was killed
in France in 1918. He was the only child of
Mrs. Laura Wingert, one of our members.

We furnished and maintain a room known
by our name at the local hospital.

The Montgomery County Historical Society

is an outgrowth of the Chapter and with our
aid will inaugurate a series of celebrations in
observance of the centenary of our county's
first settlements. A granite boulder, fitly in-
scribed, was erected in 1884 by the late Peter S.
Kennedy to mark the site of the first cabin in
the county. This stone will shortly be reset
on a concrete base by the Historical Society.

We have made June 14th our Remembrance
day for those we have " loved and lost awhile "
and in the early morning of Flag Day, the
nearest of kin decorates each grave with
flowers and a flag. The decoration is preceded
by a patriotic service, with prayer held in front
of the cenotaph erected by Mr. Frank B. Mills,
of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1918, in
memory of his great-grandfather, Jacob West-
fall, a Revolutionary soldier buried in a small
cemetery on our county line. Although ninety
}/ears old, Mr. Mills came for the unveiling of
this stone and has made an annual pilgrimage
to this place ever since. He also placed a new
granite marker at the grave of his ancestor.

Mrs. Hattie Hall Severson located the graves
of the twelve Revolutionary soldiers buried in
this county whose names are inscribed on a
bronze tablet placed by the Chapter in our
Post Ofiice building. She was also the leading
spirit in having the names of the World War
soldiers of Wabash Avenue Presbyterian
Church placed on a tablet in that building.

Our programs have just been issued and we
will discuss local and state history.

Under the able leadership of Mrs. Alice
Green Ross as Regent, who is now Second Vice
Regent of Indiana, and with the impetus given
by the war, our Chapter ranks third numeri-
cally in the state and takes a pardonable pride
in having been from the beginning and at all
times 100 per cent, in everything.

- — Julia Davidson Waugh,

Vice Regent.

Kinnikinnik Chapter (Colorado Springs,
Colo.). The first regular meeting in the fall
was a tea to new members. In all twenty-four
new members have been added during the year.
The City Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Fred
H. Bair, gave an interesting lecture on English
Americans and American English in the Revo-
lution, at the November meeting. In December,
Mrs. Robert Bruce Wolf, our new Regent,
talked on New England in the Life of the West.
At the January meeting Mrs. Charles H. Sisam
spoke on Our Scholarships. Delightful vocal
and instrumental music was given as provided
for by our Music Committee. On February
22nd we enjoyed with our sister Chapter, the
Zebulon Pike, a delightful luncheon at the
Antlers' Hotel. A charming feature of the
occasion was a woman's chorus made up in its
personnel from both chapters and led by Mrs.

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John Speed Tucker. At the March meeting
Mr. Eugene Preston gave an interesting and
entertaining talk on. heraldry, illustrating
with beautiful designs of his own handiwork.
The paper for the April meeting was on
" Our Foremothers."

• During the sumer months the Chapter,
through its members, acted as hostess one day
a week at the Soldiers' and Sailors' Club in the
■down-town district, and during the fall it was
voted to continue this service on alternate Mon-
days. Special entertainments were given there
on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day
and New Year's Day. Flag Day was observed
hy a joint meeting \Yith the children of the
American Revolution in Monument Valley
Park. On Pioneer Day, celebrating the fiftieth
anniversary of the founding of Colorado
Springs, an automobile decorated in our colors,
bunting, insignia, etc., attracted a great deal
of attention in the parade.

The following contributions have been given
during the year : Ten dollars for a crippled child
in a local school ; twenty dollars to the Pueblo
Relief Fund ; fifty dollars scholarship in Inter-
national College, Springfield, Mass. ; twenty-
five dollars to a milk fund for undernourished
children in the community ; fifteen dollars for
a flag for Colorado College ; five dollars for
■a medal given in May to a student in a County
High School having the highest average in
American History ; five dollars for a film,
" American's Creed," to be shown on patri-
otic holidays.

Two dozen Manuals for Immigrants were
purchased and distributed at Papetown, a
neighboring coal camp.

A new institution was established during the
year in a historical library, which has aroused
general interest. It contains four books on
American history, eight volumes formerly
loaned to the Colorado State Library, five vol-
umes of fiction, eleven volumes of town his-
tory, one play, and a number of interesting
magazines and pamphlets, as Pilgrims' Notes
and Queries, twelve volumes of the D.A.R.
Report to Congress from 1890 to 1909, and
several others of like nature. This we hope
to add to from time to time and are sure it will
prove of inestimable historical value.

Our Chapter is honored by having one of
our members a state officer, Mrs. Harry O.
Pufifer being State Treasurer, who, with Mrs.
Norman M. Campbell, represented us at Wash-
ington at the Continental Congress.

We had a goodly representation at the State
Conference and our delegates brought back
with them the banner given by Mrs. Frank
Wheaton to the Chapter in the State having the
largest increase in membership.

"—^Lillian M. Johnson,

Historian.

Abigail Phillips Quincy Chapter (Wollas-
ton, Mass.). One of our most prominent
historical achievements of the year was the
marking of the grave of Abigail Phillips
Quincy, in the old Hancock Cemetery at
Quincy, Mass. A bronze tablet was attached
to the iron railing surrounding the lot and was
inscribed as follows :

In Memory of
Abigail Phillips Quincy

Born April 14, 1745— Died March 25, 1798.

And Her Husband

Josiah Quincy, Jr.,

"The Patriot,"

Born Feb. 23, 1744— Died April 26, 1775.

Erected by

Abigail Phillips Quincy Chapter

of Wollaston

Daughters of the American Revolution

April 28, 1922.

The unveiling took place on April 28, 1922,
with exercises open to the public. Our Regent,
Mrs. Arthur D. Ropes, presided, and spoke of
the incentive and purpose of the occasion. She
gave an historical sketch of the life of Abigail
Phillips Quincy (for whom our Chapter is
named) and spoke of the service her husband,
Josiah Quincy, Jr., gave to the colonies. Mr.
Quincy died on his way home from England,
where he had gone on diplomatic business for
the colonies, in April, 1775, within sight of the
land he loved so well. Abigail lived twenty-
three years after the death of her illustrious
husband, and in summer occupying the old
Quincy homestead (still standing) in Wollas-
ton, Mass., she devoted the remainder of her
life to her son, Josiah.

The tablet was unveiled by Edmund Quincy,
a direct descendant of the man and woman to
whose memory the tablet was dedicated, he
being the last of the line of Josiahs of the
tenth generation of the Quincy family in this
country; Josiah Quincy, Jr., the patriot, being
of the fourth.

Young Air. Edmund Quincy, being a com-
parative stranger in the city of his ancestors,
it was a matter of gratification to our Chapter
to officially entertain him, showing him at the
close of the exercises historic sites in Quincy
intimately associated with his ancestral history.

Bradford Ropes, president of the Hannah
Watts Weston Society, Children of the Ameri-
can Revolution of Wollaston, which has the
largest charter membership in the state of
Massachusetts, assisted in the unveiling. The
flag was raised by Mrs. Walter F. Jones,
founder and first Regent of the Abigail Phillips
Quincy Chapter.

Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway, our State Regent,
urged all to remember that there were fore-
mothers as well as forefathers who helped in
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works, and great sacrifices. " Let us emulate
what these women did, and we shall be able to
do something valuable for our country,"
she said.

Mayor William E. Bradford, of Quincy,
spoke briefly, saying that it is well to pause
a moment to remember the men and women
of the period of the American Revolution.
After the unveiling, the Chapter and its guests

have been made, mothers' classes visited, Christ-
mas greeting cards sent to fifty mothers and
children, and much emergency relief work has
been done through the Family Welfare Society.
A red-letter event of this committee was its
participation in an International Exhibition of
Handiwork, in City Hall, last December, when
ten different nationalities exhibited marvelous
specimens of handicraft. Our Americanization

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were driven to the home of Mrs. Edward E.
Jameson, in Wollaston, where a Continental
Congress Tea was held. The committee for
the erection of the tablet included the Regent,
Mrs. Arthur D. Ropes ; the founder, Mrs.
Walter F. Jones ; the Historian, Mrs. Ida F.
Waterhouse, and the Treasurer, Mrs. Hugh
H. Ralph.

During the year our Chapter has been justly
proud of its achievements along Americaniza-
tion lines. Much credit is due the chairman,
Mrs. A. H. Epes, and her committee. Calls

Committee had charge of the Armenian ex-
hibit. An entertainment and social given by
this committee in Coddington Hall, in February,
for the city's many classes in Americanization
and their families. There was an audience of
over five hundred. City officials and officers of
many organizations assisted. After greetings
were extended and a social enjoyed, Mrs. Ropes,
our Chapter Regent, gave an illustrated stere-
opticon lecture on Yellowstone National Park
and Yosemite. The Girl Scouts' Bugle and
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our members, Mrs. Warren Sweetser, imper-
sonated " America."

The naming of a public square in Wollaston
(which is a section of Quincy) for Anne
Hutchinson, the site being intimately associated
with her history, is another of the many achieve-
ments due to our Regent's devotion to D.A.R.
ideals and aspirations.

-, (Mrs.) Ida F. Waterhouse,

Historian.

Stevens Thomson Mason Chapter (Ionia,
Mich.). Our annual election is held in Decem-
ber. Our Anniversary Banquet, which is always
held on or near February 13th, was in the form
of a costume party and proved to be a delight-
ful gathering for the members and their friends.
The toastmistress, in the dress of Columbia,
introduced the several epochs of women's life
from Pocahontas down to the modern women.

Sunday evening, February 20th, the several
churches joined with the Chapter in observance
of the Pilgrim Tercentenary and Washington's
Birthday. Students of the public schools fur-
nished a part of the program. The Colonial
Tea on February 22nd is our annual public
reception, and in connection with it we held an
exhibit of colonial relics and pictures, and the
fireside industries from Berea College. The
program consisted of folk dances and music.
Arbor Day we planted a Memorial Tree at
Riverside Park in honor of the men and women
who served in the World War from our county.
We cooperated with the park commission in
interesting the public to plant trees. We
observed " Bundle Day " for the Near East
Relief. Collected three boxes of clothing,
shoes, etc.

Decoration Day we placed flowers on the
grave of William Pangborn, a Revolutionary
soldier, and also on the grave of Candace
Dexter, the mother of one of Ionia's first set-
tlers. We joined with the Elks Lodge in
celebration of Flag Day.

The one-hundredth anniversary of the com-
ing of Rex Robinson, the first white American
to settle in Grand River Valley, was celebrated
Sunday evening, August 28th. The churches
united with us. It was the birthday anniver-
sary of Rex Robinson and several of his rela-
tives and one of his personal friends took part
in the service.

Constitution Day we posted several of the
United States Constitutions. Every place the
effort was appreciated and more asked for
by many.

We unveiled two boulders September 18th.
One for the noted Chippewa Chief, Okemos,
and the other for a Revolutionary soldier, Jona-
than Ingalls. The ceremonies were highly
interesting. The service at the grave of Chief

Okemos was attended by many friends who
had known him, or whose fathers were his
associates. He was buried on the Me-shim-me-
ne-coning Indian Reservation south of Portland
in the year 1858. Chief Okemos was a nephew
of Pontiac, and was born about 1775 in Shia-
wassee County. He proved himself an able
warrior at the battle of Sandusky and on many
other occasions.

At the grave of Jonathan Ingalls, his grand-
daughter and grandson gave brief accounts of
his life. He was born in Exeter, N. H., May
4, 1762; married an aunt of ex-President

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Grover Cleveland. Died October 2, 1843.
Served through the entire War ; was assigned
to General Benedict Arnold's division and was
with him at West Point at the time he planned
to surrender his forces to the British.

Our expenditures for patriotic work, chari-
table enterprises and annual state dues for the
year, total $194.12. We are one hundred per
cent, in the State Budget and the three National
enterprises.

We began the year with forty-three mem-
bers. Our present membership is fifty-eight,

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practically a gain of thirty-three and a third
per cent., of which we are justly pleased.

-i (Mrs. Levi) Addie H. Marshall,

Regent.

Amsterdam Chapter (Amsterdam, N. Y.).
1920-1921 was an auspicious year for our Chap-
ter, as it saw the realization of a wish expressed
at the founding of the Chapter, twenty years
ago, that some day Guy Park house might be
the possession of the Daughters. This old
colonial mansion, which is situated on the north
bank of the Mohawk River, was built in 1776
by Sir William Johnson for his son-in-law, Guy
Johnson, and has been the scene of many histori-
cal events during the Revolutionary war.

The Johnsons were unable to keep their
homes and Guy Park Manor passed into other
hands and finally became the property of James
Stewart, and later of his heirs, who resided
there for many years. At the building of the
barge canal it became the property of the state,
and having been restored to its former substan-
tial condition, the state gave it over to the
Amsterdam Chapter, which had been made
its custodian.

The wood-work, wall decorations and lighting
fixtures have all been replaced to conform to
those used during the days of Sir Guy Johnson.
Many valuable gifts of furnishings have been
received from interested citizens and members
of our Chapter.

A very ancient piece, and one that the Chapter
prizes very highly, is an old piano made in
London by Astor and Norwood at the close of
the Revolution. This is the second instrument
made by this firm, the Boston Conservatory
Museum contains the first.

One bedroom has been completely furnished
by a faithful charter member. An old four-
poster bed, a highboy filled with old-fashioned
garments, an old sampler and quaint pictures
on the wall, give an original appearance to
this room.

An antique clock of the design known as bull-
dog English face, made in 1757, was donated
by a friend. This clock was formerly a part
of the furnishings of Sir Guy Johnson's home.
It seems quite appropriate that after striking
the hour in many other homes, it should be
returned to its former place on the mantel,
where it did duty so many years ago.

While I cannot mention all of the valuable
old pieces given or loaned to our home, I would
like to speak of the gift of a doll's Dutch four-
poster bed that dates back to 1816. The canopy
and valances still show the original color of
the material.

It was with a feeling of great satisfaction and
pride — and I must say of deep gratitude to all
those who have made it possible — ^that the
Amsterdam Chapter gathered for the first time
in its new home for the annual meeting which

was held June 14, 1920, as the guests of our
Regent, Mrs. I. L. W. Reynolds, who presided.
Following the program a social hour was en-
joyed, during which the members inspected
and admired the old mansion which had so
recently come into their possession.

Flag Day, June 14, 1921, was observed with
more than usual interest and marked an im-
portant event in the history of our Chapter.
The Montgomery County Historical Society
and the husbands of the Chapter members were
guests for the afternoon.

The feature of the meeting was the presen-
tation to the Daughters of a beautiful American
flag by the advisory board and also a storm
flag by our honored member, Mrs. A. V. Morris,
Sr. Dr. Charles F. McClumpha made the pre-
sentation speech and also gave a very eloquent
and interesting address on the American flag,
which was greatly enjoyed by all present. Three
little girls supported the flag from the ground,
a Boy Scout pulled the cord, and our beautiful
emblem of America was floated to the breeze.

Mrs. Reynolds, our Regent, in her usual
gracious way, accepted the gifts, thanked the
donors and expressed the deep appreciation of
the Chapter. After the dedicatory prayer and
several patriotic selections by the orchestra,
refreshments were served and a period of socia-
bility enjoyed, thus closing a most delightful
meeting at the manor house.

At a meeting held May 27, 1921, two flags
were presented by the Chapter to the first two
troops qualifying in the Girl Scout work.

Fifteen new members have been received
this year, making a total of one hundred
and five, with several more applications await-
ing acceptance.

Under the efficient leadership of our Regent,
we are one hundred per cent, in all Chapter,
State and National obligations, and have re-
sponded generously and willingly to all patri-
otic calls.

■**» Sarah A. Crowe,

Historian.

Colonel Timothy Bigelow Chapter

(Worcester, Mass.). The year 1921-22 has
been such a happy one and so full of interest
to us as a Chapter that we hope a little sketch
of it may be of interest to the readers of the
Magazine. We have kept up the usual lines
of Chapter activities with team work in the
various committees, and the Chapter has had a
year of marked growth in membership ; and also
our Junior Daughters Society has flourished
famously. Our regular monthly meetings have
been in charge of the standing committees and
each one has been full of interest. Every de-
partment of work has thus been definitely pre-
sented to the Chapter.

It has been a pleasure to have our State

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Regent with us on two occasions, one of which
was when we had the honor of entertaining
Mrs. Channing Cox, the wife of our Governor,
for luncheon and a reception at our Chapter
House. I wish you could have all seen our
lovely old house on that day. It was swept and
garnished as thoroughly as was done by the
housekeepers of colonial days when guests
were expected. There are in our Chapter
House many articles which have been there
since it was built in 1773, and for this special

den, and is occupied by descendants of the
seventh generation, who are justly proud of the
part played by their ancestor in laying the foun-
dations for our city of to-day.

Even before Ephraim Curtis came to make
his home here, a committee was appointed by
the General Court to look into this section and
make a " true report whether the place be
capable of a village and what number of fami-
lies can there be accommodated." We are told
that this committee made a favorable report,

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occasion plates were loaned to us that had
been in the Paine family for over a hundred
years and which must have graced the table for
many a guest under that roof. The luncheon
itself followed the old-time menus.

We have during the year placed a bronze
tablet on a boulder marking the site of the
home of Worcester's earliest resident, Ephraim
Curtis, who built the first house between Marl-
borough and Brookfield, as nearly as can be
ascertained, in the fall of 1673, and lived there
entirely alone for over a year. A beautiful
old house now stands on the spot, surrounded
by stately trees and a beautiful lawn and gar-

recommending a tract of land eight miles square,
to be laid out for a town, and that this tract,
comprising what is now Worcester, Holden,
and a part of Auburn, " might possibly, with
proper care and industry, afford support for
sixty families" ! !

One of the most interesting afternoons we
had in the whole year was a talk given by one
of our members, Mrs. William T. Forbes, on
the Old Roads of Worcester. It is a custom
in our Chapter to present a flag each year, as
our Flag Day celebration, to some organization.
This year we gave one to the Association of
Disabled World War Veterans, and last year

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to the Worcester Branch of the American
Legion. Both times were interesting occas-
ions. Very good, indeed, to be able to do a
little something as a Chapter for each of
these organizations.

I wish to speak especially of the work of our
Chapter in maintaining and preserving our
Chapter House, and, also, to call attention to
our Junior Society. This is composed of young
girls, about the high school age or a little older,
who have a special room turned over to them
in the Chapter House and who are under the
guidance of one of the Chapter members. It
is, of course, required that each member shall
be the daughter of a Chapter member, or eli-
gible to membership in the N.S.D.A.R. It
makes a splendid training school for the regular
Chapter and they have not only had a happy
time themselves but have, during the past year,
among other things, made a gift of $50 from
money earned by themselves, to be applied on a
payment on our Chapter House.

Every effort is being made to reduce the
mortgage on our Chapter House and put its
affairs on a firm basis.

It all means work, but it also means a great
deal of interest and pleasure that could be
obtained in no other way. I would like to
impress on every Chapter that it pays to aim
high, and we fully expect to have more and
more interest and enthusiasm and to realize our
ambition in due time.

— Grace Tryon Glass,

Historian.

Jane McCrea Chapter (Hudson Falls,
N. Y.). Our first meeting in June — Flag Da}'—
was an important one, inasmuch as we had with
us New York's State Regent, Mrs. Charles
White Nash, in whose honor an elaborate lun-
cheon was given in the Parish House. From
our Founder, Mrs. Joseph E. King, we heard
of the aims of our Daughters of the American
Revolution. May we, as a Chapter, live up to
her expectations of our ability; and in helping
ourselves, help other chapters. In Mrs.
Devine's Reminiscences of Twenty-one Years,
we found much food for thought. Our Past
Regent, Mrs. Ingalsbe, was present, and" told
us a few things about honor and service. The
Flag and its Proper Use was ably prepared
by Mrs. C. B. Lawton. Our State Regent
spoke at length on our duty as Daughters, and
told us in particular about the Tomassee School
of South Carolina to be supported by the
D.A.R. Chapters and urged us to send money
to help build dormitories and to assist in edu-
cating the children of worthy ancestors, who
will be sent there. She also spoke of purer
movies, cleaner drama, modest dress and better
discipline at home and in school.

Jane McCrea day. Miss Helen Street spoke

on a Belter America. As usual, her words
were an inspiration.

We have certainly a better understanding of
the French, their country and their aims, after
listening to Miss Demarest's beautiful tribute
to their nation and their wonderful achieve-
ments. As there were committees appointed to
report on " Old Trails " and Genealogical Re-
search, I shall not refer to them.

To-day we come to the parting of the way ;
no more will we meet in executive board, to
decide zvhat among the mimeroiis things re-
quested by the authorities at Washington or by
our own State Officers, it will be possible for
Jane McCrea Chapter to do, and do zvell.
Ofttimes we would do more, but the matter of
expense comes and we curb our desire according
to the state of our treasury, then we look
ahead and wonder at the advisability. Some-
times we have been like the optimist who looks
at an oyster and expects a pearl, and then
at the same oyster and expects ptomaine poison-
ing. Our meetings have always been pleasant
and harmonious, and to our Regent, Mrs. Susan
Bain, we express our admiration and thanks
for her justice at all times and her uniform
kindness to each and every member of her
official family.

• — • Harriet E. Ferris,

Historian.

Pueblo Chapter (Pueblo, Colo.) closes the
year 1921-1922 with 100 resident and 24 non-
resident members, our membership having been
recently raised from 75 to 100. Sixteen new
members have been admitted this year. In spite
of flood and fire, we are striving and thriving.
Several papers and talks on Colorado history
have been unusually interesting, namely : " His-
toric Spots in Colorado Forests," by Mr. A. G.
Hamel, " Forest-Supervisor for the San Isabel
Forest ; " Prehistoric Ruins of Colorado," by
J. Allard Jeanson, director of the Archeological
Department of the Historic Society of Colo-
rado; " Colorado Prose Writers," by Mrs. B. J.
Parker ; " The Poets of Colorado," by Mrs.
Anna Robe ; " A Talk on Colorado Nature
Writers," by Mrs. Margaret Morgan Forbush.
A fine address on Patriotism was given at the
annual luncheon of Pueblo and Arkansas Val-
ley Chapters. The annual sermon to both chap-
ters by Rev. William I. Jones, of the First
Congregational Church, was of unusual interest,
the subject being " The Spirit of the Revolution
To-day," as compared with the Spirit of the
Revolution in the Bible.

Volumes 56, 57, 58 and 59 of the Lineage
Books have been added to the shelves of our
Public Library. Twenty-six Magazine sub-
scriptions are credited to us, besides placing the
Mayflower Descendant and Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazines in the
Public Library.

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Two of our members are on the State Board.
Mrs. Alfred Watkins, State Chairman of the
Magazine Committee, and Mrs. Herbert A.
Black, State Chairman on Conservation of the
Home and Thrift. Mrs. Black was also Pueblo
Chapter Chairman for Conservation of the
Home. Our Whittaker House was in the direct
path of the flood, which swept Pueblo and the
Arkansas Valley on the night of June 3, 1921,
eighteen feet or more of water passing about
and through it. An awful, never-to-be-forgotten
night, which became more awful as the days
went by.

Quoting from Mrs. Black's annual report :
" As soon as the street was passable, Mr. Frank
Helwig furnished teams and men to shovel out
the mud, slime, and broken furniture, which
included everything on the first floor — even the
piano, all wreckage." Then the same two
Daughters, who, a few months before had raised
$5000 to buy this property, again raised the
necessary money to rehabilitate ; $500 given by
the Red Cross, $780 by the Masonic Relief
Committee ; friends gave furniture ; the Colo-
nial Dames of Colorado gave a piano and
kitchen table. The P. E. O.'s of the City and
State again started a library and we have to
date 1417 books, catalogued, and in bookcases,
made by a friend, and more books still un-
packed. The playground was cleaned by the
city, the flagpole raised, and once again Old
Glory waves its message of loyalty and patri-
otism to these little foreign children of the
district. Everything is back to its normal con-
dition of last May. Our class attendance is
larger than ever, 1323 for the five months we
have been working, with an average of 19 girls
in cooking and sewing classes. Steam heat and
water are now piped from the north side pump-
ing station, which is just across the alley, this
doing away with stoves for heating. Whittaker
House came back ! " And perhaps its last
state is better than its first."

Our Chapter gave $166.75 for Armenian Re-
lief, $10 toward the miniature of our ex-Presi-
dent General, Mrs. Matthew T. Scott. For the
Caroline Scott Harrison Memorial Dormitory
at Oxford Female College, Ohio, $30. To the
American International College, $10. To the
Tomassee School in South Carolina, $10. Our
Gateway Fund is increasing and now amounts
to $539.47. The Marker for Old Fort Pueblo,
which was completed before the flood, was to
have been placed and unveiled with appropriate
ceremonies, June 14, 1921, but we must now
wait until permanent flood prevention is secured.

Over two hundred of the Manuals for Im-
migrants have been distributed.

Mrs. Mahlon D. Thatcher, Sr., Regent of
Pueblo Chapter, was decorated with the Cross
of Mercy. This honor was conferred upon
Mrs. Thatcher by the Serbian Government in

recognition of the substantial aid she rendered
to that government in time of stress.
^Mrs. S. a.) Hannah Schenck Forbush,

Historian.

Colonel William Prescott Chapter (New-
ark, N. Y.) was organized January 31, 1917.
by Mrs. Abram D. Smith, at her home, with
32 members. Charter presented June 14, 1917.
No. 1327, inscribed with 47 members' names.
The Chapter has now enrolled 102 members
and several papers are in Washington. It bears
the name of Colonel William Prescott, who
led the American forces at Bunker Hill. He
was an ancestor of the Vice Regent, Miss Clara
A. Prescott.

Inasmuch as the Chapter was organized just
prior to America entering the great World
War, it began its work with the Red Cross,
the military census, questionnaires, contributed
to War activities, bought and sold bonds, sent
luxuries to our boys in camp, made large con-
tributions of clothing to the Belgians, adopted
one French orphan, and two by members indi-
vidually, contributed to the $100,000 Liberty
Bonds purchased by the National Society.
Many garments and hospital supplies were made
by the members of the Chapter, and at all times
the members strove to create the true patriotic
spirit. Some few of the members spoke for
the great cause.

The Chapter has located several Revolu-
tionary soldiers' graves in the county, which
we hope some day to officially mark. American-
ization work and patriotic education have been
the chief aims of the Chapter. It annually
presents to the pupils of the high school with the
highest standing in American history, a prize
in gold, also to the pupil standing second. One
of the members contributes a prize in gold to
the pupil with highest standing in English.
The Chapter always marks on Alemorial Day,
with flowers. Revolutionary soldiers' graves.
Real Daughters and deceased members. All
patriotic days are duly observed, including Con-
stitution Day, in a public manner. The Chap-
ter has contributed the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine to Newark,
Palmyra and Lyons libraries, to promote
tlie work.

The Chapter has located old roads and trails
in the county and the official chairman prepared
a map for the Old Roads Committee, and im-
portant historic sites have been located.

The Chapters has placed the Lineage Books on
the city library shelves. On October 27th, the
Chapter presented to the Roosevelt school, in
our city, a fine framed portrait of Theodore
Roosevelt. The Chapter presented to the
American Legion, August Mauer Post, a large
American flag. May 30, 1920; also contributed
its full quota to the four designated objects for
1921 : Fountain at Plymouth, Immigrant's

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Manual, Painting for French Government and to
the Sarah Thacher Guernsey Scholarship Fund
and made its contribution for ornaments for
Schuyler Mansion.

The Chapter, in its second year's work,
through the courtesy of its second Vice Regent,
Miss Lois Allerton, presented a valuable gift
to the Museum, at Memorial Continental Hall.
A rare book was presented by the Chapter,
through the courtesy of Mrs. Nellie Terry
Garlock. The Regent of the Chapter was
appointed New York State Chairman for Revo-
lutionary Relics by the former State Regent,
Miss Broadhead, and was International Com-
mittee under Miss Barlow ; she has also
been invited to address many chapters and other
large bodies in the State. She was also
appointed Organizing Regent of the U. S.
Daughters of 1812, and is the present Regent of
Gen. John Swift Chapter, and is one of the
vice presidents of the Genesee County Historical
Federation, and also one of the original
founders of the National Historical Society.
Several members occupy conspicuous positions
in other important organizations in the city.
All are striving to be useful women and to live
up to the great principles for which we stand.
,. ^(Mrs.) Mary Bradley Eck,

Historian.

Alamo Chapter (San Antonio, Texas) was
organized October 22, 1913, by Mrs. Harry
Hyman, State Regent. It took its name from
the Alamo, the Cradle of Texas independence.
In the 16th Century, San Antonio, Texas, the
third oldest city in the United States, was
settled by the Spaniards. San Antonio, aside
from its natural beauty and commercial im-
portance, will go down in history, because in
the heart of this quaint old city stands the old
fort, The Alamo. Surely fate reserved the
name, " Alamo," for our Chapter. And we
feel that its revered spirit hovers over us; and
if our achievements are phenomenal, just re-
member that we draw our inspiration from our
name " Alamo." Our motto is " Home and
Country." The Chapter colors are blue and
white. The Chapter flower is the Texas blue
bonnet. The keynote of our Chapter is patriot-
ism, justice and harmony.

Upon the entry of the United States into the
World War, we organized a Red Cross Circle
at the home of Mrs. Hyman. We raised $60
and bought wool, knitted several hundred pairs
of socks which were distributed. The meetings
were held in the home of our Regent until the
headquarters of the Red Cross were established
for the whole city. Our Regent took surgical
dressing course, and was made Chairman of
her D.A.R. Circle. We met every Tuesday
with an average attendance of eighty. During
the influenza crisis, three of our members
nursed at the Base Hospital and at Camp

Travis. The sister of our McKinney member.
Miss Mary G. White, was temporarily secre-
tary of Y.W.C.A. and in charge of the work
among nurses in France. One member living
near the Base Hospital gave room and break-
fast to relatives visiting sick soldiers. This
mother wears a service pin with five stars,
representing four sons and an adopted one.
Her youngest. Lieutenant Travis Lee Haltom,
was killed June 7, 1918, in an airplane collision
at Gerstner Field, La.

Our second gold star was for Edward Hilton
Vance, who lost his life October 2, 1918. We
had a total of 134 in service, the near blood
relatives of our members. The Regent opened
her home to officers and family. Another mem-
ber, Mrs. Urwitz, gave every day for three
months to Red Cross work. She sewed 3500
emblems on as many garments, and made one
thousand socks. We were 100 per cent, on our
Tilloloy Fund. We adopted two orphans ; sold
$600 thrift stamps, and contributed $100 for
endowment of a bed in the San Antonio ward
of a military hospital at Nuelly, France.

Since the Armistice, we have not stopped
our good work, as the many overseas boys here
at the Base Hospital have been receiving our
help. We have placed the Constitution of the
United States in many public and private
schools. Our work in the school is teaching
Americanization. Our labor has been more
than repaid, for the children of the foreign-
born parents are enthusiastic. We teach them
to be good Americans, and their appreciation
is so great that it has been an inspiration to
us. We have placed our Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazines and gene-
ology books in our public library. Our Regent
was one of the chairmen of the King's High-
way, and it was through her loyal devotion to
the work, that it was made possible. Our
Chapter subscribed to the Far East Relief
Fund, not only with money but with many
garments. This last year our Chapter held its
meetings in the home of some one of its mem-
bers. We have always tried to have some
prominent speaker, either local or visiting, to
speak at our meetings. In fact, we have a wide-
awake, and much alive. Regent, who never
seems to sleep on her job. Our Chapter never
fails to cooperate with any movement that is
for the good of our city. Our Chapter each
year ofifers $5 in gold to the boy or girl who
writes the best essay on Revolutionary subjects.
Our Regent presents baby spoons to each baby
born into our Chapter, each year. We donated
to the Tubercular Hospital. The Alamo and
the Bexar Chapters look forward with pleasure
to entertaining the State Conference this fall.

Mrs. Edmund Haltom,

Historian.

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GENEALOGICAL EDITOR

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D. C.

ANSWERS

6074. Stoner. — Daniel Truby, Jr., m Mary,
dau of David Stoner, of Waynesboro, Franklin
Co., Pa. The Stoners settled 1st in Lancaster
Co., later moved to Franklin Co., Pa., before
the Rev. A deed made to David & Abraham
Stoner in 1747. nr Waynesboro, Pa., is still in
the family.— .1/;-.^. M. L. Gifford. 709 Elmer St.,
Vineland, N. J.

6640. Davenport. — Captain Chas. Davenport,
b April 15. 1751, d Dec. 12, 1812, m 1778 Eliza-
beth Taylor & had ch Benj., Alexander, Sally,
Charles. Ira, Betsy, Ashley, Roxanna & John R.
Captain Charles is bur at Lowville, N. Y. —
Ref. : p. 435, vol. 48, Daughters of the Amer-
ican Revolution AIagazine. — Mrs. Burton A.
Crane, 517 W. 10th St., Erie, Pa.

10139. Forgason - Ferguson. — A will of

Martha Hubbard (whose 1st husband was

Turner), made in 1686, names her ch Daniel
Turner, John Turner, Edward Hubbard, Ber-
sina Beverige, Abigail Hubbard & Mary Fergu-
son, w of John, Jr. Her s, Daniel Turner,
made a will in 1705 & left some land to John
Forgason, s of John Forgason, Jr., & Mary
Forgason who was Daniel Turner's sister. He
also left ilO to Wm. Forgason, calling him
his kinsman ; think he was a bro of John HI.
I think from the will that there were three gen-
erations of John Forgasons. In Westchester
Co., N. Y., records, a Thomas Forgason d 1705,
also spelled Farrington. Also in same county,
" Mary Forgason, wid & John Forgason (her
s) of sd Westchester Co., yeoman, to Ebenezer
Haveland of Westchester, blacksmith, with the
consent of Ann, wife of ye sd. Jolin Forgason,
land in Westchester Co., bounded by the land
of Mercy Turner, April 6, 1727." Rebecca Tur-

ner, dau of Daniel m Eleazor Gedney : their dau
Elizabeth m Joseph Hart & their s Joseph Hart
m Tamar Budd. — Mrs. Thomas Kennedy. 1201
Broadway, Normal, 111.

10139. Farguson. — You will find early rec-
ords of this name in Mass. Samuel Farguson
& w Elener, removed from Hopkinton abt
1738 to Pelham, later to Blandford. He had
bros — James who m Esther Thornton in 1746;
Wm. m 1743 & John who left Pelham in 1758.
Samuel had sons James b June 28, 1733 m
Hannah McConnoughey (McConaghey) dau of
David, of Watertown, Mass., Sept. 22, 1759,
and John, known as Capt. John, b 1740. d 1792,
m Dolly Hamilton. In the 18th D.A.R. Report,
in the list of Rev soldiers' graves are John
Ferguson bur in Fall Creek Presbyterian Ceme-
tcrv, O.. and a Robt. Ferguson b in Pelham,
Mass., 1754, d 1827, bur E. Springfield, N. Y.—
Mrs. Burton A. Crane, 517 West 10th St..
Erie, Pa.

10155. McMurtry. — Abram McMurtrie m
Elizabeth McElhannie & had ch George, James,
Sarah, John, Joseph, Lee Matilda, Hezekiah,
& Margaret. James McMurtry (note changed
spelling) m Abi Williams; their ch were Joseph,
Thomas, John, Lee & Amy. Lee McMurtry
m Marie Jane Lindley & had ch Amabelle &
Marion Lee McMurtry. — Mrs. E. S. Glasier,
638 Third Ave. East, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

QUERIES

10706. Hemphill. — Wanted gen of Edward
Hemphill who m Susannah Dunlap and moved
from nr Brownsville, Pa., in 1800, to Adams
Co., Ohio. Their dau Sally was b Sept. 17,
1795. Did he or his father have Rev rec? —
L. McK.

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10707. CooLiDGE. — Wanted parentage of Henry
Coolidge, b 1750, d Aug. 1, 1831. Removed
from Cambridge, Mass., to Waterford, Maine.

Wanted also name of his w Mary , b Dec.

22, 1757, d Jan. 9, 1834.— B. A. W.

10708. Harris.— Wanted dates of b and d
of Champlin Harris, of Colchester, Conn.
Wanted also name and dates of his w.

(a) Wynn. — Wanted dates of b & d and
name of w with her dates of Robert Wynn or
Winn, of the Sixth Va. Regt.— E. W. B.

10709. French.— Wanted Rev rec of Thomas
French who lived either in N. H. or Vt. and
who received a grant of land for his services.
This land supposed to be now a part of the
city of St. Joseph, Mo. Would like also to
know the name of his first w. He having been
m 3 times. — L. B. L.

10710. White-Cleveland.— Milly White b
in N. Y. City or State, Mar. 20, 1739, sister of
the Rev. John White, a Baptist Clergyman of
Va. and Elbert Co., Ga., m Oct. 10, 1756, Jacob
Cleveland. Wanted ances of Milly White, and
also Rev and Colonial ser of Jacob Cleveland b
May 6, 1739, near Culpeper Court House, Va.,
where he resided until about 1780 and then
moved to Elbert Co., Ga., where he d abt 1790. —
A. T.

10711. Drake.— Jonathan Drake m Tamar
Joanses dau of a Rev sol from N. J. Wanted
his given name and Rev rec. Also Drake gen.

(a) Prall-Stout. — Wanted Rev rec of Gar-
rison Prall, Hunterdon Co., N. J., and of Jona-
than Stout, of Fenna. or N. J.— F. S. B.

10712. Walker - Winfield - Wingfield. —
Joseph R. Walker and w Dorothy, dau of Ed-
ward Winfield or Wingfield of Va., moved to
S. C. from Mecklenburg Co. and settled first
at Charleston and later in Edgefield Co., nr Old
Hamburg. They went to S. C. about the time
of the Rev. Their ch were Edwin Clark, Hur-
bert, John, Alexander, Robert, Golothan, Anne,
Harriet and Emaline. Wanted ances of Joseph
Walker and Edward Winfield, also Rev rec of
either.— D. B. H.

10713. Thompson. — Wanted gen dates and
all inf possible of Shelton Thompson of Conn. —
D. T. P.

10714. WiNSLOw. — Wanted all dates and
parentage of Seth Winslow who moved from
Mass. to either Ontario or Naples, N. Y., prior
to 1800. Wanted also his w maiden name and
lineage. Their dau Susannah Bacon Winslow
m Robert Gordon, s of Thomas, who moved
from Wash. Co., Pa., to Mahoning Co.,
Ohio, 1799.

(a) Church. — Wanted parentage and all
dates of Richard Church and also maiden name
of his w Hannah of Hardwick, Mass. (1735-
1756), and in Greenwich after 1756. Their

dau Mary m Seth Winslow Nov. 23, 1775. —
L. S. O.

10715. Riley. — Wanted ances, dates and all
inf possible of Polly Riley of Saybrook, Conn.,
who m Nov. 27, 1822, Alvin Clark, b 1798.—
H. M. K.

10716. — Mansfield-Gillette.- — Wanted Rev
ances and dates and data of Anson Gillette and
his w Sally Mansfield of Great Hill, Seymour,
Conn., who had 10 ch, one of whom was Eli

Gillette who m Eliza Bassett dau of Riggs

and Bassett. Wanted also any inf of

Riggs family. — M. L. C. S.

10717. Nicholas-Jenkins. — Major Samuel
Nicholas, Marine officer of the Rev from Phila.

m Jenkins. His sons were Samuel, Jr., and

Charles Jenkins Nicholas. Wanted given name
of his w and was she dau of William Jenkins?
Was Enoch Jenkins a s of Wm. Jenkins?
Enoch ser in Robert Mullan's Co. of Marines,
Sept. 13, 1776. James Jenkins, s of Wm., m
Sarah Harriet. — Was she a Miss Durant?
Wanted her parentage and all dates. — S. S.

10718. Weakley - Weekley-Hoff. — Wanted
Rev rec of Jacob Weakley of Loudoun Co., Va.,
and also Rev rec of Daniel Hoff of Alexandria,
Va., with proof of their ser. — A. M. L.

10719. Marshall-Booth. — Wanted Rev rec
of Thomas Marshall, father of John Marshall.
U. S. Chief Justice, and had he a dau Sarah or
Elizabeth who m John Booth of Va. and Ga. ? —
L. W. F.

10720. Wells. — Wanted parentage with dates
of Samuel Wells, d 1831 Coventry, Vt. He
was one of seven persons to settle the town, m
Jan. 1, 1783, Margaret Scott, d 1842. Wanted
her parentage also. Their s Thomas m Aug.
29, 1812, Harriet Porter. Wanted Porter gen.

(a) McHugh-McChugo. — Wanted gen of
John McHugh b in Scotland, d in Worcester,
Mass., also of his w Geanette Marion Head, b
in Scotland, 1815. Wanted also all dates for
John and Geanette.

(b) Davis-Hubbard. — Nathan Davis of Con-
cord, Mass., m Nov. 27, 1735, Ellen Hubbard
of Concord, Mass. Wanted Hubbard gen.

(c) Richardson. — Walter McFarland, U. S.
Surveyor and Justice of the Peace, Hopkinton,
Mass., b 1744, d 1829, m Jan. 29, 1778, Sarah
Richardson of Hopkinton, Mass., b 1749.
Wanted Richardson gen.

(d) Langdon." — Benj. Pressey d in Water-
ville, Maine, m Degher Langdon, probably of
Waterville, also. Wanted any help on the
Langdon line.— G. S. McF.

10721. Smith -Clark. — Wanted ances and
Rev rec of families of Jedediah Smith b 1765
d Aug. 18, 1832, and of his w Sarah or Sally
Clark, b 1772, d 1837. Both d and are bur at
Cooperstown, N. Y. Wanted date of their m.

(a) Meacham. — Wanted Rev rec of Samuel

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Meacham b 1712 d Windham, Conn., m Bethia
Pease, Jan. 11, 1734, at Endfield, and of their s
Jeremiah, b Mar. 31, 1744, at Norwich, Conn.,
d 1817 in Pa., m Martha Bartholomew.

(b) Beeman. — Wanted ances of Ebeneazer,
Beeman b 1761 in Conn.(?) d 1840 in Pa. m
1777 Hannah dau of James Lum of N. J.,
a Rev sol. — M. J.

10722. Martin-Key.— Wanted inf of the con-
nection of the Martin and Key families. John
Key settled in Albemarle Co. 1732. His ch were
John, Martin and Mary. Martin Key was a
lineal desc of Lady Jane Grey's younger sister
and his s Martin was a private sec'y to Thomas
Jeflferson, having secured the position through
the Martin family. — L K. C.

10723. Walton.— Was Thomas Walton, Sr.,
of Isle of Wight Co., Va., related to Robert
Walton who came to America with William
Penn in 1682 and m Sally Hughes? Was Rob-
ert Walton related to Rev. Wm. Walton of
England, who came to America in 1630 or 1635
and settled in Mass. ? Wanted maiden name of
w Sarah of Thomas Walton, Sr., later of
Chowan Co., N. C. Wanted also maiden name
of Sarah w of Thomas Walton, Jr., of Va.,
later of Chowan Co., N. C.

(a) Fleming. — Wanted Fleming gen with all
dates through Elizabeth dau of Col. John Flem-
ing and his w Mary Boiling.

(b) ScoTT. — Wanted gen of Julia Scott who
m Rev. Wm. Jordan.

(c) Hill. — Wanted parentage and maiden
name of w Mary of Henry Hill, Nansemond
Co.. Va., from 1660 to 1675. Their s Abraham
m Judith . Wanted her maiden name.

(d) Goodwin -Branch. — Thomas Mitchell,
Jr., m Anne Raines. Thomas Mitchell, Sr., m
Any Goodwin. Henry Mitchell, father of
Thomas, Sr., m Tabitha Branch. Wanted
parentage of Amy Goodwin and Tabitha
Branch.— J. Q. W.

10724. Shannon.- — William and Hugh Shan-
non were taxables in 1751 in Peter's Township,
Cumberland Co., Pa., now Franklin Co. Wm.
Shannon and w Mary had ch John, James, Wm.,
Robert, Hugh, Joseph, Gean, Nathaniel, David
and Samuel. John, Robert, James, Nathaniel,
Hugh and Gean went south. David, Samuel,
Joseph and probably Wm., lived and d in the
vicinity of Mercersburg, Pa. From data in my
possession I have reason to think that Wm.
and Hugh, 1751, taxables, were sons of Wm.
Shannon of Todsbury Township, Lancaster Co.,
Pa., whose will was written May 13, 1741. He
mentions his w Mary, sons James, Hugh,
William, dau Gresall, Jean, granddaughters
Martha and Margaret McCallpin. Son-in-law
Robert Line. There was a s John who had d
previously. From records at Chambersburg,
Franklin Co., Pa. Abstracts : John and Robert
Shannon of Lafayette Co., Ky., appoint Wm.

Shannon of Co. aforesaid, lawful agent to re-
ceive for his own use that share of estate of
Joseph Shannon, late of Franklin Co., Pa.,
Jan., 1812. * * * James Shannon, of Lincoln
Co., N. C, appoints his nephew, Wm. Shannon
(as above) 1811. * * * Nathaniel and Hugh
Shannon, Stock Co., Ky., also as above, 1812.
* * * Joseph Shannon and Ginny (Gean) his w of
Woodford Co., Ky., also as above 1812. * * *
Gean Shannon was a sis of the above 5 Shannon
bros. She m Joseph Shannon at Mercersburg,
Pa., in 1778. They were probably cousins and
lived for a while in York Co., Pa. Are there
desc of these southern Shannons, who can give
inf of the early Pa. family? Hugh, 1751. tax-
able, sold land to Robert Elliott of Peter's
township. Did Hugh or his desc go to Hamp-
shire Co., Va., in the early days? One branch
of Shannon said to have been from the vicinity
of Mercersburg, Pa., settled in Hampshire Co.
Thomas Shannon having m Hannah Walker in
1792 or 1793. There is another early Lancaster
line. Thomas Shannon will dated 1737. His
s John was a Capt. in 1746, with desc largely in
the South. It was Thomas, s of Thomas, 1777,
who probably settled in the Manor of Maske,
1740. and whose s Joseph m in Mercersburg,

Gean S. in 1778. Wm. Shannon, 1751,

taxable in Peter's township had a patent for
300 acres called " Shannon's Industry." He
and his family were members of the Presby-
terian Church called " Upper West Conoco-
cheague Church." His will is recorded nr
Chambersburg, Pa. His s Samuel m Mary,
dau of Johnston and Rebecca (Mayes) Elliott.
They also lived in Peter's township, though
Rebecca was the dau of Andrew and Rebecca
McFarland Mayes of Donegal, Lancaster Co.,
Pa. Wanted inf of Johnston Elliott. His
father was Robert of Hamilton Township,
Franklin Co., Pa., but the name of his w is not
known. — V. F. S.

10725. Perry-Davis.- — John and Elisha Perry,
bros, m sisters Hannah and Elizabeth Davis,
Nov., 1820, in Preston Co., W. Va. John
Perry was b abt 1796. Was his father Joshua
Perry b 1756 who m Mary Peckham and was
the s of Judge Freeman Perry and Mary Haz-
zard? Wanted Perry and Davis gen and would
like to corres with any of their desc. — S. R. M.

10726. Burritt. — Wanted parentage of John
Burritt of Monroe or Fairfield Co., Conn., b

1745, d July 21, 1717, m Elizabeth , b 1748,

d Apr. 13, 1837. Wanted her maiden name and
gen. Their ch were Abijah, Morley, Phoebe,
Amarylis, John Hezekiah m Olive Hawley,
Isaac. Anne, James and Samuel. Had John
Burritt Rev rec.?— M. E. W.

10727. Job. — Wanted all inf and given name

of Job. Came from Va. to N. C. and

was living there during the Rev. His ch were
Samuel, Thomas, Lucinda, Mary b 1775, Eliza-

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beth and Catherine. One record gives the
father of these ch as John and another as
Samuel. Most of his family removed to In-
diana. Mary Job, who m James Gordon, came
to Ohio in 1806 and to Indiana in 1807. Samuel
Job m Rachel Little, came to Indiana, settling
at Fort Wayne. Thomas Job v\^as b in a Block
House, Ft. Wayne, in 1812. Thomas Job m
Mary Gordon in N. C, and there is a record of
one s who was b in N. C. in 1812. He came to
Indiana at the age of 12 yrs from Rowan Co.,
N. C. Any help along these lines will be greatly
appreciated. — B. D.

10728. McDow. — Wanted parentage, name of
w and all dates of Thomas McDow, Rev sol,
who drew a pension. Wanted also all dates
of John McDow and of his w Margaret Gill-
ham. . Can any one .give will -of Thomas Mc-
Dow or any other proof that John, mentioned
above, was his s? The McDows lived in S. C.
— H. McD. B.

10729. Mourning-Ball. — Wanted gen and
Rev rec of the ances of Hannah Ball b abt
1775 in Va., m abt 1800 John Mourning. His

half sister Margaret Mourning m Ball.

Wanted also ances of Susan Mourning Cain. —
I. M. L.

10730. Wiseman-Wright. — Wanted gen and
Rev rec of Jacob Wiseman and Richard Wright,
Sr., of Rowan Co.. N. C— H. C. T.

10731. Kelly. — Wanted given name and Rev

rec of Kelly from Va. Chaplain in Rev

army under Capt. Tate. Married Bridget
Nugent. Would like to corres with desc of
Kelly and Nugent families.— S. H. T.

10732. Diah-Dyer. — Wanted data concerning
Majah Diah or Dyer who was taken by the
Indians. With all dates and names of w. Did
he or his desc have Rev rec? — S. P. I.

10733. KoRN - Baker. — Michael Korn of
Berks Co., Pa., m Susannah dau of Peter Baker.
They lived in Somerset Co. and later settled
in Ohio. Wanted name of w of Peter Baker,
also gen of Michael Korn. — O. K. P.

10734. EwiNG.— Wanted all inf of gen of
Ephraim B. Ewing, also his Rev rec. —
E. A. M. C.

10735. Collins.— Wanted ances of Thomas
Collins b nr Uniontown, Fayette Co., Pa., in
1803. His mother's name was Dunbar. He m
a Miss Yager who was related to Napoleon
Collins, Adm. in the Mexican War.— T. H. C.

10736. Hope. — Wanted gen of Ellen Hope
who was b in Danville, Ky., abt 1824, m Oakey
Maple Hoagland, also of Ky., with all dates and
Rev rec in either line. — L. M. C.

10737. Watson-Walker. — Col. John Walker
of Va. (Aide-de-camp to Gen. Washington
and was with him in Braddock's campaign),
m Elizabeth Watson of Delaware. Wanted
given name and Rev rec of her father. Their

s Felix Walker of N. C. m 1st, Susan Robert-
son of N. C, who d 5 mo after m; and 2nd,
Isabella, dau of Wm. Henry, of York, S. C.
Wanted Rev rec of Wm. Henry, also his rela-
tionship to Patrick Henry. Their dau Isabella
Walker, m James Baird of Buncombe Co.,
N. C. Wanted Rev ances of James Baird.
(a) Johnston - Ford. — Mary Ford, of

Orangeburg District, S. C, m Johnston.

Wanted given name and Rev rec of her father
and husband. Her dau Nancy Johnston m John
Puckett (Huguenot). Give his Rev ances. —
E. T. O.

10738. Ralston. — Wanted inf concerning
members of the Ralston family, Washington
Co., Pa., who fought in the Rev. — J. M. R.

10739. LovEjoY.— John Lovejoy came from
England the latter part of the 17th Century and
settled in Prince Geo. Co., Md. His s Edward
moved to Fairfield Co., S. C, then to Clarke and
Jasper Cos., Ga. Wanted Rev rec of John and
Edward Lovejoy.

(a) ScAiFE. — Wm. and James Scaife came
from Westmoreland, England, Orten Parish,
just after the Rev, James went to Pittsburgh,
and Wm. went to Chester, S. C, m and had
3 sons, Charner, Ferdinand and Jamison.
Wanted maiden name, ances with Rev rec of
William Scaife's w.— W. B. R.

10740. May-(Mois). — Wanted parentage of
Sarah May who m Feb. 10, 1766, Lieut. Alexan-
der McClintock. Marriage record in Episcopal
Ch., Berks Co., Pa.

(a) Henderson. — David, s of Matthew and
Rachel Climson Henderson, was b 1761, d May

16, 1838, m 1st, Jane •; 2nd, Elizabeth .

Wanted maiden name and date of m of Jane.
Wanted also date of m of Matthew and Rachel
Climson Henderson.

(b) Andrerken - Andecker - Annauxer. —
Anna Mariah Andrerken b 1739, d Dec. 12,
1768, m Lieut. George Redsecker. Wanted
date of their m. Wanted also her parentage
with their dates. — E. E. G.

10741. Hendrickson. — Wanted ances and all
data of Oakey Hendrickson, who served in Rev
as a sol and surgeon from N. J. He was b

Nov. 24, 1744, d Mar., 1834, m Mary Ann ,

b Jan. 22, 1746, d 1826. Wanted also her maiden
name and ances. Their ch were Daniel, b June
1, 1769, m Sarah Herbert; Sarah m James
Herbert ; Elizabeth m Wm. Henderson ; and
Wm. b Aug. 22, 1786, m Phoebe Wilson. Oakey
Hendrickson and family moved from Hights-
town, N. J., to Popular Flat and Maysville,
Ky., abt 1790. Would be glad to corres with
anyone having this data. — C. C. L.

10742. Gee. — Wanted parentage, date and
place of b of James Gee of N. C.

(a) Chapman. — Wanted gen with all data

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of Benj. Chapman, b 1779 in N. C. Also any
inf of Sgt. Robert Chapman. — R. S. P.

10743. St. Clair. — Wanted parentage with
Rev rec of father of Hannah St. Clair who m
Alexander Foster, abt 1775.

(a) Henderson-Branson. — Nathaniel Hen-
derson m Rebecca Holliday, 1745. Lived in
Edgefield, S. C. His s Nathaniel m Jemimah
Branson 1784. Wanted Henderson and Branson
gen and Rev rec of Rebecca Holliday's father.

(b) WiLEY-GiLMORE.— Wanted Rev rec of
father of Katherine Wiley who m Humphrey
Gilmore, Milledgeville, Ga., or may have lived
at date of m on Hard Labor Creek, Green Co..
Ga.. abt Dec. 13, 1772. He d 1802 and she d
1848 in Tenn. Want Gilmore and Wiley gen.
Humphrey Gilmore said to have ser in Rev
under Gen. Nathaniel Greene in his Ga. and
S. C. campaign. Want proof of this ser. —
S. D. B.

10744. Rounds. — Wanted gen of Marcy
Rounds who m Abel Olcott abt 1790 at Sara-
toga, N. Y. Was her father a Rev sol ?

(a) Taylor.— Wanted parentage and gen of
Dennis Taylor b 1809 at Springfield, Mass., m
Sophia Dickinson of Whately, Mass. Is there
Rev rec in these lines? — M. D. R.

10745. Woodward. — Robert Woodward of

Smithfield, R. I., m Rhoda . Wanted her

parentage. Their s Isaac lived in Erie Co.,
Pa. Would like to corres" with his desc. —
M. E. B.

10746. Clark. — Wanted gen with all dates
of Saviah Clark who m Benj. Delano abt 1772,
either at Tolland or Sharon, Conn.

(a) Delano. — Wanted maiden name, gen

with dates of Lois who m Thomas Delano

in 1747 at Tolland or Sharon, Conn.

(b) Hatch. — Wanted ances with dates of
Amy Hatch who m Jonathan Delano, Jr., at
Tolland, Conn., June 20, 1704.

(c) Warren. — Wanted dates and ances of
Mercy Warren who m Lieut. Jonathan Delano,
Feb. 28, 1678.— M. O.

10747. Thornton. — George Washington
Thornton b Cascade, Pittsylvania Co., Va., June
14, 1822, emigrated to middle Ga. 1846 and
lived there until his death in 1893. He was the
s of Zack Thornton, who was b abt 1772, d
in Pittsylvania Co., 1832. The other ch of Zack
Thornton were Reuben, Roland, Presley, Fred,
Green, John, Elizabeth and Frances. Wanted
all data concerning this branch of the Thornton
family.- R. T. L.

10748. Gray. — Wanted Rev rec and name of
w of John Gray of Bertie Co., N. C. Son of
John and Ann Bryan Gray.

(a) McClintock. — Wanted Rev rec of John
McClintock who m Margaret Simpson.

(b) Mills. — Wanted Rev ances of Alexan-
der Mills who m Mary McClintock and lived
in Laurens Co., S. C.

(c) Hill. — Wanted dates and Rev rec of
John Hill, s of John Hill, of Va., who m,
abt 1782 Annie, dau of John and Mary Tarpley
Camp. — C. N. S.

10749. Huston.— Robert Huston, with w(?)
Agnes and s John, came to Phila., Pa., Aug.
27, 1772, sailing from Londonderry, Ireland.
Agnes d Sept. 15, 1772, and Robert m 2nd Pleas-
ant Satterthwaite of the Society of Friends in
Bucks Co., b abt 1745, dau of Wm. and Pleas-
ant Meade (of Md.) Satterthwaite. Their ch
were Wm. b Sept. 5, 1775, d 1840, m Mary
Winder and had 11 ch ; Thomas b Nov. 22,

1776, d 1857, m , had 4 daus ; Robert, Jr.,

b Jan. 1, 1778, d 1829, m 1st. Sarah Shaw who
d when her ch was b, and m 2nd Hannah Town-
send of Cape May, N. J., and had 2 ch ; Nancy
b Mar. 25, 1779, d Aug. 3, 1779, and was in-
terred in the " Biring ground at Oxford " ;
John, s of Robert and Agnes Houston, b Apr.

13, 1772, m Apr. 12, 1796, Elizabeth , l>

Mar. 18, 1777, d Apr. 6, 1806, and "is bur
in LeRay." Their ch were Eleanor b 1796, d
Jan., 1797; Charity, b July 13, 1798, d 1886 nr
Vassar, Mich.: Robert, b 1801, d 1802, bur in,
" Pen's Park Church Yard " ; and Archibald, b
1803, d 1803. Wanted gen of John's w Eliza-
beth. The above record taken from an old Bible
of Robert, Sr., and included the birth of Mary,
Feb. 13, 1779, and Anne, Aug. 6, 1780. I can-
not place these. Wm. and Mary Houston lived
in Jefferson Co., N. Y., abt 1806 and came to
Mich, from Greece, Monroe Co., N. Y., abt
1827 with 9 ch. They d in Canton Township,.
Wayne Co., Mich. Thomas d in Mayville,
N. Y, and Robert d in Waynesville, Ohio.
Wanted gen of Robert. Sr., and Thomas and
Rev rec of Robert and would like to corres with
any of this Houston family. — C. G. G.

10750. Smith. — Jerusha Smith b Westches-
ter, m Mar. 7, 1785, at Ballston, N. Y., Solomon
Taylor. She was the dau of Thomas Smith,
who d 1808, Half Moon, Saratoga Co., N. Y.
The ch mentioned in his will are Samuel,
Thomas C, Mary Dunning, Catherine Fuller,
Jerusha Taylor, Nefife Stillwell and dau who m

Ladow. Wanted birthplace of Thomas

Smith, w maiden name and place of their m. —
E. V. H. B.

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MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

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ARIZONA

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MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,
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MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
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Smyrna.

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119 5th St., N. E., Washington.
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233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

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106 Culver St., Macon.
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648 N. Garfield Ave., Pocatello.

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COLONEL GEORGE WASHINGTON

WEARING THE SCARLET AND BLUE UNIFORM OF A BRITISH COLONIAL OFFICER, THE PAINTING, BY CHARLES WILSON PEALE,

HANGS IN THE MEMORIAL CHURCH OF WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY, LEXINGTON, VA., HAVING BEEN WILLED TO THE

UNIVERSITY BY GENERAL G. W. C. LEE, SON OP GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE. GENERAL LEK INHERITED THE PORTRAIT FROM

HIS ANCESTOR, GEORGE WASHINGTON PARKE CUSTIS.

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VOL. LVI, No. 12

DECEMBER, 1922

WHOLE No. 364

WASHINGTON AND THE BRADDOCK CAMPAIGN

By Charles Moore
Chairman of the National Commission of Fine Arts

AWRENCE WASHING-
TON'S death, neither sudden
nor unexpected, placed upon
his half-brother, George, then
twenty years old, responsibili-
ties that straightway changed
the boy into a man. The Washingtons
were not a long-lived family ; and
Lawrence had brought home from a
British campaign against the French in
Carthegena the seeds of disease, which
he vainly endeavored to eradicate by a
trip to Barbadoes. For company he
took his brother George, who then for
the first and last time went beyond the
bounds of his native country. An attack
of small-pox left on the boy's face marks
never wholly effaced. As soon as he was
well enough to take ship, he returned to
Mount Vernon to hasten the departure
of Ann Fairfax Washington, who was
to join her husband in Bermuda. Before
she was ready to sail, Lawrence came
back to Mount Vernon to die.

Augustine Washington had provided
in his will that in case of Lawrence's
death without heirs, jMount Vernon

Editor's Note : The first of Mr. Moore's
articles on George Washington appeared in
the November, 1922, Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine.

should pass to George; and this provi-
sion Lawrence incorporated in his own
will. To his widow he left a life-interest
in the property, with the reversion to his
infant daughter, Sarah, who, as it hap-
pened, survived her father only a few
weeks. Thus there was only the widow's
life-interest to be considered.

Ann Fairfax Washington, after endur-
ing widowhood for the space of five
months, married Colonel George Lee, of
Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland County, a
member in the fourth generation of the
Stratford Lees. Probably she was not
loathe to return to live among the scenes
of her girlhood, and an amicable arrange-
ment was made with her brother-in-law,
whereby he should enter immediately
into possession of the Mount Vernon
estate, on an annual payment to her hus-
band of fifteen thousand pounds of
tobacco, equivalent to £82,10s., Virginia
currency. This rental was paid punc-
tually for nine years, until Mrs. Lee's
death in 1761. George Lee survived his
wife but a few months; of their three
sons, the unmarried one lived to the age
of eighty; the elder sons had daughters
who were absorbed in the Chipley,
Sangster and Cockrell families.

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LETTER FROM WILLIAM FAIRFAX TO WASHINGTON WITH A POSTSCRIPT IN THE HANDWRITING OF MRS. GEORGE

WILLIAM FAIRFAX, CONGRATULATING HIM UPON HIS SAFE RETURN FROM THE

DISASTROUS BRADDOCK EXPEDITION

Having secured possession of Mount
Vernon, George naturally took some
thought as to a mistress for his estab-
lishment. Whether he was too shy or
too serious, or was too much concerned
about his own affairs to dance attendance
on the exacting Virginia maidens or for
some reason sufficient to herself, Miss
Betsy Fauntleroy showed no disposition
" to revoke her former cruel sentence ; "
and no other young woman engaged his
attention. Moreover at this time he had
an attack of pleurisy which " reduced him
very low." He was subject to exhaust-
ing illnesses, usually the result of impos-
ing on a good constitution. Settling his
brother's estate kept him busy and for
diversion he had the Masonic lodge at
Fredericksburg, which he joined on

November 4, 1752, before he became of
age. Sincere in his practice of Masonry
as in all his associations, he was a de-
voted member of that order. He held
office in the Alexandria lodge, which still
possesses the furniture of his day. He
encouraged Masonry in the Continental
Army, for the fraternal feelings it pro-
moted among soldiers and officers, and
also because it served to mitigate rancor
in the case of captives. Many tra-
ditions of Washington's early days still
centre in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
In the autumn of 1753, Governor
Dinwnddie fairly started George Wash-
ington on his career by sending him with
a message to the French, demanding that
they cease driving British traders from
the Ohio country and breaking up their

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establishments. It was a winter journey
of two months' duration, through a wil-
derness and over the Allegheny Moun-
tains to Venango, on the Allegheny; it
involved cajoling Indians, winning them
to Virginia interests, and guarding them
from the seductions of French officers.
Not only did the French refuse to retire,
but they also put forth a claim to the
Ohio region by virtue of " the discovery
of one LaSalle, sixty years ago." To
acknowledge these claims meant the ruin
of the Ohio Company, and of all the
hopes of fortune connected with that
enterprise — a serious blow to Governor
Dinwiddle and many respectable men of
Virginia. Virginia believed that her ter-
ritory extended at least to the Missis-
sippi. France claimed the entire valley
of the Ohio. The Indians maintained
that between English and French terri-
tories was a great hunting ground which
of right belonged to the red men, and
from which they proposed to exclude all
settlements, although they were ever
ready to welcome traders. The Indian
policy favored the French, who wanted
to trade, not to settle; whereas English
strength in America was based on pioneer
settlers taking possession of this country.
On the 11th of January, 1754, Wash-
ington reached Belvoir on his way to
WilHamsburg. Before the ink was dry
on the report he submitted to Governor
Dinwiddle it went to the printer ; and the
next year it was published in London by
the Lords of Trade, who thereupon
directed the Colonial governors to con-
cert measures to drive the French from
the territories of His Majesty. The
result was the Albany Convention of
1754, at which Benjamin Franklin vainly
urged the Colonies to unite for the
mutual protection of their frontiers.
Another quarter century was to elapse,
however, before a common peril brought

the Colonies to unite, and then not for
but against the interests of the King.

Washington's report, lucid, straight-
forward, circumstantial but not prolix,
and withal modest, laid a firm foundation
for the reputation he was building for
himself not only in America, but also
in both England and France. The Colo-
nies began to see in him a leader in the
field; the English regarded him as an
enterprising youth who might be useful
if properly curbed; and in him France
recognized an enemy.

While the Albany Convention was in
session, George Washington, at the head
of a small force of Virginia militia and
friendly Indians, fell upon a party of
French and in an engagement of fifteen
minutes' duration killed their comman-
der and nine others and took twenty
prisoners. On the 3d of July, however,
he was surrounded by a superior force,
and after nine hours' fighting was forced
to capitulate. In one of those bursts of
effusiveness common to his writings, he
told his brother that " Believe me, it is
good to hear the bullets sing ! " This
sentiment having become public, Horace
Walpole made merry at the expense of
the backwood's soldier, although he
admitted that later the youth gave a good
account of himself.

It so happened that in signing the
articles of capitulation prepared by the
French, Washington unwittingly admitted
the assassination of French envoys, a
mistake due to the fact that his own inter-
preter, the old Dutch soldier Van Braam,
had not enough French to furnish a cor-
rect translation of the articles. Not only
was the error made much of in France,
but it made trouble for Washington also
in Maryland. All these misadventures
were an essential part of a military edu-
cation. Yet when all had been said, the
fact remained that a youth of twenty-two
had been able to sustain an action all day

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with a superior force and had come off
with the honors of war. More than this,
it is now reaHzed that he was the means
of precipitating the Seven Years' War,
that resulted in the expulsion of the
French from North America, and event-
ually led to the founding of England's
East Indian empire.

England now realized that in order to
retain her American possessions, she her-
sel f must fight for them ; because the
Colonies were too much concerned with
their individual quarrels between royal
governors and popular assemblies to
make common cause against the French.
So it happened that in February, 1755,
General Edward Braddock sailed up the
Potomac with two regiments of British
soldiers, sent to drive the French back
to the St. Lawrence. From Governor
Dinwiddie's palace at Williamsburg
(located on the site of the new public
school) General Braddock summoned the
royal governors of five Colonies to meet
him at Alexandria to prepare for the
campaign.^ The meeting took place in
the home of Major John Carlisle, who
had married a daughter of William
Fairfax, and who furnished many of
the supplies for the army. To this day
the Carlisle House, preserved as a monu-
ment of the occasion, is fragrant of the
gaiety incident to the headquarters of a
commander distinguished not more for
bravery in the field than for conviviality
in the camp.

George Washington at Mount Vernon
longed for an opportunity to advance his
military education by a campaign in com-
pany with trained soldiers ; but he was
precluded from doing so by the fact that,

^ The council was composed of General Brad-
dock, Admiral Keppel, and Governors Shirley
(Mass.), Dinwiddle (Va.), De Lancey (N. Y.),
Sharpe (Md.), and Morris (Pa.). The min-
utes are in the Mss. of Sir William Johnson,
A''. Y. Doc. His., vol. ii.

being only a provincial, he could hold
no rank that would not subordinate him
to the lowest officer who had purchased
a royal commission. Braddock, having
been told that the young man's knowledge
of the country would prove useful, cut
the knot by inviting him to become one
of his own military family, an invitation
accepted with alacrity ; and between gen-
eral and aide a feeling of mutual respect
grew quickly. The general took no
offense at the spirit with which his aide
defended his countrymen from asper-
sions; the aide learned the routine of
army life as maintained by a soldier
trained in the best traditions. Best of all,
it brought him into intimate companion-
ship with Braddock's aides, Robert Orme,
Roger Morris and young William Shirley.
Perhaps others of his contemporaries
called Washington by his first name ; but
Orme is the only one whose pen natur-
ally and easily writes the words " dear
George." Even in those early days
Mount Vernon was full of company, and
among the throng was Washington's
mother, who had made the journey from
Fredericksburg to dissuade her son from
undertaking another military expedition.
But he was no longer a boy subject to
parental control. He was a man of
position and property, a youth with the
world to conquer. He told his mother
that she ought to want him to serve his
country. But she was first of all a
mother. She could not bring herself to
those heights.

After innumerable delays, exasperating
to General Braddock, the army set forth
in June to drive the French from the
forks of Ohio as a preliminary to the
capture of Fort Niagara. An attack of
illness kept Washington from setting out
with the expedition ; but so soon as he
could travel he pushed on, caught up with
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part in the battle near the banks of
the Monongahela.

According to Washington's report to
Governor Dinwiddie, Braddock's army,
consisting of thirteen hundred well-
armed men, chiefly regulars, had reached
Frazier's, within seven miles of Fort
Duquesne, on July 9, 1755, when it was
attacked unexpectedly by about three
hundred French and Indians. The Brit-
ish were immediately struck with such
deadly panic that nothing but confusion
and disobedience of orders prevailed
amongst them. The officers in general
behaved with incomparable bravery, there
being nearly 60 killed and wounded, a
large proportion of the number engaged.
The Virginians behaved like men and
died like soldiers ; out of three compan-
ies scarce 30 were left alive. The das-
tardly behavior of the English soldiers
exposed all those who were inclined to
do their duty to almost certain death, and
at length in despite of every effort to the
contrary, they broke and ran like sheep
before the hounds, leaving the artillery,
ammunition and provisions and every
individual thing they had with them a
prey to the enemy. When the officers
endeavored to rally them, it was with as
much success as if they had attempted
to stop the wild bears of the mountains.
General Braddock, fatally wounded, died
three days later. His two aides were
wounded, but recovered. " I luckily
escaped without a wound," are Washing-
ton's words, " tho' I had four Bullets
thro' my Coat and two Horses shot under
me." About three hundred dead were
left on the field, and the same number
brought off wounded. It was believed
that two-thirds of both numbers " re-
ceived their shot from our own cowardly
dogs of soldiers, who gathered them-
selves into a body, contrary to orders,
ten or twelve deep, and then levelled.

fired, and shot down the men be-
fore them."

Washington trembled at the conse-
quences of this defeat on the frontier
inhabitants, who would be forced to leave
their homes ; and there was good reason
for his concern. Although it was July,
Colonel Dunbar, who assumed command,
proposed to go into winter quarters in
Philadelphia, leaving the poor remains of
the Virginians to guard the frontiers.
Why Colonel Dunbar did not gather his
forces and hold his ground is a puzzle.
He knew he still had twice the force that
attacked him. He might have known
that the French officers were quite as
timid as the English, and that Indians
never fought unless they were safe in
doing so. Their leadership, such as it
was, came from a French trader, Charles
de Langlade, from Lake Superior. A
council of war never fights ; and Colonel
Dunbar's council was no exception to the
rule. After suffering one ambush, the
British Army, that had danced and
marched and bullied the Colonists, threw
up their task, and retired.

From Fort Cumberland, Washington
wrote to " dear Jack," as he called his
brother John Augustine, that having
heard a circumstantial account of his own
death and dying speech, he took that
early opportunity of contradicting the
first and of assuring him that he had
not as yet composed the latter — a touch
of ironic humor not uncommon in his
letters. Arriving at Mount Vernon on
July 26th, he was greeted by a note of
heartfelt thankfulness from William
Fairfax, to which was appended a post-
script in the handwriting of Mrs. George
William Fairfax. The dainty little lady
served notice of her displeasure that he
did not at once proceed to Belvoir, and
threatened a descent upon Mount Vernon
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early the next morning. Later his uncle
in England also expressed joy over his
nephew's escape, and reflected the British
attitude towards General Braddock — all
in a letter which paints a mental portrait
of the writer.

In August, Washington was commis-
sioned colonel and commander-in-chief
of the Virginia Regiment, to be composed
of sixteen companies raised for the
avowed purpose of protecting the fron-
tiers and driving out the French, who had
" unjustly invaded His Majesty's lands
on the Ohio." Governor Dinwiddle, in
his instructions, desired the colonel to
inculcate morality and virtue among his
men, and to punish drunkenness and
swearing. When on occasion Washing-
ton himself ripped out an oath, history
has decided that he expressed its opinion
of the transaction in question; and if
there was swearing at Fort Cumber-
land, the colonel was in no mood to stop
it, although he was prompt to check
overt acts of mutiny.

To relieve the tedium of garrison life
on the frontiers, Washington urged Mrs.
Carlyle and Mrs. Fairfax to write to him.
The former, conscious of her own epis-
tolary deficiencies, had warned him that
"he must not expect the correspondence
to be carried on on her side with such
spirit as to enliven him, which would be
her desire, if only she could." She adds
this sage advice : " Those pleasing reflec-
tions on the hours past ought to be ban-
ished out of your thoughts, you have now
a nobler prospect — that of preserving
your country from the insults of an
enemy, and as God has blessed your first
attempt, hope He may continue His bless-
ing, and on your return, who knows but
fortune may have reserved you for some
unknown She that may recompense you
for all your trials." Her sister-in-law.

Mrs. Fairfax, discreetly stipulated that
his letters should go to some third per-
son, a suggestion at which he took quick
ofl^ense, but he did not cease writing to
her — nor did she cease writing to him.

A dispute having arisen over the pre-
tentions of a Maryland captain to take
rank over Washington by virtue of the
fact that he once held a King's commis-
sion, and the governors of Maryland and
Virginia, being unable or unwilling to
compose the matter. Colonel Washington
sought a decision from Governor Shirley,
the commander-in-chief. Leaving Alex-
andria on February 4, 1756, with his
aide-de-camp, Captain Mercer, and two
servants, he tarried in New York to
visit his cousin, Beverly Robinson, at
whose home he met for the first time
Miss Mary Philipse, a beauty, a belle
and an heiress. Riding through New
London, Newport and Providence, he
proceeded to Boston, where he presented
letters from Governor Dinwiddle to
Governor Shirley, of whom he had con-
ceived a high opinion when he met
him at Alexandria, Governor Shirley
promptly decided in his favor and for
ten days entertained the two young Vir-
ginians, who listened to the legislative
debates and " accepted the hospitality of
several prominent citizens." On his
travels Washington lost at cards, tipped
men and maid servants, escorted ladies
to exhibitions and dances, and patronized
the " tayler " and all his tribe. On his
way back he tarried again in New York
and again met Miss Philipse, with the
result that their names have ever since
been connected.

Much interest in the afifair was taken
by Joseph Chew, who hoped to bring
about a match between Washington and
" Miss Polly." More than a year later
Chew wrote :

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" As to the latter part of your letter, what
shall I say? I often had the pleasure of break-
fasting with the charming Polly. Roger Morris
was there (don't be startled) but not always,
you know him he is a lady's man, always
something to say. The town talked of it as a
sure and settled affair. I can't say I think so
and that I much doubt it, but assure you had
little acquaintance with Mr. Morris and only
slightly hinted it to Miss Polly; but how can
you be excused to continue so long at Phila.
I think I should have made a kind of flying
march of it if it had been only to have seen
whether the Works were sufficient to with-
stand a vigorous attack, you a Soldier and a
Lover. Mind, I have been arguing for my own
interest now, for had you taken this method
then I should have had the pleasure of seeing
you. ... I intend to set out [from his home
in New London] tomorrow for New York
where I will not be wanting to let Miss Polly
know the sincere regard a Friend of mine has
for her, and I am sure if she had my eyes
to see thro she would prefer him to all others."

The eager matchmaker's hopes were
blasted, for not even his subsequent con-
fidence that Miss Polly was suffering
from pain in the face could spur on the
reluctant George. Possibly it was tacitly
if not openly realized that the life of a
soldier's wife on a remote Virginia plan-
tation, with its attendant domestic cares
and duties, would not be productive of
happiness to a young woman accustomed
to New York social life. It was fortu-
nate that she married in her own set.
Twenty years later, when the Revolution
came to sunder patriots and loyalists, she
and her husband. Roger Morris, staved

with the De Lancey party in New York,
as did also her brother-in-law, Beverly
Robinson. Both men were active sup-
porters of the King; and, her property
being needed by the Colonies, she was
proclaimed a traitor and her possessions
were confiscated. So ended a romance
that scarce had a beginning.

The tide of war swept northward, and
left to Virginia only devastated frontiers.
If George Washington had hoped, by
reason of his visit to Governor Shirley,
to obtain active employment with the
northern troops, he was disappointed.
He was attached to the expedition of
General Forbes with Fort Duquesne as
its objective, and he tried vainly to have
that commander complete the Braddock
Road to the Ohio. Pennsylvania had
sufficient influence to secure, instead, the
building of a road from Philadelphia to
the forks of the Ohio. The two routes
are now traversed respectively by the
Baltimore and Ohio and the Pennsyl-
vania railroads. When General Forbes
reached Fort Duquesne he found that the
enemy had fled. Plere Washington's
active military service ended. The boy
had become a man ; no colonial soldier
had equalled him in valor or capacity;
and he might well look forward to ex-
changing arduous garrison duty for the
long-deferred joys of life as a colonial
gentleman at Mount Vernon, Virginia.

The National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, records
with deep sorrow the death on October 21, 1922, of an Honorary Vice
President General and former National Officer, Mrs. Helen Mason Boynton.
Mrs. Boynton served as Vice President General 1890, 1896; Vice President in
Charge of Organization of Chapters,
General 1907, 1908.

1891, 1892, 1893; Librarian

SKETCH OF MRS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD

RS. MARY S. LOCKWOOD,
the beloved " Little Mother " of
the National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution,
died at two o'clock on Thursday
morning, November 9, 1922, at
the hospital in Plymouth, Mass., where
she had been a patient since early last
summer. She was ninety-one years
of age.

On July 13, 1890, Mrs. Lockwood pub-
lished in the Washington Post, the story
of Hannah Arnett and called upon the
descendants of patriots of the American
Revolution to organize. The east and
the west and the north and the south
have responded to her clarion call, and
Mrs. Lockwood, looked upon by many as
the " Pen Founder " of the Society, lived
to see the organization grow and expand
until to-day it is the largest and most
influential patriotic body of women in
the world, numbering nearly 140,000
active members.

During Mrs. Lockwood's absence
from Washington (she being at that time
one of the Lady Managers of the
Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illi-
nois) a meeting, called by Miss Mary
Desha, was held at the Langham Hotel,
in the apartment of Mrs. Ellen Hardin
Walworth. Owing to inclement weather
Miss Eugenia Washington, Miss Desha,
and Mrs. Walworth only responded.
They proceeded to revise a consti-
tution and adopt it, appointed the first
Board of Management (Miss Desha,
chairman) and proposed Mrs. Benjamin
710

Harrison (wife of the President of the
United States) as the first President
General. They declared the Society to be
national in scope.

The actual organization meeting was
held on October 11, 1890, at the Strath-
more Arms, the home of Mrs. Mary S.
Lockwood. Those signing the formal
draft were: Miss Eugenia Washington,
Mrs. Flora Adams Darling, Mrs. Ellen
Hardin Walworth, Mrs. Mary Morris
Hallowell, Miss Susan B. Hetzell, Mrs.
Margaret Hetzel, Mrs. Mary V. E.
Cabell, Mrs. Mary S. Lockwood, Mrs.
Alice Morrow Clark, Miss Pauline
McDowell, Mrs. Ada P. Kimberly, Mrs.
Aurelia Hadley Mohl, Miss Florine
Cunningham, Mrs. Caroline L. Ransom,
Mrs. Emily Lee Sherwood, Mrs. Harriet
Lincoln Coolidge, Mrs. Jennie D.
Garrison, and Miss Mary Desha.

On February 24, 1898, during the
Seventh Continental Congress, medals
were presented to the Founders of the
National Society, those going to Mrs.
Ellen Hardin Walworth, Miss Mary
Desha, and Miss Eugenia Washington
being alike in design, while that bestowed
on Mrs. Lockwood bore a pen and the
significant word "Service."

Mrs. Lockwood gave unstinting, loyal
service to the Society she loved so well.
At a meeting on October 18, 1890, she
made the motion to erect a " fire-proof
building in which to deposit Revolution-
ary relics and historic papers," and thus
started the project to build beautiful
Memorial Continental Hall.

Among the offices held by Mrs.

Ci.y.ioht Un.

MRS. MARY S. LOCKW OOI)

iPKODUCTION OF THE PAIVTING BY MISS ALINE SOLOMONS WHICH HANGS IN THE LIBRARY OF MEMORIAL
CONTINENTAL HALL, THE GIFT OF THE MARY WASHINGTON CHAPTER

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Lockwood were those of Historian Gen-
eral, Vice President General from the
District of Columbia, Chaplain General,
Assistant Historian General, State Regent
of the District of Columbia, Editor of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine, and, at the time of her
death, Honorary Chaplain General and
Honorary Vice President General.

Mrs. Lockwood was born in Hanover,
Chautauqua County, New York, the
daughter of Henry Smith. She married
Henry C. Lockwood, and later came to
Washington, D. C, where she made her
home for over half a century. In 1898
she conducted the Strathmore Arms,
where many distinguished Americans
made their home, among them General
and Mrs. John A. Logan, Senator
Edmunds, Justice Harlan, Senator Frye,
and Speaker of the House Thomas
B. Reed.

Mrs. Lockwood had been in ill health
for a number of months, but her condi-
tion was rendered acute by the sudden
death in July of her friend and com-
panion. Miss Grace M. Pierce, former
Registrar General of the National So-
ciety, who had accompanied her to
Plymouth last June for their sum-
mer vacation.

Until the last few Congresses, Mrs.
Lockwood was one of the picturesque
debaters and served in many important
capacities. Besides her affiliations with

this Society, she was the intimate friend
and adviser of Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton. She wielded a
facile pen and wrote many noteworthy
books. Her only daughter. Miss Lillian
M. Lockwood, business manager of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
tion Magazine, died on December
3, 1909.

Funeral services for Mrs. Lockwood
were conducted in the Columbia Apart-
ment House, Washington, where she had
long made her home. It was, by arrange-
ment of her family, attended only by her
relatives and a few intimate friends. In
the absence from Washington of the
President General, the National Society
was represented by Mrs. Howard L.
Hodgkins, Vice President General from
the District of Columbia. Upon news of
Mrs. Lockwood's death Memorial Conti-
nental Hall was closed to the public and
the flag placed at half-staff until after
the funeral.

Mrs. Lockwood's following in the ranks
of the National Society was extensive
and she was called " Little Mother,"
affectionately by most of its members. No
woman ever more thoroughly deserved to
have said of her long and honor-
able career:

Her Hfe all good, no deed for show.

No deed to hide.

She never caused a tear to flow

Save when she died.

A MESSAGE FROM
THE PRESIDENT GENERAL

WISH to urge upon every chapter
officer and member the need of a
greater familiarity with our own
Society, its special objects and every-
day workings. Many of our mem-
bers have a very vague idea of the
objects of the Society and its methods
of procedure. Many proceed as though a chap-
ter were only an independent club, instead of be-
ing part and parcel of a national society of which
all are members. I have repeatedly stressed the
fact that we are not a federation of clubs ;
we can neither " affiliate " nor " federate," nor
are we a philanthropic or charitable organiza-
tion. Our objects are distinctly stated in the
Constitution of the National Society which is
the Constitution of every State and chapter.
There can be no other. State and chapter
by-laws must conform to the National Con-
stitution and By-laws, else they are null and
void. I would strongly advise every chapter
to read our Constitution and By-laws at some
chapter meeting once a year, in order to
promote familiarity with them, for there are
some By-laws governing the relationships of
members and chapters within the National
Society which must be especially observed by
chapter officers, or injustice and hardship will
result for the members.

Among these is the method of payment of
our annual dues through the chapters. Our
annual dues to the National Society are $2, pay-
able in advance on or before January 1st, hence
it is especially timely in this message to give
a word of warning to chapter treasurers, urg-
ing prompt remittance to the Treasurer Gen-
eral of the $1 of these dues which must be
sent to Washington. It often happens that a
member pays her dues at the proper time to
the chapter treasurer, but the chapter treas-
urer fails to remit this dollar, which must be
paid to the National Society on or before
January 1st with credit given the member;
the member is automatically dropped for non-
payment of dues, if this dollar is not paid
to the Treasurer General by July 1st ; then
under the new By-law she must pay not only
the dues, but the initiation fee of $5 for
reinstatement. This is just if the member were
really in arrears ; but it is not just when the
fault is the chapter treasurer's ; yet the Treas-

urer General has no choice in the matter ;
she must administer the law ; she has no knowl-
edge that the member has paid until the penalty
is inflicted and it transpires that she had paid
her dues in good faith to the chapter treas-
urer only to find that the chapter treasurer
had carelessly neglected to forward them to
Washington. The chapter treasurer is respon-
sible for a grave injustice.

Chapter treasurers are also careless some-
times about carrying out a vote of the chapter
appropriating a money donation. A chapter
fails to receive its due credit on the State and
National books, inquiries are made, and it turns
out that the chapter treasurer forgot to
send the money or sent it through the
wrong channels.

I do urge greater care in these important mat-
ters. It is the duty of a chapter treasurer to
familiarize herself with the rules of the
National Society, and it is the duty of a
chapter regent to see that all her chapter
officers understand and perform their duties.

That all may clearly understand their duties,
detailed information for State and chapter
officers has been issued by the Treasurer Gen-
eral, the Registrar General and the Organizing
Secretary General, so there is no valid reason
why they should not be understood.

A word about honorary members, as there
is some misconception in regard to them. An
honorary member may be elected by a chapter
to its membership, but she must be a Daughter
of the American Revolution in good standing.
Persons who are not members of the Society
cannot be elected to honorary or associate mem-
bership in any chapter.

Life members, it must be remembered, are
not exempt from any but the National So-
ciety's dues of $2; they must pay their State
and chapter dues, if any : and their patriotism
should lead them to meet their due share of all
per capita contributions toward the work of
their chapter, their State or the National So-
ciety. Do not forget that every life mem-
bership fee of $100 is placed in a permanent
fund, one-half by the National Society and
one-half by the chapter if paid through a
chapter, the interest on which may be used
like annual dues ; it is therefore in the nature
of an endowment fund which is of benefit both
to the chapter and to the National Society.

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Our Society has grown so rapidly of late that
we can no longer undertake to seat the large
number of alternates that attend our Congress.
Necessity, therefore, compels me to advise
chapters not to send alternates to Congress
unless they come with the understanding that
it is not possible to reserve any section of seats
for them. Much as we want to have them
we can no longer provide for their comfort.
They should be elected in order to serve if
needed, but if they come they must take the
risk of disappointment. We have outgrown
the seating capacity of Continental Hall. In
the past I have urged as many as possible to
come to our Congresses for their inspirational
influences. I am not justified in doing this
now unless alternates and visiting members are
willing to take their chances of an occasional
seat. Do not come and then blame those in
charge for not giving you seats when we have
not the seats to give. The unprecedented growth
of our Society during the past year or two
has brought us face to face with a situation
which must be remedied in the near future by
some wise and just method of reduction of rep-
resentation. The only alternate is an enlarge-
ment of our Hall which our architects, whom I
have consulted, do not advise, lest we ruin its
beauty and safety. Moreover, if it is difficult
to hear in the Hall as it is, it would be still
more difificult in a larger hall, and amplifiers
would not meet the situation. They could be
put over the platform, but this would not help
those who speak from the floor to be heard,
and our Congress is essentially a debating body.

Last year we were confronted with conditions
which we deeply regretted, yet were powerless
to help. So many came to the Congress whom
we could not provide for — so many more than
usual, often all ten alternates from a chapter
besides the Regent and delegates — and some
went away bitterly disappointed and aggrieved
that we could not do the impossible and give
all seats. We threw open the Museum for the
alternates, a few seats in one gallery, and the
rear seats on the floor of the house after all
voters had been seated. We did all we could

and now I urge all Regents and delegates to do
what they can to help by unselfishly letting their
alternates who are with them take their turn
in their seats. Seats are often left vacant by
delegates who go sight-seeing around Wash-
ington and are careless about giving them to
their alternates who alone have a right to
them ; this is hard for the alternate, and a
wrong is done the chapter, which is thus left
without any representative in Congress. Let
us all work together to make this next Con-
gress as free from grieved feelings as it is
possible to make it ; and to this end, please
remember and explain about these crowded con-
ditions when holding your elections of chapter
delegates and alternates. And let us remember
also how ceaselessly and unselfishly our national
officers and chairmen give of their time and
strength and means to the service of our
Society and its Congresses. None are paid sal-
aries, though some of our members imagine
this to be so. They give themselves freely and
without stint to the incessant demands of their
offices. I pay this tribute, knowing how much
they do which is unknown to others and should
be appreciated by all.

Let us all pull together with sincerity of pur-
pose, patriotic devotion to our country and
good-will one toward another. Another season
of good-will has come — the Christ season of
good-w'ill among men. Peace on earth seems
still a far-away dream. But the faith that
heard the angels' song is the faith that still
hears the voice of God calling to the multitudes
to follow the Star. Shall we not follow in the
spirit of that song until all men and nations
gather around the table of a perpetual Con-
ference to govern the world in peace and quiet-
ness and mutual understanding? May you have
a blessed Christmas and a New Year full of
the beauty of His gladness, who gave all —
endured all — and therefore conquered all, that
the world might learn the pathways of truth,
righteousness and peace.

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

MOUNT AIRY

The Provincial Home of the Calverts of Maryland
Bv W. D. H.

HE Colonial home of the Cal-
verts is situated in Prince
George's County, Alaryland,
about twenty miles from Wash-
ington, and is now known as
the " Dower House," a name
given to it by its present owners, 'Mr. and
Mrs. Percy Duval, who purchased the
ivy-covered walls of the old house with
a tract of a thousand acres surrounding
it from the estate of the late Miss
Eleanora Calvert about a score of years
ago, and have with great care rescued it
from the decay into which it was fast
falling and made additions suited to mod-
ern day requirements without marring its
old-time aspect.

The present estate is but a fragment
of the broad acres which Henry Calvert,
the father of Miss Eleanora Calvert, left
at his death in 1846, and which he in-
herited from his father, Benedict Calvert,
son of Charles Calvert, the fifth
Lord Baltimore.

Benedict Calvert's history reads like a
romance, and a mystery surrounding his
mother's identity still has all the charm
of vagueness, merely tradition, instead of
family records, leading to the belief that
she was a daughter of King George H
of England, but I would recall the fact
that in about 1745 Charles Calvert, the
fifth Lord Baltimore, and proprietary of
the Province of Maryland, sent a son to
this country from England in the charge

Editor's Note : For authenticity of dates, see
Maryland Historical Magazine, 1922, vol. xvi.

of a governor and l^estowed upon him
wealth, and, later on, offices and honors,
Imt in one of his letters to him said that
his mother was too great a lady to be
named in writing. Circumstances pre-
vented Benedict Calvert from returning
to England in early youth, and when as
a young man he wrote for his father's
consent to his marriage failing, however,
to mention the name of the lady of his
choice, Lord Baltimore replied that there
was only one woman he knew of in Amer-
ica whom he would be willing to have
him marry, and she was his cousin, Betty
Calvert. It was Betty Calvert his son
had chosen. She was the daughter of
Charles Calvert, Governor of the Prov-
ince of Maryland.

At the time of Benedict Calvert's mar-
riage he was living in Annapolis, the capi-
tal, but soon afterwards he decided to
build upon the hunting lodge, called
Mount Airy, a country seat suitable for
a man of his wealth and condition.
Owing to the troubles preceding the
Revolutionary \\^ar, the bricks brought
from England for his servants' quarters
were destined to be used for a less pre-
tentious house which we now behold,
upon the site he had selected for his
mansion, as large country houses were
called in those days.

We enter a pleasant, long, shallow
hallway thrown across what appears to
be the main part of the house, but no
rooms were immediately opposite the
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hallway or passageway the winding stair-
way to the rooms on the floor above is so
unobtrusive that we scarcely remark it
as we pass by it to enter the really splen-
did drawing room which, with the great
guest room of like dimensions above,
forms one entire wing of the building.
The lines of these rooms are severely
simple, but high pitched and full of light,

FREDERICK CALVERT
SIXTH AND LAST LORD BALTIMORE. MAR-
RIED LADY DIANA EGERTON. DIED IN
NAPLES, SEPTEMBER 4, 1771

coming from six great windows in each
room. During my visits to Mount Airy
in the long ago I have sat in the spacious
drawing room and looked at the stately
full-length portraits of Benedict Calvert
and his wife, and tried to imagine the
elegant hospitality with which they enter-
tained within those very walls upon
which there also hung portraits of the
third, fourth, and fifth Lord Baltimore
painted by master hands. Turning from
their proud beauty, my gaze has fallen
upon the fresher loveliness of Nellie Cal-
vert Custis who, radiant in her riding
habit and Continental hat, looked so
young and so lovely that my eyes would
return to her after they had wandered to
the sad, thoughtful face of her eldest
brother who died when a youth in Eng-
land, whither he had gone to be educated
and where would be imparted to him
the secret, so closely guarded, of his
father's birth.

Again, when in the spacious chamber
above the drawing room it was pleasant
to think that in the great fourposter so
richly carven, the Father of his Country
often slept. I little dreamed then that in
later years it would pass into my posses-
sion when my cousin's furniture, so
prized by her, would be distributed be-
fore the house passed into stranger hands.
In this same room was born to Nellie
Calvert Custis her son, George Washing-
ton Parke Custis,* who, when hardly six
months old, was adopted by General
Washington, and will always be interest-
ing in our history as " The Child of
Mount Vernon " and the builder of
Arlington,! a site which he selected be-
cause from it he could see the building
of the nation's Capital. Then, too, it was
at Mount Airy that Nellie Calvert Custis
languished for many months before that
restlessness which is one of the saddest
features of consumption, induced her to
leave the home of her happy childhood
and girlhood only to die elsewhere.

We descend the narrow stairway and
cross the shallow hall leading into a
broader one, both furnished with old
mahogany, the sofas and tables reminding
us that there the family often lingered.
In this wing are three rooms leading one
into the other and then the dining room.

Of course, above were bedrooms and

* George Washington Parke Custis (1781-
1857) married 1805, Mary Lee Fitzhugh,
daughter of Colonel William and Anne (Ran-
dolph) Fitzhugh of " Ravensworth."

t The " Arlington estate " was granted by
King Charles II to Robert Howson who, in
the same year, sold it to John Alexander for
six hogsheads of tobacco. It remained in the
Alexander family until Christmas, 1778, when
Gerard Alexander and his wife transferred it
by deed to John Parke Custis for the sum of
eleven hundred pounds Virginia currency.
George Washington Parke Custis completed
the building of the present " Arlington Man-
sion " in 1803 or 1804, having inherited the
estate from his father. Kendall-Lowther :
Mount Vernon, Arlington, and Woodlaimi.

MOUNT AIRY, UPPER MARLBORO, MARYLAND

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another staircase leading to them, and
there was in the old days a separate build-
ing used by the grown-up sons and their
bachelor guests which would seem to have
been most necessary as Benedict Calvert's
family numbered twenty-one children,
and his son, Henry Edward Calvert's,
family numbered twelve. But of the for-

CARVED BEDSTEAD IN THE GREAT GUEST ROOM

mer's family all of them save five died
when they were very young, and unmar-
ried ; these were Henry Edward, who
inherited the estate and who married
Elisabeth, daughter of Major George
Biscoe ; George, who married Rosalie
Eugenia Steir, and through this marriage
acquired the well-known property near
Washington called " Riverdale," Eleanor
(1754-1811) who in 1774 became the
wife of John Parke Custis (1753-
1781), the stepson of General Washing-

ton ; Elisabeth, who married Charles
Stuart of West River, Maryland ; and
Arianna, who having cast her affections
upon a suitor unacceptable to her fam-
ily, fell into a decline and died while in
the flower of her youth and beauty. But
that generation passed away, and then
succeeded the family of twelve children

of Henry Edward Calvert, all of

whom reached maturity, but few
of them married. There were ten
sons and two daughters : Julianna,
who died a comparatively young
woman, and Eleanora Cecilius,
who lived long past the age allotted
by the psalmist to the earthly
pilgrim. She and her brother,
Cecilius Baltimore Calvert, who
never married, inherited the old
house with a thousand acres ad-
joining it, while the other nine
thousand acres of the original
estate went to the other brothers.
The changed conditions of our
country life, wrought by the Civil
War, induced them to live after-
wards in strict retirement. Miss
Calvert never left Mount Airy
for nearly two score years, and her
l3rother seldom went anywhere
except to the neighboring church
which he attended regularly until
he was past ninety. Cecilius
Calvert died at the age of ninety-
six without making a will, and the prop-
erty reverted to his sister. Upon her
death Mount Airy then passed out of the
Calvert family.

In the long avenue leading to the house
many of the grand old trees have fallen,
and the broad English gardens to the
right of the house extend in three ter-
races to the wooded lands which stretch
out far beyond, making a lovely picture
though few of the old-time flowers yet
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graveyard, on a gentle eminence reached
through grainfields lying between it and
the house, there still grow in profusion
lilies of the valley and great untrained
bushes of white azalia such as I have
never seen elsewhere in this country. The
same flowers long uncared for still bloom
every springtime near the old brick car-
riage house which held, when I first
remember, a stately old family coach
with its tattered hangings once used by
former generations. It brought to the
imagination bright memories of the days
when the park gates were wide open, the
close cropped lawns were gay with restive
children and attentive slaves, when guests
were arriving in splendid coaches, some
drawn by four, others by six horses, and
at the entrance to the house the hostess
was making her friends welcome, the
flagged pavement upon which they were
standing, overhung by the long, white
gallery, was resounding with light foot-
steps and merry laughter, black body ser-
vants in charge of their master's horse-
hair trunks in the background, and the
bright gardens furnishing their wealth
of color to complete the scene. But a
change had come over Mount Airy when
1 first drove up to it in the twilight. It

was autumn and the flowers were no
longer blooming, only a few pale blos-
soms thrown out by the myrtle creeping
across the lawn, and at the doorway my
two old cousins waiting with outstretched
arms to welcome me to their ivy-covered
home. But when we crossed the thresh-
old, I found that the house was brightly
lighted, and in the dining room the hos-
pitable board of mahogany was spread
for supper, it and the great sideboard
covered with rare porcelain and glass-
ware and beautiful silver, and I well
remember that late in the course of the
meal, when I admired the " old silver,"
my cousin said to me in her dreamy, far-
ofif way, " Oh ! I put all of my old silver
away years ago ; this is only the silver
my Father and Mother got when they
were married." The next morning, when
I went to the graveyard, I saw on the
stone that marks their graves that they
were married in 1796. Henry Edward
Calvert was taken to his last rest just
fifty years afterwards and his widow,
Elisabeth Biscoe, died in 1858. Above
their graves rises in pale marble a beauti-
ful figure of Religion, as if it were to
symbolize the blest lives they had lived.

IN PRIZES TO STATES SECURING D.A.R.
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS

The Committee, Mrs. Charles White Nash,
Chairman, appointed to handle the Colonel
Walter Scott One Thousand Dollar Prize
Fund, has awarded $400 to be used in prizes
to increase the circulation of the National
Society's official publication — the Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine.

The Prize Contest, which commenced on July
15th, will close on Sunday, December 31, 1922.

Subscriptions postmarked December 31, 1922,
will be counted in this contest.

State and Chapter Magazine Chairmen are
urged to mail subscriptions as rapidly as pos-
sible to The Treasurer General, Memorial Con-
tinental Hall, Washington, D. C.

The contest is very close. Do not delay.
Remember, also, that the Daughters of the
American Revolution Magazine makes an
ideal Christmas present.

Eva V. M. Bissell,
Natio)ial Chairman,
D.A.R. Magazine Coniniittee.

AMERICA'S FIRST WOMAN SENATOR
A MEMBER OF THE D.A.R.

By Dolores Boisfeuillet Colquitt

EORGIA'S "Grand Old Woman,"
Mrs. Rebecca Latimer Felton, aged
eighty-seven years, who was recently
appointed United States Senator by
the Governor of Georgia to fill the
vacancy created by the death of the
late Senator Tom Watson, is an
active D.A.R. descended from illustrious Mary-
land and Virginia forebears. Her father was
only seven years of age when his parents came
to Georgia after selling their old homestead,
Marshall Hall, on the Potomac, opposite Mount
Vernon ; and both of his grandfathers had
served in the Continental army under their
neighbor. General Washington.

Mrs. Felton is, in the words of tribute paid
her by the governor of Georgia: "Wise, even
beyond her years, and is glorious in the sunset
of a splendid and useful life." She is just as
keen and informed on political affairs of today
as on those of half a century ago.

Champion of women's political rights and
temperance advocate, she has lived to see her
prophecy fulfilled. In her speeches and writ-
ings she said : " This woman's movement is a
great movement of the sexes toward each
other, with common ideals as to government
as well as common ideals in domestic life,
where fully developed manhood must seek and
find its real mate in the mother of his children,
as well as in the solace of his home. The
time has long since passed when the hard-
drinking, fox-hunting, high-playing country
squire was excused because of his generosity
and hospitality. He was not the equal of his
sober mate, whose hand held the distaff, who
made good cheer from the kitchen to drawing-
room. The call of the age is for partnership
in the family, in the church, in the state and
national affairs, between men and women."

As one of the representative southern women,
Mrs. Felton was summoned to Florida in the
spring of 1921 by the then President-elect
Harding for a conference on national affairs.

Her first connection with Georgia politics
was in 1874 when her husband. Dr. William
Harrel Felton, a Methodist preacher and
farmer, was a candidate for Congress. " From

a quiet country life in a plain farm house,
with only farm worries to contend with," she
says in her Memoirs, " I was hurled into a
vortex of excitement, abuse, expense and
anxiety that no words can describe." Yet she
held up a brave face when her husband would

.MRS. \V H. FELTON AT THE .\f;E OE SEVEN TV-SIX

return home exhausted with fatigue from long
speaking tours. She it was who answered his
letters, fixed the dates of his appointments and
wrote replies to newspapers. " I was amazed
that I lived through it. Once my overworked
frame broke down, but will-power gained
the victory. I was propped up in bed and
wrote letters like the furies were pursuing me."

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Mrs. Felton was actively associated with her
husband, " one of the most eminent Georgians
of his day," in his long career in the Legisla-
ture and Congress ; and she even took the
" stump " in his candidacy.

They were married October 11, 1853, and
of their five children only one survived, Dr.
Howard E. Felton. Mrs. Felton was eighteen
at the time she married and was a mother at
nineteen. She was born in DeKalb County,
Georgia, June 10, 1835. In spite of her ad-
vanced years, she is active and looks after her
business intc-ests, which include valuable farms.

Her parents were William Latimer and

Eleanor Ann Swift. Her paternal grand-
parents were Marcus Latimer and Rebecca
Marshall, who had inherited Marshall Hall, the
historic estate on the Potomac. Mrs. Felton's
maternal grandmother was Lucy Talbot, de-
scended from Captain Matthew Talbot (1729-
1812), a patriot who served in the Virginia
militia, and who settled in 1778 on the Wautaga
River. He was born in Amelia County, Vir-
ginia, and died in Morgan County, Georgia.
Besides Latimer and Marshall, Mrs. Felton
is a descendant of the distinguished Hanson,
Brandt, and Beall families of Maryland.

PRIZES FOR ESSAYS ON "WHAT I HAVE LEARNED
FROM THE MANUAL FOR IMMIGRANTS"

The Committee, of which Mrs. Charles White
Nash is Chairman, appointed by the President
General to administer the Colonel Walter Scott
One Thousand Dollar Prize Fund, recom-
mended to the National Board of Management
at its October meeting, the following prize
essay contest among students of the Manual
for Immigrants, in order to stimulate the use
and study of the Manual. The recommendation
was unanimously adopted by the Board and is
herewith presented to the States in the hope
that all will take part. It is as follows :

" That a prize of $5 in gold be given
to each State to be awarded to the person,
either foreign-born or southern mountain-
eer, who submits the best essay in English,
of not less than 1000 words or more than
2000, on the subject: 'What I Have
Learned from the Manual for Immi-
grants ; ' each State to arrange the details
of its own contest through its Patriotic
Education Committee, and the judges to be
a committee of the Daughters of the

American Revolution appointed by the
State Regent.

" And that we offer an additional prize of
$10 to be awarded as follows :

" Five dollars to the foreign-born for the
best essay among the winning essays, and
$5 to the southern mountaineers for the
best essay among the winning essays, these
winning essays from the States to be sub-
mitted to a committee of judges to be
appointed by the National Chairman of
Patriotic Education."
The essays should be in the hands of each
State Chairman on Patriotic Education not later
than February 1, 1923. The winning essay
in each State should be sent by the State Regent
not later than March 1st to the National Chair-
man on Patriotic Education.

All essays should be numbered and the
name and address of the writer attached in a
sealed envelope.

The names of the winners in each State and
of the winner of the additional prizes will be
announced at the coming Congress.

MISCELLANIES FROM THE OLD GEORGIA
GAZETTE PUBLISHED AT SAVANNAH

1764 to 1794

Compiled by Mamie Burkhalter Little

1764
CTOBER 11, Thursday: Alarried at
Argyle Island, Archibald Bulloch
Esq., son of James Bullock Esq., to
Miss Polly De Veaux daughter of
James De Veaux Esq.

1765

April 4, Saturday: On Saturday was
married Mr. Samuel Brown to Jennie Spencer
daughter of Wm. Spencer Esq. collector of
customs at Savannah.

April 11, Thursday: Wm. Roberts master of
the sloop Dolphin.

April 18 : On Easter Monday the Honorable
Noble Jones, Honorable James Habersham,
Honorable Francis Harris, Chas. Watson,
James Read, Thomas Vincent, James DeVeau,
Charles Price and Thomas Lloyd were elected
vestrymen for Christ Church.

April 20, Saturday : Died in Savannah, Mrs.
Wells, wife of Captain Andrews Elton Wells.
May 9 : Mr. John Simpson is appointed 3rd
lieutenant in the 1st troop in the Province com-
manded by Captain John Milledge in the room
of Lieutenant Joseph Butler, who has resigned,
and Dr. John Perkin is appointed Quarter-
master in said troop.

August 22: On Thursday 6th died at St.
Augustine, Florida, the Hon. James Aloulloi
Esq. Chief Justice of Florida.

Mrs. Mary Morel, wife of John Morel, died
at Ossabau on Thursday last.

Last Thursday night was married at Sun-
bury Dr. John Irwin of that place to Miss
Nancy Bailie daughter of Kenneth Bailie Esq.
George Saxby Esq. is appointed stamp offi-
cer for South Carolina only, and Hon. Henry
McCullough one of his Majesty's council in
North Carolina for that province.

August 12 : Seven families consisting of 75
people arrived here last Saturday from Mary-
land in order to settle in this province.

August 17 : An organ presented by Ed. Bar-
nard Esq. was placed in the gallery of the
church. Mr. John Sternes was appointed
organist.

Died Sunday Nov. 17, at Savannah, Mr. Benj.
Tarley planter.

Thursday 19, Nov. at Ebenezer the Rev. John
Martin Bolzius the first minister sent out by
the Society for promotion of Christian Knowl-
edge, 1734.

1767
On Dec. 18 died at Fairfield near Sunbury
Mr. Kenneth Baillie eldest son of Col Kenneth
Baillie deceased who was the only son left
to take care of his mother.

Alarried January 28 in Savannah Air. Daniel
Munsy to Miss Phila Hayes.

Died Thursday Feb. of this year Mr. Wm.
Lewis of Augusta, and on Sunday at Savannah
Captain George Thomas.
1766
Alay 28 : Yesterday died in town Airs. Mary
Bryan being 65 years of age born in South
Carolina, a person much respected having
passed through the different stations of life
with honor. She was the mother of 5 children
all of whom lived to be married. She had
23 grandchildren.

June 4: Died Friday at Ossabau Air. Benj.
Goldwin.

June 11: Captain Wells who arrived here
yesterday from Charleston, S. C. informs us
that Captain Strachan arrived there last Friday
from London after a long passage and brought
a full confirmation of the Bill for repealing the
Stamp Act having received the Royal Assent.
June 18: Lord Montague Governor of S. C.
and Lieutenant Governor of this province has
arrived at Charleston.

June 9 : Died Alonday morning Captain
John Fletcher.

July 30: Thursday 1st of Alay Hon. John
Kern Esq. Lieutenant Governor of Pennsyl-
vania was married to Miss Annie Allen daugh-
ter of Hon. Wm. Allen esq. Chief Justice
of the Province.

Died 23rd of Alay His Excellency Mon-
tague Wilmot Esq. Lt. Governor of his Maj-
esty's Regiment of foot and Governor of
Nova Scotia.

Thursday 17th: Alarried at Alidway Mr.
Gideon Downes to Aliss Ann Elliott daughter
of John Elliott deceased. Died John Dunnet

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one of his Majesty's council, of East
Florida, and Lt. Winter of Royal — on his way
to Augusta.

August 13: Married Monday 11, Mr. Jona-
than Belten to Miss Harriet Bravant.

August 27 : Tuesday 19 married in St. John's
Parish Mr. John Winn Esq. to Mrs. Lydia
Sanden a lady of mind and fortune.

September 3 : Died in Savannah Miss Sarah
Rigby. Died in Charleston William Walter
and Andrew Hunter Esq. deputy collector of
his Majesty's custom. Died at Beaufort Rich-
ard Black controller of his Majesty's customs.
September 10 : Died in Charleston Mr.
Thomas Lloyd. Died at Savannah Captain
Nathaniel Gardner.

September 17 : Died at Savannah Mrs.
Mary Smith.

October 1 : Arrived from London Captain
Samuel Ball, Mrs. Vincent, Mrs. Stewart, Miss
Crooke, Hon. Wm. Grover chief justice of
East Florida, Dr. Cuthbert, Captain Clarke,
Mr. Shaw.

Died at Beaufort S. C. Mr. Francis Stewart.
Died at Savannah Captain Thomas Wills.

October 8 : Died at Savannah Mrs. Evans
and Mr. Chas. Blundy.

October 11: Married Mr. Wm. Moore to
Miss Savannah Bolton daughter of Robert
Bolton.

October 22 : Died Mrs. Ann Wright wife
of Wm. Wright.

October 29 : Died in Charleston the Hon.
Hector de Beaufain Esq. F.R.S. for 24 years
collector of his Majesty's customs in South
Carolina.

November 5 : At Sunbury died Captain
Ephram Gilbert.

1767
On Sunday June 31 Mr. Henry Younge
Esq. surveyor general of the province was
married to Mrs. Mary Stedman.

July 15: John Milledge Esq. was married
to Mrs. Ann Rasberry widow of the late
Thomas Rasberry, Married in Charleston
Mr. James Graham merchant to Miss Stuart
daughter of Hon. John Stuart Esq. Superin-
tendent of Indian affairs for the southern dis-
trict of North America.

July 29 : On Thursday was married Mr. John
Holsman of South Carolina to Miss Priscilla
Jones of this province.

August 19 : Died Mrs. Penelope Fitzwater a
native of England. Died Mrs. Price widow of
Charles Price Esq. Attorney General of
the Province.

November : Died Mrs. Ann \\'hitfield widow
of James Whitfield.

Saturday March 4 Hon. Lord Hope set out
for his return to Charleston and James Box

Esq. Attorney General of East Florida for
St. Augustine.

23 February was married in Charleston Mr.
Thomas Netherclift, of this city merchant, to
Miss Ann McQueen, daughter of the late
John McQueen Esq., a young lady with a hand-
some fortune.

March 25: Died on Monday Mrs. Elizabeth
Younge.

Married April 22 Thomas Savage Esq. of
South Carolina to Polly Butler, daughter of
Hon. Wm. Butler Esq. deceased, an accom-
plished young lady with a considerable fortune.

March 19 : On Tuesday was married at
Great Ogeechee Mr. James Butler Esq. to Miss
Ann Dix. Died Mr. Thomas Burrington Esq.
Attorney at Law.

November 23 : Archibald Bulloch Esq. elected
one of the representatives in the General As-
sembly for the town of Savannah.

December 9 : Thomas Butler was chosen
Representative in the General Assembly for
St. George's Parish.

December 30 was married at the College
by Rev. Sutby Mr. Benj. Stirk to Miss Hannah
Polhill and Mr. John Stirk to Miss Hannah
Miller both agreeable ladies with handsome
fortunes.

1768

Died at Charleston January 9th Lady Ann
Murry widow of Dr. John Murry.

February 10 : Saturday died at Great Ogee-
chee Joseph Butler representative of St. Philip's
Parish. Died at Strachy Hall Donald McKay
a gentleman much esteemed. Died in town,
Charles West Esq. member of the General
Assembly of this province.

April 6 : Air. Thomas Legare in Charleston
was struck by lightning.

Minister 23 years, in the 48th year of his
age Rev. Mr. Link passed away.

The Honorable Francis Fauquir Esq. Lt.
Governor of Va. died at Williamsburg the 3rd
of March 1768.

April 20: Died Mr. Geo. Cuthbert and
James McHenry.

May 4 : Mr. Joseph Pounere and Mr. James
Love died.

May 25 : Married Henry Younge son of
Henry Younge surveyor general, to Miss Polly
Powell daughter of Hon. James Edward Powell.

June 25 : John Smith, William Jones and
Peter Sallem Esq. were chosen members of
the general assembly for the Parish of St.
John. Died at Augusta Mrs. Rae wife of Rob-
ert Rae on June 22.

On Monday July 13 John Simpson Esq. mar-
ried Miss Betsy Martha daughter of Mr. Clem-
ent Martha.

Saturday September 14: James Whitfield

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married Mrs. Elizabeth Love widow of
James Love.

October 19 : married at Puryburg Mr. Robert
Dillon of Charleston to Miss C. Chesseh.

October 26 : Died William Simpson Chief
Justice of the province.

November 3 : Married Mr. Joseph Farley to
Miss Jane Johnston daughter of Dr. Lewis
Johnston.

November 15: Died at Midway James Max-
well ; Died at Little Ogeechee Mrs. Elizabeth
Fox in the 66th year of her age ; Died near
town Mr. Richard Milledge.

December 14 : Died at Sunbury Captain Rob-
ert Nichols.

Feb. 1 : Died at his plantation David C.
Braddock Esq.

1775

June 21 : Died at Fort Dartmouth St. Paul's
Parish Ed Barnard Captain of Rangers for
the protection of lands lately ceded to his
Majesty by the Indians. Died at Savannah
Captain Francis Gofif.

August 30: Married Mr. Williahm Evain to
Miss Sally Bolton daughter of Robert Bolton.

Sept. 20. Married Mr. James Habersham
jr. son of Hon. James Habersham Ex-Presi-
dent of his Majesty's Council to Miss Esther
Wily an amiable young lady daughter of Alex-
ander Wily Esq. Died Mrs. Jane Mauve
widow of Mr. Matthew Mauve.

October 4 : Died at Abercorn Francis Arthur.

October 25 : Died Mr. Thomas Parsons.

November 1 : Died Captain Francis Arwen.

December 17: Died Stephen Bull Esq. of
South Carolina.

1779
April 25 : Died Mr. James Love and Mr.
James Pare loyal refugees from St. Matthews
Parish.

May 10 : Died Mrs. Baillon widow of Isac
Baillon ; Died Mr. David Fox.
1783

Feb : Died Captain John Newdigate.

March 13 : Died : Mrs. Susannah Maudin
widow of Dr. John Maudin, Mr. John Farley.

July 17: Married Mr. William Williams to
Mrs. Elizabeth Martingal ; Mr. J. Norton to
Mrs. Mary Mevis widow of Benjamin Mevis.

November : Died Mrs. Sarah Farley widow
of the late Joseph Farley. Died Miss Ann Fox.

Dec. 25 : John Martin Esq. late Governor
of State married Miss Polly Spencer.

Feb. 10: Died John Owen

1794

On Sapelo Island 15th of September was un-
happily deprived of existence by being shot Mr.
Hyacinth de Chappedelaine age about 40 a
gentleman who while alive was beloved by his
friends respected by his acquaintances and es-
teemed as a worthy member of society by the
community at large. Mr. Picot de Boisfeuillet
of Sapelo is in custody of the sheriff of the
county being charged with shooting the above
gentleman.*

Sept. 25 : Died Mr. John Maudin son of the
late Dr. John Maudin.

October 30: Married in Liberty County
James Powell Esq. to Miss Betsy Hugh, daugh-
ter of Mrs. White widow of Mr. James White.
Died in England Mrs. Elizabeth Pinkney,
widow of Thomas Pinkney, Esq. Ambassador
to the Court of Great Britain.

November 27: Died Mrs. Clarke widow of
Mr. James Clarke.

*Note: An account of this duel, together with Revo-
lutionary and genealogical data on the above Picot de
Boisfeuillet a French nobleman appears in "Our French
Liberators" by Dolores Boisfeuillet Colquitt in the Octo-
ber, 1921, number of the D,\ughters of the American
Revolution Magazine.

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CONNECTICUT

The twenty-ninth State Meeting of the Con-
necticut Daughters of the American Revolution
was held on October 5, 1922, in the Second
Congregational Church, Manchester, by invi-
tation of Orford Parish Chapter. The ushers
and color bearers were in white, preceding the
President General, Mrs. George Maynard
Minor ; the Organizing Secretary General, Mrs.
G. Wallace W. Hanger; Vice President Gen-
eral from Connecticut, Mrs. John Laidlaw
Buel; Vice President General from Vermont,
Mrs. Lyman E. Holden ; the State Regent of
Maine, Miss Maude M. Herrick; the State Re-
gent of Connecticut, Mrs. Charles Humphrey
Bissell ; the Vice State Regent, Miss Kath-
erine A. Nettleton, other state officers and coun-
cilors, regent of the hostess chapter, and
speakers. The platform was artistically decor-
ated with autumn leaves and garden flowers,
our State Regent and National Officers carried
pink roses. The Rev. Raymond A. Beardslee,
pastor of the church, gave the invocation; and
the Salute to the Flag was led by Mrs. Fred-
erick A. Strong.

Mrs. Frank A. Spencer, Regent of Orford
Parish Chapter, gave a cordial greeting, refer-
ring to the State Regent, Mrs. Bissell, as the
Infant, this meeting being the first since her
election to that office.

Mr. William C. Cheney extended the wel-
come from the town. Mrs. Charles Humphrey
Bissell, State Regent, responded to the welcome
extended and proved her ability to make a good
speech. She spoke of the wanton destruction
by speeding motorists of the beautiful fountain
dedicated a year ago by Orford Parish Chapter
in memory of the Revolutionary soldiers of this
ancient parish. She hoped the license of the
reckless autoist would be taken from him.

Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, Vice President Gen-
eral from Connecticut, spoke of the work near-
est her heart, the Manual for Immigrants.
Connecticut was first to have a book of this
kind, thirty years ago, then called the Guida.

Mrs. George Maynard Minor, President Gen-
eral and our own beloved Connecticut Daughter,
spoke on " Internationalism — True and False."
She told of the memorial erected in the de-
vastated French village, Souain, by the parents
of the late Henry W. Farnsworth, of Massa-
chusetts, for him and his comrades of the
French Foreign Legion.
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Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Organizing
Secretary General, was introduced and her
delightful speech was greatly enjoyed.

The Treasurer General, Mrs. Livingston L.
Hunter, upon her arrival, was escorted to the
platform. She told of the new roof put on
Memorial Continental Hall and paid for with-
out any chapter help.

Miss Florence S. M. Crofut, candidate for
the office of Historian General, was asked to
speak. In her entertaining address, she said
that it was a unique opportunity to pay homage
to two leaders, Mrs. Minor and Mrs. Hanger.

A message of love and greeting was voted
sent to Mrs, Sara T. Kinney, our senior Honor-
ary State Regent.

Another guest of honor present was one of
our Real Daughters, Mrs. Angelina Loring
Avery, of Willimantic, Connecticut, and the
youngest Real Daughter in America. She is
nearly eighty-four years of age. She was
escorted to the platform where all could see
her, and later in the day took part in the recep-
tion, even remaining for the banquet in the
evening, so as " not to miss anything."

A recess was taken for luncheon, which was
served in four churches. The afternoon ses-
sion opened with an organ prelude by Mrs.
Robert K. Anderson. Miss Katharine A. Net-
tleton, Vice State Regent, spoke on the
Ellsworth Homestead. She stated that $10,000
had been paid on the endowment fund. Miss
Hermine Schwed, Field Secretary of the Na-
tional Association for Constitutional Govern-
ment, gave an interesting talk on Parlor
Socialism. Miss Annie . Beecher Scoville,
granddaughter of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, was the last speaker. She asked
for stories for the public schools, stories of
real happenings in the lives of patriots, every-
day events which may so easily be lost to
future generations.

On motion, a vote of thanks was given to
the hostess chapter, the musicians and speakers.
We then adjourned to the Recreation Centre
building, South Manchester, where delicious
tea, sandwiches and cakes were served.

In Cheney Hall, South Manchester, a ban-
quet was given in honor of the President Gen-
eral and the National Officers. A delightful
feature of the evening was the musical program
given by Mrs. Laura W. Ross, violin, Mrs.
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Green, piano, and Miss Ada Porter, contralto.
Speeches followed the dinner, and at a late
hour the Daughters went their several ways,
being of one mind, that the meeting had been a
great occasion and Orford Parish Chapter a
perfect hostess.

Anna M. G. Stevens,
State Recording Secretary.

VERMONT

The Twenty-third Annual State Co i-
ference of the Vermont Daughters of the
American Revolution met at Rutland, Oct-
ober 12th, the guest of Ann Story Chapter.
There were 216 delegates present when the
convention opened at Trinity Parish House
at nine o'clock in the morning. Mrs. H. A.
Harman, Regent of the local chapter, wel-
comed the visitors, following the invocation
by the State Chaplain, Mrs. A. B. Engrem
and the singing of America. Mrs. Anthony
Wayne Cook, Vice President General from
Pennsylvania, and Mrs. Lyman E. Holden,
Vice President General from Vermont, brought
greetings from the National Society. Greetings
were also heard from the Vermont Society of
Colonial Dames and the Vermont Daughters of
1812. The remainder of the morning was
devoted to the reading of reports.

The afternoon program began at two
o'clock, opening with the singing of the
" Star Spangled Banner," by six boys of
the Trinity Church choir in charge of

Harry Elmendorff. Greetings from visiting
State Regents, Mrs. Shumway and Mrs.
Nash were heard.

Officers elected were: Regent, Mrs. H. L.
Farnham of Montpelier; Vice Regent, Mrs.
W. F. Root of Brattleboro; Chaplain, Miss
Jennie A. Valentine of Bennington; Record-
ing Secretary, Mrs. D. A. Loomis of
Burlington; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
Ralph Putnam of Waterbury; Treasurer,
Mrs. R. W. McCuen of Vergennes; Auditor,
Mrs. Esther L. Edwards of Poultney; His-
torian, Mrs. A. G. Coolidge of Rutland and
Librarian, Miss Abbie Clark of Randolph.

Reports and announcements were heard
during the latter part of the afternoon.
The business meeting was followed by an
informal reception and tea given by Ann
Story Chapter to the Vermont Daughters
and their guests, in the parlors of the Trin-
ity Parish House.

Mrs. John H. Stewart, State Regent, and
all other state officers were present at the
conference. Distinguished guests from out
of the state, who were present, included:
Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook of Pennsylvania,
Vice President General, and State Regents,
Mrs. Charles White Nash of New York, and
Mrs. Franklin T. Shumway of Massachusetts.

The convention closed with a banquet at
the Bardwell hotel in the evening.

(Mrs. a. G.) Rose M. L. Coolidge,

State Historian.

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Chapter Reports must be Typewritten EDITOP-

Belleville Chapter (Belleville, 111.). Our
work for the year 1921-1922 began on October
3, 1921, Mesdames Eimer, Kunze, and Boggs
were the hostesses. The topic of the day was
" Contemporary Books." After our business
meeting we enjoyed a social hour during which
time our hostesses served a delightful lunch.
On November 5th, Mesdames C. B. Harrison,
F. E. Merrills, and Miss Virginia Merrills
were hostesses. The guests of honor were
Mrs. John Trigg Moss and Mrs. H. Eugene
Chubbuck. The former spoke on " Conserva-
tion and Thrift " and the latter on " American-
ization." There were officers and guests from
St. Louis, East St. Louis and Anna Chapters
of the D.A.R.

On October 30th, the celebrated Sixth Regi-
ment, Lhiited States Infantry, passed through
our city. The soldiers , announced themselves
well pleased with the hospitality shown them
by our Chapter. November 11th, marked the
unveiling of a bronze tablet installed in the
Carnegie Library, in honor of the boys of
Belleville and St. Clair Townships who made
the supreme sacrifice in the World War. Our
Chapter generously worked for and donated
this tablet. The ceremonies connected with the
unveiling were beautiful.

Armistice Day was observed by our Chap-
ter. In the afternoon there was a parade by
the American Legion, which included all the
patriotic societies in Belleville. Our Chapter
decorated a float named " The Spirit of 76."

Our regular monthly business meeting was
held on December 5th. Mesdames Portuondo,
Friedli, and Sinclair and Miss Olive Thomas
were the hostesses. The immigration question
was ably discussed by Miss Virginia Merrills.
After the completion of the program we had
our customary luncheon.

On January 9, 1922, Mesdames Rogers,
Schneidewind and Thompson entertained our
Chapter. The " Condition of German Cur-
rency" was the subject of a splendid paper by
Miss Lienesch. February 6, 1922, was our
sixth meeting of the year. A paper on the
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" Return of the Railroads to Private Owner-
ship " was read.

We are busily engaged in marking the graves
of the soldiers of the American Revolution
in St. Clair County.

We have had one rummage sale this year
which reaped a nice harvest.

This is about all we have achieved so far
this year, but we are a young society, small
and energetic, and we are pushing on toward
better things.

Mrs. F. E. Merrills, ^

Historian.

Standing Stone Chapter (Huntingdon,
Pa.) was organized April 17, 1920, at the home
of Mrs. Edward M. Greene, Organizing Re-
gent, twenty-two members being present.
Standing Stone was selected as the Chapter
name, in honor of the Indian Trading-Post
and Council ground of the supposed Oneida
Indians. According to John Harris, in 1754,
on the main trail from the East to the Ohio
River, stood a shaft fourteen feet high by six
inches square, just west of where Standing
Stone Creek enters the Juniata River. The
shaft could be seen up and down the river.
It is not known whether erected for a guide
post for travelers, or for records of the tribe,
or for a marker to some of the braves. A
piece of the stone, bearing Indian hieroglyphics,
is now in the Juniata College Library Museum.
As early as 1758 the whites had erected a partial
stockade fort, but had to later abandon it. In
1777, however, a strong fort stood on the site
of Standing Stone, and the whites for miles
around, fled to this fort for safety during
Indian raids.

Standing Stone Chapter meetings are held in
the homes of the members on the third Friday
of each month from October to June, inclusive.
We have held twenty-one meetings and have
thirty-nine members, with eleven applica-
tions pending.

In programs we observed Flag Day, Colum-
bus Day, Armistice Day, Christmas, Washing-
ton's and Lincoln's Birthdays.

Standing Stone Chapter gave prizes of $10
and $5, respectively, to high school pupils for

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first and second best essays on " Americaniza-
tion." These essays were read by the pupils
at our meeting.

We have distributed in our pubHc schools
one hundred American's Creeds. We gave a
generous contribution of groceries and money
to our local J. C. Blair Memorial Hospital
on Donation Day, contributed to Industrial
School in Tomassee, to Russian Relief, De-
vastated France, and Near-East Relief ; sub-
scribed our quota to the Manual, Tilloloy,
Fountain, and War Painting. We also gave
an historical book to the D.A.R. Library in
Washington, D. C.

The Chapter has been represented by dele-
gates at State Convention and National Con-
gress since organization.

Mr. J. W. Kaufifman, a veteran of the Civil
War, presented Standing Stone Chapter with
a gavel made of wood from the Gettysburg
battle-field. About thirty-two members and
friends of the Chapter made a pilgrimage
May 25, 1922, to Fort Shirley (the oldest
fort in our County, erected in 1755), and
along the old trail through Black Log and
Shade Mountains.

Standing Stone has a great work before it
in marking historical places, there being in
the County about eight fort sites (only one^
Standing Stone — being marked), as well as In-
dian trails, also public roads which were
surveyed before the Revolution, while a
number of Revolutionary soldiers' graves
remain unmarked.

At our Annual Meeting held in May, the
following officers were elected for the ensuing
year : Regent, Mrs. Edward M. Greene ; Vice-
Regent, Mrs. W. H. Sears ; Recording Secre-
tary, Mrs. I. Harvey Brumbaugh; Correspond-
ing Secretary, Miss Allison Orbison ; Treasurer,
Mrs. C. H. Miller ; Registrar, Mrs. Martha
Corbin ; Historian, Mrs. John Hicks.

(Mrs. John) Lottie M. R. Hicks,

Historian.

William Pitt Chapter (Chatham, Va.) was
organized January 29, 1911, with twelve mem-
bers ; today we have thirty members.

On October 25, 1915, the Chapter placed a
bronze tablet on the wall of the Court House
to commemorate the three separate county seats
of Pittsylvania County.

We have encouraged the study of history by
oflfering prizes and have made a number of
gifts to the Chatham High School. Through
the efforts of the Daughters many national holi-
days have been observed in our county by
patriotic and historical programs and many
children have been taught the Ameri-
can's Creed.

Our meetings are held once a month, and
we have found the ritual prepared by our
Regent very helpful.

An Historical Day Celebration was held in
Chatham in June, 1919, at which were present
the State Regent, Doctor Barrett, and the
two neighboring chapters, Dorothea Henry, of
Danville, and Patrick Henry, of Mortonville.
Dorothea Henry and Patrick Henry Chapters
represent sections which were once a part of
Pittsylvania County. At this celebration the
Student Loan Fund of Virginia was inaugu-
rated by our State Regent, Doctor Barrett,
and was later established at the State Confer-
ence held at Alexandria. We expect the Loan
Fund to be one of the far-reaching and im-
portant activities of our Virginia Daughters
and are already assisting five young women
to finish their college courses. Our Regent,
Mrs. James S. Jones, of " Ellerslie," is State
Chairman of this committee.

William Pitt Chapter was instrumental in
having returned to Pittsylvania County her
own flag, probably the only known county flag
in existence, which had been preserved in the
State Library. When first discovered the flag
was in tatters, but has since been most care-
fully repaired. The design is done in oils on
white taffeta. In the centre is a blue circular
field surrounded by a chaplet of oak leaves
tied with blue ribbon. On the blue field is
painted " American Independence," on the rib-
bon streamers the 2nd Battalion, 42nd Regi-
ment, Pittsylvania. Above the centre is a
bronze eagle with spread wings, and scattered
over the surface of the flag are eighteen stars,
representing, we suppose, the number of States
in the Union.

During the World War our members were
active in relief work, one of our number, Miss
Anna Titus, serving in France with the
Y.W.C.A.

The Red Cross was organized in our sec-
tion largely through the efforts of the William
Pitt Chapter.

Our Honorary Regent, Mrs. T. S. Watkins,
who also organized our Chapter, was Vice-
Chairman of Red Cross work in Pittsylvania
County, and throughout the War proved a tire-
less worker. There were 38 auxiliary chapters
throughout this large county and all work done
by them passed through the Chatham Chapter.
Mrs. Watkins kept the books of all work that
came in and went out of the Chatham Chapter,
and the standard of this work was judged
excellent by the Washington authorities. Mrs.
Watkins and another of our members, Mrs.
Robert Owen, received decorations for their
excellent records in Red Cross Work. Our
Regent, Mrs. Jones, organized four auxiliaries
in this county.

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government in selHng securities and in all re-
lief drives. Mrs. Owen and Mrs. Thomas J.
Coles were chairmen of such drives. This is
quite a distinction because Pittsylvania covers
an unusually large territory. Since the War
we have contributed liberally to the devastated
regions of Europe and the Near East.

Armistice Day, 1921, was celebrated in
Chatham. A patriotic parade followed by
speeches and singing on the Court Green. In
the parade marched the students from the
Chatham Training School for Boys, Chatham
Episcopal Institute for Girls, Chatham High
School and Grammar School, the members of
the American Legion, and the National Guard.
Interspersed throughout the line of parade were
beautifully decorated floats representing dif-
ferent organizations.

We are deeply interested in both State and
National D.A.R. afifairs, and feel the impor-
tance of preserving the spirit of the
founders of our nation, and transmitting it to
future generations.

Mrs. N. E. Clement, *-"^^
Historian.

Quaker City Chapter (Philadelphia, Pa.).
The Chapter during the past year has exceeded
all previous records, in increase of membership
and multiplicity of activities. Every request
from the national and the state officers
has been complied with as follows : The
Boy Scouts ; the Girl Scouts ; the George
Meade Post ; the General Muhlenburg C.A.R. ;
Fair and Square Club ; boxes of clothing
to North Carolina Mountain School ; Caro-
line Scott Harrison Dormitory, International
College at Springfield, Mass. ; Valley Forge
Historical Building; Pennsylvania Room in
Administration Building, Washington ; National
Old Trails Committee ; Miss Anita Conte's
work among Italian women and girls ; German-
town Americanization Society, and other
objects of less importance.

The Historian's papers : History and Making
of the Constitution ; The Five Intolerable
Acts Preceding the Revolutionary War ; Hajm
Soloman, Jewish Patriot of the Revolution ;
Benjamin Franklin, Patriot and Statesman;
Historic Bells ; Philadelphia Women of the
Revolutionary Period.

Protests have been made against destroying
historic buildings and streets, and unmarked
historic sites located. The Chapter increases
in interest and in activities constantly, and the
Regent and Board of the last four years have
made wondrous progress. In leaving the Chap-
ter in the hands of the new Regent and her

Board, the retiring officers may honestly con-
gratulate them on having so substantial a
foundation for future work.

(Mrs.) a. Elizabeth Wager-Smith,

Historian.

Chickamauga Chapter (Chattanooga,
Tenn.). Chattanooga has three wide awake
D.A.R. Chapters. Chickamauga, organized in
1894, being the oldest and largest, is known
locally among the Daughters as the " Mother
Chapter." Chickamauga has always responded
to every call for service and during the past
year has broken more than one of its own
records. We have 125 members: 110 resident,
and 15 non-resident, and two life members.
There is a waiting list we hope to convert into
a new chapter. Following a time-honored cus-
tom all our chapters have a limited resident
membership, as we have found this a means of
enlisting more active workers, and we combine
our work with a social hour in the homes of the
members each month, when work can be dis-
cussed and planned informally.

We had nine regular and two called meetings.
Our State Regent, Miss Temple, paid us a
greatly appreciated visit, when she reported
her trip to our D.A.R. mountain school at
Devil's Fork, and outlined national and state
work for our guidance.

At the regular meetings the literary and his-
torical programs were instructive and inter-
esting and there was an average attendance of
45, the largest average in the history of
the Chapter.

Educational work was the leading work of
the year and the Chapter responded 100 per
cent, to every National and State call, beside
doing some local work. Beginning with the
call from our State Regent, October 16, 1920,
to put on a Tag Day for Lincoln Memorial
University, at Harrogate, Tennessee, Chica-
mauga Chapter sent to National and State
work: $1500 to D.A.R. Hall, L.M.U., Tag
Day contributions November, 1920; $100 to
L.M.U. Scholarship for Miss Ida Hilton, Jan-
uary, 1921; $2811.14 to D.A.R. Hall, L.M.U.
Talent Campaign, July-August. 1921 ; $100 to
L.M.U. Scholarship for Katherine Miles, Sep-
tember, 1921; $4511.14 to Lincoln Memorial
University in ten months ; $90 to University
of Tennessee, Mrs. Mildred Mathes Chair of
History; $18 to D.A.R. School at Devil's Fork;
$12 to State Conference; $120 dues National
Society; $5 new members' dues; $30.50 pro rata
to Immigrants' Guide ; $30.50 pro rata to Pil-
grim Mother's Fountain ; $12.50 picture for
French Museum ; $6 to International College
Sarah E. Guernsey scholarship ; $25 to Caroline
Scott Harrison Living Memorial, Oxford Col-
lege, given through the Chapter by the Regent,

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as a memorial to her grandmother, Mrs. Laura
Beardsley Christie, who was a Real Daughter ;
$72 to Borland Bell School, September, 1920, to
May, 1921, Scholarship for Katherine Miles.
(The two scholarships for this young girl were
paid in the one year.) $4932.64 to state and
national work. This amount does not include
any of our local work, which would run our ex-
penditures well over $5000 for D.A.R. work.

The Chapter placed in the Genealogical and
Historical Room at the Chattanooga Public
Library 29 Lineage Books, and in April joined
the two other local chapters in buying the two
Lineage Books on sale at Continental Congress
to add to the collection, so that there is a com-
plete set of Lineage Books in our Public
Library. Chickamauga also gave the Reading
Room the Daughters of the American Revo-
lution Magazine for the year.

Thirty-seven Soldiers' Records were fur-
nished Mrs. Halli Burton for the State War
Records presented to the National Society
in April.

The Magazine Committee secured ten new
subscribers to the Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution Magazine.

A Special Committee from the three chap-
ters asked the Mayor and City Commissioners
for a twelve months' salary for our public
school teachers. This work will be fol-
lowed up.

The Brainerd committee had the name of
the boulevard leading to the site of this old
Indian mission changed from Bird's Mill Road
to Brainerd Road. (The County Court made
this change of name at request of members of
the committee.) Two road signs reading:
" Brainerd Road, marked by Chickamauga
Chapter, 1921," have been placed on the road
and other work is planned to mark this site.

The Chapter sent flowers and attended the
Loyalty Day services in memory of the soldiers
lost in the World War and also Decoration
Day. We were represented in parade at state
meeting of American Legion. On invitation of
local authorities members took part in local
clean-up week.

February 22nd the three chapters united in
celebrating Washington's Birthday. The cele-
bration took the form of a reception, luncheon
and historical pageant at the Hotel Patten.
Officers of the Chapters and Mrs. Yearwood,
State Secretary, an honor guest, formed the
receiving line.

The Chapter had a full representation at
both state and national meetings. At the May
meeting complete reports were made of Conti-
nental Congress proceedings and all officers
of the Chapter were unanimously reelected.

In response to a call the last of June from
our State Regent for East Tennessee to make

up a deficit of $9000 on D.A.R. Hall, at Lin-
coln Memorial LTniversity, there was a called
meeting of the three chapters. It was decided
to inaugurate a Talent Campaign, in order to
raise money, and every Chapter and every
Daughter was asked to give, make or get
money in any way she could. This led to all
sorts of work being done and to two social
events in our Chapter. The first was a large
card party, sponsored by Mrs. Harris and Mrs.
Hunt, at the Golf and Country Club, at which
$88 was cleared. The larger social event given
by the entire Chapter was a Midsummer Merry-
making lawn party on the evening of July 21st,
at the ideal country home of one of our mem-
bers, Mrs. Walter Cummings ; Mrs. C. C.
Nottingham, Chairman. Daughters and their
friends contributed in every way imaginable
to the success : each one volunteering to do
work in her special line. They made salad,
baked hams and contributed money to the bar-
becue supper ; made candy and all sorts of
fancy work for the bazaar booths on the ter-
races ; presented clever vaudeville entertain-
ment. The grounds were artistically lighted
and the six hundred guests pronounced it the
most beautiful al fresco afiFair ever given in
Chattanooga. It would be impossible in a
short report to do justice to each one who
helped the Chapter to clear $1800 at this party.
In addition, every member was given an oppor-
tunity to make a contribution of money, and
these contributions ranged from $1 to $100,
making a total of $974 to add to our fund,
bringing the total amount raised by Chicka-
mauga Chapter in the Talent Campaign
to $2811.14.
(Mrs. John H.) Louie Christie Cantrell,

Regent.

Jean Nicolet Chapter (De Pere, Wis.).
On August 3, 1921, the Committee on Histori-
cal Markers of the Jean Nicolet Chapter,
accompanied by the Regent and a choice num-
ber of its members and other friends, started
out to erect tablets on six of the interesting
sites in or about Green Bay and De Pere. The
party assembled at the residence of Mrs. F. T. -
Blesch, chairman of the Marker Committee.
It comprised an interesting company, represent-
ing three generations who were descendants
from early occupants of the land neighboring
De Pere and Green Bay. Mrs. Tetro, of Mari-
nette, eighty-six years of age, but active and
still bright, was a granddaughter of Ashwau-
bemie, who married a daughter of Standing
Earth, Chief of the Menominees, and through
her came into possession of a large tract of
land on the west side of Fox River. Mrs.
Tetro was dressed, as befitted the granddaugh-
ter of a great chief, in partial Indian costume

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and her small, calm, brown face looked very
sweet under her beaded bandeau.

Our first objective point was one of the build-
ings of old Fort Howard. The house was
built in the early twenties and is still in excel-
lent condition. In view of there being six
markers, which in the opinion of the committee
should be placed immediately, we had decided
to use temporarily tablets of wood painted
white with lettering and frame of the D.A.R.
blue. These were mounted on stout posts, each
bearing its appropriate inscription.

A short initiative talk was given at the hos-
pital building of Fort Howard by Mrs. Bran-
son, our Regent, followed by brief historical
data given by Mrs. Blesch and others for the
benefit of onlookers not posted in local history.

On this first tablet was inscribed:

Hospital of old Fort Howard — 1816

This Building formerly stood

with the

Surgeon's Quarters and the Powder Magazine

On the River outside the Stockade

This mode of procedure was followed at all
the sites visited.

On the land bordering the west shore of
Fox River and south of the Walnut Street
Bridge stood in the eighteenth century and
possibly much earlier a large Menominee vil-
lage, and to the south, now occupied by the
extensive plant of the Northern Engineering
Works, lay the burial ground of the tribe.
While excavation for this building was being
made, a skeleton was unearthed and many
relics, beads, bones and silver trinkets were
found, conclusively proving that at an early
day the place was constantly used for bur-
ial purposes.

To mark this historic site two tablets were
placed, one on the N. W. Engineering Works,
the other descriptive of the village on the Over-
land automobile building. This last marked:

OLD KING'S VILLAGE

On this tract of land

Running south about three blocks

In the eighteenth century

Was the Menominee village of the old King

Cha-ka-cha-kama

Grandfather of Chiefs

Tomah and Oshkosh

Near this Indian Encampment, Tomah,

A noted Chief of the Menominees

representing his aged grandfather

Went forth to meet and confer

With the Officers of the United States Army

on the first landing of

American Troops

August 7th 1816.

Erected by Jean Nicolet Chapter

Daughters of the American Revolution

August 3, 1921

Crossing the river to the east side our com-
pany stopped at the corner of Adams and
Chicago streets to place a marker on the site
of the building occupied in later fur-trading
days by the Astor Company, and in 1835, by
the first bank of Wisconsin.

The text ran :

On this site stood the First Bank West of Lake Michigan.
This building was erected by the American Fur Company
And was part of the John Jacob Astor Trading House
and Office.

On the lovely road that borders the river to
De Fere on the east side, the west side road
being still in course of construction and not
open to vehicles, the gay pilgrims journeyed
undaunted by heat and dust.

The long bridge was crossed at De Fere,
and driving north about two miles on the De
Fere road, we turned toward the river and
placed a tablet on the spot designated by Mrs.
Tetro as the home of Ashwaubemie and
Waubenuqua.

A large marker was erected on the roadside
on the same tract of land bearing the legend •

Ashwaubemie (Side Looks)
Waubenuqua (Morning Star)

On this tract of land 440 yards east stood in 1790, the
home of Ashwaubemie a celebrated Ottawa chief and
his wife W'aubenuqua, whom he rescued from the
Chippewas. Ahkeeneebeway (Standing Earth) Chief of
the Menominees was the father of Waubenuqua. Here
they lived for many years and here is their burial place.

(Miss) Sarah Martin,

Historian.

Tennent Chapter (Asbury Fark, N. J.).
In the great message of the President General,
published in the April number of the Daugh-
ters OF THE American Revolution Maga-
zine, we are told that work and service, not
social pleasure or prestige, are the fundamental
principles of our Society. Tennent Chapter dur-
ing the past year has been learning this mes-
sage of work and service.

Our work has been educational, commemo-
rative and memorial. We have been contribu-
tors to the school at Crossnore; N. C. ; to the
International School of Springfield, Mass. ; the
Guernsey Scholarship ; the National Reform
Association and the Filgrim Fountain Fund.
It was the pleasure of the Chapter to offer a
prize to the night-school at Long Branch, N. J.,
for the best essay on Americanization. Our
work has reached out and crossed the sea. As
has been the habit of the Chapter for a few
years past, we have remembered the orphaned
boy in France, who at limes writes so grate-
fully to his god-mothers in Tennent Chapter.
We have sent our contribution to the unfor-
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other ways as objects and causes have pre-
sented themselves, we have been messengers of
instruction and comfort.

As our most far-reaching educational work,
I would mention our contributing our full
quota to the fund for the introduction of the
" Manual for the Information of Immigrants,"
thus helping to prepare for American citizen-
ship such of foreign birth as to enter the gates
of the United States and abide permanently
among us. We also donated copies of the
Manual for a local Italian class.

As our memorial work we have contributed
toward the erection of a most beautiful monu-
ment standing within the enclosure of the ceme-
tery of Old Tennent Church at Tennent, N. J.,
a memorial to the brave young men who went
from the county of Monmouth to enter the
service of the United States during the World
War and who came not back to their native
land, but whose bodies rest somewhere over
the sea.

As an act of special memorial work, an im-
pressive service was held on Armistice Day.
It was the marking of the grave of a soldier
of the American Revolution. The Chapter, its
friends and many of the descendants of the dead
soldier assembled at Point Pleasant, N. J., to
honor the memory of John Chamberlain. For
five years this man wore the buff and blue of
the Continental army. He shared the fortunes
and privations of that army and there is at
Washington a fine military record of his ser-
vices. On the same day, at the same hour in
which Tennent Chapter conducted this service,
the nation's Unknown Soldier was buried at
Arlington. There was a marked difference in
the setting of these two ceremonies. One was
in a great national cemetery with much military
music and crowds of people and ceremony
around a great tomb. The other, a little coun-
try grave-yard where tall trees shed their dying
leaves and sighed softly over a low grave.
One grave covered youth, the other a man who
had lived for more than a century, yet the pale
autumn sun on that Armistice Day shone on
services alike in this — they were held in mem-
ory of men who had given of life's best in
defense of their country.

As we count time Tennent Chapter is still
young. On February 23, 1922, the Chapter
celebrated its seventh birthday by a banquet
at the Marlborough Hotel, Asbury Park. Dur-
ing these seven years we have grown in num-
bers, but I think I voice the feeling of the
Chapter when I say we have also grown in
earnestness of purpose, in patriotism and the
desire to be loyal Americans and to guard well
the traditions of our forefathers.

Sarah R. Erricksox,

Chapter Historian.

Fairfax County Chapter (Vienna, Va.),
under the Regency of Mrs. Henry W. Petty,
of Arlington, unveiled two memorial tablets
September 19, 1922, at Leesburg, marking the
graves of Mrs. Narcissa McClanahan Gillespie
and Mrs. Matilda Burch, daughters of William
McClanahan, a Revolutionary hero.

The bronze tablets bearing the insignia of
the Society, and the words " Real Daughters,"
are set in white granite.

Mrs. Burch died May 21, 1910, and Mrs.
Gillespie December 3, 1916. Both sisters were
born near Warrenton, Va., and spent most of
their long lives in this State. They united
with Fairfax County Chapter in 1907 under
the Regency of Mrs. George E. King. Their
father, William McClanahan, was born in
Westmoreland County. Va., July 25, 1762. He
enlisted in the Colonial Army in 1778 at the
age of sixteen years in the 3rd Virginia Regi-
ment, under Colonel Bulford. He received
thirteen wounds in battle and two marks upon
his body for the rest of his long life bore
testimony to his valiant service ; one a silver
plate in his scalp placed there because of a
severe wound in the head, and the other the
imprint of a horse's hoof on his back as he lay
seriously wounded and unconscious on the
battlefield. He was taken prisoner at Hanging
Rock, S. C.

A second enlistment under Captain Weaver
was from February until May, 1781. The
simple exercises in the Cemetery at Leesburg
were in charge of Mrs. Henry W. Petty, Chap-
ter Regent, with invocation and benediction by
Rev. Mr. Craighill, Rector of St James Epis-
copal Church, Leesburg. Mrs. Joseph Berry,
Chairman of Historic Spots, gave a brief
account of the lives of the Real Daughters
and of their father's service, in the cause
of freedom.

The descendants of William McClanahan
attending the unveiling were Mrs. William
Stuart, Edwin Stuart, Miss Mary Dove, Mrs.
J. L. Morris, Mrs. Henry Goucher, and her
little granddaughter.

Annette S. Berry,

Historian.

Carantouan Chapter (Waverly, N. Y.)
makes its bow to its sister chapters, since it
has just celebrated its first birthday. On Sep-
tember 20, 1921, the Organization meeting was
held at the home of the Organizing Regent,
Mrs. Frank Wells Merriam The Organization
ceremony was conducted by Mrs. Charles White
Nash, State Regent of New York, and the
presentation of the gavel was made by Mrs.
Anthony Wayne Cook, Vice President General
from Pennsylvania.

There were 54 organizing members in the
new Chapter, having brought their transfer

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papers from the sister Chapter, Tioga Point,
from just across the State line in Pennsylvania.
During the year 14 new members have been
added, making a total membership for the
Chapter, at the close of its first year, of 68.
There have been seven regular meetings dur-
ing the year, with an average attendance of 31.

On March 22nd, in place of the regular
meeting, it took the form of a banquet, which
was held at one of the local churches and to
which members could invite their friends. After
the banquet, there was a program of music,
and delightful readings of the Dorothv Dix
negro dialect stories by Mrs. Walter R. Shafer.
The serious side of the program was an address
by Miss Katherine Darren, of New York, upon
present-day Current Topics, with special refer-
ence to the Genoa Conference, at that time but
recently past.

The celebration of the first birthday of
Carantouan Chapter took place at Waverly's
delightful tea house, " The Iron Kettle in the
Pines." Luncheon was served to the members
of the Chapter and their guests. After a very
brief business session, the program included
brief remarks from visiting Regents of sister
chapters, who brought greetings and congratu-
lations from their chapters, and each one spoke
of the size and potential strength of the " one-
year-old infant."

Before the presentation of the Chapter char-
ter, a brief history was read of the notable

charters of history and how the custom has
developed since the Magna Charta was pre-
sented in the 13th century. The charter was
then unveiled by Miss Maurice, Regent of the
Mother Chapter, Tioga Point, and presented to
Carantouan Chapter by the State Regent, Mrs.
Charles White Nash. It was received in behalf
of the Chapter by the Regent, Mrs. Merriam,
who responded with sincere feeling and gracious-
ness. Mrs. Nash then gave a splendid address
along patriotic lines ; she spoke of the work
accomplished in the State organization during
the past year, of the increasing demand for the
Manual for Immigrants ; and was most enthusi-
astic in speaking of the cottage which the New
York State organization is building to be used
as a dormitory for the industrial school for
girls at Tomassee, N. C. The cottage is the
first to be built by any State and is to be dedi-
cated on November 18, 1922. In closing, she
spoke of the new powers recently bestowed
upon woman, with the vote, and of the frequent
appeals being made through organizations and
otherwise for their endorsement of new legis-
lation. She appealed to those present as mem-
bers of the largest patriotic organization in this
country, to study all such new legislation care-
fully and be sure they do not endorse any
laws which would tend to undo that for which
our forefathers fought, bled and died.

Alice Parsons Fish, ■

Assistant Historian..

FORM OF BEQUEST

Where one desires to leave both real and
personal property to the National Society,
Daughters of the American Revolution any one
of the following forms can be used :

" I hereby give, devise and bequeath, abso-
lutely and in fee simple, to the National Society
of the Daughters of the American Revolution,
having its headquarters at Washington, in the
District of Columbia, (here describe the nature
of the property to be given), to be used and
expended for the objects and purposes for
which said National Society was incorporated."

In case a cash legacy only is desired to
be given.

" I give and bequeath, absolutely, to the
National Society of the Daughters of the

American Revolution, having its headquarters
at Washington, in the District of Columbia,
the sum of

($ ), to be used and expended for the

objects and purposes for which said National
Society was incorporated."

In case a devise of real estate only is desired
to be given to the National Society.

" I give and devise, absolutely and in fee
simple, to the National Society of the Daughters
of the American Revolution, having its head-
quarters at Washington, in the District of
Columbia, (here describe the real estate in-
tended to be devised), to be used and ex-
pended for the objects and purposes for which
the said National Society was incorporated.

^ ^aoe in
lleralbr p

Conducted by
Edith Roberts Ramsburgh

Drawings by
Zoe Lee H. Anderson

RUST

Burke, in his works on Heraldry, says :
"Rous (Edmerstone County, Devon, and Hal-
ton County, Cornwall), descended through the
marriage of William Le Rous, son of Sir Rob-
ert Le Rous, Knight Banneret under the Black
Prince, with Alice, daughter and heir of
Thomas Edmerstone, of Edmerstone, from
Radulphus Le Rufus, a Norman Knight in the
army of William of Normandy; of this family
was Francis Rous, M.P. for Devonshire,
Speaker of the Short Parliament and one of
Cromwell's Lords."

Rust is the same as Rous, Russe and Raste,
and is probably a name descriptive of com-
plexion or personal appearance, perhaps de-
rived from the ruddy or russet appearance of
the skin, which exposure to the weather gives
to the healthful, sturdy farmer, soldier
or seaman.

The name Rust is found in the ancient
archives of England, whence the American Rusts
came early in 1600. Mention is made of one
Hugh Rust, 1312, and in 1379 the names of
Thomas and Robert Rust are found.

George Rust, a native of Cambridge, Eng-
land, B.A., M.A., and B.D., in Christ College,
Cambridge, 1658, was raised to the Bishopric
of Dromore, where he died 1670, and was
interred in the choir of the Cathedral in the
same vault with his friend Jeremiah Taylor.

Henry, the progenitor of the family in Amer-
ica, came from Hingham, Norfolk County,
England, 1633-1635, and settled at Hingham,
Massachusetts. There is no record of the
name of his wife or the place of his marriage,
but the names of his six children are on record.

This family has intermarried with Clarks,
Norths, Warners, Bartletts, etc.

DRUMMOND

This family is of lineal descent from the
ancient Scotch family, the first of whom took
the name of Drummond being Maurice, son
of George, a younger son of Andreas, King of
Hungary, which Maurice, left England and
meeting with a violent storm at sea, he was
forced to put into the River Forth and landed
at Queen's Ferry, Scotland.

Malcolm HI, King of Scotland, bestowed
upon Maurice Drummond great wealth and
honor, and especially a large estate in County
of Lennox and the stewardy thereof.

John Drummond, the seventh Steward of
Lennox, lost his lands and retired to Perth-
shire, where he married Mary, the daughter
of Sir William de Monterex, Lord High Treas-
urer of Scotland, and their daughter, Annabel,
was the Queen of Robert III and mother of
James I of Scotland. Through the succeeding
generations the Drummonds bore the highest
civil and military offices and intermarried with
the nobility.

" The Peerage of Scotland," published in
1767, a rare old book, gives the complete Drum-
mond excurses. The Drummonds who came
to Virginia were originally from Perth. When
their ancestors left their native heath, out-
lawed and numbered among the attainted peers,
their estates forfeited because of their adher-
ence to King James H, in the Revolution of
1688, the younger branches fled to England
and France and some to America.

The first to become identified with the Vir-
ginia Cavaliers was William Drummond, who
had a grant of land in James City County.

James Drummond, another descendant of the
Drummond of Perth, immigrated to Virginia
and settled in Farquhar County and served
both in the Colonial and Revolutionary Wars.

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Department of the
HISTORIAN GENERAL

Historical Program

Conducted by
GEORGE MORTON CHURCHILL, Ph.D.

IV. The Advance to the Mississippi, 1783-1840

For general references on this period see
Sparks : Expansion of the American People. 88-
104, 118-150; Austin: Steps in the Expansion
of Our Territory, 127-149; or Channing:
United States, vol. v, ch. ii.

I. The Occupation of the Old Northwest.
For a general account see Turner, Rise of

the Nczv West, 66-90.

Ohio was settled from four centres, drawing
from different sections of the coast region : the
Ohio Company (New Englanders) around
Marietta; the Virginia Military Reserve and
the Symmes Purchase (Middle States) in the
South; and the Connecticut Reserve in the
North. The latter did not reach its full de-
velopment until western New York had been
occupied and the second generation was ready
to move further on.

Hinsdale. B.A. : Old Northivcst, 270-284
(map, 281).

McMaster: Historx of the People of the
United States, ii, 144^156.

In Indiana Harrison's treaties with the In-
dians and Tecumseh's opposition to them helped
to bring about the War of 1812.

Adams : History of the United States vi
69-89.

Babcock: Rise of American Nationalitv
31-36.

The War of 1812 and the commercial depres-
sion on the coast helped to populate Illinois,
at first largely from the South. Michigan was
underestimated and neglected until the country
south of the Lakes had been settled.

MciMaster: iv, 381-403.

Nicolay and Hay: Abraham Lincoln, vol. i,
ch. iii (Illinois).

II. Cotton Culture and the Southwest.
The incentive to the westward movement in

the South was the demand for cotton and the
need of new land for its extensive cultivation.
The Creek War opened new areas in Alabama,
and cotton culture by slave labor spread rap-
idly from the exhausted soils of the coast to
the Mississippi.

Turner : Rise of the Nczv West, 90-95.

Smedes : Memoirs of a Southern Planter, ch.

738

III. Missouri and the Trans-Mississippi.
Meantime the fur trade, the lead mines, and

the fertile soil had drawn a large population,
mostly from the South, into the lower Mis-
souri valley.

Slavery spread into Missouri because of early
conditions of French and Indian slavery, the
character of its immigration, and a climate
favorable to slave agriculture. Her claim for
admission in 1820 brought on the first sectional
clash over slavery extension.

Turner : Rise of the Nczv West, ch. x.

Channing : United States, v, 323-329.

IV. Transportation and Settlement.

For general descriptions see Channing:
United States, v, ch. i ; Sparks : ch. xxi-xxiii ;
or Babcock : ch. xv.

The Cumberland Road was built in answer
to the demand for a route over the mountains
to the Ohio country and beyond.

McMaster: iii, 469-470; for a full and pic-
turesque account see Hulbert, A. B. : The
Cumberland Road.

The introduction of steam navigation on the
Ohio and Mississippi helped greatly to bring in
settlers and bring out their produce.

McMaster: iv, 401-402; v, 166-167.

For more detail, see Hulbert, A. B. : Waters,
zvays of Westzvard Expansion.

The Erie Canal (1817-1825) built up western
New York and brought its commerce to New
York City, checking the trend towards Mon-
treal. With the building of the Ohio canals
and the opening of lake navigation after 1840 it
became an outlet for the crops of the Northwest.
-McMaster: iii, 415-418; iv, 131-137.

For more detail, see Hulbert, A. B. : Great
American Canals, v, ii.

V. The Frontier Spirit.

" That coarseness and strength, combined
with acuteness and acquisitiveness ; that prac-
tical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find ex-
pedients ; that masterful grasp of material
things, lacking in the artistic, but powerful to
effect great ends ; that restless nervous energy ;
that dominant individualism."

Turner: Rise of the Nezv West, 105-110;
Frontier in American History, 261-280.

Croly : Promise of American Life, 52-65.

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ANSWERS

3149. Cartwright. — Hezekiah Cartwright. b
in Md., Oct. 11. 1761. went with his f John C.
and family to Raleigh, N. C. there Hezekiah
m Hannah Lavender b Jan. 2, 1763, dau of John
and Hannah Lavender. Li 1800 moved to Ga.
Children, Xancy b July 4, 1787: dau who m
John Harris in Wilson Co. Tenn. in 1810.
Hezekiah Cartwright went to Wilson Co.,
Tenn., in 1808, and he m 2nd Elizabeth Alahol-
land. Your ancestor Matthew Cartwright b
1754 was probably Hezekiah's brother. Heze-
kiah Cartwright sol on payroll of Capt. Alex-
ander Whitehall of the 1st N. C. Regt. of Mil..
commanded by Col. Sam'l Jarvis, June 2, 1780.
Ref.: Clark's State N. C. Records, Vol. 17,
p. 1054. Grimes History of N. C. gives many
Cartwright wills, they are also found in the
Md. calendar of wills. — Mrs. H. A. Goddy. Col-
lege Park, Ga.

9981. Bristow-Elkins. — James Bristowcame
to Ky. 1789, he was a Rev sol of Capt. Ashe's
Co. N. C. troops. His f James was from Mid-
dlesex Co., but prior to moving to Ky. they
had moved to Buckingham Co., Va., where
James, Jr., was b. James Bristow, Sr., had bro
Benjamin who was killed at the Battle of
Brandywine in the Rev. — Mary Emma Dunn,
Owensboro, Ky.

10257. Barker-Fristoe. — Edmond Martin b
in Va. m for his 2nd w Susannah (Fristoe)
Dulin. He d in Millersburg or Maysville, Ky.,
Nov. 28, 1811, aged 66. Susannah his w d July
18, 1821, aged 62. They were m March 10,
1788. Susannah Fristoe was dau of Daniel
Fristoe, who d Nov. 3, 1774, in Phila., aged
35. He m Marv Barker. Children one s

Thomas, b Nov. 17, 1767, d April 23, 1815, who
might be the f of your Capt. Thos. Fristoe;
Susannah, b June 29, 1760, m Edmond Martin ;
Lydia, b Nov. 17, 1761 ; Mary, b May 22, 1765;
Ann, b June 13, 1772; m Wm. Grinstead ;
Katherine. b June 9, 1774, m Rhoden Hood. —
Mrs. Arthur H. Sproat. 1307 E. 9th St.,
Pueblo, Colo. —'^

10340. Protzmann. — One Protzmann family
who owned Ky. property was that of Lawrence
and John Protzmann, the latter Wash. Co.,
Md. In April 1814 Michael McKiernan, son-
in-law, and Catherine Protzmann, John and
Henry Protzmann, heirs of John Protzmann,
deceased, deeded their remaining interest in the
lands on which Paris, Ky., stands to the town
trustees. Hope this may be of assistance. —
Mrs. JV. N. Whitley, 525 Vine St., Paris, Ky. '
N. 10371. Roder.— Thomas Roder, of Rocking-

^ ham Co., Va., m Elizabeth Miller ; he was the
s of David and Ruth Henton Roder. David's
f Odam Roder was the first settler in the Shen-
andoah Valley of tliis name, probably b in Pa.
Wayland's History of Rockingham Co. gives
some information about the Roders and
Roder's Church. Would be pleased to corre-
spond with you.— --i. H. Yodcr, University

J of North Dakota.

10408. Gannaway.— Gregory Gannaway who
was in the Rev m Sept. 22, 1779, Rhoda Robert-
son. He d Aug. 24, 1804. Rhoda d St. Charles
Co., Mo., Oct. 12, 1852, aged 92 yrs. Their
ch Robertson b July 7, 1780; Jeffrey b Oct. 31,
1781; Pollv, Aug. 12, 1784; Sally b March 8,
1786; Caty b May 15. 1788; John b Nov. 15,
1789; Judith b Sept. 16, 1791; Norvelle b May
3, 1793; Edmond b Jan. 9, 1795; Wm. b Oct.

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31, 1796; Pamelia b Aug. 3, 1798; Thomas b
June 18, 1800; Patsie b Mar. 20, 1802. A Wm.
Gannaway b Sept. 17, 1812, d Sept., 1867, m
Feb. 16, 1841, Martha E. Berry. Their s Wm.
was b in Ky. but went to Mo. when quite a ch.
—Mrs. F. C. Burkcy, 520 Hawkins Ave., Han-'
nibal, Mo.

10430. Shepherd. — Tarrant Putnam b Apr.
1, 1780, d Feb. 27, 1837, at Halifax, Vt. Nancy
Shepherd b Jan. 30, 1795, d Apr. 16, 1859, at
Bennington, Vt. These dates are from their
stones in the cemetery at old Bennington. Their
dau Nancy Maria, 1826-1901, m Tarrant Sibley,
1818-1895. Mary Putnam, another dau, m
Addison Fowler, and Harriet Putnam m Hart-
well Sumner. — Delia Putnam Sibley, Benning-.
ton, Vt.

10495. PoND.^ — The " Genealogy of Samuel
Pond and His Descendants," by D. S. Pond,
can be gotten at the Goodspeed Book Shop,
Boston, Mass., price $5. Bartholomew was
the 3rd son of Philip Pond and Thankful
Frisbie. He m Lucy Curtis and d in Camden,
N. Y., aged 72. His widow Lucy Pond d Mar.
1. 1882, aged 84. The Adjutant General's
Military Dept. State of Conn, at Hartford gives
the following State Records Bartholomew Pond
b Branford, Conn., 1736, d Camden, Oneida
Co., N. Y., 1810. " In addition to his ser in
Capt. David Smith's Co., the records state he
was a member of Capt. Curtis Co. from Water-
bury, July 4, 1776; Lieut, in Mil between Apr.
3 and Nov. 1, 1779; Lieut, of 1st Co. of train
band of Northbury, town of Waterbury, May,

1769. He served in Campaign of 1755 and 1757,
French and Indian W^ars. Captain Lewis, of
Southington, and Capt. Preston, Wallingford."
Thus he was a sol in both Colonial and Rev
Wars. — Mrs. Wm. H. Ziegler, Livingston, Ala.-

10496. CuRTiss.- — For parentage of Jeremiah
Curtiss write C. W. Langdon, Southington,
Conn., Rev rec of John Curtiss s of the above
is as follows : John Curtiss b Southington or
Farmington Jan. 20, 1739-40, d Southington,
Conn., Mar. 25, 1801, m Dec. 2, 1762, Mary
Lewis b 1742, d 1815. Their s Jeremiah b

1770, d 1813, m Rachel Carter, b 1772, d 1858.
John Curtiss was an agent for procuring tents
during the Rev and was a member of the State
Convention of Conn, called to ratify the Fed-
eral Constitution. He voted in the affirmative.
Timlow's History of Southington, Conn. — Mrs.
D. K. Moore, 25 S. Broad St., Hillsdale, Mich.

10496. Curtiss. — This query is also ansd by
Mrs. James C. Lezvis, 1632 Franklin St., Den- ^
ver, Colo., who gives the following : Jeremiah
Curtiss was the s of Zachariah the s of Wm s of
Elizabeth, the immigrant. See Curtiss Geneal-
ogy by Frederick Haines Curtiss. John Curtiss
s of Jeremiah was a deacon from May 19,

1782, to 1801, also held the office of Justice
of the Peace for several years.

10542. Weatherbee. — Dana Davis, b Dec. 17,
1804, in Templeton, m 1st Mary B. Osborne,
May 15, 1834, and 2nd Lavinia Sawtelle, Apr.

■^ 15, 1866. Both wives of Mr. Davis were de-
scended from the immigrant John Weatherbee,
who resided in Marlborough and Stowe, Mass.,
and who m Sept. 16, 1672, Mary Howe. — Mrs.
L. H. Johnstone, 1236 S. Broadway, Green-
bay. Wis.

10561. Smith. — Ann Smith, who m Daniel
Trigg, was the dau of Guy Smith, Bedford Co.,
Va. The will of Guy Smith mentions his dau
Ann Trigg as 1st devisee; and Daniel Trigg
one of the executors. Guy Smith was sheriff

'of Bedford Co., 1778-1779-1780. He m Ann
Hopkins, of Goochland, Va., 1751. He was the
s of John Smith bapt June 3, 1701, in Glouces-
ter Co. and his w Ann Bowker, King and
Queen Co. John was the s of Reverend Guy
Smith an Episcopal minister who came to Va.
abt 1700; was rector of Abingdon Parish,
Gloucester Co., and d abt 1720. — Miss Maud
C. Penn, Monticello, Ga.

10566. Wilcox. — Edward Wilcox, of West-
erly, R. I., and Tansom Thompson, of Taunton,
Mass., m by Elder Sam'l Danforth May 16,
1698 (R. I. Vital Records, Vol. 6, Westerly,
page 69). Their ch : b in Westerly, R. I.,
Sarah b May 30, 1700; Thomas b Feb. 8, 1702;
Hezekiah b Apr. 4, 1704; Elisha b July 9,
1706; Amey b Oct. 18, 1709; Susannah b Apr.
4, 1712. Edward Wilcox, of Westerly, R. I.,
and Dinah Barber, of S. Kingston, R. I., m
by Rouse Helme, Justice of the Peace, June 14,
1716 (R. I. Vital Records, Vol. 6, Westerly,
page 69). Their ch b in Westerly, R. I., were
Mary b Oct. 14, 1717; Hannah b Oct. 9, 1720;

» Lydia b Apr. 6, 1725; Susannah b Oct. 4,
1727; Joseph b Aug. 27, 1730. R. I. Vital
Records, Vol. 6, page \AS.—Mrs. O. L. Bos-^
zvortJi, 625 Hope St., Bristol, R. I.

10574. Harrison-Herbert. — Charles Harrison,
bro of Benjamin the signer, m Mary Claiborne,
whose mother was Mary Herbert. Charles
Harrison was Brig. Gen'l in the Rev War ; his
ch were Chas. killed in duel ; Augustine d in-
fancy; Benjamin and Henry twins, b June 30,
1775 ; and four daus.— i^^-z;. B. L. Amcell, D.D.,
Mahan School, Yang Chow, China.

10581. Caldwell.— Write Mrs. P. B. Collins,
2047 Park Rd., Wash., D. C, who will be able

" to help with this line.

10594. Hubbard. — Nathaniel Colburn, of

— Matick, m Dorcas Jones, of Harvard, and lived
in Concord. Their s Nathan m Betty Fuller,
of Stowe, and lived in Leominster. This Betty
Fuller was Elizabeth dau of Edward and Lucy
Hubbard Fuller, whose m intentions were filed
Aug. 19, 1745. (See Vital Records Stowe,

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741

Mass,, page 145.) Lucy Hubbard, dau of
Daniel and Dorothy Dakin Hubbard, they were
b & m in Concord, Mass., and lived there until
abt 1726, when they moved to Worcester, Mass.,
where Lucy was b Sept. 28, 1727. (See Collec-
tions of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Vol.
12, page 303.) Edward Fuller was b abt 1720
and d Mar. 3, 1783, aged 63. (See Vital Rec-
ords Leominster, Mas-s., page 313.) Widow m
2nd Simeon Butler in 1791. (ID pages 179,
203.) He d 1795. (ID 297.) She m 3rd
Joshua Ward, 1797. (ID 179.) For further
ref. see Genealogy of Descendants of Edward
Colburn, Lowell, Mass., 1913, page 36, as to
Nathan Colburn. The " Descendants of Ed-
ward Colburn " check with the records in " One
Thousand Years of the Hubbard Family " ex-
cept that the author of this work states Daniel
and Dorothy Hubbard moved to Holden, Mass.
This must be an error, as we find no record of
them in the Vital Record of that town. We
do find, however, a clear record of them in the
" Worcester Antiquity Society Collections "
above referred to, as will be shown by the fol-
lowing table : Daniel Hubbard b Concord, Mass.,
Nov. 20, 1694, page 40, m Dorothy Dakin,
Dec. 5, 1717, page 92; she was b Concord, Aug.
5, 1698, page 45. Their ch were Dorothy b
Mar 24, 1718, page 96; Bulah b Dec. 23, 1720,
page 101; Martha b Oct. 18, 1722, page 107;
Rebecca b June 10, 1724, page 112; Daniel b
Jan. 8, 1725, page 115; he d Apr. 18, 1805,
aged 79. (See Vital Records of Leicester,
Mass., page 262.) Lucy b Sept. 28, 1727;
Elizabeth b Oct. 23, 1729; Zurvih b Mar. 31,
1732, and Jonas b May 21, 1739. The page
references are to " Concord, Mass., Births,
Marriages, and Deaths," the records of births
of ch from Lucy to Jonas are shown on page
145 of " Worcester Society Collections " supra.
Edward and Lucy Fuller had a s Edward b
Mar. 18, 1758 (V. R. Leominster, page 59),
Vol. 6, Mass. Soldiers & Sailors in the Rev
War gives an Edward Fuller of Leominster
private in Capt. Wm. Warner's Co. Ref. to
the muster rolls of this Co. would show whether
this was father or s provided age appears on
same. Would like to correspond with L. A. M.
— James C. Woolley, Portland, Me. •>•

10601. Sumner. — Jerusha Sumner b at
Princeton, 21 Oct., 1780, m Elias Fowler; she
was the dau of Daniel Sumner b at Mendon,
1739, d 31 July, 1810, and Lydia Fairbanks,
his w, who d 30 Aug., 1814. His father Daniel
Sumner, who was b at Mendon, 24 June, 1709,

d 12 May, 1779, and m Beriah was the s

of Ebenezer Sumner b at Milton 9 Dec, 1673,
d 1712, m at Mendon 18 Jan., 1706, Abigail
Lovett of Mendon. Ebenezer's father George
Sumner bapt at Bicester, England, 1634, d 11
Dec, 1715, m 7 Nov., 1662, Mary Baker, who

d 1st Apr., 1719. His f Wm. Sumner, b 1605 at
Bicester, England, d 9 Dec, 1685, m 22 Oct.,
1625, Mary West, who d 7 June, 1676. William's
f Roger Sumner who d 3rd Dec, 1608, m 2nd
Nov., 1601, Joane Franklin, of Bicester, Ox-
fordshire, England. Ref : Sumner Genealogy
by Wm. Sumner. — Catherine Lindsay Greer,
1401 Linden Street, Pine Blufif, Ark.

10605. (b) Stokes.— William Stokes of
whom you write, was not the s of Thomas (1)
Thomas (2) John (3). I have all the geneal-
ogy of the Stokes Family beginning with the
first Thomas, the progenitor of the Stokes
Family in America. Have a list of the ch of
the three above Stokes men and no Wm. ap-
pears in these lists. Thomas Stokes of England
was the progenitor of the New Jersey Stokes.
He settled in North Hampton Twp., Burling-
ton Co., N. J., was a prominent man of his times
and a " Signer of the Concessions." Thomas
Stokes, of Lower Shadwell, m in Westbury
Friends Meeting, London, England, 30th Oct.,
1666, Mary Bernard, of Stepney. Members
of the Devonshire House Meeting. Sailed for
America in the ship Kent and arrived at New
Castle June, 1677. They proceeded to Burling-
ton Co., N. J., and settled on the tract of
land containing 162^ acres. He named the
location Stockingham. Their ch were Sarah b
1693, m Benjamin Moore; Mary m John Hud-
son, 1696; John m Elizabeth Green, 1712;
Joseph m Judith Lippincott 1st and Ann Haines,
widow, 2nd; Thomas m 1704 Deliverance Hor-
ner 1st and Rachel Wright 2nd. The elder
Thomas d July 11, 1720. John, s of Thomas
and Mary, came with his parents to America in
1677 and m in 1712 Elizabeth Green. He was
b 1675 and d Sept. 11, 1749. Their ch were
John b May 16, 1713, m Hannah Stockdell,
1740; Mary m Edward Mullen; Elizabeth m
Richard Blackham and Sarah m Isaac Rogers.
Children of John, Jr., and Hannah Stockdell
Stokes were Mary, John, David, Jarvis, Han-
nah, Elizabeth and Rachel. He lived in Hay-
cock Twp., Bucks Co., Pa., and d Aug. 24,
1798. If you write to Elizabeth B. Satterth-
waite, 52 N. Stockton St., Trenton, N. J.,
she may be able to help you.— Mr.?. Daisy A.
Field, 311 Westbridge Ave., Blackwell, Okla.

10607. Ransom. — Newton Ransom b Feb. 21,
1722, m Sarah Jones Sept. 21, 1742. There
is a history of the Ransom Family compiled
by John Ransom, who traces the line back to
1630. This may be of assistance to you.— Afrj.
Wm. S. Van Fossen, 48 Alban St., Colum-
bus, Ohio.

10616. Nixon. — Wm. Nixon's father was
John and the family probably removed from
Va. to S. C. during the Rev. There is on
record in Camden, Kershaw Co., a will exe-
cuted in 1797 by John Nixon, in which he

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mentions his s Wm. and six other ch. The His-
torical Commission of S. C. at Columbia has a
record of pay issued to John Nixon as Secre-
tary of Commodore Gillon of the Navy of S. C.
during the Rev. There is also a bounty grant
for him on record in the house of the Secretary
of State there. I can give names and dates of
b of Wm. Nixon's ch, his w was Priscilla A.
Parker b in N. C. Sept. 13, 1796, m 1st John
Pickett ; was left a w with one s. Some in-
formation may be found in looking through
Parker and Pickett connections of N. C. — Mrs.
C. S. Cordray, West Beach, Gulfport, Miss.

QUERIES

10751. TousLEY. — Wanted name and dates of
w and ch of Mathew Tousley, Rev sol who
enlis'^ed at Rupert, Vt.

(a) Porter-Canfield. — Wanted gen with
data of ances of David Olmstead Porter b
July 4, 1809, d Jan. 1, 1887, and of his w Caro-
line Janet Canfield b July 16, 1815, d Jan. 17,
1886. Thev were m Jan. 28, 1835, in North
Bloomfield, N. Y.

(b) AvERY. — W^anted name and dates of w
and ch of Daniel Avery, Rev sol in ser of N. Y.
State. Wanted also his ances. — H. R. M.

10752. Howard. — Would like to corres with
someone who is a desc of Samuel Howard,
whose father was James or Nathan, Pastor of
the New Light or Baptist Church in New
London, Conn., and also Pastor of same Church
in East Lynn, Conn. James Howard came to
this country from England before the Rev and
was in New London when it was burned by the
British. He was m twice and had 19 ch, three
of whom were Ebeneazer, Amos and Samuel.
His 2nd w maiden name was Morgan. Am
anxious to know whether there is any Rev ser
rendered by this branch of the Howard family.
— G. G. O.

10753. McBride. — Wanted parentage, gen of
James McBride, of Bryn Mawr, Pa. Had two
bros, George and Joseph. Any inf will be
greatly appreciated. — R. W. McB.

10753X. Pancake-Lawrence. — Wanted all
data of John Pancake and w Catherine Law-
rence. John had sister Betty and bro Andrew.
All b Romney, Va., west fork of Potomac.

(a) Wilson.— Wanted all data of Ezra Wil-
son who had sons Samuel (original Uncle
Sam), Robert and Wm. William Wilson kept
White Horse Inn & Gap Tavern. — J. O. E.

10754. Parker. — Is John Parker, who m
Hannah Bassett, dau of Wm., a s of Edward,
who m the wid Elizabeth Potter? Or is he a
s of John (5), Ralph (4), Wm. (3), Wm.
(2), Abraham (1) & Rose Whitlock?—
G. H. R.

10755. Aile-Thompson. — Israel Aile or Ailes
fought & was killed in the battle of Lexington

or Bunker Hill. Wanted his desc & all data in
the line of John McClung Thompson, a native
of Green Briar Co., W. Va., who (Thompson)
moved to Springfield, & then to Marion, O.^
L. V. A. W.

10756. Taylor. — Wanted parentage of Sarah

Taylor m Brooke, lived in Pendleton Dist.,

S. Car. ; their ch Margaret Hodges Brooks m
Judge John Brown, Ala. ; Eleanor m Jesse M.
Posey ; Wm. lived in Mobile ; another dau m
Shearer.— E. W. F.

10757. Strain-Buchanan. — Wanted data on
these families. Rev. John Buchanan Strain,
b Bulger, Washington Co., Pa., 1823. Was s
of John Strain, b 1787, and Mary Buchanan, b
1791, m in 1815. They were related to the
Marshalls and Mooreheads of that same re-
gion.—N. L. S.

10758. Foye. — Wanted parentage with dates
of William Foye, b Salem, Mass., abt 1760.
Married 1st Elizabeth Masury, m 2nd Sept.
23, 1798, Mary (Collins) Leadbetter. Served
in the Rev on ship TJwmas and brigantine
Tyraiiicidc, reported to have been one of the
Boston Tea Party, Dec. 16, 1773, moved to
Portland, Me., 1811. Had ropewalk which
was used as barracks by Amer. soldiers during
War of 1812. Died at Portland during the
War.— A. G. S. S.

10759. Jones. — Wanted inf concerning Rich-
ard Jones, b in Va., prob abt 1750. Had s
Wm. and dau Elizabeth. Also (?) Francis
and Amion. Moved to Ky. abt 1780.— J. R. W.

10760. Simpson. — Wanted parentage and gen
of Mary Simpson of S. C, who m 1st Robt.
Blake. Their ch were Jane and Margaret
(twins), 2nd m William Scott Gray. Their
ch U. S. Gray, Eliza, Isabella and Sallie. Did
her f have Rev rec?

(a) Satterwhite. — Wanted m rec of
Bartlett, Satterwhite, s of Francis and John
Satterwhite, Sr., of Va. and S. C— N. S. D.

10761. Connor-Harrison. — Daniel O'Conner,
a s of Ed. O'Conner of Ireland came over dur-
ing the Rev War and ser under Washington. To
escape his parents and British rights of search
on the high seas he changed his name to Caniel
Conner. His Rev rec desired. At the end of
War he went to work in the Iron Mines of Pa.
Schuylkill River, nr Phila. : m Lydia Harrison,
whose mother was a Miss Thomas. Wanted
f of Lydia and her Harrison ances. The ch of
Daniel and Lydia were Polly, Clement, Lydia,
Harrison. Daniel, Wm. and Penrose. Daniel
located first iron ore beds of Slate Creek in
1786 and he and his associates moulded &
shipped cannon balls from their furnaces to
Gen. Jackson at New Orleans in 1812-1815.
Daniel (2), s of Daniel (1), b m Pru-
dence Head. He fought in War of 1812 in
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Lieut, at the close of the War. His bro
Harrison ser with him & after the War built
the first house in Owingsville, Ky. Daniel re-
mained in Army, ser in putting down the
Indian uprising in Ohio. Served in Confederate
army rank of Lt. Col. & in Ky. Senate. Wanted
gen of Head family. Their ch were Wm., Mar-
garet, George, Lucinda, Emily, Richard, Albert,
(a) Conner-Shafer. — Albert, youngest s of
Daniel and Prudence, b 1843 at Beardstown,
Ky., Nelson Co., m Mary Dorothy Shaefer.
Wanted her parentage. Their ch were Mary
E., Wm., Nicholas, Lucinda, Wallace & Ellis.—
E. J. K.

10762. Walton. — Wanted parentage of Ezra
Walton and Rev rec of f Ezra, b 1788, d 1834,
m Polly Doud at Guilford, Ct. Later lived in
western N. Y.

(a) Titus. — Wanted parentage and gen of
Tryphena Titus b 1790 in Courtland Co., N. Y.,
m Philip Church, a sol of 1812, and d in Cov-
ington, N. Y.

(b) RocKHiLL. — Would like to corres with
anyone having Rockhill ances or inf regarding
Edward Rockhill, his three bros & two sisters,
who in 1818 removed from N. J. to Ft.
Wayne, Mich.

(c) W^HiTE-RoGERS. — Wanted information
regarding Capt. Jos. White, of Mendon, Mass.,
who m 1660 Lydia Rogers, dau of Elder John
Rogers, Weymouth, Mass. Have either May-
flower ances? Would like to corres with desc.

(d) Baldwin. — Was Sarah Baldwin dau of
Joseph, b 1653, m Samuel Bartlett, of Milford,
Ct. a desc of Richard Baldwin.— H. N. C.

10763. MiDDLETON. — Wanted parentage of
Joseph Middleton, of Norfolk Co., Va. He was

b in 1744. He m in Oct., 1765, Elizabeth .

Wanted her maiden name and parentage.

(a) Pierce. — Wanted genealogy of Martha
B. Pierce, who m John S. Middleton in 1833.
Her f was Nathaniel Pierce of Halifax Co.,
N. C.

(b) Hall. — Wanted names of the ch of Rev.
Clement Hall, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal
Church in Edenton, N. C. He d in 1759.—
T. M. B.

10764. Wilcox. — Wanted Rev ser and names
of parents of Henry Wilcox, b in Adams,
N. Y., August 4, 1800.

Thompson. — Wanted maiden name of
Frances, w of Dr. David Thompson, of New
Castle, Del.; had s David, b 1795, m for her
second husband Mr. McAlister, of Nashville.

Pettus. — Wanted parentage and Rev ser
of Thomas Pettus, b in Va. Apr. 22, 1761.
Had bro Stephen, Dabney and sister Susan.

Deaderick. — Thomas Deaderick, s of David
Deaderick, of Winchester. Was his first w
Miss Raworth or Ann Julia Dangerfield?

Bryan. — Was Wm. Bryan, d in Culpeper

in 1806, a s of Joseph, the oldest s of Morgan
Bryan of Pa. and N. Car. ?— R. W. B.

10765. Dorsey - Gideon. — Andrew Jackson
Dorsey of Harper's Ferry, W. Va., b 1827, m
Amanda Gideon and moved to Ohio. About
1854 they moved to Mo. The parents of An-
drew Jackson Dorsey d young, and their ch
became scattered and lost trace of relatives.
Would like to corres with desc of either the
Dorsey or Gideon family.

(a) St. Clair-Patterson. — James St. Clair
m Mary Patterson. Both were members of
the Friends' Church and residents of Loudoun
Co., Va. He entered land in Richland Twp.,
Belmont Co., Ohio. Their s Wm. b 1779, m
Alice Smith of Loudoun Co., Va., and moved to
his father's land in Belmont Co., Ohio. Geneal-
ogy of the St. Clair and Patterson families
desired. — A. G. St. C.

10766. Cross-Gould. — Wanted gen. Rev rec
of ances of Reil Cross (supposed to be of
Huguenot extraction of N. C), b Windsor.
Conn., 1787, m 1811 in Barton, Orleans Co.,
Vt. Cornelia Gould b 1795 in N. H. Sisters
Hannah and Jeanette lived and d in Woodbury,
Ohio. Would like to corres with any of their
desc— F. B. E.

10767. Hopkins. — Wanted parentage gen.
dates and all inf of David Hopkins, of Wash-
ington, Me., b Jan. 13, 1804, m Martha Trask
Jan., 1823.— C. L. McF.

10768. Riley.— James Riley settled near
Bennington, Switzerland Co., Ind., abt 1814,
coming there from Ohio. Probably Muskingum
Co. Was he a Rev sol ? The Riley's were orig-
inally from Bedford Co., Pa. Would like to
corres with members of this family. — F. G. R.

10769. Mitchell. — Wanted parentage with
dates of Mary Mitchell, b 1785 in Dauphin Co.,
Pa. She m Nov. 5, 1811, James Murray.
Wanted also Murray gen. — M. Q. M.

10770. Brickell.— Would like all inf possible
of the Brickell family which came over in 1723
with Governor Burlington. Rev. Matthais
Brickell m Rachel Nogall. Wanted also her
gen. Their s. Col. Matthais Brickell, had a
dau who m Godwin Cotton, of Mulberry Grove,
Edenton, N. C. Moore's History says Dr. John
Brickell was a physician, naturalist and histo-
rian. Am very anxious to get a record of him
after he left Edenton. — T. McG.

10771. Kautz.— Wanted any inf of the family
of Hannah Kautz, who was b Hagerstown,
Md., Dec. 10, 1781.— M. B. D.

10772. Ram KIN. — Wanted parentage and
names of bros and sis of Wm. Ramkin, Rev
sol Lincoln Co., N. C, who was b Jan., 1761,
and d Dec. 9, 1853. His pension record is in
the Pension Office at Washington, D. C,
No. 7342.

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10773. Cupp. — Marcus, Mark, & Marquis
Cupp of Pa., and of Augusta Co., Va., m Han-
nah . Their s Valentine b Sept. 1, 1766,

d May 30, 1853. Wanted name of any other ch,
also dates and Rev rec of Marcus Cupp. —
D. C. R.

10774. FitzRandolph. — Wanted to corres
with any direct desc of James FitzRandolph. —
Mary F. Randolph Peckham, ZZ Oakland Ave.,
Lynbrook, L. I., N. Y.

10775. Stone. — Wanted dates of b, m and d
and Rev rec of Enos Stone of Berkshire Co.,
Mass., who probably enlisted in June, 1776.
Wanted also maiden name and dates of his w.
Their dau Mary Stone m Gurdon Hollister and
d in Lenox, Mass., Feb. 13, 1846.— E. H. W.

10776. Hunt. — Wanted place of res during
Rev and at time of d of Ephraim Hunt, b
1704, d 1790, ser as 2nd Lieut, in 16th Mass.
Regt. ; transferred to 9th, and later to 4th
Mass. Regt. His f was Deacon Simon Hunt
and his mother Mary Raymond. — M. W. B.

10777. Hereford. — Wanted parentage of
Elizabeth Hereford, b in Va. and d Nov. 22,
1830, who m Jacob Shaw in Hagerstown, Md. —
D. S. S.

10778. McKean-Thompson. — Wanted gen
and dates of Laetatia McKean, who m as his
2nd w Oct., 1758, in Phila., John Thompson,
1727-1790. Their s was Rev. John Thompson,
1767-1795. Wanted name and dates of his w.
Their dau Esther m John William Crockett.
Wanted their dates of b, m and d. Wanted
also any inf of Wm. McKean and his w Lae-
tatia, dau of Robert Finney. — G. G. P.

10779. BoYLES.— William Boyles, 1st Va.
Regt. W. D. Ref : Supplement to Rev Soldiers
of Va. by State Librarian. Is he the same Wm.
Boyles who, according to the 1790 Census, lived
in Washington Co., Pa., with w and one ch?

(a) Titus. — Wanted the origin of the Titus
family who founded the town of Titusville,
Crawford Co., Pa. Was Susan Titus b abt
1800 who m Wm. Boyles and lived after her m
in Benango Co., just across the line from
Crawford Co., a member of this family? Her
dau Mary Ann Boyles, b 1830, m Robert Mc-
Cormick, and lived near Tidioute, Warren Co.,
Pa.— J. M. M.

10780. Smith. — Wanted parentage and place
of b of Clements or Clemence Smith, b abt
1790. Wanted also name of his w. They lived
in Westmoreland or Fayette Co., Pa. Their ch
were Martin, who was in the National Guard ;
George, Matthew, Levi, and two daus, names
unknown. Was Clements Smith's f a Rev sol?
— M. H. H.

10781. Steer.— Wanted Rev rec of ances of
Ruth Steer, b 1747, Lancaster Co., Pa., dau of
Joseph and Grace Edgerton Steer.

(a) Jackson. — Wanted Rev rec of Josiah
Jackson, b 1732, Chester Co., Pa.— R. M. B.

10782. Allen. — Wanted parentage, name of
w and Rec rec of Joseph Allen, of Albemarle
Co., Va. He d in Spotsylvania Co., 1782. —
C. A.

10783. Crosthwaite. — Wanted parentage with
dates and Rec rec, if any, of Perry Crosth-
waite, b 1783, d 1823. He m 1st Elizabeth
Morse, 2nd Mrs. Fannie Madison Breeden, of
Harrison Co., Ky.

(a) Rees. — Wanted gen and dates of
Stephen Rees and also of his w Nellie Mitchell.
Their dau Eliza b 1804 Princess Anne, Somer-
set Co., Md., d in Maysville, Ky., m 1822
Wm. Lilleston. Rees family was originally
from Wales.

(b) Lewis. — Wanted gen of Rachel Lewis,
b 1748, d 1822, and m Thomas Trundle, b 1746,
d 1795, Patriot of Frederick Co., Md. She
came to Bourbon Co., Ky., a widow with four
sons and three daus, to which branch of the
Lewis family did she belong? — B. A. L.

10784. Martin.— Robert McTeer (Mateer)
of Cumberland Valley, Pa., migrated from
there abt the close of the Rev, coming down
through Va., and was one of the early pioneers
of East Tenn. He was the s of James McTeer,
one of the pioneers of Cumberland Valley.
Robert m Agnes Martin and this following
record was kept by him : " Wm. Martin Mar.
29, 1718 ; Margaret Martin Apr. 26, 1721 ;
Agnes Martin Apr. 26, 1741 ; James Martin
May 9, 1743; David Martin Oct. 24, 1745;
Sarah Martin Apr. 15, 1747; Elizabeth Martin
Aug. 3, 1754; Janet Martin Nov. 24, 1752; Wm.
Martin Dec. 15, 1754; Margaret Martin Jan. 19,
1756." Would be very glad to corres with any
desc of this family. There was another Robert
McTeer who lived in Mififlin Co., Pa., who was
m three times, his 2nd w being a Martin, and
this family afterwards removed to Fairfield
Co., Ohio. Another Martin record : Janet
Martin b in Mififlin Co., Pa., 23 Apr., 1788, m
1st Thomas Wilson Apr. 9, 1807, and 2nd John
Knox, Dec. 5, 1815. What has become of the
descent of the Martin Family? — W. A. McT.

10785. Irvine-Irwin. — Wanted parentage of
Nancy Irwin who m Wm. Armstrong in Nash-
ville, Tenn., in the early part of 1800.

(a) Hart.- — Wanted parentage of Joseph
Hart, who lived in Nashville, Tenn., m Nancy
Suggs and d at Dandridge, 1793.— A. M. B.

10786. Pearce. — Wanted parentage of Willis
Pearce, b 1767 in Sussex Co., N. J., m Jan. 8,
1791, Mary Shephard. In 1803 he moved to
N. Y. State, three miles from Penn Yan, Yates
Co. He had a farm that he lost after the War
of 1812. He moved to Decatur Co., Ind., and
d Nov. 9, 1829. Had bros Benjamin and Jona-
than, who ser in the Rev. — B. E. W.

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10787. Justice. — Wanted parentage of Wm.
Justice, who m Eleanor Umsted, also of Ac-
quilla Justice, who m Margaret Umsted. Their
father was Nicholas Umsted who m Ann
Davis.— M. L. F.

10788. Galloway. — Wanted parentage of
.Sallie Galloway, b in Botetourt Co., Va., abt
1765, d in S. C. 1846; had she Rev ancestry?

(a) Davis.— Did Van Davis, Sr., of S. C,
who d in 1810, ser in the Rev? Wanted maiden
name of his w Lucy. Their dau Jane Davis m
Thomas Burress in 1800.

(b) GiLKEY. — Wanted parentage of Agnes
Gilkey b 1766, m 1785 Wm. Moorehead, a
Rev sol in S. C.

(c) Burres-Chamblee. — Joshua Burres b
1724, m abt 1765 Sarah Chamblee or Shambley
in N. C, later moved to S. C. Did he have
Rev rec?— L. B. W.

10789. Leatherbury. — Wanted Rev rec and
dates of b and d of Wm. Leatherbury who
lived shortly after the Rev nr Smyrna, Del.

He m before the Rev Miss ■ ■ Dudley, and

had seven ch, the eldest Perregrine b 1775.
William m 2nd the wid of his cousin John
Leatherbury. It is said he was an officer with
the Del. or Md. troops. — M. S.

10790. Van Nostrand. — Wanted parentage
and gen of Charity Van Nostrand of White
Plains, N. Y., who m abt 1770 Samuel Carter,
b 1736, of Lancaster, Mass., a Rev sol. —
E. N. S.

10791. Caxtwell. — Capt. Edmond Cantwell,
said to have come to this country abt 1664
as high sheriff of N. Y., later he was high
sheriff of New Castle Co., Del., and represen-
tative to General Assembly of Pa. Wanted all
possible data regarding Capt. Cantwell, his
ancestry and descendants.

(a) Smith. — Wanted the ancestry of Mary
Smith who m 1820 in Coshocton, Ohio, James
Cantwell.— E. H. C.

10792. Stephens.— Wanted maiden name of
w of John Stephens who ser in Rev as Corp.
in Capt. Omuns Co., 10th Regulars. He enl
July 3, 1779, from Chatham Co., N. C.

(a) Laffoon. — Wanted parentage of Mary
Laffoon b 1749, d 1846, m 1768 in Rocking-
ham Co., N. C, Cornelius Keith.

(b) Mackey. — Wanted parentage of Mar-
garet Mackev, of Buncombe Co., N. C, who m
George Keith b 1772.

(c) Freeman. — Wanted parentage of Eliza-
beth Freeman who m Chas. Lay in Va. but
came to Pickens, S. C, soon after the Rev.

(d) Bryan. — Wanted parentage and data of
Needham Bryan b 1797, m Mary H. Harris nee
Green in Burke Co., Ga., moved to Lee Co.,
Ga., abt 1840, d 1853.— W. P. L.

10793. Woodin. — Wanted ances and name of

w of Milo or Millow Woodin, who lived in
Southbury, Conn., 1790.— E. W. H.

10794. Lewis. — Wanted date of d and m of
Col. Exum Lewis b 1710, of Edgecombe Co.,
N. C. He was Col. of Mil. in said Co. Came
from Brunswick Co., Va., to N. C, settling
first on Albemarle Sound and later moving to
Edgecombe Co. ; settled on Swift Creek.
Wanted also dates of his w Elizabeth Figures,
who came from Suffolk Co., Va. Their country
home was called Mt. Prospect and was not far
from Tarboro.— O. B. R.

10795. Moore. — Wanted parentage of John
Moore of Pitt Co., N. C, b 1784, d 1844, m
Mary Kinsaul 1808. Was his f a Rev sol?
John was a Presidential Elector from the State
of N. C. at the election of James K. Polk
for President.

(a) Kinsaul. — Wanted parentage of John
Kinsaul, a Rev sol of Pitt Co., N. C, who
was b in Princess Anne Co., Va., 1759. — L. M.

10796. Salmon. — Wanted parentage of Sarah
Salmon, b abt 1765, m Solomon Van Valken-
burg of Kinderhook, N. Y. Did her f ser in
the Rev?— E. J. V.

10797. Curtis. — Wanted ances and dates of
b, m and d and Rev rec of Elizur Curtis who

m Mercy . Their dau Axa or Aba m Wm.

Hurd, d Jan. 25, 1815, aged 43.— H. S. P.

10798. Edwards-Bond. — Wanted all dates of
John Edwards b Apr. 15, 1748, and parentage
and dates of his w Nancy Bond, whom he m in
Balto. Co., Md. They moved to Knox Co.,
Ohio, and had ch Henry b June 27, 1769 ; John
b Jan. 5, 1774; Charles b Oct. 8, 1777; Tem-
perance b June 3, 1780. Did John Edwards
have Rev rec? His father, Wm. Edwards,
came from Wales to N. C, where the following
ch were b: John b Apr. 15, 1748; Simeon b
July 8, 1752; Drucilla b Mar. 4, 1755; Otter
b June 3, 1760; Franklin b May 6, 1767.
Wanted name and dates of William's w. —
P. J. McH.

10799. Mason. — Wanted dates and Rev rec
of Benjamin Mason who m as her 2nd husband
Olive Soper Durfee. Their ch were Martin m
Polly Griswold, Melintha m Obadiah Jenks ;
Charles m Christinia Rounds ; Hepsabeth m
Erastus Mason; Benjamin m Polly Akins ;
Olive m Miles Traver ; Sophia m Thomas
Richardson. — J. F. A.

10800. Harris. — Wanted ancestry of John
Harris, who came from the North of Ireland,
settled in Balto. and moved to Lancaster Co.,
Pa., 1809.

10801. Hall.— Wanted ancestry of Wm.
Hall, who moved from Loudoun Co., Va.,
to Hardy Co., W. Va., abt 1797, and m a dau
of Col. Wm. and Sudora Hughes Lowther. —
D. L. K.

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10802. PooRBAUGH. — Wanted Rev ances of
Julian Pciorbaugh of Somerset Co., Pa., b 1810,
d 1900, m 1833 George Heffley.

(a) Moore. — Reuben Moore, Columbia Co.,
N. Y., had s Plato Bolivar, who m Sara Lu-
cinda Davis, who d 1848. She had bros Uriah,
Wm., John B. of Chatham, Columbia Co.,
N. Y.— R. S. H.

10803. Burns. — Wanted proof of ser in Rev
of Ignatius Burns of Loudoun Co., Va. —
B. R. E.

10804. CoviLLE-CovEL-CoviL. — Wanted par-
entage and bros and sis and birthplace of
Hannah Coville, b 1760, d Feb. 29, 1826, m
Nathan Armstrong. Removed from Montgom-
ery Co., N. Y., to Cohocton, N. Y.

(a) Huntley. — Wanted gen bros and sis,
birthplace and dates of Abby Huntley who m
Asa Flint. Studied medicine with her father,
rode horseback and practised medicine in
Albany Co., N. Y. Her s Sephman was

b 1777.

(b) Franklin. — Wanted parentage, place of
b and Rev rec of Ishie Franklin b Apr. 4, 1750,
d Nov. 11, 1795, m Aug. 18, 1771, Martha
dau of Leiut. Samuel Pierson, Killingworth,
Conn.— M. G. H. E.

10805. Reed.— Wanted Rev rec of John Reed,
an Irishman, who immigrated to Va. abt 1750
and later became a pioneer of Lincoln Co., Ky.,
where he built his fort in 1779 and d in 1806.
Wanted also name of his w. His ch were Wm.,
John, Jr., Thomas, Jonathan, Mary Ball,
Sarirght Green, Lettice Hughes, Martha Bir-
ney.— S. B. A.

10806. Wilson.— Wanted gen of Ezra
Wilson, who had sons Samuel, the original
" Uncle Sam " ; Robert and William who m
widow of Jesse Dungan. They kept the White
Horse Inn and Gap Tavern. — F. J. E.

10807. BuKROws - Burroughs - Borrows. —
Wanted parentage with their dates of John

Burrows, who went to Washington with the
Government in 1800 and d there 1810. He
was m four times, 1st to Lois, dau of Rev.
Nathaniel Hubbell, granddau of Richard Hub-
bell ; 2nd to Mrs. Sarah Morgan, dau of Josiah
Wood ; 3rd to Mrs. Susannah Roberts dau of
Jabez Wood ; 4th to Mrs. Elizabeth Magee
dau of John Newman.

(a) North-Davis. — Wanted dates of b, m
and d of Sarah, dau of Roger North, who m
1733 Ann; also dates of her husband Elisha
Davis and his parentage. Their only ch Sarah
b Sept. 26, 1762, d 1844, m Amos Jordan, b
Jan. 5, 1762, d 1843; their ch were Hannah m

■ • Waugh ; Francis m Miss Bull ; Rachel m

James Cloyd North ; Catherine m Wm. Sander-
son ; Sarah ; Samuel ; John ; Eliza m Nathaniel
Burrows; Jeremiah m 1st Margaret Foresman

and 2nd Oakes ; Rebecca m Charles Crafts,

and settled in Salem, Oregon. — A. B. C.

10808. Harris. — Wanted inf concerning
Patience Harris who was living with her s
John, shown in Beaufort Co., S. C, Census
1830; in 1850 she was 97, member of R. W.
Simmons family, w Kesia ; ch : Owen, Andrew,
Sarah Ann, Harriett, Ellen. — B. G.

10809. McCuNE. — Wanted parentage of Capt.
Joseph McCune, who ser in the War of 1812
under Wm. Henry Harrison and was bur at
Bloomfield, Ohio. Wanted also parentage of
his w Mary Sloan. — F. L. O.

10810. BuRRiTT. — Wanted parentage with
dates of John Burritt, 1745-1818 of Monroe,
Conn. Wanted also parentage of his w Eliza-
beth . Their ch were Abijah, Morley,

Phebe, Amarillis, Hezekiah, Isaac, Ann, James,
Samuel. Had John Rev rec?

(a) Blaker. — Wanted parentage and dates
of Jesse Blaker, 1777-1870, Bucks Co., Pa., m
1st Christian Thomas, m 2nd? — L. W.

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lONALBOARD-OF
MANAGEMENT

Regular Meeting, October 17, 1922

REGULAR meeting of the National

Board of Management was called to

order by the President General, Mrs.

George Maynard Minor, in the Board

Room of Memorial Continental Hall,

on Tuesday, October 17, 1922, at

10.05 o'clock.

In the absence of the Chaplain General, the

President General repeated her favorite prayer,

the members of the Board uniting with her in

the Lord's Prayer.

The President General spoke of the illness of
Mrs. Lockwood, who has been for some weeks
in a hospital in Plymouth, Mass., and suggested
that a message be sent her from the Board.
Moved by Mrs. Harris, seconded by Mrs. Buel,
and carried by rising vote, that a letter of love
and sympathy be sent to Mrs. Lockwood.

Miss Coltrane, as chairman of Auditing
Committee, spoke of the illness of Mrs. Boyn-
ton. Honorary Vice President General and a
member of her Committee, who had served on
the Auditing Committee, with the exception of
two terms, from the time it originated, and
moved the sending of a message of love and
appreciation to Mrs. Boynton. Seconded by
Mrs. Wilson and carried.

Mrs. Gillentine reported the serious accident
which had befallen Mrs. Charles B. Bryan of
Memphis, and moved tliat a telegram of sym-
pathy be sent to Mrs. C. Bryan of Memphis,
Tenn., zt'ho has served the National Society
efficiently and is noiu seriously ill. Seconded
by Mrs. Cook and carried.

Mrs. Cook referred to the continued illness
of Mrs. Sparks, who is recovering quite slowly,
and moved that a vote of sympathy be sent her.
Seconded by Mrs. Hanger, and carried.

The roll was called by the Recording Sec-
retary General, the following members being
recorded present: National Officers: Mrs.
Minor, Mrs. Harris, Mrs. Whitman, Mrs.
McCleary, Mrs. Cook, Mrs. Heath, Mrs. Hol-
den, Miss Campbell, Mrs. Hodgkins, Miss Mc-
Duffee, Mrs. Mondell, Mrs. Buel, Mrs. Block,
Mrs. McCall, Mrs. Yawger, Mrs. Elliott, Mrs.
Hanger, Miss Strider. Mrs. Hunter, Miss Col-
trane, Mrs. Ellison; State Regents: Mrs. Bis-
sell. Miss Todd, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Chubbuck,
Mrs. Perkins, Miss Gilbert, Mrs. Guernsey,
Mrs. Denmead, Mrs. Shumway, Mrs. Seydel,
Mrs. Fitts, Mrs. Nash, Mrs. Spencer. Mrs.
Young, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Gillen-
748

tine, Mrs. Reed; State Vice Regent:
Mrs. Strawn.

Telegrams were read from members unable
to be present, and the President General an-
nounced that Mrs. Hanger, in her capacity as
Chairman of Building and Grounds Committee,
had arranged for luncheon to be served in the
Banquet Hall for those members who wished
to avail themselves of this arrangement.

The President General read her report.

Report of President General

Members of the National Board of Manage-
ment :

The following is the report of your Presi-
dent General since our last regular meeting on
June 8th.

Immediately after the June Board meeting,
accompanied by your Treasurer General, she
called upon several Senators in the interest
of our bill for tax exemption (on lots in the
rear of the Hall) which had been passed by
the House, and was being held up by the
Committee on District Bills. As a result of
this interview a promise was obtained that the
bill would be favorably reported out of com-
mittee in a few days. However, discussion of
the Tariff Bill delayed action by the Senate
until just before the adjournment of Congress,
when it passed. The bill was approved by the
President on September 16th, and our land is
now free from taxation.

One Special Board meeting and two Execu-
tive Committee meetings have been held.

On June 22nd your President General and
your Recording Secretary General accepted an
invitation from Mr. Will Hays, President of
the Motion Picture Producers of America, to
attend a meeting in New York City, to which
the heads of the principal nationally federated
organizations, working for better conditions,
had also been invited to discuss what ought
to be accomplished in placing before the public
the highest moral and artistic standards in
motion pictures, and the best way to do this ;
also the development of the educational as well
as the entertainment value and general useful-
ness of motion pictures.

As a result of this meeting a committee of
twenty was appointed in the interest of this
work and your President General was asked
to serve thereon.

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749

She stated she could only serve as an in-
dividual, imtil such time as the matter could
be presented to our Board for its decision as
to whether it wished to have a representative
of the Society on this committee, and that ques-
tion will come before you under new business.

No financial responsibility is involved and
no action taken by the committee of twenty is
binding upon any organization against its own
wishes. On July 7th another meeting was held
in New York City, which your President
General attended.

Another disappointment has come in the site
for our fountain at Plymouth.

The Court House site had been definitely
promised to us as was reported in June, but
it was subject to the approval of our design
by the County Commissioners. We naturally
supposed there would be no objection by the
County Commissioners to a design made by
such world renowned architects as McKim,
Mead and White, whom we had chosen to
design our fountain, especially as the Tercen-
tenary Commission representing the United
States Government, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts and the town of Plymouth, had
also chosen this firm as consulting and advisory
architects in all the plans for the restoration
of the water front and the various buildings in
connection with the Tercentenary celebration,
but such did not prove to be the case. Ob-
jection was made to the design submitted and
therefore our architects have been unable to
arrive at any agreement with the County Com-
missioners, and that site has been abandoned.

Your President General is now in corre-
spondence with Mr. Lord, who represents the
Tercentenary Commission in regard to another
site and has also made one trip to Boston to
confer with him in regard to the situation.
The delay is regrettable but it is not our fault.

Your Manual for Immigrants is being more
and more widely used and appreciated both on
Ellis Island and in many sections of the country.
It is being sent to petitioners for citizenship
under Government frank by the Bureau of
Naturalization in St. Louis, working in cooper-
ation with the Daughters of the American
Revolution. Letters in praise of it have been
received from many workers in the field of
Americanization — one saying in effect that it is
" the best book of its kind now in use." Steps
are being taken by your Vice-Chairman in
Charge of the Manual toward the publication
of a second edition of the English version,
which will be needed in the near future, as
this is the language that has been and will
continue to be in most demand. Its phraseology
will be simplified in certain passages, and the
law recently passed relative to the independent
naturalization of women will be included. As

to the funds for continuing this work, your
President General is glad to report that the
states are responding in a very encouraging way
to the call for the new contribution of twenty-
five cents a member and are pledging their
cooperation in raising it. Another foreign
language will be issued as soon as the funds
justify the expense.

Early in the summer the Committee Lists
were compiled, printed and copies sent to the
National Officers and the Chairmen of commit-
tees in order that plans for this year's work
might be made and sent to the State Chairmen
a little earlier than heretofore. Plans have
been already presented by most of your
National Chairmen.

A Special Board meeting was held on July
28th, for admission of members and organi-
zation and confirmation of chapters, which was
attended by your President General and nine
other memljers. This mid-summer meeting was
an innovation, made necessary by the unusually
large number of application papers awaiting
action by the Board since the June meeting.
Nine hundred and seventy-five new members
were admitted, a number of members-at-large
were confirmed as Organizing Regents and a
number of chapters were reported organized.

Previous to this meeting we had lost by
death two esteemed ex-national officers of our
Society ; our Honorary President General, Mrs.
John W. Poster and a former Registrar Gen-
eral, Miss Grace M. Pierce. Mrs. Foster was
President General, 1895-1896, refusing reelec-
tion, and Miss Pierce, as you all know, rendered
valuable service to the Society as Registrar
General for the year 1909-1910 and from 1915
to 1920. She was the Society's Genealogist
from 1918 until her resignation, April 30th
of this year : she also served on several
national committees.

The President General suggested that it
would be more fitting at that time to appoint a
committee to draw up resolutions upon the
deaths of these officers to present to the larger
Board meeting of to-day — she did so and these
resolutions will be called for later at
this meeting.

During the summer word came to your
President General of the death of Mrs. Virginia
B. Moody, the State Vice Regent of South
Dakota, and the resignation of the State
Regent of New Hampshire, Mrs. Lorin Web-
ster, who will make her home in Pekin, China.

Upon the kind invitation of our Treasurer
General, and in company with several National
Officers the next few days \vere spent at her
home in Tidioute, Pennsylvania. From there
we all motored to Chautauqua, New York,
where your President General had been invited
by the Chautauqua Institution to deliver an

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address in the auditorium on D.A.R. Day. A
luncheon and reception given by the Chautau-
qua Circle of Daughters preceded this occasion
and was much enjoyed.

On August 24th your President General left
her home in Connecticut for a vacation in
the Canadian woods, returning to Waterford
on September 22nd, where many matters
awaited her attention.

Since her return she has visited the State
Meetings of Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Massachusetts, at each of which an address
was made. At different times during the
summer and fall, chapters have entertained most
delightfully in honor of your President General
and she has been privileged to bring the
work and aims of our Society to these
chapter groups.

An invitation was accepted on October 12th
from the Board of Governors of the Sulgrave
Institution to attend the unveiling of a bust
of James Bryce, in the Senate wing of the
Capitol, which ceremony was held in the morn-
ing and was followed by a luncheon given by
Ambassador and Lady Geddes at the British
Embassy. The guests went from there to the
unveiling of a statue of Edmund Burke, the
great friend of the American Colonists. Both
the bust and the statue were presented to
America by Sir Charles Wakefield for the Sul-
grave Institution of Great Britain, through the
Sulgrave Institution of America. At the unveil-
ing of the statue a wreath was placed in the
name of our Society. The Sons of the Ameri-
can Revolution and the Sons of the Revolution
likewise placed wreaths.

On September 6th, as has been the custom
of our Society for a number of years, a wreath
was placed on the statue in this City of
General Lafayette, by instruction of the Presi-
dent General.

At the meeting of the Board in June your
President General spoke of the work being
done at Ellis Island, telling of the need for an
assistant teacher, and that the Daughters carry-
ing on the work there would be grateful for
contributions for kindergarten supplies. It
was stated during the discussion of this subject
that an assistant teacher could be procured for
$10 per month, but it was afterward found this
was a mistake. The Board approved a motion
that $100 be given to the Chairman of the
Patriotic Education Committee for Americani-
zation work among the children at Ellis Island,
to which work the Captain Molly Pitcher
Chapter pledged $20 to make up the sum of
$120 for the year. There being urgent need
for kindergarten supplies and the Board having
given the money for Americanization work
among the children this sum has been drawn

upon for these supplies, by means of which
the children could be taught. The Ellen
Hardin Walworth Chapter assumed the assist-
ant teacher's salary for the summer months,
until the matter could be brought to the Board
to ascertain whether we should assume the
responsibility for the salary of the assistant
teacher at a higher figure.

Mrs. John S. Remsen, Chairman of the
Americanization Committee of the Ellen Hardin
Walworth Chapter has been one of the Ellis
Island workers. On July 28th, Reverend L.
E. Sunderland, Chairman, General Committee
Immigrant's Aid at Ellis Island, wrote your
President General expressing appreciation for
the work that has been done and stated that
he felt it would be very helpful to have the
Daughters of the American Revolution defin-
itely represented upon their General Committee,
and upon this invitation Mrs. Remsen, who
had been so closely in touch with the work at
the Island, was named to serve upon this Com-
inittee, she to do her work under the Vice-
Chairman of Americanization of our Patriotic
Committee. It might be well to state that
but $40 has been expended so far for
kindergarten supplies, but there may be
something outstanding.

To take charge of the new department under
our Patriotic Education Committee, which your
President General announced at the June Board
meeting would be created, a department in the
interest of Better Films, she has appointed Mrs.
Edward P. Schoentgen, of Council Bluffs, Iowa,

Mrs. Schoentgen is taking hold of this work
with enthusiasm, has asked for State Chairmen,
and it is hoped State Regents will not only ap-
point chairmen in their respective states but
will also take active interest in furthering this
movement for better films. The public will
patronize movies in any case. The Daughters
can do much toward providing better, more
worth while pictures.

The Administration Building as you know
is nearing completion. You will hear from the
Chairman of the Building Committee the pro-
gress that has been made during the summer.
With the removal of our offices to the new
building it will be possible to refurnish the
rooms vacated in keeping with the character
of this building.

It is hoped that eventually Memorial Conti-
nental Hall will be furnished throughout with
Colonial furniture and thus be a fitting expo-
nent of the period represented by our Society.
Respectfully submitted,

Anne Rogers Minor,
President General.

Moved by Mrs. Seydel, seconded by Mrs.
AlcCall, that the President General's report be
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Mrs. Yawger read her report as Recording
Secretary General as follows :

Report of Recording Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

The vacation season brings no cessation of
work in the office of the Recording Secretary
General. The last of the notices of appoint-
ment on National Committees were sent out
and the lists sent to the respective National
Chairmen ; acceptances and regrets noted and
filed, and copy prepared for the printer and
proof read.

The material for the Proceedings of Con-
gress were put in shape for the printer, and
your Recording Secretary General spent many
warm summer days reading over the proof.
The index was made and proof read. I take
great pleasure in presenting here the finished
book, which the printers are sending out to
all those entitled to receive it.

The minutes of the June Board meeting were
prepared and turned over to the editor of the
Magazine and proof read. Copies of the
rulings of this meeting were sent to all offices,
and the notification cards signed by your
Recording Secretary General were mailed be-
fore the first of July to 1525 members admitted.
The official notices, letters of sympathy, re-
gret, and condolence, in connection with the
meeting were duly sent out. The notices to
members of the special meeting on July 28th
were sent out in proper time, and the minutes
of the meeting prepared for the printer and
proof read, and the 975 new members notified
of their admission to the National Society.

Certificates of membership amounting to
6,000 have been sent out, and all of the data
up to date has been typed, and there are 1,000
certificates at the engrossers at the present
time, leaving only 600 still to be sent to
the engrosser.

Four hundred and sixty-one orders for the
Block Certificates have been filled, bringing
that work up to date.

Notices of the October Board Meeting were
mailed early in August in order that members
might make their arrangements to be present.

The work on the transcription of the ver-
batim report of the Board meetings is
progressing.

Rita A. Yawger,
Recording Secretary General.

There being no objections, the report
was accepted.

Mrs. Yawger then read the recommendations
of the Executive Committee, adopted at the
meeting of October 14th, as follows :

Recommendations of Executive Committee :

That in recognition of Miss Griggs' con-
tinuous faithful services, extending over a
period of twenty-five years, she be presented
with a gift of $100 in gold as a token of the
National Society's appreciation.

That we employ Mrs. L. E. Jones of Des
Moines, who has been highly recommended as
a genealogist, at a salary of $116 per month.

That as Miss Wingate has been doing the
new record work satisfactorily since July 1st,
her salary lie increased to $115 a month, to
begin from July 1st.

Airs. Guernsey moved the adoption of the
first recommendation. Seconded by Mrs. Heath
and carried. The adoption of the second
recommendation moved by Mrs. Yawger,
seconded by Aliss Strider, and carried. Third
recommendation adopted on motion of Mrs.
Bissell, seconded by Miss Strider.

Airs. Guernsey, as Acting Chairman of the
Committee to draw up resolutions on the death
of Airs. John W. Foster and Aliss Grace AI.
Pierce, presented the following resolutions :

Whereas, the National Society has sus-
tained a great loss by the death of one of its
most honored members and former President
General Mrs. John W. Foster, and

Whereas, because of her fine character,
her exemplary life and her sincere loyalty to
her country, her death will be mourned by all
who knew her

And. Whereas, Mrs. Foster's active par-
ticipation in the affairs of the Society in
its early and formative days had a great in-
fluence upon the development of its high-
est ideals.

Be it Resolved, that we record the great
sense of loss felt by the Society in the death
of its greatly respected third President
General, and that we extend to her family our
sympathy with them in their beheavement, and

Be it Further Resolved, that a copy of these
resolutions be spread upon the records of
this meeting and a copy be sent to Airs.
Foster's family.

Sarah E. Guernsey, Acting Chairman,
Emma T. Strider,
AIrs. George M. Young.

Whereas, God in His wisdom has taken
unto himself our friend and co-worker, Aliss
Grace AI. Pierce, a loyal and interested member
of our Society, and

Whereas, Miss Grace M. Pierce, by her
seven years of actual service as Registrar
General and three years as the Society's Geneal-
ogist had an active part in the admission of
the members for a third of the life of the
Society, her name appearing as officer on the
application papers of more than one fourth of
our entire membership, and

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Whereas, by her quiet unassuming manner
and her helpful nature, her great capacity for
friendship, she endeared herself to all who
came in close contact with her.

Therefore be it Resohed. that in the
passing away of Miss Grace M. Pierce, the
National Society of the Daughters of the

a Rockefeller Foundation appointment in the
Pekin Union Medical College. The State Vice
Regent, Mrs. Leslie P. Snow will fill the
regency until next election.

Through their respective State Regents the
following members at large are presented
for confirmation :

American Revolution is called upon to mourn "■"• Mrs. Birdie C. Orman, Russellville, Ala. ;
the loss of one of its most valued members.,.j_Mrs. Aura F. Willmot, Venice, Calif.; Mrs.

Sarah E. Guernsey, Acting Chairman, . Bertha Devalt Roberts, Golden, Colo. ; Mrs.

Emma T. Strider. — Bernice Churchill Evans, Craig, Colo.; Mrs.

Mrs. George M. Young. - — Mabel Small McKinstry, Kankakee, 111.; Mrs.

On motion of Mrs. Heath, seconded by Mrs. — ^Grace Hughes White, Glasgow, Ky. ; Mrs.

Buel, the Board accepted by rising vote these —Sallie West Herrin, Clarksdale, Miss. ; Mrs.

resolutions as read. — Lucy Brisack Videtto, Minatree, Nebr. ; Mrs.

Miss Strider read her report as follows : — -Laura B. Ellis, Warrenton, N. C. ;_^Mrs. Lillie

Burwell Horner, Oxford, N. C..;.^rs. Mary

Report of Registrar General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

Six hundred and seventy-five applications
presented to the Board ; and 520 supplemental
papers verified; 1195 total number of papers
verified.

Permits issued for 384 insignias, 213 ances-
tral bars and 914 recognition pins.

Papers examined and not yet approved : 585
originals, and 700 supplementals.

Papers returned unverified : 30 originals, and
109 supplementals.

One hundred and eighty-five new records
verified.

Respectfully submitted,

Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, tJiat the Secretary be
instructed to cast the ballot for the admission
of 675 applicants for membership. The Record-
ing Secretary General announced the casting
of the ballot and the President General de-
clared the 675 applicants members of the
National Society. Miss Strider requested per-
mission to bring in a supplementary re-
port at the afternoon session, which request
was granted.

Mrs. Hanger read her report as organizing
Secretary General.

Report of Organizing Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
I have the honor to report as follows :
Mrs. Sallie Hume Douglas was duly elected
State Regent of Hawaii, June 17, 1922. I now
ask for her confirmation.

The resignation of the State Regent of
New Hampshire, Mrs. Lorin Webster has been
reported. Mrs. Webster resigned because of
leaving the State, her husband having accepted

Colvin Murphy, Snow Hill, N. Gr^-Mrs. Alice
Aycock Copass, Healdton, Okla. r~-Mrs. M. K.
(Queenie) W. Washington, Cedar Hill,
Tenn. ; Mrs. Genevieve Roblee Dickerson,
Shanghai, China.

Authorization of the following Chapters is
requested :

El Centre, California; Charlestown, Ind. ;
Brandywine, Md. ; Church Hill and Springfield,
Tenn. ; Farmville and Roanoke, Virginia.

The following Organizing regencies have ex-
pired by time limitation :

Mrs. Annie M. Cunningham, S. San Francisco,
Calif. ; Mrs. Mary Glen Roberts, Canton, Ga.
Mrs. Grace Catherine S. Wilkinson, Atlanta,
Mo.; Mrs. Myrtella H. Moe, Dear Lodge,
Mont. ; Mrs. Martha Isabel Boger Shattuck^
Portsmouth, N. H. ; Mrs. Emily Fariss Joekel,
Giddings, Texas ; Mrs. Zola Lawrence Fisher,
Garfield, Wash.

The resignation of Mrs. Olla MacClarkson
Hardway, as Organizing Regent at Minot, N.
D., has been received through the State Regent
of North Dakota. Mrs. Hardway is leav-
ing Minot.

Through their respective State Regents the
following re-appointments of Organizing Re-
gents are requested : Mrs. Annie M. Cunning-
ham, S. San Francisco, Calif. ; Mrs. Grace
Catherine Sweetland Wilkinson, Atlanta, Mo.;
Mrs. Zola Lawrence Fisher, Garfield, Wash.

The State Regent of Maine requests the
official disbandment of the Jonathan True
Chapter of Phillips, Maine, because there are
not enough resident members to constitute a
quorum at the meetings.

The Frances Francure Chapter at Searcy,
Arkansas was automatically disbanded by the
Treasurer General, July 1st, because it had been
below the legal membership for more than
a year.

The Chapter at McPherson, Kansas, wishes
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Chapter was confirmed by the Board before
the by-laws went into effect which provide that
a Chapter must have a name before confirm-
ation. Article IX, Section 2. paragraph c.

The following Chapters submit their names
for approval and if accepted the organizations
are presented for confirmation : Logan at Car-
bondale, 111. ; Dubois County at Huntingburg,
Ind. ; James Hill, at Lebanon, and Col. Archi-
bald Lochry at Guilford, Ind ; Solomon Dean
at Nevada, Iowa; Mary Wade Strother at
Salina, Kans. ; East Hoosuck at Adams, Mass. ;
Thomas Hadley at Wilson, N. C. ; Hannah
Emerson Dustin at Marysville, O. ; Wood-
ward at Woodward, Okla. ; Col. John Chatham
at McElhattan, Pa. ; Volunteer at Bristol,
Tenn. ; Webster County Pioneer at Camden
on Gauley, W. Va.

Charters issued, 26 ; Organizing Regents
notified, 32.

Permits issued for Regents and ex-Regents
bars, 84 ; permits issued for National Officers,
State and ex-State Regents, 6; commissions
issued to State and State Vice Regents, 49 ;
reelection cards issued to State and State Vice
Regents, 20.

The correspondence of the office, which has
doubled itself has been given prompt attention.

Information for State and State Vice Re-
gents, Chapter Regents and Organizing Re-
gents has been compiled and copies mailed.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,
Organising Secretary General.

The report was approved without the names
of the chapters : these, the President General
stated, would be taken up separately. The first
to be presented for attention was that of the
chapter at McPherson, Kansas, which wished
the name of Roosevelt. This chapter had been
confirmed before the new By-laws went into
effect, but had not at that time selected its name.
It appearing, after some discussion, that there
might be feeling among chapters who had been
refused this name before the new by-law went
into effect if the name were now granted to
another chapter, Mrs. Guernsey asked per-
mission of the Board to withdraw the name
until she could get in communication with the
chapter and suggest another name to them.
This request was granted. Moved by Mrs.
Chubbuck, seconded by Mrs. Bissell, and
carried, that the name Logan be granted to
the chapter at Carbondale, 111. The name of
Dubois County was, on motion of Airs. Heath,
seconded by Mrs. Ellison, granted the chapter
at Huntingburg, Ind. The name of James Hill,
on motion of Mrs. Bissell, seconded by Mrs.
Whitman, granted the chapter at Lebanon, Ind.,

and the name of Col. Archibald Lochry granted
the chapter at Guilford, Ind., on motion of
Mrs. Elliott, seconded by Mrs. Buel. Mrs. Sey-
del moved that the name Solomon Dean be
allowed the chapter at Nevada, Iowa, this was
seconded by Mrs. Spencer and carried. On
motion of Mrs. Ellison, seconded by Mrs.
Elliott, the name of Mary Wade Strother was
granted the chapter at Salina, Kansas. Mrs.
Shumway moved that the name East Hoosuck
be allowed the chapter at Adams, Mass. ;
seconded by Mrs. Bissell and carried. The
name Thomas Hadley was allowed the chapter
at Wilson, N. C, on motion of Mrs. Nash,
seconded by Mrs. Elliott. The name of
Hannah Emerson Dustin was allowed the
chapter at Marysville, Ohio, on motion of Mrs.
Wilson, seconded by Mrs. Holden. Mrs. Reed
moved that the chapter at Woodward, Okla., be
allowed the name of Woodward. This was
seconded by Mrs. Spencer and carried. The
name of Col. John Chatham was allowed the
chapter at McElhattan, Pa., on motion of Mrs.
Cook, seconded by Mrs. Gillentine. The name
of Volunteer on motion of Mrs. Gillentine,
seconded by Mrs. Reed, was allowed the chap-
ter at Bristol, Tenn. The chapter at Camden
on Gauley, W. Va., was allowed the name
of Webster County Pioneer on motion of Mrs.
Reed, seconded by Mrs. Heath. The opinion
having been clearly brought out during the
discussion that this Society, organized to honor
the men and women of Revolutionary Service,
should give its chapters names of Revolution-
ary significance, and the feeling expressed that
chapters frequently chose other names because
they had no list of Revolutionary names from
which to choose, it was moved by Mrs. Guern-
sey, seconded by Mrs. Hodgkins, that the
Society provide a list of names of Revolutionary
significance which can be sent to those inter-
ested in the organization of a chapter. This
was amended by Mrs. Nash, seconded by Mrs.
Spencer, to read that this list shall be placed on
file with each State Regent. After furthel
discussion, this amendment was adopted, and
the motion as amended, put to vote and carried
to read, that the Society provide a list of navies
of Revolutionary significance zvhich shall be
placed on file zviih each State Regent. Moved
by Mrs. Hanger, seconded by Mrs. Bissell, and
carried, that the Librarian General compile this
list in conjunction ivith the Organising Sec-
retary General. Moved by Mrs. McCleary,
seconded by Mrs. Bissell and Mrs. Buel, and
carried, that ive recommend to organising
chapters that they choose names of Revolution-
ary significance.

The Treasurer General then read her financial
report as follows :

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Report of Treasurer General

Madam President General and Members of the National Board of Management :

I herewith submit the following report of receipts and disbursements from June 1, 1922 to
September 30, 1922.

CURRENT FUND

Balance in Bank at last report, May 31, 1922 $39,445.65

Annual dues, $4,921 ; initiation fees, $12,035 ; reinstatement fees, $525
supplemental fees, $1,030; certificates, $7; copying lineage, $1.50
creed cards, $8.22; D.A.R. Reports, $43.98; die of insignia, $.75,
directory, $1 ; duplicate papers, $266.95 ; exchange, $.90 ; hand
books, $9.26 ; Immigrants' Manuals, sale of copies, $88.05 ; index
to Library books, $1.13; index to Lineage books, $15; interest,
$279.52; interest, Life Membership fund, $13.82; lineage, $1,057.97
Magazine— subscriptions, $4,896.60; single copies and list, $83.92
sale of cut, $3.51; post cards, $11.95; proceedings, $4.58; re
membrance books, $.40; rent from slides, $22.12; ribbon, $10.63
sale of waste paper, $5.50; slot machine, $3.05, stationery $3.43;
telephone, $21.69; Auditorium events, $600; Refund, National Old
Trails Road Committee, $12.50.

Total receipts

25,985.93

$65,431.58

DISBURSEMENTS

Refunds: annual dues, $365; initiation fees, $145; supplemental fees,$45. $555.00

President General : clerical service, $624.60; hotel and traveling expenses,

$284.02 ; postage, $31.50; telegrams, $31.80 ; supplies, $6.50 978.42

Organizing Secretary General: clerical service, $1,270.52; parchment,
$48; commissions, $21.20; engrossing and lithographing, $95.40;
postage and telegrams, $21.67; cards and seals, $2.79; express-
age, $1.47 1,461.05

Recording Secretary General : clerical service, $982.50 ; lists, $185.81 ;

expressage and telegrams, $4.48; repairs to seal, $4.50 1,177.29

Certificate : clerical service, $619.04 ; certificates, $550 ; engrossing,
$1,147.35; postage, $480; book, seals, tubes and paper, $387.90;
expressage and telegram, $1.61; hassock, $1.50; refund, certificate
fee, $1 3,188.40

Corresponding Secretary General : clerical service, $636.72 ; paper for
application blanks, $560; information leaflets and book, $70.50;
postage, $75 ; telegram, $.53 1,342.75

Registrar General: clerical service, $5,292.05; binding records, $198;
stamp and repairs to typewriter, $12.65 ; book, binders and cards,
$111.75 5,614.45

Treasurer General : clerical service, $4,940.06 ; cards and dating

stamp, $28.55 4.968.61

Historian General: clerical service, $909.24; postage and expressage, $6 915.24

Reporter General : telegram 1.02

Librarian General : clerical service, $832.52 ; accessions, $25 ; postage

and expressage, $5.65 ; book, cards and labels, $32; binding books, $22. 917.17

Curator General: clerical service, $441.54; cards and marker for desk,

$17.16 ; laundering articles, $.50 ; telegram, $1.14 460.34

General Office: clerical service, $1,004.14; messenger service, $160; post-
age and stamped envelopes, $790.16; postage and expressage on
manuals, $206.30 ; Constitutions, resolutions and address, $430 ; car-
fare, expressage and telegrams, $13.90; clippings and adjusting
typewriters. $18.18; fiowers, $25; supplies, $242.92 2,890.60

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Committees : Auditing— postage, $2 ; Building and Grounds— clerical
service, $20; postage, $2; Finance— clerical service, $40; Historical
and Literary Reciprocity— clerical service, $82.60; lists, $124.25;
postage, $7; folders, $3.07; Historical Research— circulars, $4.75;
postage, $3.92 ; Legislation in U. S. Congress— postage, $2 ; Liquida-
tion and Endowment— postage, $18; engrossing, $32.10; Patriotic
Education— Cup, U. S. Naval Academy, $115; circulars and
envelopes, $7.25 ; cards, $2.75 ; supplies, Ellis Island. $40 ; Patriotic
Lectures and Slides — clerical service, $3 ; postage, $5.46 ; telegrams
and expressage, $3.67; Preservation of Historic Spots — postage,

$6.20 ; telegrams, $10.40 ; photos, $4 539.42

Expense Continental Hall: employees pay roll. $3,116.50; electric current
and gas, $283.55 ; ice and towel service, $73.38 ; water rent. $71.05 ;
laundering, $17.07; repairs to door and elevator, $17.50; 4 uni-
forms, $90; lunch room supplies, $5.70; building supplies, $63.48;

account of repairs to roof, $4,400 8,138.23

Printing Machine expense: printer, $160; electros, ink and repairs to

cutter, 36.12 196.12

Magazine : Committee — clerical service, $442.52 ; postage, $55 ; notices,
$20; old magazines, $.50; Editor — salary, $800; articles and photos,
$377; postage, $6.75; expressage, $2.23; Genealogical Editor — salary.
$200; printing and mailing June to September issues, $8,960.41 ; cuts,

$323.30; copyright, $12 11.199.71

Auditing accounts 450.00

Auditorium events : labor, light and refunds 362.50

D.A.R. Reports : refund .60

Duplicate paper fee : refund 3.00

Furniture and Fixtures: 2 typewriters, $171.75; 2 fans. $54 225.75

Lineage: 800 copies Vol. 60. $1,623.50; old volumes and refunds, $15.50;

postage, $75 1.714.00

Ribbon 65.50

State Regents' postage 70.75

Stationery 585.41

Support of Real Daughters 1,460.00

Telephone 207.08

Thirty-first Congress : House Committee : leaflets, $53 ; rent of chairs,
$173 ; superintendent, $50 ; Program Committee : programs, $709.65 ;
leaflets, $14 999.65

Total disbursements

Balance

PERMANENT FUND

Balance in Bank at last report. May 31, 1922

RECEIPTS

Charters $190.00

Administration Building contributions 1,770.87

Continental Hall contributions 154.52

Liberty Loan contributions and interest 1.019.66

Liquidation and Endowment fund 80.80

Commissions : Flowers $62.90

Medals 100.00

insignia 345.00

Recognition pins 143.70 651.60

Interest ^■^■'

Total receipts

50,688.06

$14,743.52

?5,869.00

3,872.97

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Notes Payable — National Metropolitan Bank

DISBURSEMENTS

Administration Building payments $97,000.00

Interest, Notes payable 2,913.98

Furnishings, Continental Hall 196.52

Charter fee refunded — Ga 10.00

Liquidation and Endowment contribution refunded — Calif 1.00

Total disbursements

Balance

Petty Cash Fund

SPECIAL FUNDS

LIFE MEMBERSHIP

Balance, Mav, 31, 1922 $315.57

Receipts 100.00

415.57
Disbursements— U. S. Bonds 358.40

Balance

immigrants' manual

Balance, May 31, 1922 $12,805.15

Receipts 1,560.10

14,365.25
Disbursements — Hungarian, Polish and Yiddish editions 12 275.00

Balance

PILGRIM mothers' MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN

Balance, May 31, 1922

PATRIOTIC EDUCATION

Receipts $23,466.25

Disbursements 23,368.00

Balance

PHILIPPINE SCHOLARSHIP ENDOWMENT

Balance, May 31, 1922 $566.42

Receipts 116.23

682.65
Disbursements— U. S. Liberty Bonds 561.00

Balance

PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC SPOTS

Balance,May 31, 1922

PRIZES — COL. WALTER SCOTT GIFT

Balance, May 31, 1922

74,0001.00

$103,741.97

100,121.50

$3,620.47
$500.00

I
I

57.17

2,090.25

25,000.00

U5

121.65

85.00

1,000.00

Balance, May 31, 1922

Receipts

Disbursements

NATIONAL BOARD OP MANAGEMENT

MARKERS — NATIONAL OLD TRAILS ROAD
MARKER WORLD WAR GRAVE

$15.00
15.00

757

15.00

Balance, May 31, 1922
Receipts

Disbursements
Balance

Total Special Funds

RELIEF SERVICE

$423.85
387.30

811.15
375.30

435.85

$28,903.17

RECAPITULATION

Bal. 5-31-22

Receipts

Disbursements

Bal. 9-30-22

$39,445.65

$25,985.93

$50,688.06

$14,743.52

25,869.00

77,872.97

100,121.50

3,620.47

500.00

500.00

315.57

100.00

358.40

57.17

12,805.15

1,560.10

12,275.00

2,090.25

25,000.00

25,000.00

23,466.25

23,368.00

98.25

566.42

116.23

561.00

121.65

85.00

85.00

1,000.00

1,000.00

15.00

15.00

15.00

15.00

423.85

387.30

375.30

435.85

Current $39,445.65

Permanent

Petty Cash

Life Membership

Immigrants' Manual

Pilgrim Mothers' Mem. Fountain

Patriotic Education

Philippine Scholarship

Preservation of Historical Spots

Prizes

Markers — National Old Trails Road .

Marker — World War Grave

Relief Service

Totals

$106,025.64 $129,503.78 $187,762.26 $47,767.16

DISPOSITION OF FUNDS

Balance, National Metropolitan Bank $47,267.16

Petty Cash (In Treasurer General's office) 500.00

Total $47,767.16

INVESTMENTS

Permanent Fund— Liberty Bonds $100,000.00

Permanent Fund — Chicago and Alton Bonds 2,314.84

Permanent Fund — Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Bond 1,000.00

Philippine Scholarship Fund— Liberty Bonds 10,000.00

Life Membership— Liberty Bonds 1,000.00

$114,314.84

INDEBTEDNESS

National Metropolitan Bank— by order of the 29th Continental Congress $190,000.00

Respectfully,

(Mrs. Livingston L.) Lillian A. Hunter,

Treasurer General.

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The Chairman of Finance Committee, Mrs.
White, being in Europe, the Acting Chairman,
Mrs. St. Clair, read the report of the
Finance Committee.

Report of Finance Committee

Madam President General and Members of
the National Board of Management :
In the absence of the Chairman of the
Finance Committee I have the following report
to submit : During the past four months
vouchers have been authorized to the amount
of $186,646.26, of which $23,368 represents
contributions received for Patriotic Education
and $375.30 for Relief work.

Four payments amounting to $97,000 were
made to the contractors of the Office Building
and $4400 was paid out for repairing the roof
of Memorial Continental Hall.

Other large expenditures follow :

Clerical service $18,141.05

Magazine 11,199.71

Employees of the Hall 3,488.50

Postage 1,732.89

Support of Real Daughters 1,460.00

Printing and translating the Manual

in Yiddish, Polish and Hungarian. 12,275.00

Interest, Notes Payable 2,913.98

Printing 60th Volume of Lineage

Book 1,623.50

Expenses of 31st Congress 999.65

Miscellaneous as itemized in report

of Treasurer General 7,668.68

Respectfully submitted,

(Mrs. Francis A.) Marv E. St. Clair,

Acting Chairman.

Miss Coltrane, then read the report of the
Auditing Committee as follows :

Report of Auditing Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
The Auditing Committee has met as usual
monthly. The reports of the Treasurer Gen-
eral up to and including September 30, 1922,
and the audit thereof by the American Audit
Company, have been compared, found to agree,
and placed on file with the Recording Secre-
tary General.

Respectively submitted,

Jenn Winslow Coltrane.

Chairman.
The acceptance of the report of the Audit-
ing Committee, moved by Mrs. Heath, seconded
by Mrs. Bissell, and carried. The Treasurer
General stated that last year in December there
was transferred from the Current Fund to the
Permanent Fund $20,000, and in anticipation
that there would again be $20,000 in December

to transfer, she moved that in December the
Treasurer General be authorised to transfer
from th.e Current Fund to the Permanent Fund
$20,000. This was seconded by Mrs. Elliott
and carried.

Miss Coltrane read her report as Historian
General.

Report of Historian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
I feel it a great privilege to report to you
the work now being accomplished in your
Historian General's office on Historical Re-
search and Preservation of Records.

At the June Board Meeting I asked that you
again grant us $75 to secure Dr. George
Churchill for another year's service for our
historical program. This is the third year
for our program and we feel gratified with
the results obtained. The object of our pro-
gram this year is to preserve and promote a
deeper realization of the American spirit. Our
subject is " The Expansion of the United
States " developed as a study not only of the
growth of the United States but of the move-
ment of its people. One of the obstacles we
found last year that must be overcome is to
make our program more accessible. Some
complaint was made that the reference material
could not be secured. Miss Florence S. M.
Crofut, one of the three Vice Chairmen work-
ing with your Historian General, was appointed
to establish or secure agencies to cooperate
with chapters which need reference books.
Miss Crofut has communicated with all known
State Universities and State Library Commis-
sions. Of the fifty agencies to whom she wrote
forty have replied, and only one of these was
negative. Almost invariably heartiest coopera-
tion was given to her tabulated inquiries. Miss
Crofut has so minutely gone into this work of
Extension Bureau for obtaining material that
I only wish you might see her report as she
has sent it to me. May I not ask each one of
you present to take back to your chapters this
information. Miss Crofut has found a means
of cooperation in forty states by which chap-
ters can obtain any information in the State
University or State Library, and if you wish
assistance relative to your program direct com-
munication with her will be found most valu-
uable, although she has reported to each State
Historian the data she has secured for her state
and she has also reported to the State Agencies.
I feel Miss Crofut has rendered us a great
service in the efficient way in which she has
handled this matter and I hope you will avail
yourself of the information she has secured.
We aspire this year to accomplish more con-

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structive work for our Society and to make
the material at hand more available.

Miss Amelia Campbell, of New York, started
a most excellent work of compiling records of
unrecorded Pioneer, Colonial and Revolution-
ary women, also Bible Records, old wills, rec-
ords of Revolutionary soldiers, etc. Miss Camp-
bell concentrated on this work last year
and through her efforts we found a continua-
tion of this work most essential for another
year, having all the information card cata-
logued, so it will be obtainable. With Miss
Campbell's usual enthusiasm and untiring
energy this work will be published this year
with excellent results for our organization.

With Miss Catherine Campbell, of Kansas,
as Chairman, we feel we are again to be
congratulated. Miss Campbell has sent out
2100 outlines securing data for a Historical
Directory of Historic facts and art in each
state. All of you are familiar with her outlines
for securing information. Miss Campbell's plan
for indexing these facts so that we may know
what each state contains of historic value will
be another splendid asset for our organization.

Since the June Board Meeting, Pennsylvania
has sent in an additional volume to her many
volumes of War Service Records and Maryland
has sent one of her five volumes which are
completed. Miss Harriette Marsh, State His-
torian of Connecticut has presented a genealogy
of the Holbrook Family in America and Miss
Lulu M. Davidson, of Lewiston, Ilinois, has
sent several historical numbers of the Fulton
Democrat, one containing the Lincoln speech
which has never been published so fully since
it was printed in the Press Tribune of Chicago
in 1858.

Lineage Books, Volumes 60, 61, and 62 are
for sale, 63 is just ready for the press and 64
now under compilation. It is of interest to note
since June 3rd, six hundred fifty-nine volumes
have been sold.

Your Historian General is striving very hard
to compile before retiring from office, some in-
formation relative to our women in history.
Each of you are familiar with the require-
ments as presented in my September letter and
let me urge each State Regent to see that her
state obtains this data. Due to a careful study
and investigation I find these facts are very
hard to obtain, and I would like to inaugurate
a plan to preserve the lives of our great women,
so the future generations may be guided aright
by their great vision.

Respectfully submitted,

Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Historian General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

Mrs. Ellison read her report as follows :

Report of Librarian General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

It is a great pleasure to be with you today
to receive the inspiration which always comes
from our meetings. First, may I thank the
State Regents who have so kindly replied to
the circular letters which it was my privilege
as Librarian General and National Chairman
of Memorial Continental Hall Library Com-
mittee to send out September 25th to both State
Regents and the State Librarians. The latter,
forming as they do the jmembership of the
committee, as well as the Chairman, greatly
appreciate the encouragement and interest,
which first and foremost must and does come
from the State Regents. We depend upon
them to keep before the chapters the needs of
the Library, and upon the State Librarians
and committees to supply the desired vol-
umes, a list of which has been sent to each
State Librarian.

Also may I thank the State Regents for the
courtesy of invitations to the fall meetings and
conferences and again express regret that it
was not possible to attend.

The accessions are as follows :

BOOKS
California

California Under Spain and New Mexico, 1535-
18.',7. I. B. Richman. 1911. From Berkeley Hills
Chapter.

District of Columbia

The following 18 volumes from Our Flag Chapter
through Mrs. Louis D. Carmen:

Year Book of Kentucky Society, S. A. R. 1S96.

Proceedings of New Jersey Society, S. A. R.

National Year Book, Society, S. A. R. 1916.

Thomas' Reminiscences and Sketches of His Life and
Times. E. S. Thomas. 2 Vols. 1840.

Jurisdiction and Proceedings of Justices of the Peace
in Civil Suits. W. Griffith. 1798.

North Reform Church of Newark, N. J. 1907.

The American Guide. 1832.

District of Columbia Society, S. .4. R. 1912.

Life of Washington. 1837. Barley.

Col. Henry Bouquet and His Campaigns of 176,3 and
neJ,. C. Cort. 1883.

Old Catholic Maryland and Its Early Jesuit Mis-
sionaries. W. P. Treacv.

Private Memoirs of Washington. G. W. P. Custis.
1859.

Memoranda of Hawkins Family and Connections. 3.
P. Hawkins. 1913.

The Army and Navy of America. J. K. Neff. 1845.

Life and Times of Rev. Jesse Lee. L. M. Lee. 1848.

The Siege of Savannah in 1779. 1874.

Washington's Rules of Civility. J. M. Toner. 1888.

Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America. J. P.
McLean. 1900. Gift of Richard Arnold Chapter.

History of Perry County, Pa. H. H. Hain. 1922.
From Mrs. Lelia Dromgold Emig.

United States Official Postal Guide. 1922. From
Miss Lillian Norton.

Lineage Book, N. S. D. A. R. Vols. 29, 34, 43-49.
From Mrs. Amos G. Drapper. ^ „ ^ ^ ..,„

Clara Barton, Humanitarian. C. B. Foster. 1918.
From Mrs. Helen M. Boynton.
Georgia

Biography of Major-General Zachary Taylor. 1848.
From Mrs. Alvah Weaver, Jr. through John Houston
Chapter.

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Illinois

Narva, 1922, Park College, Illinois. From Mrs. Ella
Park Lawrence.

2<ith Annual State Conference, D. A. R. of Illinois.
1922. From Illinois Daughters.

Indiana

The followira' '2 vohimes from Mrs. Mindwell C.
Wilson, State Librarian :

The Land of Miamis. E. Barce. 1922.

Third Annual Conference en Indiana History. 1922.

The House of Hanna. S. A. Hanna. 1906. From
Mrs. Mary D. Cain through Twin Forks Chapter.

Iowa

Life and Services of Joseph Duncan. Governor of
Illinois. 1921. From Elizabetli Duncan Putnam,
author.

History of Hamilton: County, Iowa. J. W. Lee. 2
Vols. 1912. From Newcastle Chapter.

The following 5 volumes received from Ashley
Chapter :

Honor Roll of Linn County, Iowa. A. F. Dotson.

Some Winter Days in Iowa. F. J. Lazell. 1907.

Some Spring Days in Iowa. F. J. Lazell. 1908.

Some Summer Days in Iowa. F. J. Lazell. 1909.

Some Autumn Days in Iowa. F. J. Lazell. 1911.

Kentucky

The following 2 volumes from Elizabeth Kenton
Chapter :

Memories of a Red-Letter Summer. E. C. Meehan.
1903.

iCveryday Poems. G. Elliston.

Massachusetts

West Neioton Half a Century Ago. Compiled and
presented by Miss Lucy Ellis Allen.

The following 2 volumes from Gen. Ebenezer
Learned Chapter :

Town Records of Dudley, Mass., 1754-1832. 1893.

Souvenir of the Conant Memorial Church. H. Conant.
1893.

Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation." 1901.
From Mrs. Carrie M. Watson Weis in the name of
Old Blake House Chapter.

Michigan

Historical Directory of Three Rivers, Michigan. 1922.
From Miss Sue I. Silliman.

Rolling Acres. B. R. Hoover. 1922. From Algon-
quin Chapter for Michigan Room.

Honor Roll of Kalamazoo County. 1920. From
Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Chapter.

History of lona County, Michigan. Rev. E. E.
Branch. 1916. 2 Vols. From Stevens Thomson
Mason Chapter.

Minnesota

History of Minnesota. W. W. Folwell. Vol. 1. 1921.
Presented by the Minnesota Daughters.

Mississippi

nth Annual State Conference of Mississippi, D. A. R.
1922. From the Belvidere Chapter.

Recollections of Mississippi and Blissvssijypians. R.
Davis. 1890. From Madame Hodnett Chapter.

Missouri

The following 9 volumes from Douglas Oliver
Chapter :

Missouri One Hundred Years Ago. T. W. Stevens.
1921.

The State of Missouri. W. Williams. 1904.

St. Louis The Fourth City, 176i-1000. W. R.
Stevens. 1909.

History of St. Louis County. 2 Vols. W. L. Thomas.
1911.

Diary of the American Revolution. 2. Vols. F.
Moore. 1860.

National Cyclopaedia of American Biography. 2 Vols.
1893. From Mrs. Violette Potter and Mrs. Malvern
Hayes.

Notes Taken in Sixty Years. R. S. Elliott. 1883.

Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri. Vol. 1,

1901. II. L. Conrad. From Dicey Langston Chapter.

Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri. Vol. 2, 1901.
H. L. Conard. From Mrs. F. G. Udell.

The following 7 volumes from Mrs. V. Boulware :

Duncan Family Register. R. S. Duncan. 1920.

State of Missouri. W. Williams. 1904.

History of Randolph County, Mo. A. H. Waller.
1920.

Randolph County Directory. 1920.

History of Randolph and Macon Counties, Mo. 1884.

The Confederate Mail Carrier. J. Bradley. 1894.

Moberly Libraries and Literary Societies. F. G.
Ferris. 1904.

The 26th Missouri Infantry in the War for tin
Union. 1892. B. D. Dean. From Elizabeth Beaton
Chapter.

History of the Oranges in Essex County, N. J., 1666
to 1806. S. Wickes. 1892. From Hannah Arnett
Chapter.

New York

Seneca Falls Historical Society Proceedings. 3 Vols.
1906, 1907 and 1913. From Miss Janet McKay Cowing.

Sketches of Rochester, N. Y. H. O'Reilly. 1838.
From Irondequoit Chapter.

Centennial History of First Presbyterian Church,
Westfield, New York, 1808-1V08. F. A. HaU. 1910.
From Patterson Chapter.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
Vols. 43, 44 and 45 unbound and 4 odd numbers.
From Mrs. Henry S. Bowron.

Subject Index to Volumes 1-38 of New York Genealo-
gical and Biographical Record. From Mrs. Henry S.
Bowron.

Record of Pelletreau Family. W. S. Pelletreau. 1913.
From Mrs. Edward J. Woolford.

The 2 following volumes from Kanaghsaws Chapter:

History of Livingston County, N. Y. L. L. Doty.
1867.

History of Livingston County, N. Y. 3. H. Smith.
1881.

Genealogy of a Branch of the Mead Family. L. E.
Weaver. 1917. From Mrs. Lucius E. Weaver.

The following 2 volumes from Mrs. Elizabeth W.
Marvin :

History of the 112th Regiment Neiv York Volunteers.
W. L. Hyde. 1866.

History of the 9th Regiment New Yo7-k Volunteer
Cavalry. N. Cheney. 1901.

Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland,
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. H. C. Taylor. 1873. From
Miss Lucia T. Henderson.

North Carolinia

Moravian Bicentenary Pamphlets. A. Fries. 1922.
From Mrs. William N. Reynolds.

Ohio

A. R. 1922. From

23rd Annual Ohio Conference, D.
Ohio Daughters.

Pennsylvania

The following 2 volumes from Mrs. Robert Alexander:

A Century of Westtown History, 1799-1899. W. W. &
S. B. Dewees. 1899.

History of Lewis County, N. Y. F. B. Hough. 1860.

Second Report of Pennsylvania Historical Commis-
sion. 1918. From Mrs. N. Howland Brown.

Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
Vol. 4.5. 1921. From Mrs. Robert Alexander.

Annual Report of the American Historical Associa-
tion for 1902. 2 Vols. 1903. From Cumberland County
Chapter.

Rhode Island

Second Record-Book of Society of Mayflower De-
scendants in Rhode Island. 1908. From Esek Hopkins
Chapter.

South Carolina

Tlie following 2 volumes from Eutaw Chapter.

Marriac/e Notices in the South Carolina and Ameri-
can General Gazette from 1766 to 1781. A. S. Salley, Jr.

Marriage Notices in Charleston Courier, 1803-1808.
A. S. Salley, Jr. 1919.

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Tennessee

SD^eCT "ii\T °J ^'^M^^'^rican Revolution. H. V.

nl^Z'nt • i. FromJudge David Campbell Chapter.
tion. 2 Vols. lSb9. From Miss Rosalin Ewing.
Utah

Siu-name Booh and Racial History. S. Y. Gates
Chapters '" ^°'"'" ^^^' ""'^ ^P"'* of Liberty

ChIpte/:°"°'""" ^ '■°'"'"es from General Lewis Morris

.^fj'^'^'ftfj f\J°"7'.°f ^'orthfield, Vt. J. Gregory.
1S78. Gift of Mrs. W. E. Griswold

nutorical Sketch of Reading, Vt. G. A. Davis. 1874.
Gift of Miss Mary D. Carleton and Mr. G. F. Davis.
^f^^^l^^of^own of Rochester, Vt. 1869. Gift of
Mr. W. H. Campbell.

Bennington Monuments. 1892. From Miss Jennie
A. Valentine.

The 2 following volumes from Miss Belle Woodman
Graves :

Centennial Anniversary of Independence of the State
of Vermont and the Battle of Bennington. 1879

History of Essex County, .Massachusetts. 1878.
West Virginia

History of West Virginia. S. Myers. 2 Vols. 1915.
Irom Lowther Fitzrandolph Chapter

History of Mount Vernon, Arlington and Woodlaum.
Compiled and presented by Miss Minnie K. Lowther.
Other Sources

History of the Marshall and Related Families. 1922
Compiled and presented by Wallace Marshall.
T ,^'?«''0&G''ePn Record Book. 1921. From Mr. John
Jakob Raskob.

Makers of America. Vol. 4. From B. F. Johnson
&, Company.

Collections of New York Historical Society. 1919
& 1920. 2 Vols. From the Society.

Connecticut State Register and Manual. 1922 From
Connecticut State Library.

A^r^*^?,,-^,.^"'^"^^^^"^ volumes compiled and presented bv
Mr. William H. Hobbs for Michigan Room.

Leonard Wood, Administrator, Soldier and Citizen.

The World War and Its Consequences. 1919.

Michigan Bibliography. F. B. Streeter. 2 Vols.
1921. From Michigan Historical Commission.

hith and Kin of the Dixon and Other Collateral
Lines. 1922. Compiled and presented by Willis M.
Dixon.

Woman's Life in Colonial Days. C. HoUiday. 1922.

Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the American Scenic
and Historic Society. 1921. From the Society.

Ftlson Club and Its Activities. Compiled and pre-
sented by Mr. O. A. Rothert.

Veterans of the American Revolution. J. E. Bowman.

Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Mag-
azine. Vol. 2.

Lineage Book, N. S. D. A. R. Vols. 19, 59-61
(2 copies each).

Pension Papers. Vol. 58.

New Hampshire Pension Records. Vols. 22, 23 and 24.

Maryland Historical Magazine. 1921. Vol. 16.

A Mission to France in 1918. Andre Monod. From
French Protestant Committee.

Constitution of the State of Iowa. Presented by
State Historical Society of Iowa.

PAMPHLETS

California

A Little Girl of Old California. S. B. Smith. From
Claremont Chapter.

Connecticut

State Regent's Report, Connecticut D. A. R. 1922.
Presented by Connecticut Daughters.

District of Columbia

The following 4 pamphlets from Our Flag Chapter,
through Mrs. Louis D. Carman.

Carpenter's Hall and Its Historic Memories. R. K.
Betts. 1893.

1852^^""'*'^ "/ Rev. Francis Higginson. J. B. Felt.
Letters of Dr. Benjamin Franklin.

.vSr' 190l.'^' "^ "^'^^ "^ ^'""^""•'■°* "•*■"'■"-

Mounted Newspaper Clippings.
nndT>nf--i ^"/^'^f'i'^ .Chapter, Daughters of Founders
Franc^'"rV^cilrr~ ''''-''''■ ^''" '' ^^
Indiana

Mr^° M-''^'f'"if' '^ "U.'^'^^'^f'^^ Magazine of History. From
Mrs Mindwell C. WOson, State Librarian.

^^ ashington County Giants. H.Morris. 1921. From
Mrs. Mindwell C. Wilson, State Librarian.

Iowa
Desc-endmits of Liittleton Cockrell, Jr 1802-1877
L.;,- ^^^^'T-Of- ^^^^- Z™"^ Mrs. W. B. Stevenson!

Fr^r M T '^*^*°7, "' *''" "^Oh Schools of Iowa.

From Mrs. L. B. Schmidt.

I oica Journal of History and Politics. April 19-?"

From Mrs. Louis B. Schmidt.

Kentucky

Old Covingtori Kentucky. E. C. Meehan. 1922.
From Elizabeth Kenton Chapter.

Michigan

The following 3 pamphlets from Algonquin Chapter.
Lincoln and the Convention of 1860 A " " ■
Lincoln Birthday Services. W. E. Barton

coin and the Convention of I860.' A. G. Procter.
i. Barton. 1922.
R. C. Bowman. For Michigan

Freckles and Tan.
Room.

Massachusetts
Massachusetts Historical Society Publications. 2
numbers. From Miss Annetta S. Merrill.

Minnesota

The following 2 pamphlets from Miss Maud Clum :

Legend of the Lilies and Other Poems.

'Tone Pictures.

Photostat Copies of Family Record in the Francis
Downing Family Bible. Gift of Mrs. Emma B. Stott.
Missouri

History of the Keifhley Family. J. C. Keithloy
1910. From Miss Flora Keithlev.

The following 2 pamphlets from Mrs. J. V. Boulware:

Moberly Fifty Years Ago and Today. J. E. Lynch.

Moberly Art Souvenir. 1890.

New York

100th .-innivcrsary of the Town of Junius. 1903. From
Miss Janet McKay Cowing.

Genealogy of One Branch of the Descendants of
Wolston Brockway. B. Brockway. 1887. From Pat-
terson Chapter.

The 2 following pamphlets from Major Benjamin
Bosworth Chapter :

Wth Reunion Forestville Alumni Association. 1917.

History of Forestville, N. Y. 1908. S. G. Gillette.

Reminiscences of Ossining. F. L. Reynolds. 1922.
From Mohegan Chapter.

Pennsylvania

Bulletin of the West Chester Historical Society.
1922. From Miss Mary I. Stille.

Historic Letters. G. M. Phillips. 1918. From Mrs.
N. Howland Brown.

Westminster Shorter Catechism. 1897. From Cum-
berland County Chapter.

Tennessee

The Mayflower Descendant for October, 1921. From
Judge David Campbell Chapter.

Vehmont

Fort Ticonderoga. Gift of Mrs. G. H. Ripley.

Virginia

Jack Jonett of Albemarle, The Paul Revere of
Virginia. From Jack Jouett Chapter.

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Incidents in Early History of Pullman and the State
College of Washington. T. Neill. 1922. From Eliza
Hart Spalding- Chapter.

Other Sources

The Second Presbyterian Church of Albany, N.Y,
1915. From Mr. Milton Thomas.

The American Pioneer and His Story. G. F. Parker.
From Iowa State Historical Society.

The 2 following pamphlets compiled and presented by
Mr. William H. Hobbs, for Michigan Room:

Popular Government and the Nominating Convention.
1920.

History Teaching and American Citizenship. 1921.

North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati, Past and
Present. Compiled and presented by Mr. John C. Daves,
President of Society.

Illinois Athletics. 1922. From University of
Illinois.

Virginia State Library Report. Vol. 18. Presented
by Virginia State Library.

John Porter and His Descendants. Amasa Porter.
1917. Gift of the author.

MANUSCRIPTS

Collection of Historical Manuscripts. From Mrs. Mary
D. Cain through Twin Forks Chapter.

Massachusetts

Collection of Revolutionary Manuscripts. From Miss
Annetta S. Merrill.

Marriages of St. Charles County, Missouri. Presented
by St. Charles Chapter.

New York

Family Record of Mrs. Elizabeth Stafford Doubleday.

From Tioughnioga Chapter.

The 2 following manuscripts were received from
Patterson Chapter:

History of the Old Presbyterian Burying Ground,
Westfield, N. Y. L. Stone.

The Holland Purchase and the Settlement of Western
New York. L. Stone ; also photograph of tablet erected
to Mrs. Frances Patterson. Two bookplates from Mrs.
Frank Anthony.

PERIODICALS

County Court Note-Book. July.

C. A. R. Magazine. September.

Daughters op the American Revolution Magazine.
July, August, September and October.

Essex Institute Historical Collections. July.

Genealogy. April and July.

Georgia Historical Quarterly. June.

Illinois State Historical Society Journal. January.

Indiana Magazine of History. March.

Iowa Journal of History and Politics. July.

Liberty Bell, The California S.R. October.

Louisiana Historical Quarterly. January.

Maryland Historical Magazine. June and September.

Mayflower Descendant. October, 1921. January and
April, 1922.

Missouri Historical Review. April and July.

N. S. S. A. R. Official Bulletin. June.

New Jersey Historical Society Proceedings. June.

New York Historical Society Quarterly Bulletin.
July.

New York Public Library Bulletin. May, June,
July and August.

New York State Historical Association Quarterly
Journal. January and April.

New England Historical and Genealogical Register.
July ajid October.

News-Letter N. S. U. S. D. of 1812. June.

Newport Historical Society Bulletin. October and
July.

Palimpsest, The. June, July, August and September

South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine.
January.

Spragues Journal of Maine History. Nos. 2 and 3.

Tylers Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine.
July.

Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. Julj'.

Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine. July.

William and Mary College Quarterly. July.

Kentucky State Historical Society Register.
September.

New York Genealogical and Biographical Record.
October.

The list includes 148 books, 47 pamphlets, 6
manuscripts, 49 periodicals, and two bookplates.
Respectfully submitted,

(Mrs. Frank D.) Annie C. Ellison,

Librarian General.

Report accepted without objection.

Mrs. Ellison voiced her appreciation of Miss
Griggs, whose presence had been requested,
the Board greeting her with applause. The
President General, in behalf of the National
Society, presented to her the $100 in gold in
recognition of her service to the Society.

In the absence of Mrs. White, her report as
Curator General was read by the Recording
Secretary General as follows :

Report of Curator General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

I have the honor to report the following
accessions in the Museum since the Board
Meeting of June 7, 1922 :

Connecticut : Eight Deeds, dating from
1734 to 1773, to Thomas Stevens; Four In-
ventories, for the years 1779, 1782, 1800, and
1812, of Jonathan Stevens ; Deed to Jonathan
Stevens, dated 1804; all containing interesting
and valuable autographs, and were the property
of Mr. Edwin B. Stevens, Clintonville, Conn.
Presented by Mrs. Frederick E. Stevens, Mary
Silliman Chapter, Bridgeport, through the State
Historian for Connecticut, Miss Harriette Par-
nal Marsh.

District of Columbia : Badge, " Custodian
of Flags, N.S.D.A.R., 1915," worn by the first
Custodian of Flags, Miss Catherine Barlow,
who presents it to the Museum.

Florida : Patent for 439 acres of land in
Chemung, N. Y., to Cornelius Roberts; signed
by Governor Clinton, of New York, and has the
Great Seal of the State of New York attached.
Presented by Miss Ida Agnes LaForce, Mount
Dora, Florida.

Maryland : Eight Manuscripts, as follows :
Two Leters, one from John C. Calhoun and
one from John Randolph (of R.) to Nathan
Loughborough; two Bills of Sale of Negro
Girl " Nanny " from John Brent to David
Rawn, and from David Rawn to Nathan
Loughborough; Will of James Webster, father
of Mary, wife of Nathan Loughborough;
Patent of 393-)4 Acres of Land from Common-
wealth of Pennsylvania to Nathan Loughbor-
ough, dated 1797, and signed by Thomas Mifflin,
Governor of Pennsylvania; Letter from J. D.
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Thomas Jefferson, and delivered in person by
Mr. Jefferson ; A Verse, a composition by John
Randolph, who gave it to Nathan Loughbor-
ough, an intimate friend, who was preparing
a biography of John Randolph. These pre-
sented by Mrs. James Loughborough, Be-
thesda, Md.

Small Spinning Wheel, used by Martha
Warner, of Sunderland, presented by Mrs.
Henry Stockbridge, Thomas Johnson Chapter.

Massachusetts : Four Manuscripts : Deed,
Elezar Pope to Skelton Sheldon, for 40 acres
of land, dated 1760; Deed, William and Abigail
Bickford and Jonathan and Abigail Foster to
James Foster, of Lynn, 1767; Power of Attor-
ney, Elizabeth Sheldon to her son, Amos,
dated 1789; Letters of Administration to EHza-
beth Sheldon, Administrator of the Estate of
her husband, Skelton Sheldon, 1790. Presented
by Miss Madeline Foster, Lydia Partridge
Whiting Chapter.

Michigan : Newspaper, " The Hampshire
Gasette, September 12, 1798 " ; presented by
Mrs. Thomas Milton McFarland, Lucy Wolcott
Barnum Chapter.

New Jersey : Five Volumes of Plutarch's
Lives, published 1683-1686, bound in calf, and
in .fine condition. Presented by Miss Mary N.
Putnam, Boudinot Chapter.

New York : Facsimile of U. S. Treasury
Warrant No. 1, dated 1789; first warrant issued
by U. S. Treasury for bonded indebtedness;
signed by Alexander Hamilton, first Secretary
of the Treasury. Loan was made by the Bank
of New York. Presented by Mr. H. L. Griggs,
President, Bank of New York. Powder Flask,
brass ; presented by Mrs. Mary C. Martin,
Benjamin Prescott Chapter; Silver Belt Buckle,
once belonging to Riverius Russell ; presented
through Gan-i-o-di-ya Chapter, by Mr. Walter
S. Russell, Le Roy, N. Y., grandson of
Riverius Russell.

Ohio : Piece of uniform of General Artemas
Ward; piece of dress of Sarah Trowbridge,
wife of General Artemas Ward; piece of bed
curtain, belonging to Gen. Artemas Ward; and
four manuscripts : Letter to Widow Sally
Brigham, from Ithamas Ward, dated March 23,
1825 ; Sally Brigham and Ithamas Ward were
children of General Artemas Ward; Receipt
for Board, quarters and expenses of daughter
of Hon. Elijah Brigham, son-in-law of General
Artemas Ward, signed by R Remington. Let-
ter from Artemas Ward, son of General
Artemas Ward, written to his sister, Sarah
Brigham ; a letter of condolence upon the death
of her husband; Genealogy of family of Gen-
eral Artemas Ward; 8 pages. These relics
presented by Mrs. May Donaldson McKitrick,
Fort McArthur Chapter.

Pennsylvania: Snuff Box, black, japanned,
with decorated lid, used by General Arthur St.
Clair, a Revolutionary officer ; presented by
Phoebe Bayard Chapter. Silver Tablespoon,
initials on handle, " S. A. T.", formerly used
by the daughter of Ensign George Loose ; pre-
sented by Mrs. Edna Nicewonger Gruber,
Phoebe Bayard Chapter ; Indenture, between
Eliab Farnham and Eliab, Jr., and Joshua, his
sons, dated Oct. 4, 1803. Presented by Mrs.
Adelaide Henwood, Scranton City Chapter.

Rhode Island : Wooden porringer, from
family of Sophia Stoddard Payne, of Connecti-
cut ; presented by Mrs. Frank Irwin Payne,
Phebe Greene Ward Chapter. Booklet, " The
Artist's Assistant ; " formerly owned by
Samuel D. Enos ; presented by Mrs. Charles
D. Maxson, Phebe Greene Ward Chapter.

Virginia : Flax, cultivated by slaves of Capt.
and Mrs. Olive Woodard Smith. Captain
Smith's slaves worked on the Fort at Ports-
mouth, Va., during the Revolutionary War,
thus rendering patriotic service; presented by
Mrs. Mary B. Heyer, Great Bridge Chapter,
Va. Gold neck chain, initials " E. P. C." on
clasp; heirloom of the Custis family of Vir-
ginia. Presented by Mrs. Betty Custis Ambler,
William Byrd Chapter, Richmond, Va.

Fifty articles in all.

Respectfully submitted,

(Mrs. George W.) Louise C. White,

Curator General.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

Mrs. Elliott then read her report.

Report of Corresponding Secretary General

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:

The following report covers the work done
in the office of the Corresponding Secretary
General from June 1st to October 1st.

The number of supplies issued were:

Application blanks ....... 19,553

Leaflets " How to Become a Member . . 1,9-^3

Leaflets of General Information 1,849

Constitutions 1-248

Transfer cards . ^^j

The 1922 Committee Lists, the new prmted
" Lists of Papers " of the Historical and
Literary Reciprocity Committee as well as 2000
circular letters, were mailed from my office,
and we also addressed the wrappers for the
Proceedings to be sent to the National Officers,
State and Chapter regents.

All orders for the free Manuals were filled
as promptly as possible. The number of these
books sent out totaled 21,479, of which 7982
were in the English language; 2297 Spanish;
5222 Italian; 3510 Pohsh; 1296 Hungarian;
1172 Yiddish.

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One thousand three hundred and twenty-two
letters were received and recorded and 1222
letters were written.

Owing to the unprecedented increase in mem-
bership the work in the office of the Correspond-
ing Secretary General has grown in propor-
tion, so it has been found necessary to employ
a second clerk regularly, and I shall hope very
much to have the approval of the National
Board that Miss Anna Block be made a per-
manent clerk at the next meeting of the Board.

Respectfully submitted.
(Mrs. A. AIarshall) Lily Tyson Elliott,

Corresponding Secretary General.

Report accepted.

Mrs. Hanger, as Chairman, read the report
of the Building and Grounds Committee.

Report of Building and Grounds Committee

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :
The Building and Grounds Committee begs
leave to report as follows : During the summer
Memorial Continental Hall and grounds have
been carefully cared for. The interior walls
of our Building have been washed, floors waxed,
furniture polished, summer coverings removed
and the general condition of the rooms kept to
the usual standard.

The new roof authorized by the Board was
begun in June. During its construction your
Chairman has made several investigating visits
even to its highest points to watch progress ;
the technical points and the architectural details
being under the supervision of Marsh and
Peter, architects, Washington, D. C, and the
Superintendent of our Building, Mr. Phillips.

Summer and winter uniforms, as authorized
by the Board, were purchased for Guide, Mes-
senger and Watchman. The summer ones have
been of comfort to the men and most favorably
commented upon.

The Committee recommends the purchase of
dark blue denim working suits for the men not
uniformed, to cost not more than $10 per suit.
During August, estimates were obtained for
redecorating the rooms in the Hall which either
from the faulty roof or from being used as
offices, are not in a condition commensurate
with the order we desire to maintain. The
different State Regents were sent these esti-
mates and your Committee believes from re-
sponses already received we will be able to
report in April, 1923, the interior of our Build-
ing in perfect repair.

The flag pole on Memorial Continental Hall
has been repainted and repaired by order of
the Colorado Chapter, Denver, Colorado. This
work to cost $35.

Two flags have been presented by the Ameri-
can Liberty Chapter of the District of Colum-

bia through Mrs. Edgar Allan, a small flag
which we fly daily, 5x8, and a much larger one,
8x12, which we fly when our President Gen-
eral is in the city. This gift was much needed
as our old flags were tattered. The old flags
have been burned by the Committee in respect-
ful silence and attention.

A book, " The Great Myth," has been pre-
sented for the Michigan room by the Pe-to-
se-ga Chapter through its Regent, Mrs. Hinkle.

Several portraits have been received, but inas-
much as the Chairman of the Art Committee
was absent from the city, no action from that
Committee was obtained for this Board Meeting.
Knowing the tense coal situation, your Chair-
man authorized the Superintendent to order an
advance supply. We were not, however,
allowed a full carload, but I am able to report
that our allotment has been stored in our cellars
and we hope to have another soon.

The following meetings have been held in
our Auditorium during October : The Annual
Roll Call of the American Red Cross and the
Annual Meeting of the American Child Hy-
giene Association.

During this coming December we will house
the " Lecturers' Conference on Public Opinion
and World Peace." These lectures have been
arranged upon the personal request of Presi-
dent Harding with the idea in view of dissemi-
nating the knowledge of America's influence
to promote and maintain World Peace. Mon-
sieur Clemenceau is among the prominent
speakers scheduled, as are representative men
from many parts.

Respectfully submitted,
(Mrs. G. Wallace W.) Lucy Galt Hanger,

Chairman, Building and Grounds Committee.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted without its recommendation. Moved
by Mrs. Guernsey, seconded by Mrs. Buel,
and carried, that the re commendation of the
Chairman of Building and Grounds Committee
be adopted for the purcliase of dark blue denim
zvorking suits for the men not uniformed, to
cost not more than $10 per suit.

Miss Lincoln read her report as follows :

Report of Editor of Magazine

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:
There starts in the November Magazine the
first of three articles by Charles Moore, Chair-
man of the National Commission of Fine Arts.
Mr. Moore's first article deals with George
Washington's boyhood, the next of his early
life at Mount Vernon, and the third of his devo-
tion to his step-children. Mr. Moore not only
writes delightfully, but his articles are of his-
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of rare documents from the Washington papers
in the Library of Congress.

Another interesting article to come out shortly
is by Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick, Assistant Chief
of the Manuscript Division, Library of Con-
gress. Mr. Fitzpatrick has written of George
Washington's aides-de-camp. The aides were
the most remarkable body of young men in the
history of the country and the welfare of the
nation rested to a large extent in their hands.
The authentic list of these aides, compiled in the
Manuscript Division from official state papers,
comprises 32 names.

We are fortunate to have gained Mr. Moore
and Mr. Fitzpatrick as regular contributors to
the Magazine. We are frequently receiving
requests from other publications asking per-
mission to reprint articles from their pens —
for instance, that about " The Personal Seal
and Visiting Card of By-gone Days," by Mr.
Fitzpatrick (October, 1921, Daughters of
THE American Revolution Magazine), has
been reproduced in the Typo-Line ; Dennis-
ton's " What Next " — which has a circulation
of over three hundred thousand ; and is shortly
to appear in an Hawaiian publication.

Dr. Carl Becker, head of the History De-
partment of Cornell University, and one of
the editors of the American Historical Re-
viczv, has quoted Fitzpatrick's article (July,
1922, Magazine) on " The Manuscript from
which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declara-
tion of Independence," in his recent volume on
the Declaration, and has mentioned it twice,
once in the acknowledgment and once in a
footnote, each time giving credit to the
Daughters of the American Revolution
Magazine.

The Message written by our President Gen-
eral and published in the June, 1922, Maga-
zine, is reprinted in full in the Constitutional
Reviczv, the official journal of the National
Association for Constitutional Government.

Every reprint of an article shows the
substantial gain the Magazine is making
toward universal recognition as a publication
of historical and genealogical standing worthy
of the National Society.

During this year more space had been de-
voted to the special Work of the Chapters
and Genealogical Department. Special articles
dealing with the latter subject have appeared
recently and will be used even more frequently
in the future. Mrs. Neyle Colquitt's and Mrs.
Ramsburgh's genealogical accounts of the men
and women in the St. Memin collection of pro-
file likenesses, the most unique collection of
Revolutionary characters in existence today, are
attracting wide attention. Mr. William Dulany
Hunter, for fourteen years United States Con-
sul at Nice, France, has written a charming

sketch of the Calverts of Maryland, one of the
great Colonial families of America, giving much
historical data and illustrated with hitherto
unpublished portraits. In later articles he will
tell of the Dulany and Biscoe families and
their English ancestry.

At the meeting in June last, this Board appro-
priated the sum of $500 to pay for special
articles during the period of six months. There
was at that time $43.75 left in the treasury to
the credit of this fund from a previous appro-
priation, making a total of $543.75. Of this
sum $21.50 has been expended for photographs
and $510 for sixteen articles. Thirty-two dol-
lars was the average price paid for these six-
teen articles, some of which will not bo
published until January and February, thus the
expenditure covers a period of nine months.
As articles must be purchased far in advance
of publication, may I recommend to the Board
that $500 be set aside for this purpose to cover
the next six months.

The loyal support of the Board has advanced
every interest of the Magazine. I also very
deeply appreciate the courtesy and kindness
extended to me personally.

Respectfully submitted,

Natalie S. Lincoln,

Editor.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted. Moved by Miss McDuffee, seconded
by Mrs. Heath, and carried, that the National
Board authorize the appropriation of $500 xvith
ivhich to purcltase articles for the Magazine.

Mrs. Bissell read her report as Chairman of
Magazine Committee.

Report of Chairman of Magazine Committee

Madam President General and Members of
the Board :

There is no special report that your Chairman
can give you at this time. The Magazine is
slowly recovering from the decrease in circu-
lation caused by the increase in price one year
ago. The prizes offered have aroused interest,
and nearly all the States are working, but our
subscriptions today number only 10,578, which
is less than 9 per cent, of our membership. This
ought not to be. It is hard to understand the
lack of interest the members manifest toward
their own official organ. It would seem that
every Daughter would feel that she must read
the Magazine ; that she could not keep her in-
terest in the organization unless she kept in
touch with its recorded activities. Your Chair-
man can think of no new argument to give you.
The Magazine speaks for itself and the mem-
bers who read it realize its value.

Very soon we shall send out our annual appeal
to use the Magazine as a Christmas gift. What

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better gift could you make to some one who
does not have it than to send a year's sub-
scription. You would confer a gift which
would be a benefit throughout the whole year
and in many cases no doubt, we would gain a
" steady subscriber."

If every subscriber would secure one new sub-
scriber, and surely we could do that, every one
of us, it would go a long way toward the
goal of " at least 25,000 subscribers by January
1, 1923."

Again your Chairman appeals for your
united effort for your Magazine.
Respectfully submitted,

Eva V. M. Bissell,
Chairman Magazine Committee.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

The Treasurer General brought to the atten-
tion of the Board the matter of the Lineage
Books, of which she said the early volumes
were fast being exhausted ; seventeen issues are
entirely exhausted and of eight issues there
are less than ten remaining in the Business
Office ; that Congress had made a ruling a num-
ber of years ago that volumes 2, 3, 4, and 5
should be charged for at the rate of $5 a
volume, and moved that zvhen any issue of the
Lineage Books has decreased to ten volumes
that a charge of $5 be made for such volumes.
This was seconded by Mrs. Yawger and carried.

At one o'clock recess was taken for luncheon.

Afternoon session was called to order at
2.20 P.M.

Mrs. Buel, Vice Chairman in charge of the
Manual for Immigrants, stated that the time
was approaching when new editions would be
needed, especially the English edition, because
the English edition was being rapidly exhausted,
and that it had seemed wise, in consultation
with the Treasurer General, that this Board
should authorize the publication of new editions
whenever in the opinion of the Treasurer Gen-
eral the Manual Fund warranted such an ex-
pense. Mrs. Buel said also that in conformity
with suggestions received from several Ameri-
canization workers, the new English edition
would have larger print, that the phraseology
of several passages would be simplified, and
the new naturalization law regarding women
would be added. Moved by Mrs. Buel, sec-
onded by Mrs. Harris, and carried, that the Vice
Chairman in charge of the Manual for Immi-
grants be authorised to publish neiv editions of
the Manual whenever, in the opinion of the
Treasurer General, the Manual Fund seems to
justify the expense.

Mrs. Guernsey reported informally the prog-
ress on the Administration Building, the com-
pletion of which had been delayed owing to
the railroad strike and the inability to have

the woodwork delivered by freight. The states
that had promised their money, Mrs. Guernsey
said, had collected it and sent in their reports,
and letters were being constantly received from
individuals and chapters, as well as states, ask-
ing what could be done individually; that there
would be many special features that could be
taken, a uniform marking to be devised for all
these special features. Mrs. Guernsey further
stated that the money given by the states for
their rooms would be used for the furniture,
the decoration of the walls, the shades and
electric fixtures, and what was left would be
applied on the construction of the rooms, but
at the amounts asked for each room there
would not be enough in any case to allow a
third of the cost of the construction of the room.
Mrs. Hunter read her report as Chairman
of Printing Committee.

Report of Chairman of Printing Committee

The Chairman of the Printing Committee
respectfully submits the following report:

Early in the spring a contract was made
with Messrs. Judd and Detweiler, to print
volumes No. 60, 61 and 62 of the Lineage
Books at a price of $4.25 per page.

These three issues have been duly printed
and delivered at Memorial Continental Hall.

After securing estimates from several differ-
ent firms, an order was placed with the lowest
bidders to print 2000 copies of the Proceedings
of the 31st Continental Congress at $4 per page
— a slight increase over the cost of the printing
of the proceedings of the previous Conti-
nental Congress.

Since the June Board Meeting orders have
been placed with local printers for work which
could not be handled in the building amount-
ing to $450.90. This printing comprises the
committee lists, reciprocity lists of papers, re-
prints of the reports of several of the national
officers and chairmen of committees as given
at Continental Congress ; also a four-page bul-
letin on information for State Regents and
State Vice Regents, and two dozen books of
permits for recognition pins.

In addition to this there has been an enor-
mous amount of printing done on our own
little printing press under the supervision of
Mr. Phillips.

The printing press has been working daily,
and has turned out over 40,000 application
blanks. Beside the application blanks there
has been over 44,000 blanks, letters and cards
printed, which have been used in carrying on
the work of the various officers and of the
National Committees.

This printing has been done at a very great
saving to the National Society.

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as ordered by the June National Board has
been compiled and will soon be ready for
distribution.

Respectfully submitted,

Lillian A. Hunter,
Chairman, of Printing Committee.

There being no objection, the report was
accepted.

In the name of every Daughter in North
Carolina, Mrs. Spencer turned over to the
Treasurer General a check for $1500 in full
payment for the Historian General's room, the
receipt of which check the Treasurer General
duly acknowledged.

Mrs. Cook read the following report of her
Committee on the offer to the National Society
of the Rosa Bonheur Chateau.

Report of Committee on Offer of Rosa
Bonheur Chateau

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management :

Your Committee appointed to investigate the
proposed gift of the Rosa Bonheur Chateau in
France, to the National Society Daughters of
the American Revolution, by Miss Anna E.
Klumpke, respectfully reports :

That having carefully considered the objects
and purposes for which the Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution was
organized and the purposes set forth in and
authorized by its Charter, to which purposes
its activities are confined ; and that the accept-
ance of such a proposition as that of Miss
Anna E. Klumpke is not authorized by the
Charter, and that such proposition could not
properly be considered or acted upon until an
amendment to the fundamental law of the
organization, its Charter had been petitioned
for and duly granted ; and further, that if
authority to accept the proposition be granted
through an amendment to the Charter, the
amount of money to be secured to guarantee
an annuity of $15,000, would be not less than
$300,000; and having regard for the present
fixed charges, financial obligations, the pro-
gram for uses of funds clearly within contem-
plation of the Society and authorized by its
Charter; and regarding also the present gen-
eral financial situation indicating the unwise-
ness of incurring large financial liabilities, we
are constrained to recommend that no further
action be taken upon the proposition of Miss
Anna E. Klumpke other than to express appre-
ciation of her offer and notify her of this report.
The following resolutions were unanimously
adopted by your Committee at a meeting held
October 16, 1922, in the Board Room of Memo-
rial Continental Hall, at 10 o'clock a.m.

Moved by Mrs. Hunter, seconded by Mrs.
Whitman, and carried by unanimous vote:

That the Committee having duly investigated
and considered the gracious offer of Miss Anna
E. Klumpke, to constitute the National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution, the
Custodian of the Rosa Bonheur Chateau, re-
ports to the National Board, that in its opinion
the plan is impracticable from a business stand-
point and recommends that the Society regret-
fully declines to accept the trust.

Moved by Mrs. Seydel, seconded by Miss
Coltrane, and carried by unanimous vote :

That, this Committee recommends to the
National Board of Management that notification
be sent to National Officers, State Regents,
and State Vice Regents of the action of the
Board in regard to the Rosa Bonheur Chateau.
LoRA Haines Cook,

Chairman.

Moved by Mrs. McCall, seconded by Mrs.
Holden, that zve accept the report with its
recommendation. Carried.

Mrs. Nash read the report of the Committee
on the Col. Walter Scott Prize Fund
as follows :

Report of Committee on Col. Walter Scott
Prize Fund

Madam President General and Members of the
National Board of Management:

The Committee on the distribution of the
Col. Walter Scott Fund met in Memorial Conti-
nental Hall this morning, October 17th, at 9
o'clock, the following members present: Mrs.
Seydel, Miss Lincoln, Mrs. Hardy, Mrs. Chub-
buck and Mrs. Nash — Mrs. Seydel acting
as Secretary.

The Committee heard the suggestion for
stimulating the study of the Manual of Infor-
mation for Immigrants by the National Vice
Chairman in charge of the Manual, Mrs. Buel,
and by unanimous vote makes the follow-
ing recommendation :

That a prize of $5 in gold be given to each
State to be awarded by that State to the person,
either foreign-born or Southern mountaineer,
who submits the best essay in English, of not
less than 1000 words or more than 2000, on the
subject: "What I have learned from the
Manual for Immigrants " ; each State to
arrange the details of its own contest through
its Patriotic Education Committee and the
judges to be a committee of the Daughters
of the American Revolution to be appointed
by the State Regent.

And that we offer an additional prize of $10
to be awarded as follows :

Five dollars to the foreign-born for the best
essay among the winning essays, and $5 to the
Southern mountaineer for the best essay among
the winning essays these winning essays (from
the states) to be submitted to a committee of

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judges to be appointed by the National Chair-
man of Patriotic Education.

Respectfully submitted for the Committee.
Frances T. Nash,

Chairman.

Moved by Mrs. Bissell, seconded by Mrs.
Shumway, and carried, that this report be
accepted with its recommendations.

The Treasurer General reported with regret
that the Society had lost through death since
the last Board meeting 135 members. At the
request of the President General the Board
rose in silent memory of these 135 members.
Mrs. Hunter reported also that 20 members
had resigned, and 99, having complied with
the requirements of the By-laws, had requested
to be reinstated, and she therefore moved that
the 99 former members, having complied with
the requirements of the By-lazvs, be reinstated,
and that the Secretary be instructed to cast the
ballot for their reinstatement. Seconded by Mrs.
Ellison and carried. The Recording Secretary
General announced the casting of the ballot and
the President General declared these 99 former
members reinstated as members of the
National Society.

Moved by Mrs. Heath, seconded by Mrs.
Holden and Mrs. Bissell, and carried, that a
telegram be sent to Mrs. Albert C alder, Vice
President General from Rhode Island, express-
ing our regret that she is not with us to-day,
and wishing for her continued improvement
in health.

Moved by Mrs. Guernsey, seconded by Mrs.
Harris, and carried, that the President Gen-
eral send a note of sympathy from the Board
to Mrs. Harding, our President's zmfe, in her
very serious illness, expressing the hope that
she will soon be better and be returned to
perfect health.

Mrs. Harris reported informally on patriotic
education work and stated that she had exam-
ined six of the text-books that have been
under criticism.

Mrs. McCall referred to the statement in the
President General's report that in the absence
of any action by the Board she had allowed
herself to become a member of the Committee
of Twenty for better motion pictures. After
some discussion, it was moved by Mrs. Seydel,
seconded by Mrs. McCall, and carried, that our
President General be a member of the Com-
mittee of Twenty of zvhich Mr. Will Hays is
the President.

Miss McDuffee, as Vice Chairman in charge
of Americanization, reported the result of her
visit last summer to Ellis Island and what was
being done by the Ellen Hardin Walworth
Chapter of New York in furnishing the salary
of the kindergarten assistant at the Island,
and stated that the money that was appro-

priated at the June Board meeting had been
used for the purchase of kindergarten supplies,
and the work was going forward in a splendid
way. It was found, however, that there was
other work at the Island that had not already
been taken — this kindergarten work being a
part of the work of another organization — and
that occupational and recreational work in the
women's detention rooms had been recom-
mended as the work that had not already been
preempted and which was greatly needed. It
was therefore moved by Miss McDufifee, sec-
onded by Mrs. Nash, that whereas the occu-
pational and recreational features in the
Women's Detention Room are the greatest
need open to the National Society, Daughters
of the American Revolution, for service at
Ellis Island, therefore be it resolved that the
National Society undertake the same and ask
each chapter for $2 toward financing our work
at Ellis Island. Members of the Board ex-
pressed the feeling that the smaller chapters
should not be asked to give the same amount
as the larger chapters, and during the discus-
sion it appeared that some of the State Re-
gents could get the equivalent of $2 a chapter
in another way than by asking the amount of
the chapters — those states having a budget be-
ing able to vote the amount at once under
the head of Americanization work. The motion
was variously amended, the amendments with-
drawn in turn, and Miss McDuffee, with the
permission of the Board, reworded her motion
to read — zvhereas the Occupational and Re-
creational features in the Women's Detention
Room are the greatest need open to the Na-
tional Society, Daughters of the American
Revolution, for service at Ellis Island; There-
fore be it resolved, that the National Society
undertake the same and that each State Regent
be asked for an amount equal to $2 per chapter
in her State tozmrd financing our work at
Ellis Island. Seconded by Mrs. Nash and
carried. Miss McDuffee urged that any cloth-
ing or kindergarten supplies that the Daughters
might be able to send should be addressed to
Mrs. John S. S. Remsen, Daughters of the
American Revolution Representative, Social
Service Department, Ellis Island, New York
Harbor, N. Y.

The Treasurer General moved that one for-
mer member, having complied zvith the require-
ments of the By-lazvs, be reinstated and the
Secretary instructed to cast the ballot for the
reinstatement of the member. Seconded by
Mrs. Yawger and carried. The Recording
Secretary General announced the casting of
the ballot and the President General declared
this member reinstated.

The President General read a letter from
the State Department referring to the tablet

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voted by Congress to be placed in Memorial
Continental Hall in appreciation of the use of
the building for the plenary sessions of the
Conference on the Limitation of Armament,
and stated that she understood the tablet would
be placed immediately back of where President
Harding stood in opening the Conference, that
is, exactly in the middle of the wall back of the
platform under the insignia.

Mrs. Bissell moved that the tablet presented
to the National Society, D.A.R., by the United
States Government be accepted ivith apprecia-
tion and the State Department be notified of
this action, and further that this Board author-
ises the placing of the tablet in the position
indicated by the State Department. Seconded
by Mrs. Fitts and carried.

The President General referred to the state-
ment in her report that the property of the
Society had been made free from taxation, and
suggested that it might be fitting to send a vote
of thanks to Representative McFadden for his
efforts in behalf of the bill which he had intro-
duced. Moved by Mrs. Hunter, seconded b}^
Mrs. Cook, and carried, that a vote of apprecia-
tive thanks be sent to Representative McFadden
for his valuable assistance in securing the pas-
sage of a Bill exempting from taxation property
owned by the Daughters of the American
Revolution in the City of Washington.

Moved by Mrs. Davis, seconded by Mrs.
Young: Resolved, that visitors be excluded
from the floor and galleries of Continental Hall
during the sessions of our Congress until all
delegates and alternates are provided with
seats. During the discussion which ensued it
developed that the seats in which the guests
of the Society sat during the formal opening
were not taken from the delegates entitled to be
seated in the auditorium, and that in order to
be sure to provide a seat for every delegate
and alternate entitled to such a seat the By-laws
would have to be amended to cut down repre-
sentation. The motion was put and lost.

Mrs. Bissell presented the request of a chapter
in Connecticut for permission to incorporate so
that they may acquire, hold, or sell real estate
or other property for the benefit of the chapter.
Moved by Mrs. Ellison, seconded by Miss
Strider, and carried, that Sarah Whitman
Trumbull Chapter, Connecticut, be given per-
mission to incorporate.

The Recording Secretary General read a let-
ter which had been sent to the Treasurer Gen-
eral by the State Vice Regent of Pennsylvania
requesting permission for the Dial Rock Chap-
ter of West Pittston, Penna., to incorporate
in order to hold property. Moved by Mrs.
Cook, seconded by Mrs. Hunter, and carried,
that Dial Rock Chapter of West Pittston,

Penna., be granted the privilege of incorporat-
ing in order to Iwld property.

Another letter addressed to the Treasurer
General was read by the Recording Secretary
General from Mrs. Ward, Regent of the
Willamette Chapter stating that an equestrian
statue of Roosevelt was to be presented to
Portland and the donor, Doctor Coe, had de-
sired the Willamette Chapter to act as custo-
dian and see that the city lived up to its
agreement to clean and care for the statue,
but the chapter could not act in this capacity
unless it was incorporated. Moved by Mrs.
McCleary, seconded by Mrs. Young, and car-
ried, that Willaniette Chapter, of Portland,
Oregon, be permitted to incorporate.

The Organizing Secretary General pre-
sented a list of names selected by chapters for
the approval of the Board as follows :

Ravenswood at Ravenswood, W. Va. ; Green
Tree Tavern for the chapter forming at Charles-
town, Ind. ; Cairo for the chapter forming at
Cairo, Ga. ; Mistress Mary Williams for the
chapter at Orange, N. J. ; Col. Morgan Morgan
for the chapter forming at Fairmont, W. Va. ;
Isaac I. Stevens for the chapter at Anacortes,
Washington; Eleanor Armor for the chapter
at Laurens, Iowa; Eliza Spaulding Warren for
the chapter at Moscow, Idaho; Col. Charles
Lynch for the chapter at Altavista, Va. ; Ben-
jamin Sargent for the chapter at Pittsfield,
N. H. ; St. Cloud for the chapter at St. Cloud,
Minn.; John Ross for the chapter at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn. ; Willapa for the chapter at Ray-
mond, Washington; Menotomy Chapter at
Arlington, Mass.; Capt. Thomas Moore, San
Marcos, Texas; Teunis for the chapter at
Delhi, N. Y. ; Benjamin Franklin for the chap-
ter forming at Paris, France ; Clarence for the
chapter forming at Clarence, Missouri; Char-
lotte Warrington Turner for the chapter at
Redfield, S. D. ; Eunice Day for the chapter
forming at Holyoke, Mass.

Mrs. Hanger moved that these names be
granted to these chapters. Moved by Mrs.
Bissell, seconded by Mrs. McCleary, that the
names proposed for chapters, which have been
read by the Organising Secretary General be
acted upon collectively, carried. The motion of
Mrs. Hanger was then put and carried, that
these names be granted to these chapters.

Mrs. Hanger presented the request of the
State Regent of North Carolina for the appoint-
ment of Mrs. Mary Colvin Murphy at Snow
Hill, N. C, which had not been included in the
report because the transfer of the lady had not
arrived, and asked the permission of the Board
to incorporate this in her report, which request
was granted.

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Miss Strider presented her supplementary
report as follows :

Supplemental Report of Registrar General

I have the honor to report 875 applications
presented to the Board, making a total of 1550.
Respectfully submitted,

Emma T. Strider,
Registrar General.

Moved by Miss Strider, seconded by Mrs.
Hanger, and carried, that the Secretary be in-
structed to cast the ballot for the admission
of 875 applicants for membership. The Re-
cording Secretary General announced the cast-
ing of the vote and the President General
declared these 875 applicants members of the
National Society.

Mrs. Nash here presented the matter of
the Monument plan, which had been approved
by the Board in 1916, reading numerous let-
ters, rulings, and other data, and offered the
following resolution relating to another proj-
ect, as follows :

Resolved, that the President General be
authorized to appoint a member of the National
Society, Daughters of the American Revolution
Treasurer of the " New York State Memorial
Committee, D.A.R." for the purpose of with-
drawing from the Lincoln National Bank, of
New York City, the Liberty bonds and cash
held by said Bank for the account and to the
credit of said New York State Memorial
Committee, D.A.R.

Further Resolved, that the Treasurer so
appointed by the President General shall upon
the withdrawal of said bonds and cash forth-
with deliver the same to the Treasurer General
of the National Society to be returned to the
donors of the original fund, or to such of them
as may be ascertained;

Further Resolved, that upon the delivery of
said bonds and cash to the Treasurer General
of the National Society the New York State
Memorial Committee, D.A.R., be and the same
is disbanded, and it, said New York State
Memorial Committee, D.A.R., and the officers
thereof be relieved and discharged from any
and all liability or responsibility for said funds,
and that the records pertaining to the organ-
ization and operations of said New York State
Memorial Committee, D.A.R., be filed in the
archives of the National Society.

Frances T. Nash,
State Regent of New York.

After a lengthy discussion, in which many
of the members took part, the resolution was
put to vote and lost.

The following resolution was presented by
Mrs. Nash;

Whereas, We desire to place an official
marker upon the grave of a man who was a
Patriot of the Revolution, but not a soldier, and

Whereas, We find no sanction in the National
laws of our Society for such action and no
marker designed for such purpose, and

Whereas, We, the Rufus King Chapter, beg
leave to submit to the National Officers and
Board of Management for their adoption the
following design as the Society's official marker
of a Patriot's grave :

" Patriot of the Revolution,"
this to be on a marker of the same form and
design as that of the official marker for a
Soldier of the Revolution :

Therefore, be it Resolved, That this petition
be placed before the National Board of Man-
agement by the State Regent of New York for
the approval of said Board, and requesting that
it be given immediate consideration.

Mary Rowe Dugan,

Regent.
Cora Lake Thomas,
Recording Secretary.

The adoption of the resolution of the State
Regent of New York, relative to the vtarkers
for a patriot of the Revolution, was moved
by Mrs. Buel, seconded by Mrs. Hodgkins,
and carried.

Mrs. Chubbuck brought the request of one
of her chapters for the adoption of pins for
past state officers other than State Regent and
State Vice Regent. The statement being made
that this was a matter that should be brought
to the attention of the Committee on Insignia,
the President General informed the Board that
there was no Committee on Insignia, but if
the Board voted that such a committee be
appointed she would take pleasure in complying
with the request. Moved by Mrs. Chubbuck,
seconded by Mrs. Hodgkins, that a committee
be appointed on insignia.

The Recording Secretary General read the
minutes, which were approved. On motion,
duly seconded, the meeting adjourned at
6.45 P.M.

Rita A. Yawger,
Recording Secretary General.

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OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION

HEADQUARTERS
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NATIONAL BOARD OF MANAGEMENT
1922-1923

President General

Mrs. George Maynard Minor,

Memorial Continental Hall, Washington, D.C.

Vice Presidents General

(Term of office expires 1923)

Mrs. Cassius C. Cottle, Mrs. Charles S. Whitman,

1412 Victoria Ave., Los Angeles, Calif. 54 East 83d St., New York, N.Y.

Mrs. Edward Lansing Harris, Mrs. Henry McCleary,

6719 Euclid Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCleary, Wash.

Mrs. James T. Morris, Mrs. Anthony Wayne Cook,

2101 Blaisdell Ave., Minneapolis, Minn. Cooksburg, Pa.

Mrs. Edward P. Schoentgen, 407 Glenn Ave., Council Bluffs, la.

(Term of office expires 1924)
Mrs. John Trigg Moss, Mrs. C. D. Chenault,

6017 Enright Ave., St Louis, Mo. Lexington, Ky.

Mrs. Benjamin D Heath, Miss Catherine Campbell,

Heathcote, Charlotte, N.C. 316 Willow St., Ottawa, Kan.

Mrs. Lyman E. Holden, Mrs. Albert L. Calder, 2nd,

8 Park Place, Brattleboro, Vt. 226 Blackstone Boulevard, Providence, R.

Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, 1821 Kalorama Road, Washington, D. C.
(Term of office expires 1925)
Miss Alice Louise McDuffee, Mrs. Williard T. Block,

1012 West Main St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 5515 Woodlawn Ave., Chicago, 111.

Mrs. Frank W. Mondell, Miss Annie Wallace,

Newcastle, Wyoming. Rochester, N. H.

Mrs. John Laidlaw Buel, Mrs. Howard H. McCall,

Litchfield, Conn. Georgian Terrace, Atlanta, Ga,

Mrs. Everest G. Sewell, 143 S. E. 2nd St., Miami, Fla.

Chaplain General

Mrs. Selden P. Spencer,
2123 California St., N. W., Washington, D.C.

Recording Secretary General Corresponding Secretary General.

Mrs. John Francis Yawger, Mrs. A. Marshall Elliott,

Memorial Continental Hall. Alemorial Continental Hall.

Organizing Secretary General Registrar General

Mrs. G. Wallace W. Hanger, Miss Emma T. Strider,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Treasurer General Historian General

Mrs. Livingston L. Hunter, Miss Jenn Winslow Coltrane,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

Reporter General to Smithsonian Institution

Miss Lillian M. Wilson,

Memorial Continental Hall.

Librarian General Curator General

Mrs. Frank D. Ellison, Mrs. George W. White,

Memorial Continental Hall. Memorial Continental Hall.

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STATE REGENTS AND STATE VICE REGENTS— 1922-1923

ALABAMA

MRS. WALTER AMBROSE ROBINSON,

639 Walnut St., Gadsden.
MRS. STANLEY FINCH,

110 N. Conception St., Mobile.

ARIZONA

MRS. HOVAL A. SMITH,

MRS. WILLIAM LEE PINNEY,
Phoenix.

ARKANSAS

MRS. ALEXANDER M. BARROW,
817 W. 5th Ave., Pine Bluff.
MRS. HARRY C. ANDERSON,

Amity.

KANSAS

MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY,

Independence.
MRS. ROBERT BRUCE CAMPBELL,

"Riverside," Wichita.

KENTUCKY

MRS. WILLIAM RODES,

152 E. High St., Lexington.
MRS. JOHN W. CHENAULT,

2217 Glenmakt Ave., Louisville.

LOUISIANA

MRS. S. A. DICKSON,

1034 Jacobs St., Shreveport.

MRS. THOMAS D. STEWART,
2331 Chestnut St., New Orleans.

CALIFORNIA

MRS. LYMAN B. STOOKEY,

1240 W. 29th St., Los Angeles.
MRS. ALLEN H. VANCE,

170 Central Avenue, Sausalito.

COLORADO

MRS. HERBERT B. HAYDEN,

803 Spruce St., Boulder.
MRS. CLYDE C. DAWSON,
1211 Race St., Denver.

CONNECTICUT

MRS. CHARLES HUMPHREY BISSELL,
235 N. Main St., Southington.

MISS KATHARINE ARNOLD NETTLETON,
61 Seymour Ave., Derby.

DELAWARE

MISS ELEANOR EUGENIA TODD,

27 W. Main St., Newark.
MRS. EDWARD FARRELL,

Smyrna.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

MRS. WILLIAM B. HARDY,

119 5th St., N. E., Washington.
MRS. JOHN M. BEAVERS,

1752 Columbia Road, Washington.

FLORIDA

MRS. JAMES A. CRAIG,

233 W. Duval St., Jacksonville.

MRS. THEODORE STRAAVN,
Db Land.

GEORGIA

MRS. CHARLES AKERMAN,

106 Culver St., Macon.
MRS. JULIUS Y. TALMADGE,

1295 Prince Avenue, Athens.

HAWAII

MRS. SALLY HUME DOUGLAS,
P. O. Box 346, Honolulu.

IDAHO

MRS. KENNEDY PACKARD,,

421 Second Ave., E. Twin Falls.
MRS. D. W. STANDROD,

648 N. Garfield Ave., Pocatello.

ILLINOIS

MRS. H. EUGENE CHUBBUCK,

Grand View Drive, Peoria.
MRS. VINTON EARL SISSON,
5456 Ferdinand St., Chicago.

INDIANA

MRS. SAMUEL ELLIOTT PERKINS,
1011 N. Penna St., Indianapolis.

MRS. JAMES B. CRANKSHAW,
3128 Fairfield Ave., Ft. Wayne.

MAINE

MISS MAUDE M. MERRICK,

282 Main St., Waterville.
MRS. B. G. W. CUSIIMAN,
122 GoFF St., Auburn.

MARYLAND

MRS. ADAM DENMEAD,

2224 N. Calvert St., Baltimore.

MRS. REX CORBIN MAUPIN,

2004 Maryland Ave., Baltimore.

MASSACHUSETTS

MRS. FRANKLIN P. SHUMWAY,

25 Bellevue Ave., Melrose.
MRS. GEORGE MINOT BAKER,
Pinehurst, Concord.

MICHIGAN

MRS. L. VICTOR SEYDEL,

143 Lafayette Ave., N. E., Grand Rapids.
MRS. ADDISON DRAKE KENT,

622 State St., St. Joseph.

MINNESOTA

MRS. MARSHALL H. COOLIDGE,

1906 Kenwood Parkway, Minneapolis.
MRS. L. C. JEFFERSON

1126 Summit Ave., St. Paul.

MISSISSIPPI

MISS HENRIETTA S. MITCHELL,

Jackson.
MRS. ROBERT SOMERVILLE,

Cleveland.

MISSOURI

MRS. PAUL D. KITT,

Chillicotiie.
MRS. HENRY W. HARRIS,

Sedalia.

MONTANA

MRS. E. BROOX MARTIN,

814 S. Central Ave., Bozeman.
MRS. ADELPHUS B. KEITH,
418 S. Washington St., Butte.

NEBRASKA

MRS. CHARLES F. SPENCER,

2511 R St., Lincoln.
MRS. ELIZABETH ANNE O'LINN SMITH,
Chadron.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

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IOWA

MISS AMY GILBERT,

State Center.
MRS. H. A. WHITE,

815 5th Ave., Clinton.

MRS. LESLIE P. SNOW,
RocH ^ster.

NEW JERSEY

MRS. HENRY D. FITTS,

448 Ridge St., Newark.
MRS. CHARLES R. BANKS,

1308 Watciiung Ave., Plainfield.

NEW MEXICO

MRS. R. P. BARNES,

Albuquerque.
MRS. FRANCIS CUSHMAN WILSON,

BuENA Vista Road, Santb Fk.

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ITEW YORK

MRS. CHARLES WHITE NASH,

8 Lafayette St., Albany.
MRS. CHARLES M. BULL.
269 Henry St., Brooklyn.

WORTH CAROLINA

MRS. W. O. SPENCER,

Winston-Salem.
MRS. CHARLES W. TTLLETT,

801 N. Trton St., Charlotte.

KORTH DAKOTA

MRS. GEORGE MORLEY YOUNG,

Valley City.
MRS. MELVIN A. HILDRETH,

300 8th St., South Fargo.

OHIO

MRS. WILLIAM MAGEE WILSON,
Church and King Sts., Xenia.

OKLAHOMA

MRS. H. H. McCLINTOCK,

903 Johnston Ave., Bartlesvillb.
MRS. W. L. MAYES,

231 S. 13th St., Muskogee.

OREGON

MISS ANNE M. LANG,

115 W. 4th St., The Dalles.
MRS. BRUCE L. BOGART,

962 Pearl St., Eugene.

PENNSYLVANIA

MRS. EDWIN ERLE SPARKS,

State College.
MRS. JOHN B. HERON,

Hadston, Linden Ave., Pittsburgh.

RHODE ISLAND

MRS. SAMUEL H. DAVIS,

Westerly.
MRS. FREDERICK MORSE,

4 Summit St., Pawtucket.

SOUTH CAROLINA

MRS. FRANKLIN C. CAIN,

St. Matthews.
MRS. J. A. BAILEY,
Clinton.

SOUTH DAKOTA

MRS. LESLIE GRANT HILL,

Sioux Falls.

TENNESSEE

MRS. LOGAN SEITS GILLENTINE,

MURFREESBORO.

MRS. JOHN H. CANTRELL,

821 Vine St., Chattanooga.

TEXAS

MRS. WILLIAM D. GARLINGTON,

2701 Fairmount Ave., Dallas.
MRS. SAMUEL L. SEAY,
710 Polk St., Amarillo.

UTAH

MRS. JOHN EDWARD CARVER,

718 25th St., Ogden.
MRS. CLESSON S. KINNEY,

820 E. 4th South, Salt Lake Citt.

VERMONT

MRS. JOHN H. STEWART,

Middlebury.
MISS JENNIE VALENTINE,
Bennington.

VIRGINIA

DR. KATE WALLER BARRETT,

408 Duke St., Alexandria.
MRS. JAMES REESE SCHICK,

911 Orchard Hill, Roanoke.

WASHINGTON

MRS. WILLIAM S. WALKER,
1804 15th Ave., Seattle.
MRS. HENRY W. PATTON,

724 7th St., Hoquiam.

WEST VIRGINIA

MRS. ROBERT J. REED,

100 12th St., Wheeling.
MRS. W. H. CONAWAY,

109 Virginia Ave., Fairmont.

WISCONSIN

MRS. GEORGE L. PARKER,

805 Court St., Janesvillb.
MRS. ISAAC P. WITTER,
Wisconsin Rapids.

WYOMING

MRS. BRYANT BUTLER BROOKS,

Box 1070, Casper.
MRS. MAURICE GROSHON,

Cheyenne.

ORIENT

MRS. CAROLINE E. McWILLIAMS HOLT.

744 A. Mabini, Manila, P. I.
MRS. ELAINE CHILDS ELSER,

600 M. H. del Pelar, Manila, P. I.

HONORARY OFFICERS ELECTED FOR LIFE

MRS. DANIEL MANNING,
MRS. MATTHEW T. SCOTT,

Honorary Presidents General

MRS. WILLIAM GUMMING STORY,
MRS. GEORGE THACHER GUERNSEY.

Honorary President Presiding
MRS. MARY V. E. CABELL.

MRS. A. HOWARD CLARK, 1899.
MRS. MILDRED S. MATHES, 18

MRS. WILLIAM LINDSAY, 1906.

MRS. SARA T. KINNEY, 1910.

Honorary Vice Presidents General

MRS. J. MORGAN SMITH, 1911.
19. MRS. THEODORE C. BATES, 1913.

MRS. E. GAYLORD PUTNAM, 1913.

MRS. WALLACE DELAFIELD, 1914.

MRS. DRAYTON W. BUSHNELL, 1914.

MRS. JOHN NEWMAN CAREY, 1916.
MRS. GEORGE M. STERNBERG, 1917.

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